With how cleanly the overarching theme of The Matrix fits with today and how many terms were coined from it. It raises the question...
Why the FUCK were us "brain slaves" allowed to be theatrically exposed to a mirror image of ourselves!?
Like seriously did a DS representative forget to proof-read the final cut?
You can tell they hate it with their latest pile of shit Matrix 4. (Which was essentially a cover-up job) Where they made the theme "The Matrix was just a movie played to a normal society, it wasnt real. It was a real hit with the people though but its time for it to come to an end"
Legit go read a plot summary, its laughable they thought we wouldnt notice!
Perhaps the original was too big to covertly censor and this was their best alternative?
There is a pop culture youtuber who went over this. In the 1990s there were a whole bunch of movies where the central theme was about questioning what was real - Dark City, The Game, The Truman Show, eXistenZ. And The Matrix brought this theme mainstream after it became a cultural milestone. And then 9/11 happened and Hollywood stopped going anywhere near that theme.
https://youtu.be/3W9vCcrH-hQ
She does not elaborate on it after making that point, but you can infer that the DS needed compliance for their globalist "War on Terror." I am honestly more surprised that George Lucas was able to make the prequel trilogy in a post 9/11 era. The plot of that one is about how Senator Palpatine manufactures a phony crisis in order to seize power and transform a republic into a totalitarian empire.
Good insight, thank you.