The Matrix

Reality. Most people don’t think about it very much, content to just live in it and let that be the end, but philosophers have been asking questions about reality and its nature since before Socrates was debating his nanny. Answers and theories abound, many of them fairly colorful, but none so colorful as the leather-bound, green-tinted, trench coat-bedecked, sunglasses-at-all-times-no-matter-the-fashion-consequences-or-relevant-light-level offered up by the Wachowski siblings in the 1999 sci-fi action movie The Matrix. The Matrix was, if you’ll pardon the pun, revolutionary at the time of its release, wowing audiences with a mind bending concept, incredible special effects, and stylish action sequences that would be ripped off, paid homage to, and parodied for the next few decades of filmmaking. Join the Magellans at the Movies, then, as they revisit this 90s classic to see how well all the dramatic flourishes and suuuuuuuper sloooooooo moooooootion hold up. Let’s hop into the rabbit hole and get things started!