1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:37,359 --> 00:00:40,719 We are living in a computer programmed reality 4 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:46,359 and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed 5 00:00:47,079 --> 00:00:51,240 and some alteration in our reality occurs. 6 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:57,079 If you find this world bad, you should see some of the others. 7 00:00:59,679 --> 00:01:01,520 When the cult science fiction writer Philip K. Dick imagined 8 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:03,679 that the whole world was a computer program 9 00:01:03,679 --> 00:01:06,079 and that we were actually living in a simulation, 10 00:01:06,079 --> 00:01:09,439 he anticipated the storyline of one of the most influential sagas 11 00:01:09,439 --> 00:01:11,319 of the last 20 years: 12 00:01:16,239 --> 00:01:17,719 The Matrix. 13 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:23,519 And today, reality has caught up with this idea, has it not? 14 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:27,799 Computers have become an extension of ourselves, 15 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:31,560 our avatars provide us with a second life in a virtual world 16 00:01:37,079 --> 00:01:40,040 and the very term Matrix has entered our vocabulary. 17 00:01:41,879 --> 00:01:45,359 It makes you wonder if we're not already living inside the Matrix... 18 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:50,959 Over 4 films, The Matrix has transcended the realm of cinema 19 00:01:50,959 --> 00:01:53,040 to become a cultural and societal phenomenon. 20 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,599 The series captured the challenges 21 00:01:56,599 --> 00:01:58,799 and anxieties of our digital age in an unparalleled fashion. 22 00:01:58,799 --> 00:02:02,719 And it had a huge influence on our generation. 23 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:11,280 A connected, hybrid generation that ceaselessly questions reality... 24 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:14,759 to the point of paradox. 25 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:38,199 We come from the 80s, brought up on TV and the first video games, 26 00:02:38,759 --> 00:02:41,599 but without cell phones or the Internet. 27 00:02:43,479 --> 00:02:47,560 As teenagers, many of us found ourselves drawn to the melancholy grunge of Nirvana 28 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:52,719 or the rawness of Rage Against The Machine, 29 00:02:52,719 --> 00:02:56,520 protest bands critical of the American way of life. 30 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:02,280 So when The Matrix was released we were suspicious, 31 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:12,840 expecting a mindless action movie, yet another formulaic blockbuster. 32 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:19,879 But what we discovered was a truly enigmatic piece of cinema. 33 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:25,039 When we left the theater, everyone had their own interpretation. 34 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:30,159 Like Neo, we wondered what had just happened to us: 35 00:03:30,159 --> 00:03:33,800 the film was a real aesthetic shock, and it challenged us. 36 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:38,240 On top of that, it had a soundtrack from our generation, which we really liked! 37 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:49,919 When it was released in March '99, people feared a major computer breakdown. 38 00:03:50,639 --> 00:03:54,919 The so-called Y2K bug threatened to plunge the planet into an apocalypse, 39 00:03:54,919 --> 00:03:58,680 simply because computers were unable to pass into the third millennium. 40 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:13,599 {\an8}Even though nothing came of the Y2K bug and machines didn't take over humanity, 41 00:04:13,599 --> 00:04:16,600 {\an8}it was the first time that digital technology had the capacity 42 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,040 {\an8}to derail our reality on a global scale! 43 00:04:23,319 --> 00:04:25,639 The Matrix was directed by the Wachowskis. 44 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:31,600 It depicts a dystopia in which artificial intelligences enslave humans 45 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,199 by "farming" them for energy. 46 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,920 The machines keep humanity at peace in the Matrix 47 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:45,639 by creating a simulated reality, an illusion. 48 00:04:49,079 --> 00:04:53,480 To combat this system, a group of rebels, stranded in a ruinous world, 49 00:04:54,639 --> 00:04:58,199 hack into the virtual world to regain control of reality. 50 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:14,680 We are in. 51 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:21,040 The story focuses on the awakening of Neo, a computer hacker played by Keanu Reeves. 52 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:29,040 His spiritual guide, Morpheus, presents him with a difficult choice: 53 00:05:29,439 --> 00:05:33,879 whether or not to question what he has always been told is real. 54 00:05:36,639 --> 00:05:39,720 You take the blue pill, the story ends. 55 00:05:40,199 --> 00:05:43,319 You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. 56 00:05:43,319 --> 00:05:46,319 You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland 57 00:05:47,439 --> 00:05:49,920 and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. 58 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:56,759 Remember, all I'm offering is the truth, nothing more. 59 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:08,800 This isn't real. 60 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:12,519 What is real? How do you define real? 61 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,600 Through the trajectory of its hero, 62 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,680 the film questions the relationship between humans and their machines, 63 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:21,879 and the porosity between reality and the virtual. 64 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:29,800 Neo never ceases to untangle truth from falsehood. 65 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:34,759 Is he the One as suggested, or just another individual? 66 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:39,439 Are the machines the embodiment of evil, or just like him? 67 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:44,399 The film was a worldwide success. 68 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:49,360 Awarded 4 Oscars, The Matrix spawned a series of animated shorts 69 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:52,120 featuring the best directors in the genre... 70 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:57,560 Animatrix. 71 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:01,680 The film led to two sequels, 72 00:07:05,439 --> 00:07:07,519 Reloaded and Revolutions. 73 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:13,720 And the Matrix universe kept expanding with the addition of comic books 74 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:17,040 and video games. 75 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:23,319 Conceived as a transmedia project, the works complemented each other. 76 00:07:24,759 --> 00:07:29,199 The Matrix became an extended universe, just like its illustrious predecessor... 77 00:07:36,759 --> 00:07:40,079 But most of all, the two sagas both tackle major philosophical themes 78 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,120 through heroes on a quest to discover themselves. 79 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:45,639 There is no try. 80 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:07,839 Just as Star Wars evoked the Cold War, 81 00:08:07,839 --> 00:08:10,959 with its battle of Good against the Evil Galactic Empire, 82 00:08:10,959 --> 00:08:13,319 The Matrix reflected an era in which technology 83 00:08:13,319 --> 00:08:15,040 leads to both the best and the worst outcomes. 84 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,120 The 90s were full of technology-related anxieties. 85 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:30,839 In the film Strange Days, people could use a device to record videos of criminal acts 86 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:33,840 directly from their own cerebral cortexes. 87 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:45,320 The Lawnmower Man plunged us into the first excesses of virtual reality. 88 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:53,000 Like the main character in The Truman Show, 89 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,320 who was trapped in a reality TV show from birth, 90 00:08:56,320 --> 00:09:00,600 the more we are assisted by machines, the more we lose control of our lives. 91 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:11,360 But there's something very singular about The Matrix. 92 00:09:14,039 --> 00:09:19,000 A little like Neo, who uses software to teach his avatar to master martial arts, 93 00:09:23,799 --> 00:09:26,360 The Matrix is a kind of augmented film, 94 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,639 infused with the popular culture of the time. 95 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:34,559 - I think he likes it! - Yes. 96 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:40,720 The Wachowskis' saga was influenced by cyberpunk science fiction, 97 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:45,480 starting with Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, adapted from the beloved Philip K. Dick. 98 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:56,799 Deckard battles a replicant, an android created in the image of a man. 99 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:01,279 Neo, on the other hand, battles Agent Smith, 100 00:10:01,279 --> 00:10:04,559 who takes on a human form when he is in fact a computer program. 101 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:11,279 The films also draw on visual references taken from Tech Noir, 102 00:10:11,279 --> 00:10:13,679 which blends science fiction and film noir, 103 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:16,039 Dark City is a prime example of the genre. 104 00:10:18,879 --> 00:10:21,960 Some of its sets were reused on the set of The Matrix. 105 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:26,399 There were also references to comic books, 106 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:30,240 notably illustrations from Grant Morrison's The Invisibles, 107 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:32,120 which was a direct inspiration. 108 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:39,080 The Matrix also drew inspiration from Asia. 109 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:43,360 It was the first major film to borrow so openly from Japanese anime, 110 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:48,200 in particular Ghost in the Shell, 111 00:10:51,519 --> 00:10:53,480 which inspired graphic motifs, 112 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:57,399 themes and the interplay between the organic and the mechanical. 113 00:10:59,960 --> 00:11:05,120 The 2017 live-action version retained the spirit of the original masterpiece. 114 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:10,960 In The Matrix, too, the body is a shell that can transform and change. 115 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:18,679 Lastly, the references to Hong Kong action cinema are obvious. 116 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:23,279 The characters seem to be masters of time. 117 00:11:23,279 --> 00:11:26,720 They can speed it up or slow it down, much like in the films of John Woo, 118 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:28,159 the master of the genre. 119 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:33,600 The famous slow-motion shootouts of The Killer, 120 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:35,240 Hard boiled and Face/off 121 00:11:42,879 --> 00:11:46,799 take on a new stylistic dimension in The Matrix, with its weightless bodies. 122 00:11:52,639 --> 00:11:56,720 In fact, Yuen Woo Ping, a leading figure in Hong Kong cinema, 123 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:01,679 was asked by the Wachowskis to choreograph the video-game-style superhuman fights. 124 00:12:18,159 --> 00:12:23,919 In 2003, Charlie Rose, PBS's leading cultural journalist, 125 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:27,120 devoted a special program to the saga, 126 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:29,240 even before the release of the third installment. 127 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:33,159 The 3 main actors and the producer discussed The Matrix phenomenon, 128 00:12:33,759 --> 00:12:36,679 and in particular its unprecedented approach to martial arts in Hollywood; 129 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:39,399 in the films the actors performed their own martial arts. 130 00:12:39,399 --> 00:12:42,000 Each character has their own distinctive style. 131 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:44,360 What's the Scorpion Kick? 132 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:48,000 It's my... Will Ping gave me this kick called the Scorpion kick, 133 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:53,320 which is the last kick I do when I reach the guy's legs and I kick him over my... 134 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:59,240 He gave us all moves. He gave each character a signature move. 135 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,919 Agent Smith is very aggressive and he's punching. 136 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,159 Keanu has a triple kick that he does. 137 00:13:08,799 --> 00:13:10,960 He goes up and there's always a triple kick. 138 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:13,720 I have something called an eagle where I go up in the air like this. 139 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:18,399 So it was also defining for all of our characters. 140 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:24,320 The great achievement of The Matrix lay in interweaving two distinct universes 141 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:26,080 into a perfectly coherent whole. 142 00:13:27,039 --> 00:13:31,320 A feat that culminates in a visual and sound aesthetic that would become iconic. 143 00:13:40,879 --> 00:13:45,279 The Matrix ushered in a new era of computer-assisted cinema in the 2000s, 144 00:13:51,919 --> 00:13:56,399 following on from Terminator 2's terrifying T1000 CGI 145 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:02,120 and Steven Spielberg's realistic dinosaurs. 146 00:14:07,399 --> 00:14:08,759 Like the hero of Jurassic Park, 147 00:14:09,519 --> 00:14:12,639 the film plays on our ambivalence towards technology. 148 00:14:12,639 --> 00:14:14,440 We are ready to try again. 149 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:16,559 I hate computers. 150 00:14:16,919 --> 00:14:18,399 Feeling's mutual. 151 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:27,720 The Matrix was shot on a limited budget of $60 million, 152 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:33,240 when other blockbusters of the time, such as Armageddon, 153 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:34,679 cost more than twice as much. 154 00:14:40,399 --> 00:14:45,000 The film explored innovative techniques such as the "bullet time" effect, 155 00:14:48,679 --> 00:14:50,679 which was to become its trademark. 156 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:01,559 The Matrix inspired a host of films. 157 00:15:01,559 --> 00:15:06,120 These films also manipulated time and space using digital technology: 158 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:08,919 Charlie's Angels, 159 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:15,120 the Spartans of 300, 160 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:21,080 the suspended bullets of Wanted. 161 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,879 Or Lisbeth Salander from the Millenium saga, 162 00:15:25,879 --> 00:15:28,039 who doesn't seem so different from Trinity: 163 00:15:28,639 --> 00:15:33,279 both are punk rebels, experts in computer hacking as well as flying. 164 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:50,399 Combined with parody nods from Scary Movie, The Simpsons and Shrek, 165 00:15:50,399 --> 00:15:53,679 the film was established as a pop culture classic. 166 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:59,840 And 23 years later, in Babylon, the Matrix entered the pantheon 167 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:05,080 of the 7th art alongside Mélies, Chaplin, Bergman, Kubrick and Cameron. 168 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:11,559 Damien Chazelle, born in 1985, brings us his version of cinema history. 169 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:19,240 With a vast ultra-referential universe, an erudite story and a dazzling aesthetic, 170 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:22,000 the impact of the trilogy was phenomenal. 171 00:16:23,279 --> 00:16:26,759 The Matrix succeeded in bringing together a generation's taste for comic books, 172 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:30,200 martial art films and philosophy. 173 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:40,720 Joel Silver is an iconoclastic producer. 174 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:44,159 It was the power of the unusual trio he formed with the two filmmakers 175 00:16:44,159 --> 00:16:47,399 that enabled The Matrix to revitalize the action genre 176 00:16:47,399 --> 00:16:50,080 and become a pioneer in intellectual blockbusters. 177 00:16:51,279 --> 00:16:53,360 When Charlie Rose asked him the question 178 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:55,759 that was already on everyone's mind at the time, 179 00:16:55,759 --> 00:16:58,960 Silver explained how well the Wachowskis had synthesized 180 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:00,679 the influences that had shaped them. 181 00:17:00,679 --> 00:17:04,839 Why do you think this movie had such an impact? 182 00:17:05,519 --> 00:17:08,119 A movie that set the direction for the future? 183 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:13,960 It's because these two guys who really are gifted in how they've been able 184 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:19,160 to put together all of these influences that over their lives just created 185 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:22,160 a sense of them that there was a new way to do things, 186 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:24,119 there was a new way to tell a story, 187 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:26,799 {\an8}a new way to use visual effects hadn't been done yet. 188 00:17:26,799 --> 00:17:29,640 {\an8}And that the audience out there was looking for something more 189 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:31,880 {\an8}than just a dumb action movie, which, I have to say, 190 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:33,720 {\an8}I'm responsible for making a lot of them. 191 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:40,759 The Matrix fascinates because it calls out to us, because it resonates with us. 192 00:17:40,759 --> 00:17:42,559 You have to let it go, Neil. 193 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:46,720 Just like for Neo, experiencing the film provokes a genuine revelation. 194 00:17:47,279 --> 00:17:49,279 Free your mind. 195 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:54,200 It encourages us to free our minds, reinterpret reality, 196 00:17:55,079 --> 00:17:58,000 transform it and even transcend it. 197 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:04,240 The prefix "trans" is not trivial when it comes to the first transgender filmmakers. 198 00:18:05,039 --> 00:18:08,640 After all, those not yet called Lana and Lilly made their transition 199 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:11,000 after the third Matrix film. 200 00:18:13,759 --> 00:18:16,319 But above all, "trans" means going beyond, 201 00:18:16,319 --> 00:18:19,680 beyond what is taken for granted, what is preconceived. 202 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:24,839 And it is in precisely that kind of spirit that the Wachowskis grew up in the 70s. 203 00:18:25,759 --> 00:18:28,920 In general, we're children of the 20th century 204 00:18:29,759 --> 00:18:32,960 and that means that we're drawn to originality. 205 00:18:33,519 --> 00:18:36,519 {\an8}Originality was always the primary draw. 206 00:18:36,519 --> 00:18:40,680 {\an8}It was always the thing that made you excited to see something different, 207 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:42,839 {\an8}see something that you hadn't seen before. 208 00:18:42,839 --> 00:18:46,680 And if you think of, like, Star Wars and Raiders and Alien and Terminator, 209 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:52,079 and they have the fact that they're original material written for the movies, 210 00:18:52,079 --> 00:18:53,400 written to be a movie. 211 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:55,759 We grew up sort of in that culture 212 00:18:55,759 --> 00:19:00,119 where we're attracted to things 213 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:03,039 that haven't been told before or seen before. 214 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:19,960 The Matrix is directly linked to the 1960s and 70s. 215 00:19:21,319 --> 00:19:23,240 Young people were emancipating themselves, 216 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:24,759 breaking away from past shackles, 217 00:19:24,759 --> 00:19:26,960 and counter-cultural movements were imagining new relationships 218 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:28,480 with other people and with the world. 219 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:32,160 I'm Peter Fonda. 220 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:35,759 We've just finished making a movie dealing with the most talked 221 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:38,799 about subject of the day: LSD. 222 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:44,559 The resulting psychedelia invited us to rethink reality, 223 00:19:45,079 --> 00:19:48,599 notably through the use of drugs such as LSD and mescaline. 224 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:55,559 Through hallucination, dreams and reality could merge. 225 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:05,599 In the opening moments of The Matrix, Neo has barely woken up 226 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:08,200 and already a character is offering him a trip, 227 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:11,359 claiming that mescaline is the only way to get high. 228 00:20:11,799 --> 00:20:13,400 Did you ever have that feeling 229 00:20:14,079 --> 00:20:16,400 of you're not sure if you're awake or still dreaming? 230 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:21,279 All the time. It's called mescaline. It's the only way to fly. 231 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:23,960 And the next shot shows us a white rabbit tattoo, 232 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:28,319 like the one Alice uses as a guide in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 233 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:32,119 I'm late! 234 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:36,119 Lewis Carroll's novel, adapted by Disney in 1951, 235 00:20:36,839 --> 00:20:39,000 is a benchmark work of psychedelia. 236 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:44,279 - I simply must get out. - But you are outside. 237 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,839 - What? - See for yourself. 238 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,119 That's me. I'm asleep. 239 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:53,119 It narrates a series of hallucinations, 240 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:57,880 a waking dream that can ultimately raise our consciousness and set us free. 241 00:20:59,279 --> 00:21:02,720 Please wake up Alice! Alice, Alice! 242 00:21:09,519 --> 00:21:12,319 The entire Matrix saga quotes this literary masterpiece, 243 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,279 conceived as a tale of learning, 244 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:21,000 as Neo literally steps through the looking glass to discover reality. 245 00:21:21,759 --> 00:21:26,279 How do you know the difference between the dream world and the real one? 246 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:34,559 Psychedelia influences science fiction, 247 00:21:35,079 --> 00:21:40,759 and in particular a major work for the young Wachowskis: 2001: A Space Odyssey. 248 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:44,720 In addition to its acid trip finale, 249 00:21:46,519 --> 00:21:48,559 Stanley Kubrick's cult film 250 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:52,000 already foreshadowed the nightmare scenario of The Matrix, 251 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:56,759 with its supercomputer that betrays humans, the notorious HAL. 252 00:21:57,839 --> 00:21:59,119 Hello, Hal, do you read me? 253 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:03,039 Open the pod bay doors. Hal. 254 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:07,960 I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. 255 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:13,200 Philip K.Dick, who readily confessed to writing under the influence of drugs, 256 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:19,200 went even further in a lecture he gave in 1977 to a stunned audience: 257 00:22:20,319 --> 00:22:22,839 the underlying idea was that when reality goes off the rails, 258 00:22:23,559 --> 00:22:25,839 it's confirmation that it's just an illusion. 259 00:22:25,839 --> 00:22:29,279 {\an8}We are living in a computer programmed reality 260 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:34,920 {\an8}and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed 261 00:22:35,759 --> 00:22:39,440 {\an8}and some alteration in our reality occurs. 262 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:41,200 What is that? 263 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,400 This change of variable, this glitch in the matrix, 264 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:51,240 is perfectly illustrated when the same black cat appears twice in a row to Neo: 265 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:56,400 Déjà vu... 266 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,960 It means the machines have spotted the rebels. 267 00:23:01,519 --> 00:23:03,480 Déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. 268 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:04,960 It happens when they change something. 269 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,920 If psychedelia reinterprets reality through drugs, 270 00:23:10,799 --> 00:23:14,079 computer technology reinterprets the world through virtual reality. 271 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:21,680 And LSD was a crucial element in nurturing the spirit of Silicon Valley. 272 00:23:24,079 --> 00:23:27,240 At the time, computer art pioneer John Whitney 273 00:23:27,559 --> 00:23:30,400 was generating visual poems using computers. 274 00:23:30,839 --> 00:23:35,839 In 1970, he produced a series of films for IBM and Caltech, 275 00:23:35,839 --> 00:23:37,920 which he entitled MATRIX. 276 00:23:41,079 --> 00:23:44,519 Psychedelia and the computer revolution are intimately linked. 277 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:58,359 Essayist and LSD guru Timothy Leary even saw the PC, the personal computer, 278 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:00,440 as the religion of the future. 279 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:06,400 {\an8}I think that the new confrontation with God always produces a new form of art. 280 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:08,880 {\an8}Now, the new form of art, 281 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:12,039 {\an8}the new religious language in the future is going to be electronic. 282 00:24:16,279 --> 00:24:18,359 When the 80s rolled around, 283 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,640 the cyber world was the source of all our fantasies and hopes. 284 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:29,559 The Macintosh advert, for example, takes its aesthetic from George Orwell's 1984, 285 00:24:30,759 --> 00:24:33,039 again with Ridley Scott at the helm. 286 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:36,880 Here, the totalitarian prophecy is reversed, 287 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,880 with the promise that computers will liberate us, not enslave us. 288 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:47,440 On January 24, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. 289 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:53,119 And you'll see why 1984 won't be like 1984. 290 00:24:54,599 --> 00:24:57,720 The utopia of a digital revolution seemed to have a bright future. 291 00:24:58,559 --> 00:25:01,880 In the same year as the release of The Matrix, Tim Berners-Lee, 292 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,319 the founder of the Web, spoke to Charlie Rose 293 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,720 about the fundamentally humanist nature of the Internet. 294 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:11,400 According to him, the web as we know it could never have existed 295 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,680 {\an8}if it had been conceived as a private system. 296 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:17,480 {\an8}When you ask everybody in the world who has information 297 00:25:17,799 --> 00:25:22,839 {\an8}to give it one of these little funny http things with these URLs 298 00:25:22,839 --> 00:25:26,440 you're asking them whatever information it is, please just give it one of these. 299 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:28,359 That's a lot to ask of itself. 300 00:25:29,039 --> 00:25:31,200 That's what you have to ask for it to be in a universal space. 301 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,039 You say, if it's important information, I must be able to link to it. 302 00:25:35,079 --> 00:25:39,920 You can't ask something as general as that and also put constraints. 303 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,240 You can't say, and oh, by the way, this is a private system I own. 304 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:45,039 It just wouldn't have happened. 305 00:25:47,319 --> 00:25:49,359 This space for exchange and sharing, 306 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:52,720 free and accessible to all, makes protest possible. 307 00:25:59,519 --> 00:26:03,160 In 1999, just a few months before the release of The Matrix, 308 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:05,440 the Battle of Seattle broke out. 309 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:09,119 As the 3rd conference of the WTO, the World Trade Organization, 310 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:10,799 was taking place, 311 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:15,200 demonstrators rose up against the injustices of economic globalization. 312 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,440 Seattle was among the first mobilizations 313 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:21,960 internationally coordinated mainly via the internet 314 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,079 with 400.000 people taking part online. 315 00:26:25,759 --> 00:26:28,960 The birthplace of grunge, as well as the giants Microsoft and Amazon, 316 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,519 Seattle saw the emergence of the first movement 317 00:26:31,519 --> 00:26:33,599 to be so widely shared via the Internet. 318 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,440 It was the start of alter-globalization, 319 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,559 which dreamt of a responsible and equitable capitalism. 320 00:26:43,599 --> 00:26:46,519 Fight Club echoed this with its schizophrenic, 321 00:26:46,839 --> 00:26:48,599 paranoid and hallucinated hero... 322 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:51,960 You met me at a very strange time of my life. 323 00:26:53,599 --> 00:26:57,799 ...who wanted to eradicate consumerism and wipe banks off the face of the Earth. 324 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,519 The Wachowskis' cinema has a political dimension. 325 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,960 It depicts the struggle of minorities against their oppressors. 326 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,559 That's what racing is about. It has nothing to do with cars or drivers. 327 00:27:17,039 --> 00:27:20,960 All that matters is power and the unassailable might of money. 328 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,799 I will not be subjected to such abuse. 329 00:27:30,799 --> 00:27:32,920 Stand out. Stand out. 330 00:27:35,599 --> 00:27:40,319 In 2006, V for Vendetta, directed by their assistant director James McTeigue, 331 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,119 depicts a popular uprising against a fascist state. 332 00:27:47,079 --> 00:27:49,960 The film became an emblem of citizen disobedience, 333 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,920 and gave a new face to the Anonymous hackers. 334 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:07,279 Inspired by the spirit of the 70s and the technological mistrust of the 90s, 335 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,079 the Matrix trilogy was born in the midst of the digital revolution. 336 00:28:16,799 --> 00:28:20,279 And by encouraging us to be wary of the established order and to doubt reality, 337 00:28:21,079 --> 00:28:23,000 the trilogy produced a range of contradictory effects, 338 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,680 which were amplified tenfold in a world whose future 339 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:28,359 was becoming increasingly uncertain. 340 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,200 I know you're out there. I can feel you now. 341 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:41,359 I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. 342 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:47,039 I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. 343 00:28:47,559 --> 00:28:50,079 I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. 344 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:53,799 And that I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. 345 00:28:53,799 --> 00:28:56,559 I'm going to show them a world without you. 346 00:28:57,799 --> 00:29:01,079 A world, without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. 347 00:29:01,559 --> 00:29:04,279 A world, where anything is possible. 348 00:29:07,759 --> 00:29:10,759 Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you. 349 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:18,440 Between the release of The Matrix I and II, 350 00:29:19,599 --> 00:29:22,720 the new millennium dawned with a clash of fire and steel. 351 00:29:27,119 --> 00:29:31,559 On September 11, 2001, jihadist terrorists hacked two planes 352 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,880 and flew them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, 353 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:36,559 the symbol of American power. 354 00:29:38,519 --> 00:29:42,039 The worst disaster movie ever conceived didn't hit the screens, 355 00:29:42,759 --> 00:29:46,720 it happened for real: reality surpassed fiction. 356 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:55,759 States like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil. 357 00:29:56,559 --> 00:30:02,039 Arming to threaten the peace of the world by seeking weapons of mass destruction. 358 00:30:05,359 --> 00:30:08,960 The fight against the notorious "axis of evil" justified anything, 359 00:30:09,599 --> 00:30:14,519 even outright lies: the weapons of mass destruction supposedly present in Iraq 360 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,519 were in fact a pretext to dislodge Saddam Hussein. 361 00:30:19,319 --> 00:30:22,039 The surgical war resembled a virtual one. 362 00:30:23,119 --> 00:30:26,920 It was almost filmed like a video game, with infrared images 363 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:30,799 with a greenish hue reminiscent of the screens of The Matrix. 364 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:40,640 Between the falsehoods and the truth, conspiracy theories began to emerge. 365 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:46,440 Just a few hours after the attacks, the first rumors spread across the web. 366 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,319 Thanks to forums, blogs and social media, 367 00:30:52,319 --> 00:30:54,960 anyone could publish information. 368 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,960 All you needed was an opinion and an audience: 369 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,079 it was Internet 2.0. 370 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,680 The Matrix trilogy became a cult classic, 371 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:16,079 a cryptic series perhaps holding answers to the questions of the time. 372 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,440 And if you looked hard enough, there were prophetic messages to be found. 373 00:31:22,799 --> 00:31:27,920 As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Anderson. 374 00:31:28,519 --> 00:31:33,119 For example, Neo's passport expires on September 11, 2001. 375 00:31:35,839 --> 00:31:39,920 We might wonder about the name of the building in which Morpheus is being held, 376 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:43,839 it bears the letters MMI, meaning 2001 in Roman numerals... 377 00:31:46,039 --> 00:31:48,720 Everything became a sign, and everything could be meaningful. 378 00:31:51,839 --> 00:31:54,119 The mystery was compounded by the fact that the Wachowskis 379 00:31:54,119 --> 00:31:55,720 didn't comment on their work. 380 00:31:57,119 --> 00:32:00,160 On the set of Charlie Rose, their absence was striking, 381 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,319 especially given the colossal success of the films. 382 00:32:03,599 --> 00:32:08,079 The film crew become their spokespeople, respecting the posture of the directors 383 00:32:08,079 --> 00:32:11,200 and their desire to never dictate reductive messages to viewers. 384 00:32:11,559 --> 00:32:14,440 Time magazine did a cover story and they wouldn't talk to Time magazine. 385 00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:17,720 They want people to think for themselves, too. They don't want to... 386 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:18,799 Lead them. 387 00:32:18,799 --> 00:32:20,640 Yeah, they want people to have their own imagination, 388 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:22,079 because you get so many different things, 389 00:32:22,079 --> 00:32:24,200 different people get different ideas about the film. 390 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:25,680 And I think that's important to them. 391 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,759 That's important to them for people to really take what they want. 392 00:32:28,759 --> 00:32:30,680 They don't want to have to define it for people. 393 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:32,319 They want people to define it for themselves. 394 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:34,400 The interpretations went so far 395 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,680 that the revelations of the 2nd and 3rd episodes were unnoticed. 396 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:40,160 That's impossible. The prophecy tells us... 397 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:41,240 It was a lie, Morpheus. 398 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,799 The One was never meant to end anything. 399 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:48,799 It was all another system of control. 400 00:32:50,039 --> 00:32:52,759 And yet we discovered that the One, the revolt, 401 00:32:52,759 --> 00:32:56,400 and the prophecy was all just another illusion. 402 00:32:57,079 --> 00:32:58,319 I'm sorry. 403 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:03,039 A program generated by the Matrix to maintain human hope and order. 404 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,720 Yet the era took hold of the story. 405 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:12,400 After everything that has happened, how can you expect me to believe you? 406 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:16,680 I don't. I expect just what I've always expected. 407 00:33:17,039 --> 00:33:19,359 For you to make up your own damn minds. 408 00:33:19,359 --> 00:33:23,200 All the more so as, at the same time, real political scandals were unfolding 409 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,599 and getting an unprecedented reach thanks to the Web. 410 00:33:27,319 --> 00:33:32,200 Wikileaks founder Julian Assange shared secret US military documents 411 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:33,960 revealing war crimes. 412 00:33:35,839 --> 00:33:39,160 Then a mysterious whistleblower, living in exile in Hong Kong, 413 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:43,480 exposed the existence of a gigantic American and British surveillance system: 414 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,759 Edward Snowden, whose struggle is chronicled in Citizenfour. 415 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:53,079 Like Morpheus, he had seen and lived inside the System, 416 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:57,920 in this case, the CIA and the NSA, and he was trying to wake us up, 417 00:33:57,920 --> 00:33:59,920 to open our eyes to the fact that the system 418 00:33:59,920 --> 00:34:02,440 was tracking us through our connected devices. 419 00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:04,559 Isn't that worth fighting for? 420 00:34:05,759 --> 00:34:10,559 {\an8}What he described to Guardian journalists in 2013 sounded like a dystopia. 421 00:34:10,559 --> 00:34:13,840 {\an8}There's an infrastructure in place in the United States and worldwide 422 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:18,519 that NSA has built in cooperation with other governments as well, 423 00:34:18,519 --> 00:34:22,800 that intercepts every digital communication, 424 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:25,599 every radio communication. 425 00:34:26,039 --> 00:34:29,079 - It's so opaque... - It's not science fiction. 426 00:34:30,639 --> 00:34:33,199 The collaborative and fraternal Internet 427 00:34:33,199 --> 00:34:35,679 exists alongside its nightmarish equivalent. 428 00:34:37,639 --> 00:34:39,719 While the democratization of information enables 429 00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:44,519 a formidable collective intelligence, it also creates the opposite phenomenon: 430 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:48,559 the sanctification of convictions to the detriment of facts. 431 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,039 Truth becomes mere opinion. 432 00:34:54,079 --> 00:34:59,599 If the Web unifies and placates, it also fosters division and dissent. 433 00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:02,880 So one of the biggest questions we're facing 434 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,559 is in a world of a million speakers, how do you find what's good? 435 00:35:05,559 --> 00:35:08,559 Like Snowden and Assange, who were forced into exile, 436 00:35:08,559 --> 00:35:11,000 Aaron Swartz was to suffer a heavy price in 2011. 437 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:14,800 For having put millions of scientific articles online free of charge, 438 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:18,440 this defender of free culture was prosecuted by the American justice system, 439 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,360 risking 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine. 440 00:35:22,679 --> 00:35:25,840 Crushed by the pressure, he committed suicide at the age of 26, 441 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:27,119 a month before his trial. 442 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:31,679 Berners Lee would pay tribute to the man who tried to extend the initial, 443 00:35:31,679 --> 00:35:33,960 libertarian spirit of the web. 444 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:41,039 Aaron is dead. In this crazy world, we have lost a mentor, a wise elder. 445 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:46,760 Hackers for right, we have one down. We've lost one of our own. 446 00:35:47,599 --> 00:35:50,079 And even what seemed so clear is becoming murky, 447 00:35:50,079 --> 00:35:53,119 like the messages behind the red pill and the blue pill. 448 00:35:53,119 --> 00:35:58,480 Values are reversing, and it's now the American far-right that's embracing them. 449 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:04,480 CNN Journalist Laurie Segall revisited the famous scene from The Matrix 450 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:06,920 in which this alternative truth is said to originate. 451 00:36:07,679 --> 00:36:13,280 The red pill has become a code for masculinists who believe that men, 452 00:36:13,599 --> 00:36:16,800 rather than women, are discriminated against in our societies. 453 00:36:17,199 --> 00:36:21,440 What started out as an advice forum on seduction became radicalized. 454 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,000 To swallow the red pill is to accept 455 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,719 that everything you've been told about society, 456 00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:30,480 about gender, race, politics is a lie. 457 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:35,559 Our world has become a chat room. I think in many ways we have become our avatars. 458 00:36:35,559 --> 00:36:38,880 We have become offline the people that we are online. 459 00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:44,960 Thanks to Facebook, Twitter and the other Silicon Valley behemoths, 460 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:48,519 people are free to express themselves and speak their minds. 461 00:36:49,519 --> 00:36:54,000 Everyone is in their own corner, in their own bubble, in their own matrix... 462 00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:59,119 The apotheosis was the election of Donald Trump as president in 2016. 463 00:37:02,079 --> 00:37:06,639 Born into the world of business, he became a reality TV star with The Apprentice. 464 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,760 - Hello, fellas. - Hello, Mr. Trump. 465 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:15,440 You're fired. 466 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:20,159 He became the 45th President of the United States largely thanks to social media. 467 00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:25,880 {\an8}With him, the confusion between truth and lies reached its peak, 468 00:37:26,559 --> 00:37:29,960 {\an8}turning the concept of fake news against the mainstream media. 469 00:37:30,639 --> 00:37:32,800 {\an8}- Don't be rude. - Can you give us a question? 470 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:33,960 Don't be rude. 471 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:38,320 {\an8}I'm not gonna give you a question. You are fake news. 472 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:43,400 {\an8}The principle is simple: "Fake news is news I don't agree with". 473 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:51,079 Trump was so polarising that he managed to embody everything and its opposite. 474 00:37:53,679 --> 00:37:56,639 To his opponents, he was a successful Agent Smith: 475 00:37:57,079 --> 00:37:59,000 Mr. Anderson, welcome back. 476 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:04,360 Like Neo's sworn enemy, a programme that took control of the Matrix. 477 00:38:06,599 --> 00:38:11,480 But for his fans, he's actually Morpheus, the one who guides Neo, 478 00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:13,480 promises the end of the system 479 00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,360 and galvanises the crowd at the start of Matrix Reloaded. 480 00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:19,679 Tonight we are not afraid. 481 00:38:25,519 --> 00:38:29,199 And what was bound to happen eventually did: on January 6th 2021, 482 00:38:29,199 --> 00:38:33,519 completely hooked on red pills, Trump's supporters staged a coup d'état. 483 00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:36,559 We're going to walk down to the Capitol 484 00:38:39,519 --> 00:38:45,039 and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women. 485 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:49,400 Because you'll never take back our country with weakness. 486 00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:52,320 You have to show strength and you have to be strong. 487 00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,199 Convinced that Joe Biden had rigged the presidential election, 488 00:38:56,639 --> 00:38:58,320 they stormed the Capitol. 489 00:39:01,679 --> 00:39:05,159 It was the culmination of 20 years of anti-system counter-culture 490 00:39:05,159 --> 00:39:07,079 and a distorted re-reading of The Matrix. 491 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:11,960 Suddenly, you're filled with doubt: 492 00:39:13,119 --> 00:39:17,239 what if Donald Trump and the far right owe something to the Wachowskis' films? 493 00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:21,320 What if this rebellious, progressive trilogy had, 494 00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:24,360 in spite of itself, given fuel to the alt right? 495 00:39:25,199 --> 00:39:27,920 If it's our time to die, it's our time. 496 00:39:29,039 --> 00:39:33,599 All I ask is if we have to give these bastards our lives, 497 00:39:34,519 --> 00:39:36,920 we give him hell before we do. 498 00:39:39,159 --> 00:39:44,239 Worse still, don't some of us prefer lies to the truth? 499 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:49,679 Like the character Cypher, the traitorous villain from the first film. 500 00:39:51,639 --> 00:39:53,239 I know this steak doesn't exist. 501 00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,119 I know that when I put it in my mouth, 502 00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:03,480 the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. 503 00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:06,000 You know what I realize? 504 00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:14,880 Ignorance is bliss. 505 00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,440 Just like in the cyberpunk fables, 506 00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:20,920 aren't the big technology groups not only accomplices, 507 00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:22,960 but the real winners of the chaos? 508 00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:31,559 After all, wasn't Elon Musk, the tycoon behind Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter, 509 00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:34,880 an early supporter of Trump? 510 00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:38,920 The same Elon Musk who extols the virtues of transhumanism, 511 00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,280 meaning the augmentation of humans through technology, 512 00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:45,119 and who jokes with his mum on the set of Saturday Night Live. 513 00:40:47,039 --> 00:40:51,960 You turned that video game about space into reality. 514 00:40:52,679 --> 00:40:55,679 Unless you consider that our reality might be a video game 515 00:40:55,679 --> 00:40:57,920 and we're all just computer simulations 516 00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:00,199 being played by a teenager in another planet. 517 00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:03,400 That's great Elon. 518 00:41:04,119 --> 00:41:06,800 Like his ultra-rich colleagues in Silicon Valley, 519 00:41:07,119 --> 00:41:10,800 he is still planning for the apocalypse, and fantasising about a luxury bunker. 520 00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:13,039 You never know... 521 00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,800 So when Musk and Trump's daughter argued on Twitter, 522 00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:22,559 using the red pill as an emblem of their opinions and their heartfelt battle, 523 00:41:23,039 --> 00:41:26,079 it was Lilly who broke her silence on behalf of the Wachowskis 524 00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:29,719 and reacted with a tweet that had the virtue of being clear. 525 00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:32,840 This would not be the last word from the two sisters, 526 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:34,679 nor their last artistic gesture. 527 00:41:59,079 --> 00:42:01,239 The Matrix was completely appropriated, 528 00:42:01,559 --> 00:42:04,199 right down to the advertising for a car brand broadcast 529 00:42:04,199 --> 00:42:07,920 during America's biggest sporting event, the Super Bowl. 530 00:42:10,199 --> 00:42:11,920 Let me tell you why you're here. 531 00:42:13,559 --> 00:42:17,800 It is the world of luxury that has been pulled over your eyes 532 00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:19,719 to blind you from the truth. 533 00:42:20,199 --> 00:42:21,559 We just want to get our car... 534 00:42:21,559 --> 00:42:24,159 Take the blue key, you go back to the luxury you know. 535 00:42:24,159 --> 00:42:27,360 You take the red key and you'll never look at luxury the same again. 536 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:37,880 So, Lana directed the final episode of what became a tetralogy, 537 00:42:38,599 --> 00:42:43,360 continuing her sister's defiance of the misappropriation of The Matrix values. 538 00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:50,000 It was Matrix: Resurrections, released in 2021. 539 00:42:53,159 --> 00:42:57,239 Now what? Things have changed. The market's tough. 540 00:42:58,639 --> 00:43:02,320 I'm sure you can understand why our beloved parent company, Warner Brothers, 541 00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:04,400 has decided to make a sequel to the trilogy. 542 00:43:05,039 --> 00:43:06,400 What ? 543 00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:11,639 I know you said the story was over for you, but that's the thing about stories. 544 00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:15,239 They never really end, do they? 545 00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:17,159 Just like in the real world, 546 00:43:17,159 --> 00:43:19,960 the film takes place twenty years after the previous instalment. 547 00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:23,920 This time, the Matrix was reprogrammed in a cooler, more pop, 548 00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:27,280 much less cyberpunk style in order to control humans even better. 549 00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:34,800 The soundtrack remained psychedelic, with Jefferson Airplane's 'White Rabbit'. 550 00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:43,719 Resurrected and depressed, 551 00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:47,880 Neo is now a video game programmer for a subsidiary of Warner Bros. 552 00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,159 And the trilogy we know is nothing more 553 00:43:51,159 --> 00:43:53,760 than a series of very popular games inside the Matrix. 554 00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:56,119 So popular, in fact, 555 00:43:56,119 --> 00:43:59,480 that the parent company wants to force Neo to produce a fourth episode... 556 00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:04,760 Revolutionize gaming again... 557 00:44:05,199 --> 00:44:08,800 I thought it would be fun to weave some of myself 558 00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:13,400 {\an8}and my own experience into poor Thomas Anderson's experience. 559 00:44:15,119 --> 00:44:16,800 The colourful look of the analyst, 560 00:44:17,679 --> 00:44:19,239 the computer geeks... 561 00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:21,079 I'm a geek! So where is my machine? 562 00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,519 ...the sockless loafers of the new Smith... 563 00:44:23,519 --> 00:44:26,480 Mr. Anderson! 564 00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:31,880 ...the diversity of Deus Machina employees, the marketing hipsters... 565 00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:34,800 - Obviously the Matrix is about... - Transpolitan... 566 00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:35,880 Crypto fascism. 567 00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:38,480 - It's a metaphor... - Of capitalist exploitation. 568 00:44:39,039 --> 00:44:41,079 They too are from the Matrix generation. 569 00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:45,239 But they have chosen to be complicit in the system. 570 00:44:46,679 --> 00:44:48,639 With these multiple mise en abîme, 571 00:44:48,639 --> 00:44:53,159 Lana expresses the raw truth: we're up to our necks in the Matrix! 572 00:44:55,199 --> 00:44:56,599 They took your story, 573 00:44:56,599 --> 00:45:00,880 something that meant so much to people like me 574 00:45:03,199 --> 00:45:05,360 and turned it into something trivial. 575 00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:08,960 To what the Matrix does, 576 00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:13,719 who weaponizes every idea, every dream, 577 00:45:15,559 --> 00:45:16,960 everything that's important to us. 578 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,639 But above all, the film is an opportunity for Lana to reaffirm 579 00:45:22,639 --> 00:45:24,880 what has always been at the heart of The Matrix, 580 00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:30,199 but also of the Wachowski sisters' entire filmography: the value of Love. 581 00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:33,840 Love that unites human beings, whomever they may be, 582 00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,440 while at the same time being a weapon of emancipation and revolt. 583 00:45:38,079 --> 00:45:39,000 Have we met ? 584 00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:42,639 The rebellious love of Trinity and Neo in The Matrix can be found 585 00:45:43,039 --> 00:45:48,440 in all of the Wachowskis' films: in Bound, their first film, 586 00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:52,079 it is the passion of the two heroines, Violet and Corky, 587 00:45:52,079 --> 00:45:54,559 that enables them to escape a male-dominated world 588 00:45:54,559 --> 00:45:55,880 and overcome their condition. 589 00:45:56,760 --> 00:45:58,159 I want out. 590 00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:02,199 I want a new life. 591 00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:08,440 I see what I've been waiting for, but I can't do it alone. 592 00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:12,199 In Speed Racer, the adaptation of a cult Japanese anime 593 00:46:12,199 --> 00:46:14,159 turned into an experimental film, 594 00:46:14,679 --> 00:46:19,159 Speed and Trixie join forces to fight the destructive power of money. 595 00:46:19,559 --> 00:46:22,199 You're the ones who are saying I better drive than most of WRL. 596 00:46:22,519 --> 00:46:24,519 - Now's not the time to prove it. - Why not? 597 00:46:24,519 --> 00:46:25,760 It's too dangerous. 598 00:46:26,559 --> 00:46:28,719 Too dangerous for me, but not for you, right? 599 00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:31,960 These same themes are found in the rebellious couples 600 00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:37,280 of their great choral film Cloud Atlas, and the many combinations they create. 601 00:46:41,639 --> 00:46:44,320 It's Jupiter and Caine from Jupiter: 602 00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:47,519 The Fate of the Universe fighting for the survival of humanity. 603 00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:54,199 And it's the 8 characters in their Netflix series, Sense8, 604 00:46:54,599 --> 00:46:57,119 fraternally connected across space and time. 605 00:46:59,119 --> 00:47:04,199 What you decide to do, just know you won't have to do it alone. 606 00:47:13,639 --> 00:47:15,760 Even machines and humans can merge. 607 00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:19,599 Matrix Revolutions, the third instalment, 608 00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:25,400 leads to a truce, an armistice between humans and machines. 609 00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:39,960 The directors are not so much suggesting transhumanism as 'trans' humanism. 610 00:47:44,679 --> 00:47:47,440 Trinity's rescue in Matrix Resurrections 611 00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:50,199 takes this 'trans' philosophy to its logical conclusion. 612 00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:00,199 - Are you ready? - Yes. 613 00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:06,519 In an alternating montage, the heroine is saved by the combined forces of humans, 614 00:48:06,519 --> 00:48:10,880 programmes and machines, acting in perfect symbiosis. 615 00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:23,800 No! 616 00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:29,280 Stop them! 617 00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:33,880 Transgender as much as transgressive, 618 00:48:34,679 --> 00:48:36,840 the Wachowskis' films have been imbued 619 00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:39,159 with the 'trans' prefix since their inception, 620 00:48:39,159 --> 00:48:41,119 and the Matrix tetralogy is the emblem. 621 00:48:43,679 --> 00:48:46,599 {\an8}There's a critical eye being cast back on Lana's in my work 622 00:48:46,599 --> 00:48:48,639 {\an8}through the lens of our transness. 623 00:48:48,639 --> 00:48:51,639 {\an8}This is a cool thing because it's an excellent reminder 624 00:48:51,639 --> 00:48:53,320 that art is never static. 625 00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:57,280 And while the ideas of identity and transformation are critical components 626 00:48:57,280 --> 00:49:01,480 in our work, the bedrock that all ideas rest upon is love. 627 00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:07,039 Lana and Lilly never cease to tell the story of a fluid, 628 00:49:07,039 --> 00:49:12,079 protean love that subverts social codes. To the point of upending values, 629 00:49:12,679 --> 00:49:16,480 like Trinity's famous kiss to Neo, reminiscent of the well-known fairy tale. 630 00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:19,800 Do you hear me? 631 00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:22,280 I love you. 632 00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:39,440 But this time it's the princess who wakes up the sleeping beauty. 633 00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:48,119 Matrix: Resurrections reunites Neo and Trinity one last time, 634 00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:52,159 the electronic, androgynous heroes whose mad love had already derailed 635 00:49:52,159 --> 00:49:54,039 the machines in the first episodes. 636 00:49:58,679 --> 00:50:02,119 The two actors, Carrie-Anne Moss and Keanu Reeves, have aged. 637 00:50:07,159 --> 00:50:11,320 And the way they gaze at each other is touching in a way that is beyond fiction. 638 00:50:12,039 --> 00:50:14,599 You almost get the feeling that they're mutating, 639 00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:19,119 that their physical bodies are giving way to digital versions of themselves. 640 00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:25,360 It's as if, over time, they've brought a bit of the matrix back with them. 641 00:50:28,639 --> 00:50:32,880 Their half-digital faces take on a dimension of eternity. 642 00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:45,960 On several occasions, the two heroes observe a group of birds 643 00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:47,239 flying in close formation. 644 00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:54,840 These swarms, reminiscent of sentinels, have a particular structure: 645 00:50:56,199 --> 00:50:57,679 the more numerous they are, 646 00:50:57,679 --> 00:51:00,400 the less influence each individual has on the group 647 00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:03,400 and the less likely they are to disrupt it with a marginal movement. 648 00:51:12,599 --> 00:51:18,559 Lana, Lilly, Neo and Trinity are inviting us to shake up mass behaviour, 649 00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:22,960 to take a giant leap into the void in order to destabilise the Matrix 650 00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:25,320 and rethink our digital world. 651 00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:34,760 It remains to be seen what the next generations will make of reality. 652 00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:38,159 I was having dinner at a friend's house, and he had some kids. 653 00:51:38,159 --> 00:51:40,320 They hadn't seen the film The Matrix. 654 00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:44,599 So I start to say, well, there's this guy who's in a kind of virtual world, 655 00:51:44,599 --> 00:51:46,760 and he finds out that there's a real world, 656 00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:50,119 and he's really questioning what's real and not real. 657 00:51:50,119 --> 00:51:52,480 And he really wants to know what's real. 658 00:51:53,039 --> 00:51:56,440 And the young girl was like, why? 659 00:51:57,079 --> 00:52:00,039 And I was like, what do you mean? She was like, who cares if it's real? 660 00:52:00,039 --> 00:52:04,039 And I was like, what, you don't care if it's real? 661 00:52:05,159 --> 00:52:07,039 And she was like, no.