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My regular rewatch of The Matrix has just concluded, and I need to tell you that sewing has ruined me! (again)

Now I can't unsee that all suit jackets in the movie have yellow linings (unusual!) and that includes the suit jacket Neo wears during his day in the office.

I don't know if there's any symbolic meaning to this, but it sure looks great.

Re-watched The Animatrix for the very first time after seeing it on tv over 20 years ago.

My favourite then and now is "Beyond".
https://youtu.be/Ol-tnlx5IY8
(This is not complete, the last several seconds are missing.)

I wished I could see what the DVD-Rom part does, but it doesn't work on Linux. Bummer.
(I know, I could probably make it work with some workaround but I'm not in the mood for fiddling with that right now.)
I'm also very sad that all the official websites don't exist anymore. They all re-direct to a very sparse generic WB page. Disappointing.
The Wayback Machine can't seem to help either. Sad!

#TheMatrix #TheAnimatrix

The Red Pill Was Hijacked
"The supreme irony is that what reactionaries call “taking the red pill” looks a lot more like swallowing the blue pill in The Matrix—choosing to accept a prefabricated narrative rather than engaging with the complex, often difficult realities of democratic governance and human freedom."
"Yarvin didn’t just critique democracy—he rebranded submission as rebellion. He understood that direct arguments for authoritarianism wouldn’t persuade most Americans, so he framed democracy itself as the “blue pill” illusion. His trick was simple: make obedience to elites feel like an act of radical defiance." And of course there's the additional irony that The Matrix was produced by two trans women, and has been hijacked by people who promote both transphobia and sexism.

Techdirt · The Red Pill Was Hijacked“Wake up, Neo. The Matrix has you.” These words marked a cultural moment—one that captured our collective anxiety about reality itself. The Matrix wasn’t just a movie about robo…