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The Matrix is 11 yrs old

The Matrix has Hooked Us It was 1999 ... then it felt like connectedness and over the years, the enormity of the references in the Matrix has been revealed. It is a film of everything pathbending and has become the template of ambition (there is no bar to raise while working on the matrix - it is the bar).The movie took cyberfiction staples like those found in William Gibson ’s Sprawl trilogy — including his classic 1984 novel, Neuromancer , from which the internetworked concept of “the matrix” is taken — and mashed them together with anime, wire-fu , postmodernism, metaphysics, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland , Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulations , and a torrent of other texts and contexts. The film also juggles religious (hinduism, buddhism, christianity )and philosophical premises Filmed mostly in Sydney, Australia, and anchored by a hacker named Neo and his battle-worn leader Morpheus , The Matrix follows a group of intrepid rebels as they rage against their machine o