This 1999 sci-fi film explores philosophical questions about simulated life with a maturity that its more famous contemporaries never quite achieved.

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To simulate the Earth, he suggests that it would be necessary to convert the entire stellar mass of a globular cluster into ...

The Matrix (1999) film analysis and visual investigation by Erik Voss! Go to to get a 30-day free trial + the first 200 ...

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In The Matrix, humanity is unknowingly trapped inside a simulated reality created by intelligent machines in order for said machines to use the humans’ bodies as an energy source. While that ...

Building his latest documentary around impossibly big questions, a cheeky ‘90s cyber aesthetic and the words of visionary author Philip K. Dick, director Rodney Ascher explores the labyrinthine ...

The documentary “A Glitch in the Matrix” takes its title from a line in “The Matrix” (1999). “A déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix,” Carrie Moss’s Trinity tells Keanu Reeves’s Neo. Two further ...

Released almost exactly 20 years ago, The Matrix has gone on to become a cultural phenomenon well beyond the science fiction genre. While it was generally considered science fiction at the time, it ...

If you've heard of simulation theory -- the idea that our entire universe could be running inside of some sort of extra-dimensional computer -- there's a good chance you encountered it from a high ...