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Matrix rule(s)

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And for anyone who wants to check: US release of "The Matrix" was March 31st 1999

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How does it fit trans day?
- The Wachowskis are both trans and the matrix can famously be read as a trans allegory
  
  How’s that an allegory? Taking the red pill is waking to trans reality or something?
  Edit: thanks everyone for your responses, it was eye opening. Time for a rewatch.
  
  antidepressants vs HRT
  
  I was typing up a thesis, but this really sums it up, doesn't it lmao
  
  The leading brand of estrogen in the 90s was red.
  
  OH. Hah, I always thought this was one detail they got wrong for some reason, considering estradiol is bluegreen. Should have considered the context back then.
  
  There's a lot. Like the way Agent Smith (representing the system) constantly disrespects Neo's identity and deadnames him.
  
  Taking the red pill (estrogen at the time was a red pill) enables you to see that a lot of society is a facade and there are depths beyond it. In the real world that could be things like learning that there are people and lives that society refused to acknowledge like trans people
  
  Switch was meant to be trans (hence the name I think) and their in matrix visual identity was different to "reality". But corpos didn't like it.
  
  I've always wondered the same. I've watched the trilogy multiple times looking for the trans parallels, but I don't really get it.
  
  Thanks for choosing the right wording! It's certainly one of the ways to read it. And it's also a good idea to sometimes search for a new matrix theory and then doing a re-watch. It is mindblowing how many different, sometimes completely crazy yet beautiful narratives the original trilogy can fit to, all while also being enjoyable as is without any.
- Agent Smith identifies as all genders
- The movie is a massive allegory for being trans.

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