In 1999,the Wachowskis changed the sci-fi movie game with The Matrix. This first installment of what would become a trilogy followed the story of Thomas “Neo Anderson, a computer programmer by day and hacker at night whose life is forever changed when he swallows the red pill that disconnects him from a carefully simulated world of enslaved humans. The premise of machines rebelling against their makers wasn’t a unique concept at the time, and but the utilization of people as an electrical system to fuel a dystopian world place an inviting twist on the potential fate of humanity.
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