After 'Battlestar Galactica,' 'Westworld,' 'Her' and 'Ex Machina,' in 2024 it's worth revisiting the Wachowskis' prescient 1999 blockbuster 'The Matrix.'
When SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher addressed the audience gathered at the Shrine Auditorium during this year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, she hammered home what many understand to be the industry’s most urgent threat: artificial intelligence. “AI will entrap us in a matrix where none of us know what’s real,” she warned. “If an inventor lacks empathy and spirituality, perhaps that’s not the invention we need. Dystopia stories can also become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Those fugitive replicants hunted by Harrison Ford’s Deckard are victims of their own creators whose tragedy lies in their inability to be more than what they were built for — a point made all the more poignant by Deckard’s realization at the end of the film that he may well be a replicant himself. More recently, Kogonada’s “After Yang” picks up the same thread.
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