‘The Matrix’ defined cyberpunk for a generation, but it’s Cronenberg’s grotesque vision of the future, released just weeks later, that will haunt you long after the credits roll.
‘The Matrix’ defined cyberpunk for a generation, but it’s Cronenberg’s grotesque vision of the future, released just weeks later, that will haunt you long after the credits roll.
It also does Baudrillard better than the movie that used his book as a prop. When Morpheus says “welcome to the desert of the real,” the end of this movie is what that term actually means.