The Red Pill was literally Estrogen, it comes in green now, but came in red then
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Can someone explain to me how The Matrix was a protrans allegory as the post claims. I've seen the movie many times and I don't remember anything to that effect.
Basically, the Wachowskis (directors) are trans. The trans aspect was only one part of the film, but the idea is basically that your body in the real world (sex) is separate from your identity in the matrix (gender) and the character Switch (who has a male body but is a woman in the matrix) is maybe the clearest example.
The Wachowskis themselves both say that there is a strong trans element in the Matrix while Lilly Wachowski also says she doesn't know "how present my transness was in the background of my brain as we were writing".
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I actually don't recall the anti-capitalist message, beyond the implication that office drones are just exploited human capital in a endless life of drudgery-
Oh, wait, I see it now.
I'm facing a dilemma here.
On the one hand, I believe Ivanka and Elmo are both devious enough to take the message of someone they despise and use it for themselves.
On the other hand, both are probably too stupid to understand the message in the first place. The old malintent vs. incompetence problem.
To be fair, I also never interpreted the message of these movies in this way; but on the other hand, I was about 13 when the movie released here, and I can't remember referring to any of the movie's elements since then, less so to use them as allegories. While impressive in a technical way back then, they never had such a lasting impact on me.
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Leon proving once again that even a massive retard can become rich.
He’s too dumb to understand that his politics suggest he should hate it.
But if he was smarter, he might have better politics, and therefore not hate it.
He's like conservative the Star Trek fans who chime in any time someone (even here on Lemmy) talks about Star Trek promoting diversity. They don't even notice that literally every Star Trek cast has been diverse, let alone the fact that they live in a socialist utopia with a progressive moral code, because all they care about is pew pew space battles.
But if you’re dumb (or intellectually dishonest) enough, you can co-opt anything.