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Your mind makes it real. A look back at ‘The Matrix’

Laurence Fishburne and Keanu Reeves in The Wachowskis’s ‘The Matrix’ (1999).
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Laurence Fishburne and Keanu Reeves in The Wachowskis’s ‘The Matrix’ (1999).

The 18-year wait is nearly over, and the fourth Matrix movie, The Matrix Resurrections, .

This hour, we look back at the original film and its continued influence with and and and so much more.

We take the question of whether much more seriously than we did when The Matrix came out. We’re much more attuned to that The Matrix might well have been.

And The Matrix Resurrections is just the latest iteration of , from to Bill & Ted Face the Music to next year.

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  • River Donaghey - An associate editor at Vice, where he published the piece “”
  • David Sims - A staff writer at and the cohost of
  • Emily VanDerWerff - The critic at large for Vox, where she published “
  • Rizwan Virk - Executive director of Play Labs at M.I.T. and the author of

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Colin McEnroe, Cat Pastor, and Chion Wolf contributed to this show, which originally aired June 19, 2019.

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