Some Facts / Mentions from the Wachowski "Brothers" now Sisters !

Transgender themes in The Matrix films...

█ Years after the release of The Matrix, both of the Wachowskis came out as transgender women.

The red pill has been compared with red estrogen pills.

█ Morpheus's description of the Matrix creating a sense that something is fundamentally wrong, "like a splinter in your mind", has been compared to gender dysphoria.

█ In the original script, Switch was a woman in the Matrix and a man in the real world, but this idea was removed.

█ In a 2016 GLAAD Media Awards speech, Lilly Wachowski said:

"There's a critical eye being cast back on Lana and I's (sic) work through the lens of our transness. This is a cool thing because it's an excellent reminder that art is never static."

█ In 2020, Lilly said The Matrix was intended as an allegory for gender transition, but that "the corporate world wasn't ready".

She said it was "all about the desire for transformation but it was all coming from a closeted point of view", but that she did not know "how present my transness was in the background of my brain" when the Wachowskis were writing it.

█ In an interview with Variety, Reeves said he did not know the film was an allegory for transgender identity during production.

█ Visual effects (Bullet time scene etc). Manex Visual Effects used a cluster farm running the Unix-like operating system FreeBSD to render many of the film's visual effects.

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