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How Unplugging from the Matrix Became the New Matrix (Column)
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variety.comOwen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticThe year “The Matrix” came out — 1999 — already had a sci-fi ring to it. It was the year Prince had imagined as the run-up to the apocalypse, a premonition that would be echoed in the Y2K jitters.
And 1999 is just such a cool number; it’s like the other side of the coin from 2001. With its row of nines poised to turn over, it sounded like the future embedded in the present, and that’s kind of how 1999 felt.
We knew we were moving into the 21st century and we thought we had a good idea of what that was about. The Internet was only a few years old, but already we could see where it was pointing: to a digital world that would bring everything (literally) to your fingertips.
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