![]() Why Casablanca is the ultimate film about refugees It is a film that, like the human race in the Wachowskis’ story, is trapped forever in the 1990s. Despite all this, though, in some crucial respects The Matrix has dated so badly that it now seems to be a relic. ![]() Its ‘bullet-time’ effects have been copied by blockbusters ever since, and its thoughts about virtual reality and artificial intelligence have been mimicked just as often. The Wachowskis’ tech-noir mind-bender came out in 1999 – 20 years ago – which meant that it reinvented big-screen superhero action a year before X-Men was released and showcased Hong Kong-style ‘wire-fu’ fight choreography a year before Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
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