Re:The Matrix Was Intended to Be a Trans Story, Says Lilly W...
by dragonwriter on Saturday August 08, 2020 @03:33PM
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> Especially if they concern a new political issue that more or less didn’t exist at the time the work came out.
Wachowski, AFAICT, doesn't tie the movie to trans rights as a political issue (though that had been an issue, though with very little public traction, for quite a while before the movie was made, so if it was going to be addressed in a major motion picture, doing it indirectly and subversively would be natural and necessary). It's incorrect to equate any story about that groups experiences, whether literal or metaphorical, as necessarily being about some political issue involving the group, though it's a common mistake for people outside the group whose only attention to the group is political to make that mistake.
Wachowski, AFAICT, doesn't tie the movie to trans rights as a political issue (though that had been an issue, though with very little public traction, for quite a while before the movie was made, so if it was going to be addressed in a major motion picture, doing it indirectly and subversively would be natural and necessary). It's incorrect to equate any story about that groups experiences, whether literal or metaphorical, as necessarily being about some political issue involving the group, though it's a common mistake for people outside the group whose only attention to the group is political to make that mistake.