Metrograph

Keanu Reeves’s cubicle drone/hacker Neo gets a rude awakening, discovering that the real world he knows is a shared hallucination and that humankind are being harvested for bioelectricity by their machine overlords. A watershed movie, not only for the popularization of Hong Kong “wire fu” fighting techniques imported by choreographer Yuen Woo-ping, but for the flexible red pill and blue pill metaphor it introduced, adopted by paranoiacs of all political affiliations.

“Are we in a simulation? Conceived and executed better than anything like it, before or since.” —Neil deGrasse Tyson

Distributor: Park Circus

Post-screening discussion with Neil deGrasse Tyson on Sunday, September 7th