'The Matrix' Director Lilly Wachowski Calls Out Right-Wing Appropriation of Film's Message

Lilly Wachowski Unimpressed By Trump Admin's 'The Matrix' Obsession: "Right-Wing Ideology Appropriates Absolutely Everything"

While the United States’ current Reddit Occupied Government has a particular and almost overbearing ‘appreciation’ for The Matrix, in particular its ‘blue pill/red pill’ metaphor, series co-creator Lilly Wachowski views their fanaticism as yet another textbook example of how “right-wing ideology appropriates absolutely everything. Morpheus (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) offers Neo (Keanu Reeves) a familiar choice in The Matrix Resurrections (2021), War…

'The Matrix' director Lilly Wachowski calls out right-wing appropriation of film's message

The hit sci-fi movie's famous "red pill" scene has taken on new meaning on the far right.Jasin Boland/Warner Bros. Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss in 'The Matrix'Key PointsLilly Wachowski, who co-directed The Matrix, is criticizing right-wing misinterpretations of the hit sci-fi film."Right-wing ideology appropriates absolutely everything," Wachowski said on a recent podcast. "They appropriate left-wing points of view, and they mutate them for…

“This Is What Fascism Does”: THE MATRIX Co-Director Addresses The Film Being Co-Opted For Right-Wing Ideology

The Matrix co-director Lana Wachowski opened up about the 1999 science-fiction classic being used to represent right-wing ideologies.