Clickbait title: With Matrix, did the Wachowskis steal everything from Dark City?

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This episode of Mr. Bobine's Ciné-club is adapted from one of the chapters of our book published by Third Editions: "The work of the Wachowski, the matrix of a social art" available in bookstores from November 18 and currently on sale on the @Third Editions website!
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In 2018, Lilly and Lana Wachowski sold the offices of their production house in Chicago, ending their joint career in movies. At the same time, Warner was working on a sequel or a reboot of the juicy Matrix saga written by Zak Penn, a project that did not arouse much enthusiasm among moviegoers. But in 2019, the announcement of the return of Lana Wachowski (without her sister) to the production and script of Matrix Resurrections receives a better welcome from moviegoers, even if this return seems unexpected to say the least.
And yet, two decades after the triumphant release of the first installment of the Matrix saga, released in 1999, we find resonances between today and the 90s, a strangely similar context in which the release of a new opus of the saga Matrix is ​​far from totally incongruous.
Indeed, one of the peculiarity of the first opus of the mythical saga of the Wachowski sisters is that it multiplies the connections with its time, whether in its themes or its aesthetics, to the point that we could have a little feeling of "déjà vu". Because as is often the case with surprise box office successes, accusations of plagiarism are never far away. For example, many spectators, but also critics had fun identifying the similarities between Matrix and Dark City by Alex Proyas. So did The Matrix become the pivotal film of an entire era by copying from other movies? Or, as you can imagine, is it more complicated than that? To find out, Mr. Bobine invites you to travel to the heart of the 90s, through films like Total Recall, The thirteen Floor, Johnny Mnemonic, Judge Dredd, Demolition Man and even James Cameron's Titanic, to try to understand where does Matrix come from, and what it represents both for the decade of the 90's and for ours.

Matrix: resonances: film criticism / analysis of Mister Bobine
Director, voice, editing: Julien Pavageau
Writing, research: Julien Pavageau

Matrix:
Directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski
With Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
Genre: science fiction

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