“The X-Files” Two Hundred Years Later, or Alchemy of Cyberpunk
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Rode makes analysis of Andy and Larry Wachowski’s film Matrix by applying the following strategy. She selects specific intertexts and verifies in what way they modify the meaning of film pre-texts. In Rode’s view, Matrix’s intertexts include The X Files series with the American obsession of being controlled and terror induced by the totalitarian system; Richard Serra’s 1978 video-manifest produced at a time of the biggest disappointment with television; cyberpunk with its accessories and a division into the degraded material world and the hope-building network; David Lynch’s production with a strong intuition on the existence of many parallel worlds; Philip K. Dick’s prose; reflections inspired by concepts from psychoanalysis; Christian mythology; Gnosticism and medieval alchemy. Matrix’s high technology slipping out of man’s control evokes associations with the history of Golem and Frankenstein.
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Richard Serra, Philip K. Dick, technologyReferences
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Dagmara Rodekwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
University of Lodz Poland
Studentka IV roku kulturoznawstwa Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (specjalność filmoznawstwo).
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