“Matrix”: Correction of the Manifestation of Cyberpunk Culture According to the Wachowski Brothers
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The article is an analysis of the famous film Matrix by Andy and Larry Wachowski against the background of „cyberpunk culture”. Spalińska-Mazur recalls that the culture is the product of a climate of the 1980s. The symbol of the movement are mirror sunglasses; and the themes all artists share include motifs of an interference into human body and mind. Spalińska-Mazur says the film has explicated and shown what cyberpunk produced, i.e. a state of being lost in man-created reality. But in her opinion, the film inculcates in us a fortifying belief that machines will never be able to understand man’s nature because they cannot get to know the nature of being. Duration is the guarantee of freedom.
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Joanna Spalińska-Mazurkwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Jagiellonian University Poland
Absolwentka Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. W 1998 roku obroniła pracę doktorską pt. Casus Aleksandra Sroczyńskiego w polskim autorskim filmie animowanym lat 80.
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