im reviewing an ms for a scholarly press and the thing that is bugging me the most is how badly the author appears to have misunderstood THE MATRIX
@oddletters when you say "badly," how far up the "oh no technolibertarians" scale are we talking
@owen it's just weird things like saying Neo was a "world famous hacker" or saying he's "strapped into" a chair during the red pill/blue pill scene. like, stuff you could correct just by _watching the movie you're describing_
@oddletters guh
"world famous hacker" is such a bad misread even if you take it in good faith!
@owen he's not famous! he's nobody! he says so in the running-through-the-office-from-agents scene!
@oddletters it's kinda weirder than that? he's clearly working as a hacker after hours (see eg. the white rabbit scene) but he's out of his element and deeply discomforted by it.
@oddletters also would you like to see some accidental high art about this from a twitter shitpost
@oddletters I thought better of it and sent it on discord
@oddletters I feel like most of society misunderstood both the Matrix and Keanu when it came out, tbh