Begin Transmission by Tilly Bridges

Author:Tilly Bridges
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9798887711256
Publisher: BearManor Media
Published: 2022-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS

Revolutions is even more advanced stuff than Reloaded was, in terms of how specifically it speaks to the trans experience, but I’m going to do my best to explain it. I mean… obviously. I’m not going to write a book and be lazy about it. Way to go, Tills. Get on with the show already.

You’ve come so far, through two movies and The Animatrix up to this point, and though all of these are very trans, and the movies are intrinsically trans and speak to the trans experience, Revolutions feels like the one most made for us (though it’s also for cis folks). At least up to this point. Resurrections takes it to a whole other level.

Which is not to say that the other movies aren’t also for trans people; they certainly are. But what you see from here through to the end of Resurrections is so deeply, deeply trans that it will be a little more difficult for me to explain. I write all the time and I try my best to communicate clearly and effectively (and hopefully in an entertaining way), but sometimes language just fails at capturing the complexity of some ideas.

While the trans allegories of The Matrix and Matrix Reloaded were instantly clear to me, Matrix Revolutions was much less so at first … until I got to one specific shot that cleared it all up and brought it all into focus. I’ll call it out when we get there.

I think it’s also a little less straightforward because it’s about two things, not one (as is Resurrections). It’s very much about transphobia specifically, but it’s also about the future (and our related hopes and fears).

When you look at the original trilogy as a whole, they represent:

The Past (The Matrix) - discovering we’re trans and choosing to transition, which is a fixed moment we all move past, no matter how long that “moment” takes us.

The Present (Reloaded) - dealing with society trying to end us is an all day, everyday thing, possibly for the rest of our lives

The Future (Revolutions) - the future is always unknown, so this one is more nebulous and is about the future we hope will come to pass… and how we might be able to get there.

For people who know they’re trans, The Matrix is the story of what we had to go through to get to that realization and deciding to do something about it. It’s also responsible for cracking a lot of eggs, so it’s a starting point, but once you do that it’s already moving into your past.

Reloaded is about going back to find out why we transitioned, when it made life so difficult. We’re constantly under attack, but we did it because we had to and we owed it to ourselves and every other trans person out there that it could help. That’s our present.

But Revolutions is about the future. Now that we know we’re trans, and we know what that means in our society and

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