• Donkter@lemmy.world
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    It also makes the plot a bit more meta, where the simulation they’re all in is simulated using the brains of the people inside it.

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      Even checks out on the allegorical level. The matrix is the capitalist system we’re stuck in.

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      It even explains why the agents can jump between people. They are already running on their brains.