The movie The Matrix 4 and other sci-fi stories that come true

When did human civilization reach its peak? According to Agent Smith, the evil computer program agent in the science fiction series The Matrix (1999), it was in 1999. In The Matrix's iconic debut film, humans are enslaved by artificial intelligence for the next 200 years, and the real world in which humans think they live is actually a virtual world. Agent Smith's explanation for this is that it was human civilization that reached its peak in 1999, and they were ordered to maintain the virtual reality called matrix, which is modeled after the civilization of the late 20th century. Since then, our human civilization has clearly deteriorated.

In retrospect, you might think that Smith was right. At that time in the late 20th century, when the global economy was booming, 9/11 had not yet happened, and the global epidemic of plagues had long been a distant history.

But one thing is for sure, 1999 was indeed the peak of the film industry, when Hollywood launched several great films, including "Fight Club", "Office Space", "Being John Malkovich", and of course, "The Matrix", which have different themes but touch on the fragile side of human society, making the audience question our world and the reality we face And the existence of us humans ourselves. The Matrix was so influential that some fans believed in the film's core premise that humans were enslaved by artificial intelligence and lived in a virtual world. In the documentary A Glitch In the Matrix, produced in early 2021, director Rodney Ascher interviewed a group of people who believe we do live in virtual matrices. The Wachowski sisters' The Matrix is also a classic of Cyberpunk culture, a form of black science fiction in science fiction that combines futuristic technology with dark-toned dystopian themes.

To this day, The Matrix is still beloved, and the announcement of the release of the latest in the Matrix series, The Matrix Resurrections, immediately sparked a frenzy of fans, seemingly forgetting that the previous two Sequels to The Matrix, both released in 2003, were disappointing. As the title "Matrix Returns" indicates, the latest fourth installment of the Matrix series will bring back three of the most popular characters, namely neo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity (played by Carrie-Anne Moss) who appear to have both died in the third series, as well as the video game series The Matrix Online. Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), a bespectacled revolutionary who has been killed and killed in the standard narrative.

All three protagonists will return (though Mofes returns at a younger age, played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II of Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), as well as the signature kung fu action of the Matrix series and a test of what is real. Before the official release of the fourth part, because only a few mysterious trailers were released, everyone was speculating about how the storyline unfolded, but today's reality is that the core idea of "The Matrix", that is, virtual reality and simulation theory, have been implanted in our human reality as never before. Indeed, in a world that is truly stranger than science fiction, what new revelations can a new Matrix movie and the whole cyberpunk black sci-fi bring to humanity?