[FRA:] Zizek & Koenigsberg on The Matrix, Human Batteries & the Symbolic Order

[James Rovira]

Neh, the Wachowskis required all cast members to read Baudrillard's
_Simulacra and Simulation_ and cited one or two other works as
specific influences.  It's not hard to find the philosophical
underpinnings, and Zizek could have identified these even earlier than
2003 with a five minute Google search.

I agree the film is philosophically naive, though, and Baudrillard
said the filmmakers misunderstood him.  There is an original and a
"real" world in the film: Baudrillard's point in SS is that there is
no longer an original.

Jim R