1999: When Gen X Disillusionment Had its Moment on the Big Screen
The shared themes of The Matrix, Office Space, and Fight Club
This is a free companion to this week's podcast on The Matrix.
One of the central conceits of The Matrix is that the titular VR network-cum-mind prison was modeled after the peak of human civilization, which the computers determined was a green-tinted 1999.
The idea was laughable at the time. Looking back,…