Top-Notch Science Fiction

Rating: 10/10 (6 August 2012)

The best reviews of this movie I've ever seen are the ones in Jim Davidson's "Being Sovereign," and in the online video by Stefan Molyneux "Free Range Humans." The movie is clearly an allegory to the modern nation state. We are all used against our will, with most people never even comprehending this. The Federal Reserve steals all of our labor and redirects it to what Thoreau called "the machine of government." Only libertarians are even aware they are enslaved, and only those who have "woken up" are free. The comparisons are obvious, and the movie is a tribute to individualism.
Just like in real life, conformists' eyes are all informant's eyes. If a conformist sees a drug deal, a firearm, or anything outside of the ordinary happening, he gets on his cell phone and reports the prohibited activity to the police (the police state). The same is true of the uncomprehending conformists in "The Matrix," whose faces bubble outward and morph into the "agents" who defend the matrix.
My vote/ranking is for the entire trilogy. They are all excellent. Don't miss Geoff Darrow's amazing design work. The Wachowskis are geniuses.