Cypher did nothing wrong, change my mindpic.twitter.com/aKLq3yxoq1
Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)
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The way he talked about and treated Trinity was pretty not okay
Didn't he also kill Switch? Or at the very least was directly involved in Switch dying
I still say Switch was an enemy combatant and he switched sides. We don't see it but we know Switch, like every other one of the rebel crew who can jack in, has been conditioned to see anyone still in a pod as expendable and to kill them at will
But Switch is also trans (sort of)!
I think that given the ways allegories stack into a text like the Matrix, and that the Wachowskis have stated it doesn't have one specific "meaning," that Cypher's story and Switch's story can be about something besides being trans, or about different aspects of it
To me, right now, Cypher is very much a metaphor for how I feel "drafted" by virtue of being trans into a bunch of accelerationist-type leftism that doesn't even seem related, and how I feel as if trying to get in mainstream society's good side is going to work out better
It's related to my repeated observation that Neo's life before he "wakes up" is pretty sweet, actually
Well it LOOKED okay from the outside but Neo was in a state of chronic dissociation and depression This is usually what gets cited as the movie secretly being about dysphoria
Like maybe the "trans reading" is overemphasized nowadays but Cypher is basically talking about wanting to detransition and live the life of a closeted trans person who'd never found out what dysphoria meant
"Back then I had good job prospects, people thought I was attractive, I was a privileged white person and no hate groups particularly wanted to kill me What was SO BAD about that Why couldn't I have just kept my weird gender feelings to myself for another 20 years "
That's definitely a reading. I see it as more analogous to, you've transitioned, you've solved that, you want to be done with that part of your life but that's obviously me projecting, *but so is the trans reading of Neo everyone loved*
Well Cypher's deal requires a mindwipe, the Machines won't tolerate him walking around still aware of the Matrix It's explicitly saying he wants to trade self-knowledge back in for comfort and pleasure
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