The Matrix and the simulated-reality premise

Screening Room Film
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A programmer discovers that consensus reality is a simulation maintained by machines.
Medium Film
Year 1999
Creator The Wachowskis
Runtime 136 min
Mode Fiction
IMDb tt0133093
Reviewed 2026-07-26

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Four Academy Awards; the film’s bullet-time photography and its central premise became reference points for two decades of argument about whether the world is computed.

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The reference point for two decades of argument about whether the world is computed — the film gave the idea its vocabulary.

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