Can someone explain to me how exactly The Matrix is Baudrillardian? The Matrix always gets touted as having Baudrillard influence but I just don't see it. It has some -references- like pic related, or calling the post apocalyptic real world which is an actual desert "the desert of the real" but I don't see the philosophical influence. Can someone here "redpill" a brainlet?

I read some Baudrillard and I admit I found it very obtuse and hard to get into, but I did give it an honest try and I just don't see how The Matrix was in any way even remotely related to the concepts in his work. Movies like Videodrome and The Truman Show are ones I would call Baudrillardian. But The Matrix? I just don't see it. It's a virtual reality that fakes it by sending stimuli to your optic nerves and sensations. That's a neat and meaty approach to a sci-fi concept, but nothing like that was present in any Baudrillard work I tried.

Am I crazy? I just don't see any Baudrillard influence in the concepts the Matrix presents. He didn't seem to be talking about the sci-fi concept of a simulated reality, he seemed to be describing something else entirely.

the wachowski's didn't actually understand anything they borrowed for the matrix. Kinda like anno using crosses in eva just cause they look cool.

>>24543240
No wonder they think putting on a dress makes them a woman. Even captcha agrees

>>24543196 (OP)
it's not

>>24543322
damn did he really say that? brutal

plato

>>24543322
Ouch