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The Matrix Anticipated: Johnny Mnemonic’s shoddy Wachowski precursor

Johnny Mnemonic Written by William Gibson Directed by Robert Longo Canada/USA, 1995 Perhaps the greatest gift of 1999’s The Matrix wasn’t its revolutionary effects work but its contemplative subject matter at the peak of Y2K insanity. Of course it has some obvious stoner philosophy, and its two sequels get bogged down in their own convoluted mythology, but …

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