Episode 549: The Matrix (1999)
Released in 1999, The Wachowski Siblings's The Matrix stars Keanu Reeves as Thomas “Neo” Anderson, a cubicle jockey who is looking for meaning in his life by way of the notorious hacker Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne). Neo gets more than he bargained for when he learns that the world in which we live is a computer-generated construct, the titular Matrix. Ben Buckingham and Christine Makepeace join Mike to discuss this groundbreaking film.