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What is Cyberpunk?

Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.

Cyberpunk characteristics include:

Dystopian city setting where mega-corporations rule
Full integration of technology into society, featuring cybernetic implants
Outsider protagonists (punks) who often are very familiar with the technology around them
Hard boiled detective and film noir vibes and influence
Themes dabbling in trans-humanism, existentialism, and what it means to be human.

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Do you consider Matrix Resurrections to be cyberpunk? (lemmynsfw.com)

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The Matrix is one of the most well-known cyberpunk movies; I'm not going to argue its cyberpunk qualities. But 20 years after The Matrix was relevant, we got a cash-grab sequel in Matrix Resurrections.

My question to you is: Is there anything cyberpunk left in Matrix Resurrections? Or has the franchise been so diluted that what's left is no longer cyberpunk? For example, in the first movie Neo was a hacker. By this movie, I really wouldn't call him a hacker anymore. But maybe the themes of "what it means to be human" still remain?

Here's a trailer. You can still watch it on Max.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I would have been happier with a movie that explored a combined world. Some of the things we saw in Resurrections that touched in that was very interesting. But they would have had to come up with a new plot that wasn't connected to the previous ones. While I loved Neil Patrick Harris' character and his job with it, I don't like revisitation movies that break the previous conclusions to make them work. This was one of the flaws of the Star Wars sequels - instead of taking a finalized ending and building on it for a new thing, they "oops, it's not really fixed" and started a repeat all over again. And I liked TFA itself, I just didn't like where it led.