Why Baudrillard Hated The Matrix

And why he was wrong

“The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce.”

These were the infamous words that Jean Baudrillard used to break his silence on The Matrix movies in a 2004 interview with Le Nouvel Observateur. Baudrillard’s idea of simulation — which we explored in-depth in a previous instalment — was the primar…