Among the many messages that the film contains Headquarters (1999), Lilly Wachowski mentioned on more than one occasion how the film starred Keanu Reeves It’s an allegory for trans identity.
However, one of the most powerful images in the film, in which Neo is debating whether to take the red and blue pill Ending up choosing the pill that makes you wake up and know the authentic reality of your world, is a message that the right has often appropriated to transmit its political ideology.
The director of Headquartersaware that a work ceases to belong to you the moment you release it to the world, it is blunt in its message about the appropriation of Headquarters on the rightbut at the same time recognizes that there is no way to avoid it.
Lilly Wachowski condemns the right and its appropriation of the Matrix
“Right-wing ideology appropriates absolutely everything“Lilly Wachowski explained in conversation with the podcast So true with Caleb Hearon. “They appropriate left-wing opinions and turn them into their own propaganda, to hide the true message. That’s what fascism does. And, of course, that’s what will happen.”
“You have to leave your job. “People will interpret it however they want,” said the filmmaker, recalling “all the crazy theories about mutants that exist in the movies. Headquarters and the crazy ideologies these films helped create.”
In her head, Lilly Wachowski can’t help but think, “What are you doing? No! This is wrong!“While at the same time aware that you cannot change the way people interpret Headquarters: “I have to let go to a certain point… You will never be able to convince absolutely everyone of what you initially intended.”