Wednesday, October 29, 2003
What isn't the matrix?
Today I saw a huge (for Japan) billboard for The Matrix: Revolutions in Shinjuku near Kabuki-Cho. Of course, they are to be found everywhere around Tokyo. Anyway, for some reason, I couldn't help but thinking that Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski, Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss and the whole lot looked way, way dated/retro - almost prehistoric in fact - compared to the immediate vicinity of the billboard itself. Well, that's Tokyo for you. Even Blade Runner (1982) was just barely on the cusp of the neologism/anachronism as culture that is this city.
