Neo’s Liberal Movement: The New Action Film as a Handmaiden to Globalism

"As far back as the 1930s, Walter Benjamin wrote about the dizzying cinematic effect of the placeless camera moving in shot-countershot while occupying multiple perspectives. He believed that such protean perspective broke down the viewer’s defenses against the power of its vision as the director dissected and reconstituted reality. One can only guess what he would have made of the new subjective movement in The Matrix’s opening scene, where the camera, like the object of its gaze, seems to know no limits. It raises up, it circles, it is above, then close-up, the range of focus deepens, then it does a 320 degree sweep around the room, cutting back and forth around 25 times in 30 seconds. "