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Revelation34 posted...

It's a retcon.

Bingo. And this wouldn't be the first, or even biggest example of retcon attempts, or creator's buying into their own cleverness or mythos that others have forced on them.

For the record, Lana said at the 2016 GLADD awards that she didn't mind that people were now looking at their prior works through a trans lens because "art isn't static." Which is fine and all, but themes and motifs you put into a film ARE static, regardless of if someone interprets it a different way down the line, or sees something that seems to align with some view or belief.

Hell, I read "scholarly" papers in college that suggested Dopey of the Seven Dwarves represented a penis/male sexuality, because he's the only bald one and likes Snow White's kisses a lot. While this is far more out there than suggesting The Matrix is a trans love letter,t he point is it's practically a sub-category of film study in terms of trying to retroactively apply deeper or hidden meanings to films.

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