Escaping the Matrix Completely

POV: You quit your job and escaped the matrix Yo you coming out tonight? Absolutely not, busy It’s a no, don’t ask me again

A fast, absurd montage shows someone supposedly escaping the matrix: a cramped mechanical scene, a mouse working at a desk, a social-media account following celebrities, increasingly emphatic texts refusing to go out, and finally a figure falling past a skyscraper before the screen goes black. Indila’s song “Ainsi Bas La Vida” plays over it, giving the chaotic escape and blunt rejection messages an overly dramatic, ironic mood. The joke is used as a reaction to disappearing from work and social life completely, as if quitting your job means escaping reality itself. EN: A fast, absurd montage shows someone supposedly escaping the matrix: a cramped mechanical scene, a mouse working at a desk, a social-media account following celebrities, increasingly emphatic texts refusing to go out, and finally a figure falling past a skyscraper before the screen goes black. Indila’s song “Ainsi Bas La Vida” plays over it, giving the chaotic escape and blunt rejection messages an overly dramatic, ironic mood. The joke is used as a reaction to disappearing from work and social life completely, as if quitting your job means escaping reality itself.

♪ Indila — Ainsi Bas La Vida

• @antichirst / 17108 2024-07-05