What if the machines were the ones who needed saving from us?
The human resistance works to convert a sentinel to their side. Part of the Animatrix collection of animated shorts set in the Matrix universe.
Direction
Peter Chung's Aeon Flux sensibility cranked to eleven.
Director
Peter Chung
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chung deliberately mirrored missionary/colonizer narratives, making the humans the ones 'civilizing' the machine.
The sentinels were redesigned to look vulnerable and almost baby-like during conversion — Wachowskis called it 'the most disturbing thing in the entire franchise.'
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