In my opinion, I don't think it is possible for a film to make people murder other innocent people. I think the people who have blamed the Matrix have just used the film as an excuse to get away with what they have done. When the Matrix was released in April 1999, over 100 million people went to the cinema to watch it and so making it one of the biggest film franchises ever. If it was the reason for making people kill, I think every person who had seen it after its release would have had murderous thoughts but this wasn't the case. However more than 6 people, out of over 100 million, found this to be true and found it to have a darker, more sinister effect on them than anybody else.
For example, Joshua Cooke from Fairfax in Washington DC was arrested for the killings of his adoptive mother and father. It was known to family friends and neighbours that Joshua's parents were high-achieving people (one of the only black families in the neighbourhood) and Joshua failed to meet their......
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