The first movie I ever saw in a theater. I was 17, and when I walked out I genuinely felt like I was in the Matrix — looking at the street, the people, all of it, half-wondering whether any of it was real. It messed with my head in the best way and shifted how I looked at a lot of things.
I was studying computer science at the time, and this is the movie that made programming feel like more than a way to get a job. Code as something that could build a whole world, bend what’s real — it pushed me to actually want to understand it, not just pass the class.
5/5.