pleasecallmechrist posted:

Well, allow me to retort. Each one of the stories is based on a literary medium used throughout history. Beginning with the classic English diary adventure novel, an epistolary, a noir detective, a memoir, scifi, and returns to a thread ie oral story telling.

The entire meditation is on the continuity of existence with homage to reincarnation while also detailing the cyclical nature of time.

The plots are all tied together via cause and effect with the "birthmarks" acting as a catalyst and reminder that we are all humans throughout time regardless of time and circumstance. By enunciating this shared feature, the reader/viewer is reminded that those in both the past and future lead lives in the same way we do which Surprise Surprise is the entire purpose of story and fiction in the first place.

Then the Wachowskis took many hormone pills and went all gender and race bender which aptly elaborates the aforementioned point.

HTH