It might seem like a copy of the Matrix and that whole sci-fi strand in the computer field, but Cypher is just another analysis of the technology that is developing between the 20th and 21st centuries, another declination of those analyses that started with ExistenZ and the [Matrix](https://boxd.it/9lLrQN) itself.
This anguished quest to know and imagine a future dominated by technology is, in this case, a great search for oneself, of how one can alienate oneself from the world if one abuses progress, of how the large corporations now dominate all aspects of society, that is very contemporary.
Vincenzo Natali's hand in constructing claustrophobic, depressing and oppressive new worlds, as he had already done in The Cube, can all be seen here, both in the photography and in the camera movements, as well as with the use of CGI, perhaps aged a little too much, but which gives an idea of the skills of this director, called upon to stage, in this case, a screenplay that is a little too complex, considering its length.
