Wrote about this for GCSE English
It obviously does reference a lot of other films, particularly Ghost in the Shell. I remember as a kid tying together a string of films that you could say form a rough "arc" plot-wise. Ghost in the Shell, then Terminator, then The Matrix. There may have been more in the chain.
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RadioElectric, Tue 11 Oct 2011, 19:48,
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