Thursday, January 17, 2008

The Matrix explained

This is a pretty lengthy article. I simply HAD to write it, because last weekend, after watching the Matrix Revolutions, I finally saw the light (pun intended). I've understood about 95% of the Trilogy, with a little help from some amazing fan sites. The remaining 5%? Yea, I'm still not clear about the significance of Sati, the role she will play in the future, the sunrise she created etc etc etc.


SPOILER ALERT*****
The entire Matrix storyline is detailed here. So, if you have not watched the Trilogy, please do not read this. The Matrix trilogy is brilliant because it is the very definition of intelligent cinema. The Wachovsky brothers make you think a lot - only some aspects of the storyline are even revealed fully in the movie. You have to try and fill the remaining holes in with your own interpretation.


The Matrix can be interpreted in many ways - you can look at it as a simple action flick. Or, you can discover many principles of Advaitha embedded along the entire storyline (subtly in the beginning, and then a complete out-in-the-open bow when the character Ramachandra speaks about Karma). There are many references to Greek mythology and finally, Neo becomes a Jesus-like savior. Whichever way you look at it - The Matrix Trilogy is arguably the greatest trio of movies ever made.

And so....here is the entire story (or atleast, the way I see it)

1) There is a war between humans and intelligent machines (for supremacy, what else?)

2) The humans blacken the skies to cut off energy sources for the machines (which presumably used sunlight as a renewable energy source)

3) The machines need energy, so they set up huge "farms" where humans are cultivated in pods
so that the machines can harvest the bio-energy generated by the human bodies

4) The only way they could successfully keep humans alive but imprisoned in the pods was by creating a virtual reality to keep their minds occupied. This virtual reality is called the matrix. So, the imprisoned humans are not aware of their actual physical state, because, in their minds, they live in (what they think is) "the real world" which is in reality, just computer code (the matrix)

5) There exists the city of Zion where truly free humans still live. They think that they are rebels, fighting the machines. They hack into the matrix to free humans - more specifically, the humans who are ready to free their minds (that are imprisoned in the matrix). The free and freed humans live in Zion.

6) The free humans living in Zion also deploy fighter ships which roam around in the real world (mostly a wasteland due to the sunlight being cut off), fending off attacks from sentinels (squiggly mechanical things that aim to destroy the ships), to try and free more humans from the farms.

7) A notable captain of such a ship is Morpheus, with a notable crew member - Trinity. They free Neo (Keanu Reeves) from the matrix and enlighten him with the truth about the real world (see points 1 to 4 above). They believe that Neo is the One who can win the war with the machines, because of a prophecy from the Oracle. The Oracle is a mysterious lady who appears to foretell the future and lives in the matrix.

8) The free humans often delve into the matrix for various reasons. Their physical bodies are still in their ships. Their minds are in the matrix. As long as they understand that what they see in the matrix is unreal, they can easily defeat all the villainous agents that the machines deploy to destroy the free humans, and can even fly and do superhuman things. But, they can also be defeated and killed when inside the matrix, if their minds succumbs to feelings of fear and believes the matrix world as really real.

9) Prompted by the Oracle, Morpheus, Neo, and Trinity go in search of the Architect (the computer program that built the matrix program). After a great deal of drama, Neo meets the Architect (who appears as an elderly man. Note that in the matrix, many computer programs have human forms)

10) Neo learns a shocking truth about Zion from the Architect - While being the home for free humans, Zion was not entirely a human creation. It was created/or allowed to exist by the machines themselves for a specific reason (see below)

a) The Architect's first version of the Matrix was a complete failure. It/He had created a perfect virtual world with no conflict/hunger etc. The humans (in the pod farms) immediately rejected it and died, as humans inherently need conflict and struggle as they identify the real world with it

b) The next version (where the Architect built tragedy, war, etc. into the Matrix was also a failure)

c) The Architect finally figured that to solve the above glitch in the matrix, the key is to give the human mind a choice, and make the humans think that they are living their lives according to their own choice (however flawed and meaningless the choice may be)

d) The choice given to the humans, on a subconscious level was this - stay in the matrix and enjoy its comforts, or jump into the real non matrix world. 99% choose the matrix and remain imprisoned in the pod farms, 1% choose freedom and Zion.

e) Hence, Zion is essential for the survival of the machines. They need Zion, but, at the same time, Zion cannot grow too powerful, so they also need to periodically destroy most of Zion and then start over by reloading a new version of the matrix.

f) The machines also wish to maintain the illusion of purpose that the residents of Zion have. If things were too easy (with the machines leaving Zion alone), then the residents of Zion will figure out the fact that the machines need Zion for their own survival and will find a way to defeat the machines. So, the machines engage the residents of Zion in a long war, with the Oracle manipulating them towards the quest of the One - the savior who they think will win the "war". The machines, with the help of the Oracle then engineer events so that "the One" will finally meet the Architect, and aid in the destruction and recreation of Zion

g) The Oracle is also a computer program - very critical in the creation of the Matrix, with a great understanding of human emotion. She manipulates the free humans by predicting the future, and encouraging them in their quest for "The One". She also gently manipulates Neo's emotions who has already been chosen by the machines as the One (reason for this in the next bullet point). When he is not ready to become the One, she lets him think that he is not the One. But by "predicting" the actions of Morpheus and by making self-fulfilling prophecies to Trinity, she makes sure Neo grows into the role of the One. She pushes Neo to go and find the Architect

h) When the Architect meets Neo, he communicates all the above info to Neo and gives him a choice - he can either survive and allow 23 members of Zion to survive, thereby ensuring the survival of "free" humanity. Or, he can choose to fight the machines, with the machines surely destroying Zion fully, thereby destroying humanity completely. There have already been a few Neos before this, and when all of them were presented with the same choice, they chose the former (saving 23 people and rebuilding Zion). Hence, this is actually the sixth version of the matrix, simply a part of the endless cycle where it is reloaded repeatedly, and Zion is destroyed and created repeatedly.

i) In this version of the Matrix, the Oracle has changed her(it's) mind. She/It does not want the endless cycle of the matrix reloading and Zion created/destroyed/recreated. So, she plays a game - she manipulates Neo into choosing the second option (where there is a full blown war and there are is no option of 23 survivors in the event of a defeat). She does this by making Neo and Trinity fall in love with each other. She gambles that Neo will not choose the 23 person option as he cannot accept the inherent caveat with this option - Trinity's death. His love for Trinity is far greater than anything else. He chooses to save Trinity and Zion prepares for an all out war with the machines.

j) There is a third factor in the middle of all this - agent Smith. Smith was originally simply an agent of the matrix. An agent is a computer program designed to eliminate the free humans trying to hack into the matrix to save the trapped humans. He ends up mutating into a wild version of himself, where his only purpose is the destruction of Neo. Like a virus, he begins infecting and corrupting the entire matrix itself

k) The Oracle is aware of the presence of Smith and that is an incentive for her gamble as she believes that the outcome of the war between the machines and Zion may be different when they face a common enemy

11) Neo gets to meet the Oracle for one last time. She cryptically tells him that "everything that has a beginning must have an end"

12) The war between the machines and Zion begins with thousands of sentinels breaking into the city.

13) In the meantime, it dawns on Neo that he must go to the machine city to meet the Source (the master computer) based on cryptic messages (certainly intentional) from the Oracle. Neo and Trinity travel to the machine city. Trinity dies in the process. Also, in the matrix world, Smith ends up corrupting more and more portions of the matrix. He meets the Oracle and ends up "taking over" her.

14) Neo talks to the Source. He convinces the Source by promising to destroy Smith in exchange for peace (for Zion). The machine agrees to a truce, stops the attack on Zion and plugs Neo into the matrix

15) Neo and Smith have a big fight in the matrix. Neo keeps fighting back. Then Smith echoes statements that the Oracle said ("everything that has a beginning has an end). Smith talks like the Oracle, as he has taken over the Oracle itself. Neo finally understands what to do. He figures out that the only purpose for Smith's existence is to destroy him. So, he lets Smith destroy him (by letting Smith take over Neo's mind/body). As Neo was plugged into the matrix, Smith is also now plugged into the matrix because of this and the Machine immediately deletes Smith as he is now simply a program without a purpose (as his purpose - the destruction of Neo has been achieved)

16) Neo becomes one with the Source. He is physically dead, but it can be said that his brain/thoughts/soul etc has been assimilated into the source where he will live forever

17) The Matrix reloads itself. All the programs that Smith corrupted - The Oracle, Sati, etc become themselves again. Zion is truly free now and does not need to fear the machines. The Architect agrees to free the humans in the pod if they choose to be freed

18) The movie ends with a chant from the Upanishads(?) - Asatoma sathgamaya... (from darkness lead us to light, from ignorance lead us to knowledge and from death lead us to immortality) - the significance of this verse being that the humans in the farms have the opportunity to free themselves from their darkness and ignorance, and their delusional world of the Matrix - which is essentially all Maya, and live free in Zion if they seek it and choose it.

Stuff that i do not get - The whole Sati storyline. Can anybody help me?

33 comments:

Anjali Damerla said...

Wow!! Great post.
I will have to see these 3 movies again.
Honestly, I had not understood most of the movie but always loved to see Keanu Reeves on the screen :)

Anonymous said...

Now, you've hit one of my favourite trilogies, so expect more comments, but for starters, anyone see the resemblance between Laurence Fishburne in Matrix and our own Thalaivar in the latter part of Sivaji (apart from doing a Sivamani on his bald pate that is)

Anonymous said...

wow!!!!! is that what Matrix was really about? Now I do need to see it all over again. You now need to review Lord of the rings and Star wars movies. 2 other masterpieces,may not have as profound philosophy as Matrix though!!

Mad said...

Maybe this will help:

http://www.matrix-explained.com/php/about-the-matrix-movies-2750-0.html

nida sami said...

hi good analyses but i am finding the explanation which the creators of this movie has formed like if u hv studied any programing language then u may relate neo as a static variable which never loose up its value and whenever its going to die trinity(a method ) calls neo(static variable) n its again regain from whatever the situation is .i m trying to relate all characters like hope i wll b able soon.

Anonymous said...

I also think this film reads like a network security manual! After all it was always about hackers, and there's other things such as Oracle is a well-known database application, and cookies are - well, cookies, like websites and servers can provide.

re: about Zion; I can see how the machines can use its existence as a subtle choice for pod humans - if they want to leave the matrix, but I don't know that what the Architect says about it being part of the program is true, mainly because it isn't a program, it's real like the machines bodies are also real.
The machines could make such a subtle choice possible, without there actually being a real Zion, because no-one would ever know if there was or not!

The 'programs' in the matrix, that are autonomous (in that they are real and self-aware, yet are 'programs'), I think they are analogous to what humans are in the world outside the matrix (ie - the universe that people made machines in and made up computer programs), because in that world we don't have exact answers as to where/what we are really from and how we were created and what the purpose of this all is.
Saying a 'program' is merely code is like saying a person is merely a bunch of assembled molecules or atoms.

(To suggest that all the required things that have to be a certain way in order for life to exist as-is, just happened by chance every time, is as likely as all the machines and the code of the matrix just popping into existence and evolving by chance: ie: it wouldn't happen! it has to be made and designed by some kind of intelligence)

The 'programs' do know some of those things about themselves, but equally they won't know what those answers are about the humans, just as the humans haven't got those kinds of answers about their true origins and purpose either.

Anyways, I think if there's a message in these films then it's something like: if you're going to create things outside of yourself to do work for you, then either don't ensoul them - because they will want to be free, or if you do make them ensouled or self-aware then you have to let them go if they want to, and you can't expect to get to keep them as slaves.

People are like the machines in that, either you don't mind having to work because you enjoy what you do, or you don't want to work because there's no payoff for you.
Every lifeform works to some extent to ensure its survival, but people only (not anything in nature) have built this really weird version of that, where most people can't get a fair deal in most circumstances - because the way the economies work isn't actually geared towards covering all the requirements of a good standard of living.

In the Matrix universe, in the Animatrix, it shows how the original war between humans and machines came about: because there were people who owned machines, and used them as workers, but they didn't take responsibility for making them as complex as they needed to be in order to do the tasks people wanted them to perform.

pecan said...

For Matrix fans, the movie might best be explained in Gnostic terms and the allied field of Jungian depth psychology. I know that’s a mouthful so I’ll try not to get any more technical.

The central premise of the ancient Gnostic tradition is that the world was created by the forces of a flawed, jealous creator god synonymous with Jehovah of the Old Testament. This was in distinction to the One True God of love who emanated all things. The problem was that like a video tape, each successive copy or emanation fom God diluted in light and clarity. Another way of saying this is that the further these spiritual beings were from the Source (God), the more shadow or ignorance they contained.

It was through a result of this degradative process that the creator god and his material creation came into existence. The material cosmos had to be separated from heaven because their natures or energies were incompatible, but not before souls of the light were trapped within the world sphere (a greatly abbreviated version of the Gnostic myth here). The creator god, being limited but thinking he was the genesis of all things (“I am God, and there are no other god’s before me”), created a flawed world that operated mechanistically with mathematical precision, not according to spiritual laws.

This god formed the human body, but could not animate it owing to his lack of real divine force. Humans were animated by the activity of the Holy Spirit, the serpent in the Garden of Eden, who imbued the fleshly creature with conscious awareness. The human body henceforth became the abode of the trapped souls of light. The Holy Spirit was one of two prime forces seeking to free the trapped sparks of divine light lying dormant in the human soul. The other was the Christ Spirit representing the masculine force of God as the Holy Spirit was God's female essence.

With this background summary, let’s look at the Matrix trilogy.


THE ARCHITECT— is the flawed creator god. He created what he deemed to be the perfect artificial program (the Matrix) only to have humans mess it up with free will (choice). That’s his perspective. He wanted humans to live in an unconscious state (ignorance is bliss) where their divine essence would forever slumber in an illusion of his making (the Garden of Eden) wherefrom he derived worship, energy and power over his creation.

THE MACHINES/MACHINE WORLD—The machines seem to be a creation of humans, but are really a creation of the Architect by extension through humans. The Architect is about mechanistic, mathematical precision and crafting artificial worlds. The machines are a result of this vision being artificial intelligence. Machines further divorce us from true nature. Machine consciousness is therefore an extension of the Architect's consciousness, a way to further deviate humans from reality (their connection with the divine). This artificial way of perceiving seeps into the subconscious human psyche and emerges as erroneous reflex responses to reality. Notice how the sentinels resemble human T-cells always swarming to attack a foreign substance? Here the foreign substance is the free humans who are truly alien to the whole artificial construct of the world. The machine world is the super computer running the Matrix program functioning in the “real” world, which in itself is still an illusion (see comments on the Source below).

THE AGENTS-- are just programs meant to keep order within the Matrix, the equivalent of the Gnostic Archons or forces that retard human awareness.

THE ORACLE—is the Holy Spirit. One point here. The oracle claims to be a program and so would therefore be a creation of the Architect. However, at the end of Revolutions, the oracle and the architect have a conversation that clearly indicates she is in no way subservient to the architect. How to reconcile this? In Gnostic mythology, an aspect of the Holy Spirit stays trapped within the creation to guide the human souls back to the True God. She is no servant of the architect, but rather works through his playing field to upset his "balance" and liberate the divine sparks . She does this by facilitating and assisting them in raising their consciousness to dispel their illusions and perceive reality.

NEO— is the Christ. HE IS ANYTHING BUT A PROGRAM as some have suggested. He is a human whose spirit derives from the Source and like all humans, he reincarnates until he achieves sufficient purity of consciousness to break both with the Matrix and the machine dominance. He is sent by the Source to lead the souls out of the illusory trap of materiality, but he must evolve through matter by suffering and enduring all the forces of illusion until he can overcome materiality's hypnotic pull, which he does by the trilogy’s end.

TRINITY— is Mary Magdalene. In Gnosticism, Mary played a triple role— earthly manifestation of the Holy Spirit, companion of and compliment to the savior, and embodiment of God’s love. The two became one in Jesus and Magdalene as it did in Neo and Trinity, i.e. the masculine and feminine divine aspects reunited into their primordial unity— heart and mind, logic and intuition, strength and mercy.

MORPHEUS— John the Baptist, prophet and forerunner of the Christ (Neo).

SMITH— is Neo, Neo and Smith are us (humanity). Smith starts off as an agent, but after fusing with Neo he breaks with his program. Smith is our unconscious shadow, the destructive, irrational force harboring hatred, fear, and self-loathing, all being emotions that spread like a virus. Neo is the light side of us longing to be free of such forces and reunite with the Source. They are two sides of the same coin, Christ and anti-Christ, god and devil, angel and demon. But notice that good is destined to triumph. On the two occasions they fuse, it is Smith who transforms, not Neo. Neo does not succumb to the destructive forces, but Smith absorbs Neo's free will, though he is the side of us that misuses it, the ego run rampant who emulates the architect by saying ‘this is my world” as if he were a real creator.

THE LIBERATION-- In the end, Smith, Neo and the oracle have merged and they annhilate one another. They have overcome the illusion of duality (good/evil; spirit/matter). They are reabsorbed into the actual unity that they are, that we are. The Holy Spirit remains in the world sphere as the oracle to continue liberating the souls desiring to be freed through the gate Neo has opened, the breach he created in the prison walls of the Matrix and the architect. This is what both Gnostic Christians believed the Christ did.

THE SOURCE— the Source is mentioned several times, particularly by the oracle, but it is nebulous in most people’s minds. I really haven’t seen a cogent interpretation of the Source in any forums. Some people confuse it with the architect or the machine world mainframe, and certain things in the films reinforce this, but that's another delusion.

Here's the key question-- where is God in all this? It is certainly not the architect. The oracle tells us more than once how limited he is, and what kind of god creates such a world as the Matrix anyway? It is not the machine mainframe. As powerful as that is, it's just a created artifical intelligence, a super-computer.

The Source is the True God that stands above all. We get a glimpse of it in Revolutions as Neo and Trinity try to breach the machine city. They can’t withstand the attack of the sentinels. Neo says there are too many of them, they need to “go up.” They ascend through the smog of the created cosmos and emerge into the light of a bright sun-filled sky where Trinity gazes in awe. This scene is an allegory of how we need God’s grace to overcome the mechanistic world of illusion and transcend beyond its hypnotic hold on us. This is the most important scene in the film, and I never see it mentioned by anyone.

There is no one correct interpretation of the Matrix just as there is no single interpretation of life. Just see if this vector on the story rings true to you.

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Unknown said...

I've got a question! What is the relationship between bane and agent smith? basically how did smith get into the 'real world' if he is just a program?

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Richard I have the answer for you, is simple that you know as Zion really is another Matrix program, in fact is the support Matrix program in the case of a total shutdown from main Matrix, if the original Matrix fall and all connected humans die, Zion bring the energy necessary to restore the main energy to the Matrix.

Marty said...

Thanks to the website and PECAN's response too. I love the 3 films and would consider myself of above-average IQ, but I always struggled with so many hours of film, so many characters, subplots and throw-away speeches that actually are important to understanding anything about the meaning of the films.

Thank you for clarifying my own feelings on the trilogy!

Chanco said...

My interpretation of the Sati storyline is that she is the first program to be born out of love (which is why she is smuggled into the Matrix for having no purpose).

Therefore, this fits with the comments the oracle stated that Sati will have a huge impact both in and out of the Matrix.

Sati is the first of a new breed of program that is closer tied to having human qualities.

With the now more relaxed nature of the Matrix there could be many more programs like Sati and indeed, machines. AIs, just like humans that are not born to serve a purpose but from emotion.

Caddeaux said...

i can't argue with PECAN's post... excellent!But for a movie with soo many religious undertones... GOD is never mentioned in the movie... not one crucifix or church or even a God help us... only a "prayer" in reloaded
I believe that it its merely the quintessential story of good vs evil and love is the reason for ultimate sacrifice

Anupam said...

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Anonymous said...

Fantastic site. Helped my understanding a lot! It is very biblical - a bit like Lord of the Rings... Good triumphing over evil

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Anonymous said...

A very nice and understandable explanation.
Thank you a lot.

Anonymous said...

As for the Architect. Keep this in mind. The bible said that Satan was the god of this earth. A flawed creator god is a good example that has already been posted. When Trinity and Neo rose above the clouds, that was synonymous with us rising one day from this earth to be with the true God that allows Satan to play his games with humans, for a period of time. Hence, The Matrix.

The Architect is Satan, who compromises with humans often, as long as they follow him (hooked up to him). When we are in sin, we even have a false sense of the world. The bible says that we are turned over to areprobated mind.

Neo is Moses, as he leads his people out of bondage, but there was one that going to come later, that comes with Grace and Love. Neo, like Moses, freed the people, but it was done with violence and fighting...and killing.

Sati is Jesus, thats why she is constantly talking about her FATHER. The earthly man in the show was equivalent to Joseph. Sati's father is the same father Jesus talks about in the Bible. Now we have the Father (mentioned only in/ out of context by Sati), the son (Sati), and the holy spirit (Oracle). Thats why the oracle said what she said to Satan (Architect) in Reloaded.

Just another way of looking at it.

Anonymous said...

One more addition to the above. Most Chritians, whatever the sect, believe that we are born into sin, hence, born connected to Source (who is the Architect manifested int a body). Hence we are born doomed, connected to Satan, the source...which is the architect of the entire false world that will pass away one day.

Smith can be represented as an emp, rogue angels. Satan is a rogue himself, Smith is a chip off the old block. He was defeated by Neo just like Satan was defeated by Michael and the warring angels.

Smith represents that red guy on one shoulder and the oracle represents the angel on the other.

Father/Son/Holy Spirit...all one

Source/Architect/Smith...all one

Anonymous said...

Thank you! I heard about this concept and started putting it together during the second film after YEARS of never really understanding the movies. What's really awful is that I saw Matrix Reloaded well over a decade ago with a highschool pal who totally understood it and tried to explain it to me. But I never could figure out what the hell he was talking about. Jake Flowers, if you happen to read this, sorry bro. My bad. With this new knowledge these films are fantastic! However, its kinda strange to me that the architect gave up so easily. If he was a human being then I could see him getting frustrated and giving up but a computer program focused on perfection, its bizarre that he would come tot he conclusion that choice will never permit his system to be perfect. 6 tries? That's it? Maybe its just me but i feel like is he said it was the 300th time I could start to see his point. Anyway, i feel like a fool for never bothering to understand all of the film but after getting this clarification I have non stop moments of "oh...thats why that can happen!" btw, the reason Sati is in the film is because they are planning a remake of "Baby's Day Out" where Sati has to babysite the wayward Bink and stop him from crawling into a meat grinder. Cheers!

Anonymous said...

Good stuff but you forgot all about the Merovingian which is in my opinion one of the main concepts of the movie. And the Upanishads is an Indian holy book.

Anonymous said...

This movie is arguably the most intelligent movie ever made I decided to take a look back at the movies to try to understand the story line of this movie and it is extremely hard to understand because it is basically the source architect and Smith are all one Sati her father and the Oracle are all one the Merovingian I still do not understand though if he plays a part in this whole huge story plz someone post after me right now im about at the end of the third time watching Reloaded the only reason that this Neo is different from the others is because of Trinity and the Oracles choice that is what made this whole movie Trinity, Neo, and The Oracle are the most important characters in this movie

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Anonymous said...

Fantastic explanation...
Just a couple of questions however:
10g): If Oracle is another program, how do folks in Zion believe in her? Shouldn't they reject her prophecies?
10h): May be I didn't understand but choices presented don't appear coherent. As per first option (which architect expects Neo to choose), those 23 people will survive and Zion will be re-built. If this choice is presented everytime Matrix has to be re-loaded, isn't Zion continually becoming stronger? As per the 2nd option, machines will destroy Zion completely but isn't Zion something that machines always need to ensure their own survival?
10i): If option 1 given to Neo is that 23 people will "survive" and Zion will be re-built, he should be making that choice for his love for Trinity - isn't it? If so, how has Oracle tricked him into choosing option 2 i.e. fighting the war?

Anonymous said...

As far as the Sati story, I believe she is a representation of the fact that the machines were becoming more "human" in that two programs created a third and seemed to care about her, in their limited way. The underlying theme of the whole story of The Matrix is love being what makes us human. Love is what drives Neo to sacrifice himself.

Anonymous said...

Your comment that the daylight scene is an allegory for how we need gods grace is really far off base - ironically so, actually. "God" is very much represented through Morpheus' mistaken delusion that he had found truth or enlightenment (with Neo being his evidence). That is, Neo is the second (or sixth?) coming.
The irony of course is that this idea of Devine epiphany is itself another delusion - it is another system of control.
If nothing else, The Matrix is saying that we should NOT believe on the basis of faith, but rather, we should question our assumptions about reality. We should also realise that moving between systems of control is not necessarily as important as understanding how our values fit within those frameworks.

Anonymous said...

The options are:

1. Neo re-inserts his code into the Matrix so that it can be rebooted. Zion will be destroyed, but Neo can choose a new group to re-build. In this scenario, Trinity dies.
2. The second option is to go back to the Matrix and save Trinity. If Neo chooses this, the Matrix will not be rebooted and all connected to it will die. Zion is destroyed in this scenario as well. If Zion and the Matrix are destroyed, then Trinity also dies.

The point is that the choice offered by the Architect is a false choice. It is an illusion. Neo is realising that choice itself is an illusion.

The blog author is incorrect to say that the Oracle tricked Neo into choosing an option - she did no such thing. All she did was guide Neo to the source, as she had done five times previously - this is the Oracle's purpose, it's what she was designed to do.

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