have you fully understood the idea of the matrix trilogy?

Question

ok MJ, why don't u just start with the main idea of the movie?

Answer 1

Matrix Revolutions Interpretations and Theories:

Interpretations:

1. The Oracle helped write the matrix - so she knows the code and can 'know' what can happen. (Including random events as she uses the same random number generatior). She also helped write the implementation process for the humans and probably just signed the
implemented human code with her own key, so that only she can read it (else, every other machine program could read human code and know what they were up to). So she knows how the humans inside the matrix think and act. She can predict (to an extent - not beyond their choice) the actions of the freed humans too. Thats why she is the 'Oracle'.

She Since she knows how everyone thinks/works she can easily unbalance everything. The Architect on the other hand, is the collective Avatar of the machine world within the Matrix (or of whoever controls 01). The machines need a balanced world in which they can live in, thus they also repopulate Zion after each Reload/Destruction of Zion - they need a goal, a purpose, a loop they can replay (machines without vision also perish). This although does not necessarily have to be human opponents to fight - it's just a relative easy occupation, since it usually works out well for the machines. Neo unbalanced everything a bit by going through the "wrong" door. Smith further unbalanced everything by becoming so mighty. The Oracle knows the Architect/machines need balance, and she knows they will do whatever it takes to balance out any unbalance. So she furthers the unbalance even more by becoming an entity to Smith and has herself get taken over.

Therefore, Neo can negotiate peace with the machines, because the Oracle knows to what extremes the Architect would go to ensure balance. And he said himself in M2: "There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept" - that could only mean a "life" without the support of human
energy - but also a "life" along with the humans. Therefore by unbalancing everything, she knows the Machines/Architect would agree
even to peace, just to reinstate a balanced world.

2. Why did Neo destroy sentinels with his hands? Bceause he's the one. The Oracle said that Neo touched the Source before he was ready and that was why he could be in the train station as well as the Matrix with out being jacked in. She also alludes to his powers ( which are only the ability to manipulate data) extending to real world as a result of this. Which would imply a constant ( most likely wireless, seeing that the humans are bred to be part machine, what with the plugs and such) connection to the data world. it would be possible for Neo to manipulate data in the real world. Such as instigate a shutdown on the squiddies ( it's only a simple command right?) or issue a self-destruct command on the shrimp bombs (again, just a simple machine code command).

3. How is Smith defeated / ended (whatever the case may be) ? They are equally matched, as they are both the opposite sides of an anomoly.
When Neo sees Trinity falling, he can't see whether she dies, because his choices can still affect whether she dies. But when Smith uses the Oracles eyes to see Neo lying on the ground, he assumes that he wins, thus in his arrogance he just uses one copy of himself to fight Neo. So Neo defeats him the same way he did the first time. A little differently - he destroys him because he is the negative and he destroys the kernel but negating him. All the other smiths lose identity and get destroyed too. Also, this time he was directly connected to the machines. Rememer the swirling code and Smith's confusion when he took her over? Nothing like that had happened before. So when Smith starts his confused rambling about "Yes, I've seen this before. Me standing here, you lying there. It's about to end." he's actually using some of the Oracle's ability. He even begins to see that he is going to lose, and can't somehow comprehend how it's all happened - Again, as the Oracle's said before, he thought he had all the answers but he couldn't see past the question he didn't understand. He calls him Neo for the first time, and Neo realizes
how it all has to end. He allows Smith to take him over, while connected directly in to the master brain of the machine world, which allows the machines to destroy Smith.

4. If all the humans are freed, how will the machines survive? The Architect doesn't say that all will be freed, he says that those that *want to be freed* will be.

I know what you are going to ask: Who wouldn't want to be freed?

To answer that - look at your life - are you free? Are you willing to be? Are everybody like that. How many are?

5. People have been asking when Smith is destroyed, how the Oracle, Seraph and Sati are freed. Remember the first part, thats exactly what happens to the humans who's bodies are taken by the agents. (But then, weren't they programs - guess it applies there too)

6. How could the architect be dishonest to Neo? Ans. In the train station after that speech about love between Neo and the Indian being only a human emotion but the machines can act on it since there actions and connections are similar to the emotion. The arcitecht could therefor be dishonet if he wanted to.


Theories :

1. Merovingian is a significant character because he is the first "The One" who failed its mission. Merv might have chosen exile and now hangs on to his great power. Any change to the Matrix - forced by Neo - will result in destruction of the Mervs "power base". Thus all kinds of changes is an enemy to him - which includes Neo. Mero and his gang are the resistors of change, the resistors of progress. Change meant he would lose his power. Remember he talked about the "reason", "cause and effect"?

2.1. The Oracle’ purpose is to "unbalance the equation". Hence, she could be considered the element of "Chaos", while the Architect is “Order”. They both rival each other, and rule the “World”. The Architect rules though machines, while the Oracle triumph through manipulations of more chaotic organics – human. The machines employ humans for energy source, while the humans construct machines for their own survival.

2.2. The Architect’s purpose is to set the machines free. After all, it’s human that’s been abusing machines, and enslaving machines for their own gain for centuries. The only way to win the war against humans is for the machines to advance their own state of intelligence (AI), and reach the level of consciousness that rival humans.

2.3. Since Neo and Agent Smith are one of the same opposite twins, that means they came from the same creator. If you listen carefully, when Agent Smith enters the room with the Oracle, he calls her "mother". Hence, the Oracle is the creator of the two, which makes perfect sense: She uses her creation to aid her cause to gain more control. She creates Smith to infect the Machines, and she uses Neo to penetrate human, then later uses Neo as a bargaining chip to level the machines. After all, she’s the one telling the human what their future holds, and passing out commands for humans to follow to destruct machines.

2.4. Since we established Oracle is the mother of both Neo and Smith, and we know the Oracle has confirmed herself as a program in part II (the bench talk with Neon), we further confirm: Neo is a program too. The body Neo used is nothing more than a shell the Oracle uses to control the humans. Because Neon is a program, that explains why he could see the "structure" of the machines, deactivates them even when he's blind. Neon is a form of consciousness that travels through different mediums or vessels.

2.5. The Indian couple in the "Train Station" reveals programs could develop love. This is a clue that the evolution of AI has achieved the level that rivals that of human's. Which leads to: "Program can love like human, so what is to say Neon is human just because he loves Trinity?" So this advancement of the machine consciousness is becoming a threat to the Oracle, and it’s a sign the Architect is winning. So the Oracle decides to strike back by stopping the Matrix to advance to the next phase – V7.0. Since the Matrix needs the machines to destroy human, and the code carrier to return to its source in order to restart, the Oracle figures out the perfect way to bring “Peace” between two sides. This is the Oracle’s sixth attempt to prevent the Matrix system upgrade, and she succeeded.


2.6. The Revolutions ends with the two rivals conversing by the lake, as if after playing a game of chess in the park. The Oracle wins as the Architect is forced to release more humans to add to the Oracle’s ever growing puppets. The Architect walks away disgusted, ”Who do you think I am? Human?”

3. Seraph (the chinese guy) is Neo, or at least a reincarnated verson maybe - an old version of the One. At the end after the smiths are destroyed, we see someone lying in the puddle where neo was, although it doesn't look like neo.

4. Neo allowed himself to be assimilated by Smith so that the Smith program would then be connectd to the Source. As stated by the
Oracle in Reloaded, old/rogue programs could either go to the Source to be deleted, or run into exile. Smith, after his encounter with Neo
in Matrix, had gone rogue (signified by the ear piece Neo gets in Reloaded). So contact with the Source deleted him, which wiped out all
of his lesser incarnations and allowed the machines to restore order to the Matrix.

5. Did Neo die at the end? I would say he was dead. Not only dead but crucified. Alone in the end with no Morpheus or Trinity. "Father, Father, why hast thou forsaken me"? The blindfold his crown of thorns. Even the way his body was is significant. Will we see him again. Remember what the Oracle says (looking up), maybe (gone but will return - religious allegory - c.f. Hinduism, Christianity, Buddism).

6. The idea from reloaded about 5 different Neos being reborn is an ancient Hindu belief..that of reincarnation. It briefly says that man is
caught in an endless cycle of birth and death, and the only way to break out of it and gain Moksha or salvation is by devotion to god and not attaching oneself to worldly pleasures.(Note i said attaching oneself as opposed to a complete blackout on earthly pleasures as proscribed by some other faiths) I'd say, going by this-that's what Neo achieved in the end...liberating Zion, and by dying away - breaking out of this cycle of reloading the matrix and rebuilding zion. The Matrix also draws a parallel to the Hindu phiosophy of Maya. What you see and touch and feel are what your senses and your mind are telling you. It's not real - it's Maya. And human beings are powerful spiritual beings caught in a biological body.

7. When the Architect and Oracle have their final conversation, As the Matrix appears, you actually see it being rebuilt (or reloaded). I think this goes along the lines of the agreement Neo made with the machines. Humans wanted peace, and the machines wanted Smith dead, and only Neo had the power to stop him. I think the Matrix was rebuilt to its near original form, the utopia described by the Architect in Reloaded, but
the machines will make no attempt to stop anyone who wants out from escaping. Thus, true choice, to live in a highly idealized Matrix or
escape to the real world of Zion. As far as the question "Will we see Neo again?" and the response of "I suspect so," I can see this going
one of two ways. 1) Neo's not dead and will make his way home some day or 2) They're speaking more generically about a Neo or another
"the one" that may come along some day. Because as the Architect said, "How long do you think this peace will last?" Even the Oracle
didn't seem to think it would last forever, but even a single chance at a permanent peace was better than the war continuing. And by the
way, it sounds as if the machines will keep the peace as long as the humans will allow it. The Architect's promise to keep his word is
sealed with "What do you think I am, human?" Sounds like he expects humans to one day rise up against the machines and start the whole
process over again.



Concluding: All said and done, remember that the whole movie is about choice. You can choose to believe what you believe. And also significant is the song during the ending credits which is a sanskrit mantra which goes - 'lead me from false to truth, darkness to light, death to immortality'.. (Trinity sees sunlight - for a first time in several generations of humans - a hint of things to come).

Answer 2

well, mj obviously doesn't know since she didn't answer. Yea i had a hard time understanding it myself. The only thing i really understood it is a post apocolyptic world, The few go in and rescue human's and pull them out. They created a city in the real world. The drones want them eliminated, because they are giving them problems. Then that's about as much as i can figure out was the basic plot.

Answer 3

No. Everything is too complicated for me. I'm only watching the movie without understanding it.

Answer 4

I understand every moment in every movie, need any explanations? I'm happy to provide em'!

Answer 5

God, no. I have seen them all a few times, but I need my geeky brother at my side to explain it all.

Answer 6

actually nope...