Matrix Revolutions
Pretty Good. Mike, I know you didn't think much of Reloaded, so frankly I don't think you'll like it. The effects are good, but there is overkill. There is definitely less talking in this one. The ending is vague. However, unlike most people, I think there was a definite logic to it. Since I don't want to give away the ending, the rest of this will have to be highlighted to be read.
First of all, Trinity dies. Just before Neo confronts the Giant Matrix Monster head, she gets perforated by rebar or something. I'm not sure how that scene went entirely, because I used it for a bathroom break. Second, I'm not sure if Neo is alive or dead at the end, but I think he is supposed to be dead. Jesus moment. That.
Now, here is what I think the story is all about. Neo was a scheme cooked up by the oracle to force the Matrix(specifically, The Architect) to change the Matrix to be less absolute in its construction. More friendly. I know this is Vague, but this is the best way I can describe it. It turns out that the whole program deletion thing is more important than was implied from the second movie. Turns out that some programs are just nice friendly people who want to continue living. The guy I described in an earlier post, the one I thought we were being given a hint about, turns out to be a program with an official function in the Program World. He has a wife, and together they have created a child program that has no function. Programs with no function are deleted, so the guy is having his daughter moved to the Matrix so she can live. I think that it is the dilemma of programs like these, as much as the issue of the enslaved humans, that drives the Oracle.
So, what does this have to do with Neo. I think that Neo was intended to be exactly what the Architect said, the official One that would reset the whole Zion creation process. However, I think the Oracle messed with Neo's creation, causing him to be more than simply the "result of an unbalanced equation". I think Neo carried a Virus that allowed for the creation and destruction of the aberrant program Smith. The Oracle, who can see into the future(or at least predict it within certain probabilities), saw a method for forcing the Architect to change. Neo, in destroying Smith in the first movie, created the Aberration. Smith, a system program, but now with some measure of Neo's power to remake the Matrix, is now compelled to take over the Matrix. Smith would be unstoppable, but Neo has what I call, for lack of a better term, the counter-virus inside him. "All things that have a beginning have and end," goeth the phrase. Neo's purpose is to be the Alpha and Omega of Smith. At the end of the Final Battle between Smith and Neo, Neo gets his butt whupped. Smith has absorbed the Oracle, and now has her abilities as well. He claims that he has foreseen Neos end here. But, he starts acting confused. Neo, finally realizing what he must do, allows Smith to absorb him. This kills Neo, I think, but activates the counter virus. After Neo is absorbed, the Oracle "Smith" begins to realize what is happening, and says "it is a trick." I believe at this point, he realizes the whole thing was a ruse from the beginning, but it is too late for him. The counter virus runs its course, destroying the Smith virus. The Machines have made a bargain with Neo that if he defeats Smith, they will make peace with humanity. I assume the whole conversation between the Architect and Oracle was about freeing both humans and programs that wished to be free.
This has gone on much longer than I planned, but such as it is, I am finished.
First of all, Trinity dies. Just before Neo confronts the Giant Matrix Monster head, she gets perforated by rebar or something. I'm not sure how that scene went entirely, because I used it for a bathroom break. Second, I'm not sure if Neo is alive or dead at the end, but I think he is supposed to be dead. Jesus moment. That.
Now, here is what I think the story is all about. Neo was a scheme cooked up by the oracle to force the Matrix(specifically, The Architect) to change the Matrix to be less absolute in its construction. More friendly. I know this is Vague, but this is the best way I can describe it. It turns out that the whole program deletion thing is more important than was implied from the second movie. Turns out that some programs are just nice friendly people who want to continue living. The guy I described in an earlier post, the one I thought we were being given a hint about, turns out to be a program with an official function in the Program World. He has a wife, and together they have created a child program that has no function. Programs with no function are deleted, so the guy is having his daughter moved to the Matrix so she can live. I think that it is the dilemma of programs like these, as much as the issue of the enslaved humans, that drives the Oracle.
So, what does this have to do with Neo. I think that Neo was intended to be exactly what the Architect said, the official One that would reset the whole Zion creation process. However, I think the Oracle messed with Neo's creation, causing him to be more than simply the "result of an unbalanced equation". I think Neo carried a Virus that allowed for the creation and destruction of the aberrant program Smith. The Oracle, who can see into the future(or at least predict it within certain probabilities), saw a method for forcing the Architect to change. Neo, in destroying Smith in the first movie, created the Aberration. Smith, a system program, but now with some measure of Neo's power to remake the Matrix, is now compelled to take over the Matrix. Smith would be unstoppable, but Neo has what I call, for lack of a better term, the counter-virus inside him. "All things that have a beginning have and end," goeth the phrase. Neo's purpose is to be the Alpha and Omega of Smith. At the end of the Final Battle between Smith and Neo, Neo gets his butt whupped. Smith has absorbed the Oracle, and now has her abilities as well. He claims that he has foreseen Neos end here. But, he starts acting confused. Neo, finally realizing what he must do, allows Smith to absorb him. This kills Neo, I think, but activates the counter virus. After Neo is absorbed, the Oracle "Smith" begins to realize what is happening, and says "it is a trick." I believe at this point, he realizes the whole thing was a ruse from the beginning, but it is too late for him. The counter virus runs its course, destroying the Smith virus. The Machines have made a bargain with Neo that if he defeats Smith, they will make peace with humanity. I assume the whole conversation between the Architect and Oracle was about freeing both humans and programs that wished to be free.
This has gone on much longer than I planned, but such as it is, I am finished.
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