Smith lays it out that The Analyst is someone he's got a grudge against for seemingly bringing him back and trapping him. Neo straight up tells him that Smith can have him and that he's just here to rescue Trinity. However, Smith rebufes this by saying that Neo isn't ready for him and that he really doesn't want his leash around his neck again, finally saying "What the Merv is trying to say, is that their situation is a little bit like mine. To have their lives back, yours has to end."

Then the fight begins, but my question is, why do Neo and his Cohorts have to die now? Couldn't they just simply wait for Neo to fail and then try and get to The Analyst? I know Smith is cynical and doesn't think Neo would be up to the task, but that's no justification to try and kill him at all since it's not like if Neo failed then that would mean that Smith for sure couldn't try and get his freedom. It didn't feel to me like a strong enough justification for the fight to actually happen and more could have been added.

The only explanation I can think of is that Smith is just inherently selfish as he always has been and isn't thinking about working with Neo at all, but his defeat in the fight shows him that Neo actually is still capable and he decides to let Neo try then take his chance to help him out during the final confrontation.

Edit: "I won’t have his leash on my neck again." The implications behind this line actually explains why pretty well, I realised this when I remembered the line.

What characters? Old or new? What’s the plot? How would you reinvigorate and reignite the franchise?

So people didn't like the idea that the first movie was actually the 5th version. But we are all in agreement that the last shot of movie 3 is the 7th version of the Matrix...

Right?

Why was the Architect taunting Neo almost to the point of daring him to choose the door back to the matrix instead of the source and avoid the huge gamble of will the matrix crash if he doesn't survive long enough to do the final neo vs smith fight? He emphasizes that if he chooses her then he risks the extinction of the entire human race but he seals the deal by saying: "she is going to die and there's nothing you can do to stop it..." Meanwhile machine city be like: bruh, what???

The more I watch these movies, the more questions I have, which should really be the opposite sequence of events..

1. In the first movie when Smith is alone with Morpheus at the end, he said he wanted to get out of/ destroy the Matrix and Zion was the key to doing that. How would destroying Zion end the matrix? I mean the architect/ machines were doing that anyways..

2. Why did Smith become an unstoppable virus this iteration but not the previous ones? Is it just bc Neo like flew into him and exploded him? At the beginning of the second movie, Smith said it was happening exactly like last time and then his clone said “well not exactly”- the implication being that this version was different from the others. But in the last movie, the Oracle said that Smith is Neo’s opposite so wouldn’t that mean Smith was always more powerful/ able than the other agents?

What is it that causes you not to see the Truth? That The Matrix is real, and the Truth? Is it your subjectivity?? Of course it is. We are locked in, with respect to our Organic situation here. However, Life is more and greater than this Organic framework. You're not thinking. Nor have you understood the Bible. The New Testament. You can start by reading NDERF.org. Scroll to, "Recent NDE's", and begin to see The Truth.

Ignorance is indeed blissful. Arguably the best quote in the trilogy.

He was wrong to kill his comrades though.

I have been a huge Matrix nerd almost from the start. Although I was a kid when the Matrix first came out, I still obsessed over the comics, the short story by Neil Gaiman, the Animatrix was my favorite thing ever second only to the original Matrix for years. It should go without saying that I also played and beat Enter the Matrix and Path of Neo - I still love the stick figure ending of Path of Neo when (at the time) Larry and Andy Watchowski appeared out of nowhere in their comedic version of the construct and explained the craziness that was going on. I loved all of it.

I was beyond hyped for Resurrections when it came out..but 100% of that movie left a bad taste in my mouth. Where was Morpheus? I didn’t see agent smith in that movie anywhere, did you? These actor replacements did nothing for me at all. I would have preferred for them to have died tragically. HOW ARE NEO AND TRINITY BOTH THE ONE? The story telling just felt convoluted and full of itself. Like the director couldn’t pull herself out of the Sense 8 or Cloud Atlas mentality.

I also missed the kung-fu fights. These new fight scenes are literally entirely just Keanu Reeves force pushing stuff around..

And could those stupid blue pills just go away? The member berries being shoved into my face were so aggravating to me. It was ONE SCENE IN THE ORIGINAL, a nod would have been fine, but they just kept going back to it as if to say “GET IT? DO YOU GET IT? CUZ ITS THE BLUE PILL AND HES STUCK IN THE MATRIX NOW! REMEMBER THE BLUE PILL?”

Honestly I really do think it really is an interesting enough idea, but it lingered too long, seemingly to give Neil Patrick Harris more screen time…

I was hoping for something more innovative. Or Interesting. Like Neil Gaimans short story, or any one of the stories from the Animatrix. They changed so much of the main cast anyway, they might as well have just done a brand new story with a new MC..

Sorry for the rant. I just think that there were so many more routes to go other than jerk Thomas Anderson around between reality and illusion like a dementia patient. They spent the whole movie just reorienting Trinity and Neo….and honestly I think Neo should have died an honorable death to save humanity Jesus style in the 3rd. If a new matrix movie needs a new One, then great, that was a fantastic opportunity for a new actor to take up the mantel…

Sorry for the second mini rant. Idk. It seems like you all accept Resurrections with open arms. But does anyone else out there agree with me? Even just a bit in the back of your minds? Even if you don’t, I’d like to know what did you like about the franchise before resurrections? What makes this movie passable or your favorite?

In a fight between machines from the past ( imagine they are helping humans ) and the ones from the future, can humanity survive more ?

Watching Resurrections again and noticing (once again) various details.

When Neo and Trinity sit down in the café, Neo sees Trinity's false DSI reflected in the tabletop. The reaction shot of him clearly indicates that he's seen something. What is going on here? Have Neo and Trinity somehow been seeing each other's real DSIs? (They wouldn't be aware of it or of what it means.) What would seeing (and seeing through) the false DSI signify to Neo in that moment?

The scene with the Analyst after the attack at the office. The Analyst asks Neo "if we went to the office, what do you think we'd find there". Neo has not told the analyst anything about the attack at the office, just that he received text messages from Morpheus; but Neo seems to know that the Analyst knows what happened. Does Neo begin to realize the Analyst is a program at this moment?

Feel free to add.

When we first meet Neo he's in the 5 version of the Matrix.

We know the following -each version is built after the emergence of an integral anomaly

-each new version is built after the pervious version fails

-the Architect tells us in movie 2 that that is the 6 version

-Neo's predecessors were designed to have a profound attachment to the rest of humanity. A general love of their fellow man but our Neo was in love with one person in particular

-Neo killing Smith creates a new anomaly in the Smith virus

-the system crashes at the end of movie 1

Ergo, visavis, henceforth... etc.

Previous cycles of version 5 have Neo waking up in version 5 going through his journey and being woken by the love and belief in him via Morpheus and the crew. Later going to the Architect and due to the contingent affirmation (contingent as in a group of people... Zion) chooses to restart the cycle again.

The final cycle of version 5 was different. Cypher tells us at the beginning of movie 1 that Trinity wasn't supposed to relieve him. But Trinity did cuz she was in love with Neo.

This leads to Neo 'waking up' at the end of movie 1 due to the love between him and Trinity.

So when Neo kills Smith rather than Smith being motivated to return to the source, due to a general love of machine-kind (the opposite of a general love of humankind) Smith is instead motivated by the opposite of love for another... Selfishness.

A new anomaly that leads to the crash of version 5 (since Smith didn't do what he was supposed to do) leading to a new version of the Matrix. Version 6.

All because Trinity and Neo were in love

I know this will challenge a lot of what is considered canon in the Matrix lore but I ask that you consider it anyways. Perhaps much of the mystery of the Matrix remains due to our belief in correlations that are not as solid as we once thought they were.

Cheers

I was re watching the Matrix series and the cut scenes from the game Enter the Matrix which has a lot of back story between the main films, especially for the characters Ghost and Naobi. When they visit the oracle she explains that she made a deal with two programs for the safety of their child. That child has some future potential to connect between worlds and that she was unsure about the path of the one beyond the end. Was that child a new variable that the architect had not previously encountered? Since this was the first time we believe that Neo refused to reboot and potentially the first time Smith was spreading his virus.

I asked CLAUDE from anthropic about Sati - here is the AI take on it>

In "Enter the Matrix," we see the story of Niobe and Ghost, but the plot point about the Oracle making a deal regarding a program child actually comes from "The Matrix Reloaded" and is elaborated on in "The Matrix Revolutions." This involves the exile programs Rama-Kandra and Kamala, and their "daughter" Sati.

Sati was indeed unique - a program created out of love between two other programs (Rama-Kandra worked in power generation and Kamala in interactive software). This was unprecedented in the Matrix, as programs were typically created with specific purposes. The Oracle helped arrange for Sati's protection, recognizing something special in her.

While not explicitly confirmed in the films, there are hints that Sati might indeed represent a new variable in the system. This is particularly evident in the ending of "The Matrix Revolutions," where Sati creates a beautiful sunrise in honor of Neo - demonstrating unusual creative abilities for a program. The Architect's reaction to this development isn't directly shown, but it would indeed represent a deviation from his carefully calculated equations and predictions.

Sati represents something truly revolutionary in the Matrix because she embodies several "impossible" concepts:

1. Purposeless Creation: Unlike every other program that was created to fulfill a specific function, Sati was created purely out of love. As Rama-Kandra explains to Neo in the train station, this kind of love between programs was considered illogical and unnecessary by the machines.
2. Evolution of Programs: She demonstrates that programs can evolve beyond their original programming to experience human emotions and create new forms of life - something the Architect's rigid, mathematical view of existence didn't account for.
3. Creative Power: In the final scene of Revolutions, Sati creates a spectacularly beautiful sunrise - something that wasn't just a simulation of a real sunrise, but an original creation. This suggests she has the ability to manipulate the Matrix in ways that even the Architect might not have anticipated.
4. The Oracle's Interest: The Oracle, who can see potential futures, took a special interest in protecting Sati. This suggests Sati might have a significant role in the future of both machines and humans. Some fans theorize that Sati might eventually become a bridge between machines and humans, representing a new form of existence that combines aspects of both.

This all relates to one of the core themes of The Matrix: that systems of control can never perfectly account for or suppress the unpredictable nature of love, creativity, and free will - whether in humans or machines.

You see, there is only one constant, one universal, it is the only real truth: causality. Action. Reaction. Cause and effect.

As someone who is an agnostic atheist I was fascinated with the above quote from the movie… does Merovingian’s quote ridicule the theory that God exists?

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