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Ok. Congratulations to
you, as you have stumbled on a complete (and
completely logical, in my belief) explanation of
the Second Matrix movie (and therefore the
first).
First, I must say that
there are things that I do not know for certain
(I obviously haven’t seen Revolutions)
and characters I still don’t get (I don’t get
why Persephone is important, if she even is), so
I’m offering you the basic enlightenment… just
enough to cover what you have been wanting to
know.
I am going to do this in
sections: explaining each concept\character
separately.
1)
The Basic concept
–
ZION is a program. It is a program parallel to
the Matrix program, where minds that do not
accept the matrix are put in to. Those minds
then inevitalbly accept the ZION program and
don’t doubt it (obviously until Neo stops those
sentinels…).
2) THE ONE and the
programs-
The
one is a program that is attached to a mind that
a) doesn’t accept the Matrix and b) is capable
of learning fast and so on. Thomas Anderson was
this person in the 6th incarnation of
the matrix. What is intriguing is that he also
does not accept the ZION program…
The
purpose of the ONE program is not to end the
matrix, or fulfill any prophecy. Its purpose is
to allow for the destruction of the ZION program
and therefore the parallel MATRIX program (they
must co-exist) and also to allow for the
rebuilding of the ZION program and the
restarting or ‘reloading’ of the Matrix
program. But WHY?
It
is because people are gunna keep comin’ to
ZION. As the architect says, the anomaly is
inevitable; the anomaly is a group of people
that does not accept the Matrix program, and
thus must be moved into a program that they will
accept. This group of people will always exist,
each time the matrix is refreshed or
‘reloaded’. The Matrix and ZION are reloaded in
order to flush out (kill) that group of people,
so that there is not too much buildup of people
in ZION that could be a threat to the program
(if the sentinels are stopped, the program is
useless.. it can’t be deleted). The reason the
Matrix is continually flushed is that the
anomaly becomes lesser in size every time they
run the matrix (the architect says: “This is the
6th time we will have destroyed it,
and we are getting exceedingly efficient at
it). But why is this anomaly inevitable?
Simple computer language. Computers, when
running calculations, have a digit limit. For
example, if the number is .1 repeating, it will
only be able to calculate .1111111. Therefore,
a calculation will never be fully round… numbers
will end up like .99999999 and so on. This
means that there is always that leftover
.00000001 that the computer doesn’t know what to
do with. So what does it do? It puts that data
(that group of people) into a program, only to
delete the program and restart the calculation.
The
ONE historically takes 23 people, unplugs them
from the Matrix, and rebuilds Zion with them.
Those 23 people (still really plugged in, of
course) then are given the ‘ship captain’
program and are given the image that the
‘savior’ has pulled them from the matrix and
started the resistance (this is why Morpheus
claims in the first movie that he was among the
first to be saved… he was one of those 23 pulled
by ONE #5).
The people that previously held the ‘ONE’
program either face deletion or go into exile as
a non-vital and ultimately inconsequential
program in the Matrix, such as the Merovingian.
This is true because he claims that he has
knowledge of Neo’s predecessors and whatnot.
3. The two doors in the
architect’s room, and a little Oracle/Trinity
background
First, the Oracle. I believe she (based on what
the architect said) is the creator of Zion, as
she was a program sent to investigate the cause
of the anomaly in the first Matrix. She must
have discovered that is was not the human’s
fault, but that the inevitability of the
situation was presented with the program itself.
Next, Trinity. Simply a program attached to
someone capable of falling in love with the
person that is capable of carrying the ONE
program. The child that TRINITY and THE ONE
have (as illustrated by that seemingly drawn-out
sex scene) is the next person that will be
capable of carrying the ONE program. This
satisfies the obvious Holy Trinity reference
that many saw from the beginning. Therefore,
Morpheus is also a program that has a purpose of
attaching the ONE program to that special
someone and of ensuring his delivery to the
architect.
From what I understand,
there are 2 major possibilities here. I’ll go
through both of them.
A) All the ONEs previous to Neo chose the right
door (the one that allows for the ONE to go
through the MATRIX and ZION instantly and unplug
those 23 necessary people). If this is so, than
that must mean that something is different about
Neo, as he chose the left door, saving Trinity.
How could this be? Remember when the Oracle
slipped him candy on the park bench? It was a
Trojan… a capsule that changed the data within
the ONE program, to allow Neo to act differently
to the previous ONEs. Why would the oracle
wanna do this? I dunno… I still can’t tell which
side she’s fighting for in this version of the
matrix: humans or machines. Also, this must
mean that the Trinity program was not ‘saved’
those previous times, but survives somehow
anyway (if that obvious Holy Trinity reference
is to be upheld). This weirdness leads to the
second possibility of the ‘door choice’
situation.
B)
Each previous ONE chose the same door Neo did,
saving Trinity and letting Zion fall, but also
somehow managed to unplug those 23 people
necessary to rebuild Zion… as if he didn’t, then
there wouldn’t be multiple Matrices. In this
case, Neo is no different to the other ONEs.
4. Agent Smith, and WHY
this all matters at all.
If you know
anything about computer language, you will have
realized by now that Agent Smith is a virus that
is being run in the MATRIX and ZION programs,
and can move in and out of the two easily (y’know,
when he morphs into that creepy guy that is on
the bed across from Neo at the end of the
movie). But why a virus, and who put him there?
Agent Smith mentions in the first movie that
viruses resemble humans in this respect of
behavior. Yet in the second movie, his function
as a virus has been revealed… so does that mean
that Agent Smith resembles humans?
Absolutely.
Agent Smith is a program put into the MATRIX and
ZION programs by the humans (in the war between
human + machine) to sabotage the two programs
and free the humans. This can be done by
killing Neo, who is the key to refreshing the
Matrix… because if Neo is killed, ZION can not
be rebuilt. ZION would only be destroyed if
there was someone around to rebuild it… so if
Neo is killed, it can not be rebuilt and
therefore the machines (who implemented both the
MATRIX and ZION programs) would only hamper
their efforts if it were to be destroyed. So,
simply, if Neo dies, people are free, as ZION
keeps filling up with people who can destroy the
invading machines, therefore disobeying the laws
of the program and having it collapse.
Therefore, Smith is a weapon used by the humans
in the war against machines in order to destroy
ZION and therefore the MATRIX.
5. Other cool characters,
concepts, and references
A) The twins are exiled programs (programs that
had use at one point, but don’t really anymore,
just like the Merovingian and Persephone). They
do what they do because they fulfill the orders
of the Merovingian. The Merovingian is annoying
because it is his goal to guide Neo; while he is
trying to hide his goal by throwing all this
crap at him (the twins, all those lackeys, etc),
he means to guide Neo by telling him all that
stuff about his predecessors (as you can tell by
what the Merovingian says that he was a previous
ONE). Anyhow, the twins are just emulating the
behavior of the “Ghost” legend… becoming
intangible, passing through stuff, etc… The
reason one of them doesn’t pass through the door
when his arm is stuck in it and Trinity is
shooting at it is because those doors lead to
random places unless opened by the keymaker’s
key… if he went “Ghost”, the door would have
shut and his arm would have ended up in the
mountains or wherever.
B) Seraph, I’m guessing, is a program from the
first MATRIX (which is why his code is golden).
The first attempt at a MATRIX was heaven… I came
to this conclusion because of Seraph’s name
(seraph is singular for seraphim or high-choir
angels). Therefore, that code is different
because it was from a different program (the
first attempt at the MATRIX).
C)
"101" comes up a lot in The Matrix and
Reloaded. It is Neo's room # at the
beginning, Merovingian is on the 101st floor,
and the car chase takes place on Freeway 101.
101 is binary (a universal computer language)
for 6… and this is the sixth version of the
MATRIX.
D)
314, the number of seconds they have from the
power plant explosion to the closing of the
Architects’ door, is the first 3 digits of Pi
(3.1415927535 etc..). I dunno why though.
Also, an early Buddhist sect believed that
Buddha was actually a God, and according to some
weird scroll, existed in/for 314 instances or
reasons. Also, 314 seconds is 5 minutes and 14
seconds, and 5-14 is the date of the screener
opening of Reloaded.
E) Cool religious references include license plates in the
car chase: The Twins' truck on the freeway =
DE2852; Deuteronomy 28:52 readsThey shall
besiege you in all your towns, until your high
and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come
down throughout all your land. And they shall
besiege you in all your towns throughout all
your land, which the LORD your God has given
you”. Trinity and Morephus' Cadillac on the
freeway = DA203; Daniel 2:03 reads “I have had a
dream that troubles me and I want to know what
it means.”
Agent Smith's Audi close to the start of
Reloaded = IS5416; Isaiah 54:16 reads
“Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth
the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth
an instrument for his work; and I have created
the waster to destroy”.
So that’s it! That’s all I know/have
speculated about The Matrix series so
far. If you wanna discuss something, click on
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