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May 19, 2003

The Matrix Reloaded: What the Heck did the Architect Say?

Warning: this post contains SPOILERS for MATRIX RELOADED.

We’ve got what appears to be the full text of the Architect’s speach (see previous entry). But it seems fairly incomprehensible as written. Posters on Usenet seem to be figuring it out – or possibly even improving it over the movie. It seems the posters on Usenet may be making more sense out of it than the Wachowski brothers did when they wrote the film.

A poster using the screen name Johnny Newsreader has a particularly good take on it.

The choice that Neo is given is essentially this:

1) The door to his right (the one Neo doesn’t select) will reload the
Matrix, as has happened five times before. The inhabitants will stay alive
for the new version; their minds will just be reset. Hopefully by now, the
Architect will have tweaked the Matrix enough to fix the bug and, if not,
there will be a seventh Neo, a seventh Zion, etc. In this scenario, Trinity
will die (since she’ll be killed in the Matrix), her body liquified and fed
intravenously to infants, etc.

2) The door to his left (the one he chooses) does NOT reload the Matrix,
letting the bug continue. Trinity gets to live (for now), but the bug will
eventually destroy the Matrix, and everyone connected to the Matrix will
die. The machines will have to formulate alternatives to the bioelectricity
that the humans provide, as all of humanity will be dead.

In other words, door #1 reloads the matrix, the unstable element (i.e. all
the people) in Zion is wiped out, but all the individuals get to go on
living (in their little dream worlds). Door #2 doesn’t reload the matrix,
but the flaw will eventually bring down the Matrix itself, and everyone will
die who is connected to it.