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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.


    Replies: 8 comments

    Your comments are welcome. Abusive remarks and trolls may be deleted. Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of The Big Picture.

    .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)   on  07/19/03  at  11:08 PM   Brazil  #1

    DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE !

    The people from Zion are not connected in the Matrix, so if Neo choses the right door, how their minds will be reset?



    .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)   on  08/17/03  at  09:48 PM   United States  #2

    The people in ZION will die as they have five times before. When the 250,000 sentinals come pouring into Zion and wipe every one out. And Neo will then return to Zion with 23 new people, 16 women 7 men, to restart Zion and begin the fight again. The inherent flaw in the Matrix is that human kind is an animal at heart. Thus we need to, we have to fight and if there is no fight then we go crazy because we deny our own inherent nature. Zion provides the fight or the nature for it. The infinitesimal loss of life each time Zion is destroyed is nothing compared to the totality of the Matrix as a whole. Acceptable losses to maintain the status quo.

    The above main posting says that "Trinity

    will die (since she'll be killed in the Matrix), her body liquified and fed

    intravenously to infants, etc.

    NOT correct. She will die in fact she does die just like Neo did. Which leads to a whole other philosophical line of thought that I will not get into. But needless to say she is not physically in the Matrix/power plant she is on the Nebakenezer thus she would die in the chair where Neo would wake up(jack out) to find her.



      on  10/02/03  at  06:49 PM   United States  #3

    He's talking about all the people plugged into the Matrix, Billions, instead of 250,000 in Zion



    .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)   on  10/02/03  at  06:51 PM   United States  #4

    But wait, Trinity DID die. Neo pumped her heart back to life...vis-a-vie, she can still live



    .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)   on  12/11/03  at  12:37 AM   United States  #5

    Ok,

    Here we go,

    1} Door he goes through is what Architect expected him to go through. It is the most major flaw in humans, Love. Neo was just too strong, they let him go too long and get too strong. So it didn't happen as planned.

    2) Door he doesn't go through leads to everybody but Trinity living. Zion war would settle.

    3} Play Matrix Online. it will explain it.



    .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)   on  04/05/07  at  03:21 PM   Turkey  #6

    Isn't it so obvious that the government somehow got its hands on the Matrix sequels? They became painfully aware that people took the Matrix as THE SYSTEM, THEIR SYSTEM and decided to make sure the worldview and premise of original Matrix movie was given a cold shoulder in the next two movies. Exactly how they managed to convince Wachowski brothers, I am not sure. But they have done something because here is the result:

    1) They turned Zion, the promise land, into a filthy ########

    2) Agent Smith, who was beaten, comes back in force, in greater numbers. The subliminal message is "you can't beat the system". Also, Neo is given a special relationship with Smith to blur the line between hero and its opposite. This way Smith is less otherworldly and alien which he was in the first film.

    3) After the original Matrix, you would think the system was going to be beaten in the next movie with all people freed. Now, government consultants apparently felt they had to give a strong message to say "you are still being controlled, even the fact that you want to free yourself is another illusion". The System Knows All. Hence the Architect.

    The fact that people are freed at the end of 3rd movie is of no consequence. What government did, successfully, is to deny people the sight of the system being taken down. A compromise is made, people live, but so do the machines. The machines are THE SYSTEM and we are told we need eachother in order to live.



    tired of conspiracy theorists   on  07/27/09  at  02:04 AM   United States  #7

    please shut up with the conspiracy theorys ya hippi. all i heard listening to your comment was, "its the goverment man! theyre controlling us! hey man pass me the bong." do you even hear yourself?



    .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)   on  08/30/10  at  03:13 PM   Sweden  #8

    haha no I think he's onto something, they did the same thing with Jurassic park, the first one was amazing and everyone liked it, and the government caught onto this so they decided to make the second one their way, but it sucked and no one liked it so they let they gave up and let the real directors regain their name by making the third one

    The Government were trying to say that  'Dinosaurs' are the revolutionists trying to invade society, and that, im sorry i cant keep this up im talking out of my ass

    Skorksy your a tool is basically what im sayinig

    The sequel's to movie's are rarely as good as the originals, just leave it at that wacko, don't blame the government... 





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