My Matrix Predictions
June 17th, 2003 at 12:00 amAfter seeing The Matrix 2, The Animatrix, and beating Enter The Matrix, I just had to talk about a few things. But first, be warned. *POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD!* Now, anybody that’s read my site, knows that I’ve talked about Matrix 2 and Enter The Matris already, so well jump straight the the first thing I haven’t already talked about, The Animatrix. It’s pretty much 9 short animated segments that deal with the whole Matrix storyline. Two of them show how the machines and humans got into this whole mess, one of them totally explains why that little kid keeps following Neo around Zion, and the rest address various other things. However, the last episode, which is called Matriculated, was by far the strangest and, once you disect it, the best - for in my opinion, it shows what will happen in the 3rd movie, The Matrix Revolutions. Ok, here is where I am coming from. In Matriculated, a small group of humans, who are in the actual real world, are capturing machines and “freeing” them. For once you actually think about it, the machines are also controled by a central mind, and therefore, have just as little free will as the humans have. Once the humans “free” the minds of the captured machines, they simply let them do as they please. Most of the time, the machines decide to show their thanks by sticking with the humans and helping them.
But this isn’t what I am getting at. In the end of Matriculated, a group of machines hunt down and attack the humans. Seeing the humans under attack, the freed machines attempt to help them by fighting along side them. And then it just clicked in my head. We already know that Agent Smith is the real bad guy. We’ve seen he is able to kick any Human and any Agent’s ass at will. Which leads back to the age old saying “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” The only way the humans and machines will be able to beat Smith will be to join sides. Remember the scene in The Matrix Reloaded where the old guy and Neo are talking? And the old guy is going on and on about the humans needing the machines and the machines needing the humans? Come on, you know you agree with me now =) So that’s my prediction. That’s what I think the ultimate story of The Matrix Revolutions will be. It just makes too much sense, which is why of course it could easily be wrong. We’ll find out how far off I was in November =) *END SPOILER ALERT!*
So, in other news, I’m liking work a hell of a lot better. They have me working totally alone, which is great since I make the “cashier” pay while still getting all the tips. Plus, that means I have more things to do each day, which gives me 10 hour days every day! AND, since I already have too much overtime, they gave me Thursday, Friday, and Saturday off! THREE DAY WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!! The people in the kitchen and offices are pretty cool too. There are a few folks my age that I talk to whenever there is a dead period and the old ladies up front like me, so they gave me a key card that will let me in any room. So yeah, I love the job.
On the flip side though, my family is moving soon. They are supposed to be out of the house by the second week of July, meaning I have to find a place to stay. =) My mom said I could come up to Virginia with her….but that means leaving my job and hunting a new one up there…which would TOTALLY screw over my current job. They are planning on me working until August. My dad is living with friends, so basically, it’s time to start hunting for a place to stay for a month =)
And this past weekend, my boys played the hated Atlanta Braves for the first time ever and took the series 2-1! Ever since I’ve been a baseball fan, I’ve been waiting and waiting for the Braves and Mariners to finally play so that I could show for once and all that the M’s would prevail…which of course, they did! PLUS, I got to see a GREAT game on ESPN Sunday night, where we won 2-1. What a hell of a game…what a hell of a team =)
Even though I have a lot more things I could sit here and talk about, I’ll save them for tomorrow so that this post isn’t too long. I have work again in the morning, so I’m off to get a few things done and then head to bed. I’m updating a few pages on my site (finally) and changing a few things on my boards….very minor things, but things I’ve been meaning to do none-the-less. I’ll post again tomorrow night with more ramblings!
Eric B.
Hey man, I’m a matrix fanatic.. I’ve seen it all and I’ve come up with a lot of theories. But, i definetly think ur just about exactly what i said. It’s gotta end in a truce between humans and machines. I think the city of machines called 01 will come into play in the last movie just as Zion is. I think Neo will destroy himself to save mankind because he’s so much like a Christ figure already. But I just thought I’d give ya a heads up that I think ur thinkin right. Later man
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evan
i have another possible theory for how the third matrix will be. i believe it could be possible that it all will be a dream that “neo” is having. i know it sounds far fetched, but there are some points that support my theory. First, in the first film he falls asleep at his computer and awakens to the screen saying “wake up neo”. next, he is told to follow the white rabbit, and morpheus tells him that he “will show him how far the rabbit hole goes.” both references to alice in wonderland. and if you remember, alice in wonderland was all a dream. and also in the first film when he goes to work and his boss is yelling at him for being late, he calls him “mr. anderson” numerous times. and agent smith is the only one who calls him “mr. anderson” this could possibly be a way of showing his remorse towards his boss and why they would be enemies in his dream. also, when morpheus gives him the option of the red or blue pill, he tells him that if he takes the blue pill he would wake up at his computer and it would be like everything was a dream. there were also many references to dreams and things of that sort in the first film. im not sure, but it could be possible. so maybe at the end of the third film he will die like everyone says, but then will wake up back at his computer just where he began by falling asleep.
Greg
When I first watched matriculated I thought pretty much what you thought: Humans are freeing Machines, cool. I watched a few more times and it doesn’t seem to be quite right. One- there is a conversation between two of the “freers” that machines are nothing more than tools. They say this to justify what they are doing to the Machines, which isn’t the same thing Morpheus did for Neo. They are somehow tricking the machines into working for the humans. Somehow giving the machines an acid trip does this to them. Two- they say how each of the machines that is sent to them is smarter than the one that came before it. So maybe the earlier machines they caught were not smart enough to be free. This last one is maybe. Which brings up three- the confrontation between the machine and the woman at the end of the show. There is something about the machine the human can’t handle. Maybe it is that she can sense an equal or something like that. She is still caught up in the whole control thing Neo and the old guy have in the basement of Zion.
None of that changes your prediction about number 3, which seems right on
Ryan
It’s out now, and before today I was sold on the “matrix inside a matrix” theory.
I was 100% sure that Neo had realized that the *real* world as they percieved it, with all the machines, and Zion, and all of that was still inside “The Matrix” and was just another form of control.
Agent Smith mentioned in the first movie about how things all changed when “we started thinking for you.” So the machines think for the humans… but as The Architect points out in the second, some humans don’t accept the code; they need the sense of choice. What better way to fool someone into thinking they have any control of choice, than to let them think they’ve gotten out. I was sure, (especially after Neo took out the sentinals at the end of Reloaded) that Neo had “realized” that he was still plugged in, and was actually manipulating the secondary matrix of the machine world.
Now the 3rd movie comes out, and as I watched it, it seemed like they were slapping me in the face that what I had predicted was true, but they were just skipping it to spite me.
Neo has spectacular powers in the *real* world, and almost seems to see things just as he would inside the Matrix. Why? Maybe because he’s still inside the matrix. “The Matrix” as they know it is actually a matrix inside a matrix, and Neo can now control things in both worlds.
Why can Neo blow up massive numbers of machines? Because he’s in a higher level of the matrix, and can now control that as well.
This also makes it plausible as to why Agent Smith was able to take control of the one man’s body, and exist outside “The Matrix”. He could do it, because he’s actually still inside the matrix.
The movie came right down to the end without verifying my predictions, but when The Architect walked up to The Oracle at the end, and said that he’d let out the people who wanted out… I was sure that’s when it’d finally come out. What a disappointment. It would fit perfectly that he’s fine with letting them out, because he’d still be in control because they’re still inside the matrix, even though they think they’re free.
A major theme of “control” flowed through all the films, yet they didn’t being in the ultimate double layer of control that seemed so obvious to me. Control the minds that reject the main program by fooling them into thinking they have some form of control. It could have been beautiful, but it didn’t happen.
I posted the following in response to question: Would you stay in the Matrix or live in the cave ?
This movie failed.
It failed big.
There are certain people in this world who see how things *should* have happened, but didn’t.
Throughout the entire movie, they were kinda slapping you in the face with it, but never came out and said it… and that’s bad. If you were watching for it, they were so close to admitting it… but didn’t.
Three posibilities:
1. They knew that people would know and expect this ending, so ditched it in a failed attempt to add a *twist* at the end.
Reason #1 fails: You don’t put a plot *twist* into a movie by leaving something out, you just piss people off who saw it coming.
2. There’s a matrix 4 coming soon. The Matrix: Explanations.
Reason #2 fails: You pissed me off with this one, I don’t want to and won’t pay to watch your “philosophy 101 meets mindless cgi action” BS again. Escpecially since if you put out a 4th, you HAVE to cover what you skipped from #1, and I don’t want to watch what should have ended this movie.
3. They just didn’t see it. Too dumb to realize what they set up, and how the whole thing really should have ended. Blind to the obvious.
Reason #3 fails: I’d hope that such “geniouses” as the Wachowski brothers wouldn’t be so numb in the head as to miss something so obvious.
“Would you stay in the Matrix or live in the cave ?”
Neither, I’d live outside both… in the *real* world.
nuff said.
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