Film Theory: Neo ISN'T The One in The Matrix Trilogy
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Think you know the Matrix? Weren't even born when the first Matrix movie came out? Either way, you probably know this world-is-a-computer-simulation sci-fi series by its slo-mo bullets, screens full of green text, and a whole lot of Keanu Reeves making his "serious face." What you might NOT know about the Matrix is that the main character, Neo, is not actually the savior of the world and acts is actually just a pawn throughout the entire series meant to throw off you and almost everyone else in the movie. But that begs the question: If Neo isn't the ONE, who IS?
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You want to hear something truly mind blowing? It took me over 10 years to realized 'Neo' is 'One' rearranged. YES! Someone that fucking oblivious ACTUALLY exists.
+SagBag lol! Me too!xD
+SagBag wait, it is?
Same! We can be blunt together!
\(^3^)/
Wait u now relies that
+SagBag mind blown
This actually made me appreciate the trilogy better
me too
T.C. Bramblett I 100% agree. It now makes so much more sense.
My thoughts exactly. The 2nd and 3rd movies actually kinda make sense, now. I guess I have to watch them again.
ye XD
T.C. Bramblett same here
Neo is "the 1" and Smith is "the 0" - they must coexist, like good and evil
I was thinking of a way how they both could be the chosen one and your comment blew my mind.
Only ‘good & evil’ doesn’t really exist. At least, not in a way how ‘Light & Dark’ really exists!
I mean it does, but only us humans can comprehend good & bad. . Because in the grand scheme of things it’s only a made up concept. I know half the people reading this probably thinks I’m crazy. Though it’s been a widely known concept in philosophy for a really long time! So if you don’t believe me, just look 👀 it up . , . XD
So like, Zero One?
What about Zero Two is she also from millions of numbers?
@@dwaynevenzon643 ....computers communicate using ones and zeros, on and off.
Nice one
I really like all the comments saying that Neo and Smith are BOTH the one, two sides of the equation, balancing each other out.
this is it! They are BOTH the one. the ying and the yang.
What if Neo is the source and agent smith is the one?
Noo smith is literally the many the exact opposite of neo.
Neo is the one, the Oracle told Morpheus that he will find the one
But when Neo went to speak to the Oracle she told him you are not the one but you have the gift, maybe in your next life
The Oracle said that Smith was a result of the equation trying to balance itself out. If x=x, and you add ONE to one side, then you must add ONE to other, balancing the equation. Both Neo and Smith are ONEs from either side of the equation.
Edit: either that or a negative one on the same side of the equation.
"who is he" "he is your opposite, the negative"
i think maybe because the oracle had the same will with neo that the war will ends someday and really want to go far as him, merely she can't seen it through smith as truly "the one" and play "dangerous game" as a mother program and doing her purpose as "i am here to unbalance it" the architect purpose..
my real question is, why the architect and oracle had a different purpose, why oracle helps human? isn't that machine hates human so much?
@@ferdiemvira the Oracle helped the humans because she saw that in the future, if Agent Smith won, he would kill all of the humans, leaving the machines without an energy source. Meaning both sides would go extinct.
Tf you smoking man 😂
No offense dude
I can agree with this.
@@Jacegon I guess she did it because she really wanted change.
the Oracle and the Architect are programs just like the Frenchman but very powerful ones meaning that they have a choice and they have the freedom in doing what they want. it is the Oracle alone who chose human over the machines. and since she is doing the machines a "favour" by studying humans and tell the machines why they behave the way they do to help perfect the matrix because the "paradise" of the first version was a total disaster so they needed her to understand why and help them improve the Matrix. only then they let her free to have her in own choices and not question her. that is what i believe anyway
Honestly... after that summary I finally understand what the series was about.
Also ...WOW, this video. Awesome.
+Artbug like bad movies turned good
+Artbug The plot is actually incredibly interesting how the system of the Matrix even started. The movies did a decent job depicting it. The comics have a lot of back story.
Or maybe the "ONE" has always been a rouge Agent fighting for humanity.
+KingDuken Yeah. The Animatrix gives so much more backstory than the theatrical films ever did. Really helped me understand what they were going for in the sequels.
7 years later ... and this is still a great Film Theory.
not really, they called born hooked up to the matrix as born in the matrix so yeah wrong from pretty much the first moment.
@@liamnehren1054
“When the matrix was first built, there was a man born inside”. Straight from Morpheus in the first movie.
I really like the take of Mark Passio's occult analysis on this. It states, according with the fact that the oracle is yet just another part of the controlsystem (which was stated by the architect), that also her prophecy is part of the control system, just like all believe systems of a messiah saving all humanity is. It is a lie created to keep humanity outside of the matrix in control as well. Neo is not "the one" because there is no such one. Everyone can and must be the one in order to free themselves from the slavery.
But every human being within or outside of the matrix was deceived into thinking that there hast to be a messiah figue on whom they should rely. As a prevention to believe in themselves and take the nessesary actions. That's why Neo - just like Jesus Christ - died for the sins of all humans who did not recognize the power within themselves, the power to destroy the matrix with their minds. And that is also why the Matrix still existed after Neos death. He was - like Jesus - nothing but a role model - the only one who believed in himself and that way empored himself to do the wonders he did. A role model everybody should've followed to earn a life in paradise, but yet nobody did that's why the machines were able to build another even more vicious matrix --> Matrix 4.
@@liamnehren1054 wasn’t neo reborn in the matrix when he died in the first film
@@imltiii not really, the point of the spoon thing was to illustrate that everything there wasn't real. If you could convince your unconcious mind of that fact then it frees you from the mental construct of a physical body in the matrix.
Honestly later parts of Sword Art Online and it's sequel Accel world explain the idea better. It fits into "I think, therefore I am." 's logical extension of "We think therefore the world is."
Essentially the world of the matrix is created by the minds of the people being guided by the programs into following the structure laid out. So it glitches out and releases people from it when they break the limits imposed by themselves and those around them. Animatrix shows it off pretty well with the runner and that annoying teen who shows up in the second movie.
The second Neo convinced his unconcious mind of the fact that nothing in front of him was real he started to see just code and could manipulate it at will. His body just an Avatar.
i like this theory because it states that neo isn’t the prophesied messiah, therefore, he’s just a natural hero who is driven solely by his own agency. it feels empowering to the everyday person more than a “destiny complex”
Love the way this was worded
only difference is people stopped believing in jesus cause he wasn’t gonna do anything about Rome, then proceeded to crucify him. Glad Neo was able to have support to the end
Trinity is not my lover
She's just a girl that thinks that
I am The One.
...
Toad Medicine ................. *facepalm*
very good xD
Toad Medicine I don't know whether to cringe or applaud so I'll do both.
Are you Kidding me?
I wonder what happens when One-Punch Man facepalms..... Good luck over there, man.
To be honest, I really want a movie about the first guy, that woke up from the Matrix.
his name was noah then theres Moses , it's in the bible , they were awake to lucifers realm of fakery
yes. I want a movie on some of the history. too bad the characters have aged.
Jo Black It doesn't need to be with actors, that played the original 3 movies. The story is many decades before the Matrix movies, if not a century... That's why it's so interesting.
What if that first One was actually Jesus? It never says how much simulation time is between iterations of the One. And being able to remake the Matrix as he sees fit? That sounds like a miracle-worker to me. Liberation into a new world sounds a bit like admittance into the Kingdom of Heaven. Plus, the name of the land of the free people, the ones chosen by the One to continue the existence and freedom of humanity, is called Zion, which is essentially another name for Israel, homeland of God's chosen people.
Perhaps it's rather a stretch, but you never know :P
Bel-Shamharoth I mean, everything is possible, that's probably why nobody is brave enough to do the movie. But this jesus version would probably just dump the whole Matrix...
Neo is the one, the Oracle told Morpheus that he will find the one
But when Neo went to speak to the Oracle she told him you are not the one but you have the gift, maybe in your next life
The Oracle told trinity that she will fall in love with a dead man
Then Neo died and trinity fell in love, she kiss him and he resurrected and that was Neo's other life were he became the one
So all the three prophecies were fullfil when Neo died
wow
And maybe those prophesies were lies. All part of her plan. She's on record as being able to lie.
Simple. Neo needed to be strong enough to defeat Smith so Smith could get loose from the source. As a result she got Morpheus since he's a really good hand to hand combatant and Trinity, someone who is also pretty good hand to hand and but will provide that boost of motivation for Neo. The Architect literally said the One was at the beginning and the Oracle made the one. Neo was made in one of the pods and he's only 20ish years old. Not the hundreds of years the Matrix has been around
@@geofthompson3844 Yes. Being able to 'predict' the future also implies that she knows what lies to tell to get people to do what she wants. In other words, being able to deduce how everyone acts and responds doesn't just let her know the future, it lets her make the future by giving them the stimuli that they need to act in a certain way.
@@snakevenom4954 he's the reincarnation of the one
Yes Neo wasn’t around when the 1st matrix was built that’s cause he’s a reincarnation of the previous anomalies before him. They say this in the 2nd film. Also what probably happened with Smith is that Neo imprinted some of his digital self when they first assimilated in the first movie thus making smith a second anomaly that needed correcting and when in the last movie, when Smith finally assimilates Neo, Neo was jacked through the source allowing the source to correct both anomalies in one go.
If neo wasn't around then explain him being there from the start. Only counts when you don't die.
The architect literally said the Oracle made the one. Neo was made in a pod
@@snakevenom4954 They also make software that doesn't have a human body.. So, if she made him as code then he wouldn't exist anywhere but within the Matrix and would essentially always have his powers.
Also, can someone explain how they've destroyed a city like 5 times already but the city isn't in the Matrix?
He was Jesus or Michael or Adam his self and agent Smith was the snake trinity was eve her name is literally means 3 holy Trinity
@@jnewgot watch the other video about the real world actually also being in the matrix. The machines did that to make humans think they escaped the matrix when they actually are still in it. Man these movies are crazy.
Neo entered smith first.. Smith entered Neo second. They are both halves of the same.. ONE.
+Eddy Dyno Sounds kinda gay
indeeeeed.
+Eddy Dyno Indeeeeckd*
+Eddy Dyno It's like the end of harry potter all over again
+Eddy Dyno That makes them sound really.... Gay... #NeoxSmithLove
Morpheus: holding a blue pill and a red pill
me: eats both
"Now we wait..."
Wait, thats illegal!
MJ's Arts 😂😂😂😂
Morpheus: uhhh what uhhhhh.. what now
Neo: please kill me me 1101 1100 110011........... I am dead
Like Red Bull and jagermeister.
Don't do drugs.
seriously a lady in the first movie freaking said: "He thinks you are the one."
Neo"am I the one"
lady"no"
What lady said that? The Oracle?
Who is "lady"? 🤣
@@wtfisthis2316 Yes. As they are chatting in the first movie, she implies this, which seems to bring a combination of relief and disappointment to Neo. The first line in OP was talking about Morpheus, who has pinned every hope on Neo, much to Neo's dismay. Neo was asking the Oracle, "Yo, wtf is his deal yo?"
It's interesting to interpret what the Oracle's "Sorry, kid" might mean. On one hand, as the audience we are clearly being tinkered with by the directors, because fundamentally we want to believe that Neo is the one, and here is this supposed all-knowing entity implying he isn't. On the other hand, I feel like it's hinted that the Oracle knows Neo has to find his One-ness for himself, and that he cannot fulfill the prophecy without finding out for himself that he is that one. After all, what is she supposed to do? Tell him "Yes, you are the one!", and let him go off and get himself killed?
That's all purely in the context of the first movie, but I guess also if you think about it from the perspective of the others, there were six Ones anyway, so maybe she was just having a laugh because, "No dude, you definitely are not the ONE, you are the sixth ONE to come along as a matter of fact".
@@nathanleclaire7154 she never says no, he says “I’m not the one” and she responds “Sorry Kid”....so she never says no, only that he has the gift but is waiting for something.....so please delete your entire second paragraph
@@od4407 Wow what a helpful and useful comment. I have updated to say "Sorry Kid" instead of "No". The intelligent reader would have figured that out anyway.
Smith was able to think for himself, hence the ability to function and strategise without the ear-piece in.
His ability to replicate himself is simply his ability, as an agent, to enter any other sentient being or program still connected to the Matrix. Neo just freed him from the agents' restriction to only enter one sentient being or program at a time. This finally gave him the power needed to bring the whole system to a standstill, so he didn't have to watch us squander a world created just for us, for the seventh time over.
It would be like an NPC having to watch someone else take 100 years to finish a video game, only to have them restart every time they do finish. After watching this for 600 years, you would want to destroy the console too, even if you only lived in the game.
But where did this autonomy of his (instead of the intended semi-automatism) come from?
Although I realize, that there were depicted other renegade programs refusing to "re-fuse" with the Matrix and it's not explained in the movie where their "power of will" comes from, too. Why can't the machines (at least their boss, the Godhead) write more efficient programs or even reboot the system themselves.
By the way, how can the creators of Matrix be so unintelligent as to use some of the least efficient sources of heat....
Why heat, in the first place?
Of course, we humans also created complex societies in reality (I mean what we generally call as such) and also make a lot of stupid stuff. Also, we just started to think of more coherent hypotheses about our (somewhat) self-conscious mind...
....and after all, maybe we are just super complex automatons (look up superdeterministic interpretations of QM experiments).
So he’s Monika from DDLC, but on a muuuuuuuch longer timeframe.
@@Littleprinceleon "By the way, how can the creators of Matrix be so unintelligent as to use some of the least efficient sources of heat....
Why heat, in the first place?" Watch the video about Smith being The One by Matrix Explained, where it is stated that the Wachowski's originally wanted humans to be used as processors but the idea proved to be too complicated for viewers. Thus, batteries.
The Oracle's final line in the trilogy: "I believed."
*_I_* be *_LI_* ev *_ED_*
hahahaha
I BLEED
I lied?
I Lived
ah yes, beev
If Neo doesn’t believe he is the one, he doesn’t make the sacrifice in the end. , well played, Oracle, well played. 👏🏾👏🏾
so could the one be any who just believes?
@@picklemeister5351 nooooo goober 😂 Neo never bested Trinity let alone Morpheus in training, keep that in mind; BOTH of them knew they were stronger and more capable than Neo.
Based off your comment either of them could've and should've believed they were the one, but the Oracle told them otherwise.
No matter what "she" looks like the Oracle IS a computer program, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't want to die...like the other programs lol
@@ThatStevenLouis except neo went toe to toe with morpheous his first time impressing everyone and proved by the end of the series he was far greater than both combined.
@@joshua7426 could he beat Smith tho? 🤔
Yes he progresses ✌🏾impressively✌🏾 throughout the series, but if Neo's progress by the end of the series (as you state) is "impressive", then Smith's progress is literally nothing less than godly; dude literally created a world as he saw fit and created everyone in his image.
Smith was so raw the machines wanted him deleted specifically; they went after ALL rogue/unplugged humans equally. The same forces/agents that was "sent after" Neo was sent after Zion where there were peaceful unskilled humans ranging from children to elders.
The weak agents cut a deal with that one guy in the 1st movie to bring down Morpheus' crew while the machine "God" cut a deal with Neo to stop Smith.......Smith has his God afraid of him.
Do the math 👌🏾
@@ThatStevenLouis By even implying Morpheus or Trinity are stronger thanNeo proves you're a fucking idiot. Sorry, pack it up, you're done, buddy.
I think its clear that the one is actually the two, a duality caused by Smith having the one’s code copied into his own. The oracle i think even said that one cannot exist without the other. The matrix could not reset until all pieces of the one’s code return to the source, which Neo figured out at the end. Neo rejected the duties of the one, but smith, running on the the one’s code fulfilled the eventuality of an unchecked anomaly running amok in the matrix.
That’s what I kept telling everyone when the movies were first out. That Morpheus, trinity, switch, all those people could do incredible things like Neo could, I mean who TAUGHT neo how to jump across those buildings, that whole “free your mind” concept wasn’t limited to just neo, I think that if you convince yourself you can’t do something (ie: only neo can do this) such as fly, etc then you won’t be able to do it because you’re restricting your code yourself. Neo was hyped up and was told he was the savior and only he could do all these crazy things and he used his mind to create the circumstances in the matrix that he wanted. However if any of those others tried and believed they could break these limits, they’d be able to. Also I found it weird how they never used those ships to fight the machines at the end of the 3rd movie, what caused the council to send the ships away?
Sorry Matt, but I disagree with you in everything this time. it's the first time actually....
1) Born in Matrix means he wasn't born "100% human" in Zion, not that he was born into the actual Operative System as a program. This is forcing things a little too much on your theory.
2) Smith never said things that imply that he was there in the First Matrix, he is a Machine: he is connected to everything, he knows everything that the Machine Collective knows, but he NEVER said anything that proves he was there.
3) It is true that Smith COULD (No proof of that being true) have lived in the first Matrix while Neo could not since he is just a human born into the latest Matrix, but We'll get to that later on.
4) Neo changed A LOT OF THINGS: He curved a metal spoon, he thereafter curved the rope of an elevator, he curved the surface of an ENTIRE SKYSCRAPER, he was able to VIRTUALLY RESURRECT Trinity, he shows massive superpowers (they also alter reality) and by the end of the Matrix Trilogy he has clearly the potential to change everything. HE EVEN SAW as a blind person the MACHINE FLOW (Matrix rap) and KILLED ROBOTS JUST BY WAVING HANDS.
Smith did change a lot of things, but you forgive the most important thing: HE IS A MACHINE, it's pretty obvious he could as a regular machine, and that now as a Rogue program and a Virus he is even more powerfull.
There is nothing amazing in that, what is amazing is that a HUMAN can do these things.
It's like the Merovingian. Plus it's implied that the One shoudl change Matrix in favour of Humanity, not AGAINST it.
The One is a Messiah, it is not a dictatorial hive-mind of viruses, this is the greatest hole in your theory.
5) The "Rebel machine" part was flawed as hell.
There are TONS of machines that got rogue, the entire MEROVINGIAN empire is based on this concept. Machines do get errors, bugs, they get old, they ged obsolete, they eventually must be terminated, or they acquire some degree of consciousness, they eventually find their way to "delete" the connection to the Collective Consciousness of the Machines and become rogue programs, bugs, ghosts. Smith is nothing special, he is not even the first one.
I mean, the Merovingia is the actual MESSIAH of these programs, he was the one who ruled the underowlrd of free programs that REBELLED against the Machines. By applying your logic, he is the real Messiah, the real One (and it is theorized he was, in the previous Matrix).
6) You talk a lot about how Smith is human when he talks, he is human because he rebels (Quite a surprise that's not rare in the machine world...), but you forgot how he HATES the entire human race, says SO MANY TIMES he hates it, he considers it as a Virus that should go extinct and in fact it is quite ironic he became a Virus itself, this is how he viewed humans and this is how Neo modified him by connecting to him). and how he, by overwriting himself on EVERYTHING, almost caused the Crash for both Machines and Humans that would lead to the end of both civilization. NOT a Messiah, not Human, just a rogue program thinking about itself.
Neo, on the other hand, is the savious of humanity, who rebelled agaist the machines FOR HUMANITY, and SAVED HUMANITY, by SACRIFICING HIMSELF. This is BY DEFINITION the One (The One, in the Prophecy, is the One who fights FOR Humanity, but I'll prove this point better later on)
7) Come on Matt: Smith wanted to DESTROY the Matrix, and By destroy I mean Hiroshima and Nagasaki, not a punch in the face. What HE wanted was to destroy it, period, extinction.
What Neo actually did was to make it RELOAD, which is totally different from the original intention of Smith.
This is why he screamed when he KNEW that it was all Neo's plan, he made himself absord into Smith, which was ONE with the Matrix, which merged Neo with the Matrix and the Source, using his code to make the Reload.
And Smith? He SCREAMED in terror when he realized that.
This basically debunks your theory that he was the aweited messiah (for the "unwilling messiah", see below)
8) Your entire theory is flawed because it reasons like this "Ok Jesus is not the Messiah, JUDAS IS, because without his act Jesus would not be crucified", but you actually make him sound like the hero and the ACTUAL saviour, while he actually made all of that because of his own Ego, and hw was not the saviour of Humanity (This is a un-biased discussion, I'm not here to talk about religion, it's just an example, if you don't believe in it nothing changes).
9) You showed that you didn't quite understand the ending, this explains how you got this theory wrong.
First of all, YOU KNOW that she never said "you are no the one" and that she let him believe that because "This is what you had to hear" as Morpheous told him.
The Oracle does not tell the truth, she tells WHAT WE NEED TO HEAR to perform certain action, she is a Psychological and Statistical program that knows how human minds work and how the laws of cause and effect apply to masses of people.
The "Dangerous game" was her supporting the Humans (Morhpeus stated "She's been on our side since the Beginning"), Supporting the One and by the end LYING to Smith, not to Neo, because when Smith absorbed her he believed that it would make him invincible, knowing the past and the future.
What he DIDN'T know was that by Winning that battle he would Loose everything.
10) This is the final argument against your theory.
It is stated quite clearly that the ONE is the one with the Code inside himself.
And that is Neo, this was claimed so many times you can't doubt it without basically doubt the entire trilogy.
So this is the first reason why NEO is the ONE, and Smith is NOT.
Neo has the Code, Neo MUST enter the Source, the Architect can't be wrong about this and it is not, since this is EXACTLY that happens in the end.
Neo MUSt enter the Source, which is inside Matrix, the Operative System.
But Matrix is ONE with the Smith Virus collective, which is going to crash the system if not stopped.
Neo Must (as a good Messiah) SACRIFICE himself, by being DEFEATED and ABSORBED by Smith.
And by being absorbed by Smith, he becomes One with the Matrix, one with the Source, the Code goes into the Source, and Smith dies.
Why is that? Because every program has a Raison d'Etre. Every program has an objective, an end, a mission, a quest.
Such quest is his reason to live, his reason to fight, his prime directive.
When the quest is completed, the program becomes useless and gets deleted.
Smith's quest was to defeat Neo, defeat ERRORS, defeat THE ONE BUG THAT BINDS THEM ALL.
Neo is the Ultimate enemy for a program that hunts BUGS.
And Smith, by "merging" with Neo at the end of the First Movie, became a rogue Virus.
Because he FAILED his mission. But by merging with Neo he FELT (He was not FORCED) compelled to rebel, because he was now partly human. He became a Rogue program (LIKE TONS OF OTHERS) but much stronger, a Virus.
he started to infect everything, but his PRIME DIRECTIVE was always the same: Destroy Neo. He was obsessed with it.
He even absorbed the Oracle, and was now capable to Foresee the entire future, and his Final Winning against Neo.
Neo on the other hand is the Human capable of Changing reality and has the Code inside him as DEFINITIVELY stated by the Architect and the Oracle.
He represents Humanity.
He goes into the Machine City, they tell him that the "Plan" is going into dust, because the entire Matrix is under Smith control.
If Smith destroyed the Matrix as he PLANS and IS GOING TO, both Humans and Machines will die out as Matrix is the main source of energy for machines and...new humans for humans.
So Neo must ENTER THE MATRIX while connected to "Deus Ex Machina", the main AI.
He must FIGHT the now God-level Admin of Matrix, Smith, who KNOWS he will defeat Neo.
And HE DOES, he DEFEATS Neo, he INFECTS HIM and Absorb him.
But then Deus puts the input (LOL) in, he makes the Code of NEO go inside the Source.
Now Smiwht has achieved his goal.
He has defeated Neo, the Final error. Not only that, he has virtually defeated EVERY SINGLE ERROR since the Matrix is going to be reloaded. He has completed the task, like a genie that has realized the final wish must go inside the lamp, Smith has completed his PORPOUSE (He repeats that word all along), and destroys himself.
And The Matrix gets reloaded.
Now Humans and Machines are at Peace, Humans will be free to leave the Matrix if they want, but Humans can't destabilize the Matrix too much.
And now THE FINAL QUESTION: WHY didn't Smith know he was going to die?
If he has all of those Oracle power, how couldn't he miss that?
BECAUSE the Oracle didn't know herself. Because that was not a prediction, it was Faith.
She said that to Seraph (an Angel name) "Did you always know?
"Oh no, but I believed"
She BELIEVED, a quite Human act, she HOPED the plan worked, she HOPER Neo, the MESSIAH, could save Humanity, that everything went well, that Humans and Machines both (Deus and Neo) did their job and defeated Smith.
This is the final argument, the Matrix trilogy also had faith in the various themes. Isn't Matrix in fact a tale about an Illusory world that deludes us, an Oracle predicting salvation and Humans having FAITH that a Messiah (which is Human but is also a Machine, the SON of Machines) must take vevery single error in himself and SACRIFICE in a death battle against Evil, in which the Messiah is sacrificed but the Evil itself is defeated by winning in killing the Messiah.
So yeah.
-Smith does not have the Code, was not into the First Matrix, was no the ONE according to anyone.
-Neo has the Code, has the power to change reality, sacrificed himself, realized the profecy, is the perfect Messiah, he is the ONE according to EVERY-ONE.
-Smith was evil all along, had no intenction of saving humanity and was defeated for rational reasons.
-For all the previous arguments we have to logically conclude that NEO was THE ONE as even implied by the name, while Smith was evil all along, and this Theory was Falsified.
PS: You almost got me into the "mama" part, but consider that the Architect claimed "You can consider me the Father (of the Matrix) while the Mother is the Oracle".
So she was his mother, and the mother of every single program.
Again Matt: Nothing special, sorry.
I hope you read this comment, or someone does at least.
I also will add a more complete explanation of How the Matrix, the Prophecy, the One, the Ending and Neo work.
1) We must first understand WHAT IS THE MATRIX?
The Matrix is a simulation created to put humans in a virtual world while machines use them as batteries, basically.
The Matrix is an Informatic System, so it has Bugs and it may crash.
It is an Equation, everything is numbers and constants, it must be balanced.
In this case, the Matrix MUST be accepted by the humans. When humans do not accept it, bugs fill the Matrix and eventually lead to crash.
The First Matrix was constructed by the Architect as a Heaven, but Humans could not accept this reality and 100% REFUSED this reality, leading to crash and Reloading.
So the Architect made the Second Matrix with a Law of Cause and Effect, quite less perfect, but Humans yet again refused this reality, 100% refusal, crash. They could not accept this deterministic system.
The Third Matrix was constructed on the basis of Human History, yet again people REFUSED IT.
So a program developed to Understand Psychology and Statistics, the Oracle, proposed a new way: to leave a CHOICE (this is REALLY IMPORTANT), even if unconscious.
this lead to 99% of acceptance, the Matrix would last a lot longer.
But everytime someone refused Matrix he would be thrown out (And they would eventually form Zion), and EVERY SINGLE TIME this happened the Matrix got bugs, that would eventually accumulate and lead to crash. The problem was just shifted, not solved.
That is why the Architect and the Oracle invented a way to solve this problem, the One.
Quote to prove:
"The Path of the One was vital because 1% of the population rejects the Matrix. The programming of the Matrix is not designed to handle even a single rejection. The only way for it to operate at peak efficiency is when there is 100% acceptance of the programming. The Architect's attempts resulted in 100% rejection. Yet even though the Oracle's version of the Matrix yielded nearly 99% acceptance, there was still a degree of rejection that had to be dealt with."
"Each rejection (referred to as an anomaly by the Architect) is in the form of code within the Matrix that acts somewhat like a "Bug". Over time, the number of rejections begins to build up and threatens the entire system. When this happens, the Architect states that it has become a systemic anomaly. This systemic anomaly must be taken care of or else the Matrix will eventually crash-killing everyone who is hardwired to the Matrix."
"The solution is to take the systemic anomaly, attach it to the One and have the One bring it to the Source where it can be destroyed. This gathering of the systemic anomaly and attaching to the One is referred to as the integral anomaly. This is the code that the One carries which must be disseminated at the Source. The One stands in proxy for all those who have rejected the Matrix.
By entering the Architect's chamber and choosing to return to the Source, the One has essentially accepted the Matrix and has negated all the rejections attached to him. This brings the Matrix to 100% acceptance. However, this is only temporary, as it is only a matter of time before someone rejects it. Therefore, the Architect must quickly reload the Matrix while it is still at 100% acceptance."
2) WHAT IS THE ONE?
The One is a random human who is chossen to bring two things: he brings the PRIME PROGRAM and he is also burdening on himself all of the errors that humans caused when they chose freedom.
That is, The One is THE CHOICE, he is the representation of Human Freedom, He is the one Bug to bind them all, he is what makes the Equation Unbalanced.
"Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the Matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision." (Architect)
3) What is the PRIME PROGRAM? I'll quote the official wiki here:
"The Prime Program is the title which The Architect gave to the Path of The One. In reference to computer programming, a prime program is a subprogram within a larger program (referred to as a proper program). In this case, the Matrix is the proper program, while the Path of the One is a subprogram within the Matrix."
"A prime program is a subroutine that has a single entry point and a single exit point, with any number of decision nodes along the way. This subprogram was created in order to guide the One to the Source, which is the exit point for the Path of the One. This was confirmed by The Oracle, who stated that the Path of the One ends at the Source. Because reaching the Source is the exit point for the prime program, the One must reinsert it into the programming of the Matrix in order to start the cycle over again."
The Prime Program is a program, and it is composed of a Journey the One must do, a Journey that starts at his birth and ends at THE SOURCE.
The Source is where every program that ended (or failed) his porpuouse, every program which is too old or bugged, every program that must be deleted, should go.
And this is where every program came from, it's the Singularity of Robots.
The prime Program is also directly connected to the Source, giving the One great powers, even stronger than agents.
So the ONE has the Prime Program and must get into the Source.
The One brings with himself all of the errors and bugs to the Source, and when he reaches the Source the Prime program activates, leading to the RELOADING of the Matrix, a reloading which will (Temporary) fix every bug.
The One will also choose a group of humans that will create Zion again (since the old Zion will be terminated).
"After he died, the Oracle prophesied his return and that his coming would hail the destruction of the Matrix, end the war; bring freedom to our people."
So the One brings every "Sin" (Bug) In Himself, is connected to the Source, has God-like powers and will eventually go into the Source to save Humanity (because if Zion was destroyed and Matrix crashed no human would survive), he is quite the Messiah.
But he will not only have the powers of a Messiah, he will LOOK like one and will be KNOWN like one.
I'll quote again:
"The Path of the One is a necessary subprogram to ensure that the One will act according to the Architect's wishes. It is one of the control measures created with the help of the Oracle, who understands the human psyche. The Path of the One is designed to create within the One a messiah complex. The One is granted special powers by virtue of his connection to the Source in order to make his role as a messiah believable."
"Each decision node along the Path of the One is designed to create a sense of attachment between the One and humanity. Believing himself to be the savior of mankind, the One will take the necessary steps to ensure that humanity continues, albeit in an enslaved state."
So the Oracle makes a Prophecy to humans, that they will find The One and he will save them. When The One is found the Oracle leads him to assume the role of a Messiah, and his powers strenghten this belief. The Path of the One MUST end to the Source, every single Oracle prediction and suggestion will lead him there.
So This is basically the One: has the Prime Program, is directly connected to the Source (which grants him powers) and is also connected to every single bug in the system, he is predicted by the Oracle (who creates a sorta religion around this figure in humans) and will eventually assume the role of a Messiah, which will lead him to the Source, where the Prime Program will activate the Reloading of Matrix.
This WAS the Plan for Five Matrixes. But Neo was different.
4) WHAT DID NEO DO?
"This process was subverted in the case of Neo, whose attachment to Trinity was stronger than his attachment to humanity. This love for Trinity was strong enough that he was willing to sacrifice humanity in order that he might save her."
All of the previous Ones were attached to Humanity, but this One was also attached to a particular femminine Human, Trinity (Quite the religious reference here), which was on the balance of his CHOICE.
So he refuses to enter the Source, but HIS DESTINY (as stated by the Oracle) is still to get into it, he will END HIS PATH THERE, one way or the other.
"Neo breaks the cycle of destruction because of his love for Trinity, who he saves from certain death as she falls from a building after ensuring that Neo's initial mission to reach the Source would succeed. After Neo is rescued from Mobil Avenue station, he meets once more with the Oracle, who states Neo must still reach the Source - not the Architect, but the Machine City itself, where "the path of The One ends." "
Enough with Neo now, we'll talk about Agent Smith
5) WHAT ABOUT AGENT SMITH? HUH?!!?!?!?
Agent Smith is a Program created to control bugs and errors in the System, that is his Prime Directive: Hunt them down.
That's why he hates humans so much (THEY ARE unpredictable, they are not computable, they are irrational, animal, they cause him PROBLEMS), that's why he hates NEO so much (He BINDS every single Bug in himself). He was never in the First Matrix (He just knows about it).
Agent Smith fought against Neo, but was defeated. When Neo trapassed him, a "Part" of his personality AND his powers were transferred to him.
Agent Smith had FAILED his porpouse. This would lead him to deletion, and going back to the Source. He didn't however. Why?
It's nothing strange, many programs escape deletion (Sometimes they are bugged, sometimes they develop indipendence and free consciousness). It happened a lot of times, they usually request the Merovingian help, and they become Ghosts, monsters or just "errors" in the System.
Agent Smith becomes a Rogue program, a Virus.
He starts to absorb humans and machines alike to become stronger and stronger. But his prime directive, his PORPOUSE is still to defeat Neo, he is obsessed by it (He also wants all life to end).
He ends up absorbing even the Oracle.
Now, what did the Oracle predict with her Really Good Math?
That Smith was now stronger than Neo, and Neo would loose.
And Smith now knows this, AND LAUGHS.
Eventually Smith gets in control of the Entire Matrix, bringing it near a dangerous Crash.
Machines and Humans alike are in danger, because that would mean exctintion.
Neo offers DEUS EX MACHINA (No, not the Mirai Nikki one) a truce with humans, if he will defeat Smith.
Now, The Oracle PREDICTED Neo would loose, Smith predicted Neo would loose, EVERYONE KNOWS NEO WILL LOOSE, even Neo knows that much.
But Neo still fights for it. Why Mr Anderson? WHY?
Is he stupid? Is he just being emotional?
No, that's not it.
The Matrix is an equation, and it is gravely unbalanced.
Smith is -1, Neo is 1. Yin and Yang.
Smith keeps fighting, until he says something, an influence from the Oracle "Everything that has a beginning must end, Neo".
It's the first time he doesn't call him Mr Anderson.
Smith is now AFRAID, he didn't predict that.
He absorbs (as Predicted) Neo in himself.
NOW THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT, STICK WITH ME GUYS
6) WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED?
Now Smith was Deleted because of the Reloading (I'll explain this now), but there are also other reasons why Smith was deleted.
THIS IS MERE SPECULATION (But my point stands even without them, it's just curiosity), i'll put them in parenthesis.
(First of all By absorbind Neo he basically resolved his porpouse, his Prime Directive, and he completed his task. Like other programs, this leads him to destruction.
But he also, by Absorbing the One, VIRTUALLY defeated every single bug in the system. Also, by absorbing the One, he has REALLY defeated every single error in Matrix.
Not only that, his porpouse was to finally kill Mr Anderson, but as we said before A PART of Mr Anderson is in himself, so he has to kill himself to complete his task of totally defeating Neo.
So He became a living contraddiction. And as someone puts it, Neo as the 1 and Smith the 1 ON THE OTHER SIDE, they both grew in power as the other did, all becaus the Architect wanted the Equation to be balanced, but the Oracle wanted it to be UNBALANCED, the 1 of Neo becomes a Minus 1 by "merging" with Smith (Going in his side) and nullifying the equation. Again, it is speculah ).
What Happened?
Smith, now that he was a Level-God admin of Matrix, was ONE with the Matrix, was in total control.
The Smith-Matrix hivemind was like a Body.
The Source is the Heart, at the center of the Body.
Neo MUST reach the Heart, Neo is a poison.
Neo, by WILLINGLY letting himself " be Drinked" by Smith reached the Core.
And Neo is also connected to Deus Ex Machina, the two of them (Human and Machine) TOGETHER activate the program.
neo gets into the Source, and Deus activates the Program (remember guys, he was excluded from the Control because of Smith).
"After Neo is jacked into the Matrix, the Deus monitors the situation. It appears that, after Neo willingly allows himself to be assimilated by Smith, two objectives occur that allow Smith's deletion. First, Smith is now directly connected to a hard-line connected entity: Neo's avatar. Second, in assimilating Neo, Smith has completed the purpose he redefined for himself.
Moments after Neo is assimilated, the Deus appears to send a massive surge of energy through Neo's body, presumably a deletion program"
The Reloading was activated, because Neo's code reached the Source.
The Reloading fixed every single bug, error and virus, and Smith was deleted forever and ever (And there are also those other reasons why he was deleted).
Neo, while dying by Smith hands AND being "Activated" in the Source by Deus Ex Machina, assumes a Jesus on cross-like position, his Messianic role was finally achieved. HE has activated, by SELF-SACRIFICE, the Salvation program, and the Evil (Smith), by Killing the Messiah, has unknowingly KILLED HIMSELF.
The Matrix gets reloaded, but now it's different.
Why? It's because of Neo!
"Neo, unlike the previous Ones before him, did not complete the Path of the One. Instead of going through the door on his right in the Architect's chamber, he left the Path of the One and went through the door to his left. This means that he left the Path of the One and began to follow the Path of Neo. Ironically, his own path still led him to becoming connected to the Source where he followed the original directive of the Path of the One.
Neo's unique contribution to the problem of choice was to make a deal with the Deus Ex Machina that the programming of the Matrix would now accept rejections. Those who desired to be free would be allowed to leave. This meant that when someone rejected the Matrix, it was no longer an anomaly. Therefore, with no anomalies threatening the programming of the Matrix, it was no longer necessary to have a One, which meant that the Path of the One was also no longer necessary. That is why the prime program was not reinserted. Because of the compromise made between man and machine, a state of peace was created."
THANKS TO NEO now the Matrix will ACCEPT that people will have a choice, it will no longer be an unpredictable error in the Equation.
There will be no more bugs, no more One necessary, Zion is saved, no more War between Machines and Humans.
ALL BECAUSE of Neo's Sacrifice.
The Machines honour their alliance to Neo, his body is recovered and "Brought to the Light".
Final question: WHY DIDN'T SMITH KNOW?
because the Oracle herself didn't know: she ENTRUSTED Neo, she BELIEVED in Him, she was not sure, she had FAITH.
Quite a Human act for an AI programmed to Understand Humans.
She is an Oracle, she does not "predict" the future, she MAKES the future by making self fulfinning prophecies.
You know like "be careful for your son will be killed" and so the father guards the son so much that his actions will eventually LEAD to the death of the Son?
A self fulfinning prophecy, everything the Oracle said WAS on the Porpouse of letting Neo find the courage, understand his powers, understand his role, and EVENTUALLY leading to the final truce.
Remember what the Architect said?
"I'm the Father of Matrix (and all of his programs), she is the mother".
And what did the oracle say?
"The Architect sees everything as an equation to be balanced.
I must dis-balance it"
She Oracle plotted all along for this truce with humans, she SAW BEYOND the Equation, she saw something, but she just could have faith, it could not be expressed in Math.
it was...Human, that's it.
She saw the Truce with humans, and she had faith.
This is why the Architect tells her "You've played a dangerous game", she RISKED and GAMBLED, but she succeded.
And that's why Seraph told her "DId you always know?"
"Oh no, but I believed in it".
So Smith DID NOT have the Code, DID NOT ACTIVATE the actual reloading, he did NOTHING, both willing or unwilling.
If Smith is the Messiah because he unwillingly helped the ACTUAL messiah to reach the Source and activate the program, then Judas is the actual messiah because he killed Jesus, Hitler is the actual granter of peace and freedom because after him UN was founded, George III of Hannover is the hero of American Indipendence, and a Bank robber who unwillingly left the door open for policemen to catch him is a true hero.
Neo was the One, Neo was the Hero, Neo was the Self Sacrificing Messiah, Willing and, this time, True.
And The Oracle won her Poker Game against the Architect.
+Mortebianca Is this going to be in the test?
too long did not read.
Okay. You make a fine point but I have one question. The Oracle never says he's not the one, but she never really says he is either. She just says "you got the gift." So maybe neo and smith both were supposed to play a part in it?
gteroer5 The Oracle made clear implication (as the Architect and so many other characters) that Neo is the One, but you are right (and Matt is half right) when you say that Smith had a part in this.
Smith is like Voldemort to Harry in his relationship with Neo, he is "connected" with him, when Neo went inside him part of his humanity, part of his power, part of his code went inside him.
They are two faces of the same bottlecap I guess, but Neo is still the One for those 9 reasons, the One is the One (LOL again) with the Code, the One who saves Matrix, the One who sacrifices.
So you are right, they both had to play a part in this, As I said before the Oracle was a Psychological Program build to learn how humans think and behave.
Neo and Smith, in theyr complex relation and in their psychological themes, fitted perfectly in this "Salvation Plan".
This is the "game" she played alla along.
It kinda worked.
+Mortebianca Read it all, summed up basically everything I came to question aswell, need more thumbs up
+Mortebianca I really hope there is no real secret to this film, and that all of you people whit a lot of (to much) free time, is just wasting your time trying to find stuff that is not there xD
this is like every school work were you had to find some meaning in different literature, like "the sun was yellow" well that clearly indicates that the writer was in a happy state of mind when he wrote this, possible to his dying mother were the sun is a statement for love in the dark of death.
that is exactly how you people sound like :P
In the first movie, the Oracle implies that Neo isn't the One, but afterwards, she implies he is. Well, in the end of the first movie, Neo enters Smith. Whatever he did, it changed Smith. What would prevent Smith from changing Neo too? The way I see it, he "becomes the One" at that moment, alongside Smith. They merge. They're both necessary, they're both really just... One.
If you also watch the other people, Smith and the Oracle both state, by telling Neo that Smith is his other half. The Ying and Yang. So yeah, in short. They both are the One.
But I only accept Jet Li as the only true One
i agree, when i was watching the movies i thought this was the case and im sticking to it for now.
The Oracle never tells Neo that he's not the one. She leaves a gap in her sentence and Neo fills it in for her, all the while believing he's finally come to the truth.
In fact, the Oracle even tells him afterwards: "You've got the gift, but it looks like you're waiting for something" implying that he's actually the one, but can't accept it.
I remember someone saying that Neo and Smith are like Ying and Yang, Neo being on the light side and Smith on the Dark. Smith is the evil version/half of Neo.
yeah and at the end of the third movie where neo and smith are fighting and smith changes neo into the last smith clone thats inserting his part of the code into neo which completes the code when neo is plugged into the thing....if you get me....
One in Spanish is uno, since smith is unwittingly the one, does that mean he’s playing the reverse uno card?
Olivia Moore :0
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yes and I am the one:)
omg hahah
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New theory: Smith and Neo are the anomalies that make The One when combined.
Neo was the One, and smith was -1 , after they both died, they balanced everything
but surely if you have a 1 and a -1 then it's already balanced?
+Server then what ?
+Server yeah i know 'bout deletion, but i assumed (like many) that he died at the end.
+Server yeah, i can take that as truth. Damn, Matrix trilogy needs sequels so bad..
yes, but it had to be reset.
Neo is 1 and Agent Smith is 0, 1's and 0's make everything.
/thread
Now u are onto something....binary
There's talk of a remake of the matrix...
The lead actor is said to be a Mexican...
Not sure who it will be, but his first line is: "Si, i em de Juan"
@@marztar His name's going to be Nou
Most of the World is in the dark about how this stuff works. I'm glad SOME people get it!
@TCT as above so below....and I'm going to assume you know about the spiritual end of the spectrum. Kundalini and 3rd eye pineal gland.....otherwise nothing would make sense! Hermetic library and occultism plays a BIG PART in our existence! You are on the right path....spirituality IN....Religion OUT!!!!
Can we all agree how great of an actor Keanu Reeves is from “Hard Ball” to “John Wick” and of course “Matrix”
Really?! No mention of 'Speed', 'Devil's Advocate','Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure' and 'Constantine'?!
He's certainly good at playing Keanu
Absolutely fantastic! I just found your channel and I gotta say the theories made me feel like I didn’t totally waste my time on the sequels and these short videos are more entertaining to be sure
I believe that Neo was not the one until the end he died in the first movie. I think that by saying "no" to death is what creates the anomaly because you are refusing to accept the programming that says you died. It meets your first two criteria in that he is "born" in the Matrix and can change it as he sees fit . Even after doing what he did to Smith he can say "no" to bullets, say "no" to gravity (fly), say "no" to getting his hand cut off in the mansion scene of the second movie, even say "no" just collision physics by putting his hand inside Trinity to pull out the bullet. But above all say "no" to the Matrix itself which is why he sees it in code. That's how that Matrix really looks, and Neo refuses to accept what the Matrix wants you to THINK it looks like.
Then the "destroying" part is still CAUSED by Neo but manifests in Smith. When he "destroys" Smith, he glitches him by imprinting onto Smith the ability to say "no" to the Matrix (AKA the prime program) thus giving Smith the power to eventually glitch/crash the Matrix the same as Neo. But this would not happen if Neo did not "destroy" him first. So maybe previous "ones" destroyed the Matrix more often, but the only time Neo did it was when he "destroyed" Smith. So by destroying things in the Matrix it glitches them, which is why they need to restart. Smith was simply something destroyed by the one and he needed to be "restarted", along with the rest of the Matrix, to start a new cycle. But the Matrix could not "restart" unless it had the prime program AND all the glitched programs. Proof is in the cat...
So if you notice when the Matrix "changes" or rather "restarts" the cat is seen doing the same thing twice. The cat is "restarted" because it accepted the restart (whether or not it was glitched is irrelevant). When Neo "destroys" Smith, Smith now has to be restarted (like the cat), but the prime program allows him to REFUSE the restart. Smith refusing to restart is like the cat refusing to restart. But since the cat is REQUIRED for the restart to work, the Matrix can not restart until the cat AGREES to be restarted. Smith never explicitly says that going to the source would kill him, he just says that's what he was "supposed to do", but he "didn't". So the whole restart is held up by Smith (meaning it could not restart even if Neo chose to go to the source at the end of the second movie), which is simply a manifestation of the glitches Neo creates when he destroys things. Then at the end of the third movie, Smith "returns" to the source through Neo (meaning he "accepts" to restart [even if he consciously does not know he accepts it...sound familiar?]), which then allows the Matrix to restart to a time BEFORE Smith (when there was only 1 Smith). Again proof is in the cat.
Granted there are still rogue programs like Smith, but the major difference is that none of those programs were glitched. Because they are not glitched they don't "destroy" the Matrix around them and therefore are not required for a restart.
+thesuicidefox Just to add, if Neo were to "destroy" the cat, likely the cat would accept the restart. Smith wants to destroy the Matrix and all life, so unlike the cat he has reason to refuse a restart. I think that part of your theory is in actuality just a total coincidence in the movie. It could be reasoned that BECAUSE Smith wanted this so bad he put himself in a position to eventually find a way to achieve his goals, and once he had to power to do what he wanted he finally said "no". Again, Neo GIVES Smith the power of the one, and Smith BY CHANCE already wanted a way to destroy everything. But had it not been for Neo, Smith would never have had such power and at that point your whole theory falls apart.
+thesuicidefox UNLESS Neo was BUILT TO SAY no to balance out the anomaly which is Smith!
Neo never defies the Matrix, only follows what others expect from him wether it is the Rebels or the Orcale, or anyone else.
Also consider this: when Neo in the end enters the Matrix it is already "Smith-only". But the prophecy still demands Neo being assimilated. Did you ever gave a thought WHY? Or WHY Neo can see "real world" as codes? Or where the program-parents in Reloaded came from as they are NOT originated from the Matrix, neither the "real world"?
PS: The Architect's problem isn't "glitchy" programs. His problem is rogue programs. The whole cycle exists to keep rogue-programs at bay which problem manifests in Agent Smith.
OR here is my theory: there are no people in The Matrix, and the "Real World" is just a part of The Matrix where fatally rogue programs are quarantined. OR they are still just properly working parts of The Matrix, which sole purpose is to keep an artificial intelligence at bay, and that AI is Mr. Smith.
***** The parents came from the machine world, they say that in the third movie. Meaning they are likely physical machines (the little bug ones) that fell in love and "gave birth" to a new AI which they had to hide in the Matrix.
Rogue programs have survived the reboot as the Merovingian says in the second movie, which means that a rogue program's compliance is not necessary to reboot the Matrix, nor do they get rebooted during that time (although it could be they cocoon themselves somewhere to stay safe during the reboot).
Neo wasn't built to say "no" because the machines cannot just create a human like they can a program. Anyone, in fact, can become the one merely by saying "no" to death, which is what Neo does only because just before dying in the real world he felt Trinity's kiss. IDK if you've ever had a lucid dream, but in a lucid dream the moment you realize it's a dream you can do anything you want. Same sort of principle applies. Neo feels the kiss, realizes something about the nature of the Matrix (notably that it's not real and thus he is not really dead), says "no" to death, and then is able to do what he wants because the Matrix can't force you to accept it, you have to CHOOSE to accept it. Neo at that point chooses to not accept the Matrix, which then allows him to break the code and do with it what he wants.
Lastly, Neo doesn't follow anyone. He follows his choices, even if he doesn't know he already made the choice or why he made it. The Oracle tells him both of these things and tells him he "already made the choice" and "now you have to understand it". He can see the future because he is seeing what is basically the end of a computation of numbers. Like if you know the exact speed and trajectory of a cue ball hitting the rack you can predict where everything will go, Neo sees where all the balls will go before hitting the cue ball. He already made the choice of how and when to hit the ball, he just doesn't know why he does it. He just can't see past the point where Trin dies because he doesn't understand the choice he makes at that point, so he doesn't know what the next calculation will be.
thesuicidefox
1) I mentioned "machine world" because we never seen it in the trilogy.
2) Who said Neo is human? I actually said Neo is a PROGRAM.
nice theory. but the prophecy says that the one was born IN the matrix, when the matrix was first build. neither of those r true for neo. did u listen to the video?
I think both neo and smith is the one, but neo is +1 and smith is -1, and together they are 0
Hezkel Lemerio like yin and yang
In the matrix reloaded when Neo went through the door to meet the Architect, he looked like Mr. Smith.
0ne
bullshit
NEO literally spells: O-N-E (just move the O in front of the E.)
Rewatching this. This is still my favorite video of yours. It’s just so interesting to watch the movie series again with this in mind
Adolescence is being attracted to Neo. Adulthood is being attracted to Agent Smith...
how'd you come up with that account name
@@djturbofiwip2137 A little ol’ anime by the name of Hetalia.~
Only Smith & Neo combined are The One. Once assimilated The One destroys The Matrix.
The Oracle say's "He is you, your opposite, your negative, the result of the equation trying to balance it's self out.
The Architect say's "If I am the father of The Matrix she would undoubtedly be its mother." Neo is the bastard son of the Architect maintaining order over Zion and the 6th Anomaly to make it to him. (I say bastard because the humans in Zion are literally tossed out of their Pods as waste because they're now unwanted.) The Oracle also refers to Smith as a bastard. The game is the Oracles control over The Matrix & The Architects control of the Machine City & Zion. With both Neo & Smith gone the balance of power has been restored.
+Sophia Eris (HiddenTara) Sati ask the Oracle will we ever seem him (neo) again? "I suspect so, someday."
This is the Wheel of Dharma - Neo will raise again just like Smith will. The Imagery of Buddhism is very evident in The Animatrix.
:)
+Order & Chaos Hehe I could dive deeper down the rabbit hole but I wanted people to read my comment. =)
+Juan Leonardo =)
I also would like to see MattPat cover the Theory that the end of the first Matrix is the "True Ending" as in it takes place after the 3rd film. The One now has the power to change the Matrix & show them a world without the agents policing the Matrix. Once the Matrix & Zion become unbalanced again a new Smith will be born & The Cycle of Death & Rebirth begins anew.
ROSES ARE RED
VIOLETS ARE RED
TULIPS ARE RED
BUSHES ARE RED
TREES ARE RED
FENCES ARE RED
OMFG
MY GARDEN IS ON FIRE.
+Kapboom _ Brilliant :)
+Just Why You Feel So Violently Strange Awesome ^_^
***** TF?!
+Kapboom _
Roses are grey
Violets are grey
I'm a dog
my mixtape is too
That makes sense for the Oracle to send morpheus to chase the rabbit of finding the “one”. It wasn’t about finding the person to save the matrix but to find the “one” powerful enough to make the true one to destroy the matrix.
What an amazing job the editor did. That´s worthy a sub
So Neo was not the one, it was Agent Smith...
Luke wasn´t the chosen one because Darth Vader killed The Emperor
Frodo didn´t destroy the ring, it was Gollum, so Gollum is the chosen one
Harry Potter isn´t the chosen one (sorta)
Emmet from The Lego Movie was not the chosen one it was Lord Business...
I will no longer believe in the main character as the chosen one again!!!!
or maybe most of the theorys are bullshit...
+Alan Smithee But Emmet is the reason for that epiphany so he is in fact 'the one'.
+Gus Ramos Of course Luke wasn't the chosen one, nobody ever said he was. Everyone always referred to Anakin as the chosen one.
Harry is the chosen one. Him and neville were the two candidates and ultimately voldemort chose harry.
+Gus Ramos who said luke was the chosen one
...it's Neville Longbottom.
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legitimate
+pwnn00bzorz1 Okay, I'm not the only one then.
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+pwnn00bzorz1 Nope, ser Pounce
This, this is the first theory video I’ve ever watched
Eight years later and it’s still my favorite
One big problem… why could Neo stop the sentinels in the “real” world in one of the movies? Hmmm…
Because they were never awoken. Zion is another simulation to give some sense of "freedom" to humans
Because that's another leyer of the Matrix, another deceptive virtual reality just like Zion, Neo really never leaves the Matrix, the Architect tells Neo that they cannot stop the anomaly in the system but they are machines, they can predict scenarios and they created the illusion of escaping the Matrix as well. The Oracle mentioned it too, all humans accept the programming as long as they believe they had a choice...
Have you ever noticed that the spoon boy had 5 other spoons next to him on the floor that was already bent? As if it's a metaphor indicating this is the 6th time the Matrix existed
+youngjyay MIND BLOWN.
+youngjyay Mind blown! haha
Amazing man srsly
+youngjyay Nice find dude
Huge fan of the matrix since it came out, you sir, just blew my fucking mind! Whoa!
So to conclude, he's not the messiah. He's a very naughty boy.
the moral of the story is: don't trust a ho.
+Ryan Colgan He was the "antichrist" "anomoly from perfection" that unwillingly gave his life "goes to hell" by destroying the world and playing his part in the charade so that "world peace" could happen "god" = oneness = peace. fullcircle.....just like in the bible....The matrix is just the bible wrapped in computer code.
NEO IS JUST A GAY
+unstoppableify this is (partly) why the 2 sequels suck hard.
John Arktor Yes sir.
According to Matrix 4, you were right. 6 years ahead of the curve. Bravo my boy!!
BRAVO lol don't talk about Bruno
I can say this. Neo wasn’t born in Matrix but he did stuff like the agents did. If he’s not the one this is proof, how could he stop the bullets and got back up after death, saved trinity from death?
Didn’t realize that trinity was in love with mr smith
Not everything the oracle says is true. She even admits herself that she says stuff because People need to hear it Not because its true
@@ramonschmidt6661 the pill is somewhere people want doing again
@@nichsa8984 ?
@@ramonschmidt6661 Then who's to say the prophecy is true? Then this entire Film Theory falls apart.
😑😑😐😐😶😶
Smith is not the One; he is the physical manifestation of the oncoming complete and total failure of the Matrix. The system *is* crashing, he is the result.
The system is crashing because The One has not returned to the Source. The One *must* return or the entire program will fail.
The One has *not* returned because this version of the One, different then all 5 before him, feels love for humanity on a DIRECT AND PERSONAL level. Neo is no great humanitarian. He loves one person only. All previous Ones made the choice to reboot the Matrix. Neo did not.
Neo did not do this because The Oracle manipulated him and the people around him. She is the reason Neo feels personal love.
*This* is the dangerous game she played: she, through the things she told Morpheous, Trinity, and Neo, created the circumstances wherein The One fell in love and refused to reboot. She did not want the system to repeat as it had 5 times before. She wanted humans to be freed.
She won.
Smith was a virus before Neo chose not to go to the source,
Smiths turns bad because he is AI and begins to question his rules same as the machines did to humans its an endless cycle.
One question...Why do we see The Oracle's body lying in the crater at the end of the Neo - Smith battle in the third film? Regardless, it's fun to bullshit about this trilogy on the old inter-webs and hear all the interesting takes on The Matrix and its meaning.
@@Peanutdenver The Smith who fought Neo *was* the Oracle. This is why he had a vision of the oncoming battle. "I've seen it. That's why the rest of me is just going to watch. We already know I'm the one who beats you."
Then just before he absorbs Neo, he says "everything that has a beginning has an end, Neo". That is an Oracle quote and the ONLY time Smith calls him Neo.
@@Dockktor That makes great sense. I'm going to have to watch these films again. Thanks.
So basically this is a game between the Oracle and The Source
The comments saying that Neo and Smith are both The One to balance each other like two halves of an equation is really convincing (or actually cannon). If Neo was similar to a reincarnation of The One that was born in the first version of the matrix, and Smith was reborn as a rogue program then they're already quite similar, at least in terms of birth and rebirth.
Neo: 😂 I’m the one ☝️😂
Master code: naw your a rounding error.
Neo: noooooo
what Reloaded had bad CGI?! how old are you? that movie came out in 2003, and the cgi was actually amazing for its time. compare it to other 2003 movies, or read reviews from that time period. nobody complained about the cgi
+Arkansause Peninsuli-Mapledoryme Well that's difficult to judge because the movies were accomplishing very different tasks with their VFX work. Lord of the Rings was creating creatures, environments, armies etc. The Matrix on the other hand did a lot of work trying to replicate real living people which is a far more difficult task. We know how other people move and how their faces look so anything off sticks out. But how an Orc or Olyphaunt moves is completely made up. Both movies have incredible CGI, but both of them have also been surpassed by what we can do today.
+Bre Fujimoto The Agent-Smith fight was mocked even back when Reloaded first came out. I remember people laughing at that sequence when I watched the film in the theater. At the very least, it was overambitious in its execution. CG just wasn't ready to render people/faces in close ups or even medium shots at the time. Heck, even the digital Arnold from Terminator Genisys suffers from the "uncanny valley" effect.
+Bre Fujimoto I remember thinking how BAD the CGI was when I watched that scene the first time back then IN THEATERS, hell it was the same quality of CGI people you got from the TV SHOW Enterprise which is from the same time period.
I will fly with you
AGREED
Curious to see how well this theory holds up after the matrix 4 comes out in may of 2020
2021 unfortunately...
Yeah this ought to be interesting... And now we wait.
Smith is NOT the one, the video below shreds that argument
m.ruclips.net/video/4kapL7cTnys/видео.html
There's is definitely a reason they are making Nr 4. I'm tripping too see the symbolism.
theyre gonna ruin matyrix
I agree with you, but you miss something: both of them are "the one", they are two faces of the same coin, the ying and yang of the Profecy and Matrix universe. Without Neo, Smith wouldnt be free, and viceversa.
But the awesome of the movie is that the real gods and main characters behind everything that we have seen, are The Arquitect and the Oracle; even Trinity's love for Neo was pre-determined by the Oracle, wich finally leaves to Neo saving her instead of Sion, leaving to the events that we all now, even in the final battle between Neo and Smith the Oracle is capable of speaking throw Smith directly to Neo, quot "everything that has a beggining has an end", making Neo stop fighting Smith to be converted by him and to self destroy when he reunite with the Source (the arquitect).
Forgive my bad English.
@Monkey Smell she never answers the question. She just says "sorry, kid."
I would say it was all a simulation. Even Zion wasn't the reallity they said they try to keep the people connected to the matrix. So maybe it all is a version of the Matrix where Neo can chose to not save Zion and Smith was made to give Neo the opportunity to end the war so peace exist. And the new version of the Matrix inside the Matrix was uploaded. As the kid said the spoon is not real.
That explains why one of Smith's final lines is "it's not fair". He has sentience, he thought he had won, but he didn't realize Neo was plugged in. Smith knew he was The One in the end and he believed himself powerful enough to beat both Matrix and humanity alike
My questions are still: how does Neo have those powers still? Power of suggestion was so strong he learned to free his mind more than anyone else? Also, how does he use powers outside the Matrix? (I still like the theory that even Zion was in another Matrix)
Remember the kids that were with the oracle, they have the power to bend the matrix to their will as well. They explained Neo the logic behind doing. They pretty much suggested that anyone could do what they were doing they if their minds could fully understand what was really happening. "Do not try to bend the spoon, that's impossible. You must first realize that there is no spoon." The real difficulty of it is probably just convince your mind that the matrix isn't real when all senses perceive it as real, like when people get scared when watching a scary movie. The oracle was mostly gambling on Neo figuring it out.
+Katie Wahl The explanation that I heard a long time ago for his powers working outside the Matrix was that there was always a sort of secondary program built in, that was essentially a person chosen at random who could operate both in and outside of the Matrix while still connected to the system. I don't remember 100% of the explanation but it seemed pretty convincing.
+Katie Wahl as +sonicblade200 said everyone can do what Neo does its just that Neo is a lot more attuned to it.
+Katie Wahl The only reasonable explanation I can think of or have heard for why Neo has his powers outside the Matrix is that the so called real world is actually just another layer of the Matrix. The idea I heard was that The Real World is actually a simulation being run by AI programmers to test Artificial General Intelligence they're developing to make sure they don't want to destroy humanity.
+Katie Wahl In order to understand how and why Neo can do his matrix magic, you have to understand how computer systems work, and kind of how they would think. Computers see humans as programs, and Neo essentially is a program that has admin access. As 'the one' designated by the system, he has all the rights and privileges granted to machine programs that are allowed into the matrix, he just isn't told what those rights are. Since he doesn't know, he kind of has to find them out himself, thus he learns to fly, to enter programs and destroy them, and be generally invincible cause he tries it out. Also, he sees the code of the matrix while he's in it, much like the machines. When you give programs high end permissions like that, it's system wide though. That is why he can go against the matrix's rules, even to the point of destroying other processes created by other admin programs (agents, the merovingian's thugs.) Now if you take into account that the machine programs in the matrix are not simply functions of the matrix, but fully developed A.I. beings that simply go into the matrix to operate (Merovingian, Ghost twins, the Train Man) and may sometimes leave it, that means the permissions granted to Neo are granted by the same systems that allow the AIs to live, not just the ones that make up the Matrix. So in effect, even when he's outside the matrix, those same systems are controlling the Sentinels, and Neo still has admin rights on them too. Now, how he's able to send the signal to them in the real world, that's still completely unexplained, dude didn't seem to have a wi-fi antenna sticking out of him last time I watched.
first of all, the "being born in the matrix" is part of back story for the original "One".. neo would be the 6th reincarnation of the "one". and to that point, neo was originally not born in it, but was also not originally the one.. when he died and was reborn, that was when he became the one. The oracle originally that neo was not the one.. "not yet, anyways", and then she also said something about him "having the gift" but something was missing.. then he died and was reborn.. "born in the matrix"
although... with you're second video about the "real world" being apart of the matrix, that would mean that Neo would have been born within the matrix to begin with, making this whole point invalid on both sides... *shrugs*
the only thing that would make sense for this theory would be that Neo is the One, but the code that he had that needed put back into the source was moved into into agent smith, which caused his "corruption" turning him into the virus. without that instance, agent smith would never have been able to change the matrix.
+darcraven01 Seriously, the new video is contradictory.
+Morgan_Fucking_Freeman Didn't Mat admit that in his new video? That he made a couple mistakes with this theory? I'm kind of a moron, though, so I don't know.
Linus Baker honestly dont remember... wasn't paying 100% attention to every word in his videos (i often end having to rewatch them as im writting commens.. lol) but yeah, as it stands, the only way i could see this theory working is that both neo and agent smith were "the one"... neo, being the actual "The One", loses the code to agent smith when he jumps inside him, and the code corrupts smith and turns him into a sudo "the one"...
im sure if i actually sat down i and worked on my own version of these theories i could merge them and make them work... but i just dont wanna think that hard on. rofl
darcraven01 Very valid points. However, it is fairly obvious that the Oracle had manipulated the code to some degree so that Neo or Smith could not be the One without one another. Honestly, I haven't watched these movies in a long time, but I personally think that the prophecy does not necessary mean much since this is the sixth incarnation.
I agree with you on the being reborn in the matrix at the end of the first movie, and with Smith being given godlike powers through Neo's weird tackle thing. However, Smith did express human desires and emotions earlier on in the movie, and it could be in fact this that the Oracle implemented to be the impetus of the trilogy's events.
But, if Zion was just another tier of the Matrix, then there is no knowing for certain if anybody in the Matrix is in fact human. There's really no way to conclude the humanity of any character, considering how the Oracle expresses the desire of change, very much a human nature and completely counter-intuitive to a computer program to want such a thing. The only thing that makes a character "real" or not in the Matrix is by how many versions or tiers of the Matrix they have been in, with Neo and Morpheus and other Zionians being more real than the typical 1999-era simulation population, and programs such as Smith, the Oracle, and the Architect being more real than the Zionians.
I personally believe that the Matrix and its enslavement is a sort of metaphor for the Internet, and not something the machines (who only exist in the Zion tier and therefore are less real than Neo and the Zionians) built to power their processors. I say this because of the way the Internet can mean so much to a lot of people, and because the Architect has a striking resemblance to Vincent Cerf. But I admittedly am a moron.
Linus Baker yeah the more we analyse the movies, the more its beginning to look like the whole "war against the machines" is just a program to distract those in zion rather than actually be a threat. kind of makes you wonder what the real purpose of the matrix is.
I think its like the Oracle said to Neo referring to Smith. 'he is your negative, the result of the equation tying to balance itself out' its almost like they are both 'the one' or maybe the 'half' and together they contain the complete anomaly.
Ah this is a spectacular theory-you've reignited my obsession with The Matrix films!
urh, ive been lied to all this time?! you'll be telling me next that Simba isn't really the Lion King...
+Go Bogies Go it's really scar... he was the one lying.
MrShockzine ....fffffffuuuuuuuck
+MrShockzine The one "Lion-ing" lol 😂
+Go Bogies Go Or if goku wasn't a saiyan or...anything that seems to be offending
+Go Bogies Go the guys on cracked.com did that one already. Scar is secretly the good guy in Lion king. He's the one who doesn't follow the role that was given to him. He breaks all the social protocols.
HOW MANY THE ONES ARE THERE AND HOW MANY ARENT ACTUALLY THE ONE
The anser is infinte of one person or GARY GARY
+N3lag Probably as many as there are 0's
+Roberto Marú Gary?
+N3lag All of them
Morpheous tells Neo, there was more ppl able to do same things as Neo.
Smith, on the otherhand, was able to absorb, multitply himself, and "be" that person... like he did to the Oracle. That is breaking code, i think. Smith makes more sense as the one
This theory is mighty compelling, thank you so much for the wonderful content!
Just finished watching M: 4, and yeah... Neo isn't the one. He's the Three, bc Trinity and Smith are connected to him, and he, them
Trinity ends up 4 & Nico 0.....seA
Agent Smith was the best character in the movies, anyway.
True.
Disagree
Elrund pls
i like neo and smith but i think smith a little bit more
i totally agree with you
Neo is the zero, Smith is the one.
+Azel And when Smith wins a fight against Neo...One divided by zero...1/0...the Matrix collapses.
+Austin Baker Oh snap, I think you and Azel just made more sense than the entire video :P
+Azel I see what you did there, with the binary! ;D
+Azel Ones and Zero ;)
+Crushingon shut the fuck up smithy boy is the one and we all know it and he is a better actor anyway
I love this theory, but there's one problem with it: The Architect makes it "clear" that The One has gone through this 5 previous times, and if I recall correctly, Morpheus seemed to have implied of The One having died soon after freeing the first of them. I mean, considering how The Oracle prophesized The One's return and no one is at all puzzled why Neo has no knowledge of The Matrix or memories stretching back as far as "Matrix v1.0". The story -- both as a movie and the prophesy's versamillitude -- lies heavily on a believe that The One reincarnates, like The Avatar or The Dalai Lama, which would align well with the The Wachowskis' fusion blend of Eastern/Western themes.
While I'm inclined to believe it's not Neo, either, I also don't believe it's Agent Smith, either. Going back to my previous point: Agent Smith recalls Matrix v1.0, but yet he doesn't remember being The One, having to return to The Source, and having rebooted The Matrix 5 other times? It seems kinda odd, don't you think?
Maybe The One is someone else, entirely... Hummm...
MattPatt also mentions how Agent Smith is the anamoly based on the fact he's going against his programming; however, aren't there others? The Merovingian was a crimelord -- prior to "The Matrix Ressurection" -- who harbored exiled programs like The Keymaker. In fact, every program within The Merovingian's employ is rogue, technically, since they're each going against what's expected of them. (Granted, I have programs on my computer who won't listen to me all the time, so maybe this isn't that strong an argument. lol)
This is my favorite theory and I found a new love for the franchise because of it.
One could argue that the reason Smith explodes at the end of the 3rd movie is because by assimilating Neo, he also assimilates Neo's code.
The matrix is green, love is often symbolized with fire in the movie. How does Neo see the machines once he's blind ? Yellow. He loves the machines and learns that the machines also love humans, he understands that there must be peace, osmosis between humanity and the machines. And by implanting this sparkle of love and hope into Smith which infected the entirety of the matrix, it reloads it completely.
Making Neo the actual one.
There's no final answer to this because the Wachovski never wanted it. You can analyse the movie whichever way you want, it'll somehow fit your point of view. This is why the first movie is genius, but the TRILOGY is a masterpiece.
machines destroyed smith
Thanks a lot... now I want to watch the Matrix trilogy again...
+DocWolph maybe just the first one...
+Conveniently Placed Goat Yeah, the sequels would burn your stupid and lazy brain.
TheKeyser94 And the second one. Not compromising on the third. It's just awful. And I'm not stupid and lazy. At least not for my age.
Conveniently Placed Goat I never consider myself a hardcore fans, and never the less, when the sequels come out, I read every article that come to the philosophy of the Matrix, everyone, in the old official site (that I think that exist any-more), but you don't seems the type of people that make that kind of effort.
TheKeyser94 I agree. I am lazy. Or maybe just a little sane. I'm not really a fan of deeply philosophical things but liked the Matrix because it questions reality and stuff.
Sati was the first born inside the matrix. And she creates the Sunrise at the end of the third movie. But that’s just a..... Hypothesis... A film... 😉
Let me share my personal theory on this (if I already posted it please disregard)
Neo was the 6th incarnation of the one, so the calculations running the Matrix have been imperfect at least five prior times. Since the Architect and the Oracle have been running the Matrix, it would fall to then to figure out a way to assimilate this constant remainder into the program to achieve perfection. Smith was already slightly rebellious, which made him the perfect candidate to be upgraded by Neo taking over his host body and purging him. This momentary connection with Neo elevated Smith into what I theorize is a Negative One. A simple adjustment of the equation to reconcile the anomaly with the rest of the program. Once Neo jumped into Smith, both of their fates were intertwined, leading to the final confrontation and both anomalies being returned to the source.
They both were the one. Like the Yin and Yang, with out each others actions they wouldn't have saved humanity.
Greg Bourquin Yes! This is symbolic of the third eye awakened in the transcendence of duality.
It is consistent to what the Oracle said that Smith is to unbalance the equation, so it is pretty obvious that both Neo and Smith are of the same entity with opposite nature.
Greg Bourquin hey hey that makes a buttload of sense actually.
Greg Bourquin i think neo is the one and that smith is the -one
just like that ying and yang
Angela Wendelken which creates the trinity..... holyyyyyy
The monitor in the architects room clearly show Neo in his earlier versions.
Meaning Neo was born in the matrix and he is the anomaly hence why he keeps coming back.
Him changing the matrix is like Morpheus demonstrated in the simulation, it's not physically changing things. But breaking things like physics. Something a logic bound computer can't do. So when he flies or stops bullets in mid air he is breaking (changing) the system.
But as far as the end.... Idk. These are very solid reasons for smith. But that doesn't count out Neo. And it doesn't explain why he has the powers he does.
I think perhaps "The One" represents them both. When the oracle says "he is everything you aren't" they are polar opposites, but in that they are part of the same puzzle. Like yin and yang.
I think they are both two halves of "The One"
But that's just a theory.
+EdgeOf1996 A FILM THEORY! THANKS FOR TYPING!
...but in all seriousness, as Matpat commented on, the Wachowskis were influenced by Kung Fu movies so this is a really likely explanation.
+EdgeOf1996 I got to admit, that was my theory when I first saw the trilogy. While people arguing either side make good points, them both being the one makes sense. Especially since the Oracle makes it sound like their both the same person split in two.
+Dragoliched Damakos And it doesn't get much more literal than both Smith and Neo repeatedly enterring, copying and overwriting eachother. Queue hidden homosexual interxourse metaphor.
+EdgeOf1996 im not here to argue... but an observation i had the first time thru that was shot down by people beliveing the first line of your comment.
if we are watching the 6th one... why are we not looking at 5 moniters? These arent the same thing over and over again... and slowly during the conversation the neo's on the video respond in a similar fashion. to at the very last pert... they all mirror neo's actions and quietly turn and walk towards the door that only neo made. Not the choice that the other 5 have made.
I don't think this is the other neo's... i think this is is the architect's view of the conversation. Think of it liek a program... there are many different results that can happen at any given point in time... you prompt a question, what is the likelihood of a given response. "whats 1+1?" you may end up with "2" or "7" or "potato" he is simply going thru the conversation, learning, and throwing out the variables in order to understand who it is he is talking to. The obvous question was prompted immediately, and the obvious question is mirrored with all the other monitors. Then the scene shows drastically different monitors untill neo says the word "choice" and the architect understood what page neo was on. Remember when neo says "Bull#@$%" the monitors all respond in kind... but they all respond differently, reacting in different severity.
In short, the monitors show the variables that neo could chose to do in the conversation.
But this is also why this movie is so good... that these debates can happen well after the movie is out of the relm of "SPOILERZ OMGZ"
+EdgeOf1996 That could have been all part of the lie, like Matpat said and the first film showed. Neo was born outside of the Matrix, sure their are reincarnations which the tvs "showed" but did you notice how many Neos were their? Too many in the TVs in the Architect's room when their have been 5 previous versions of The Matrix till the one Neo was Born on. Since it was the Architect he could have been showing a shit ton of Neo's split mixed feelings all at once with each sentence. While "Physical" Neo wasn't speaking a majority of Neo's did and even if Neo was born in the Matrix at one point like Smith he would have learned The Master plan and rebelled and Neo wouldn't have been so shocked at what The Architect said. Also consider Neo KNEW the moment he killed one Smith by going inside him that threw his computer code Neo learned the Truth as well which was why "Physical" Neo wasn't surprised at The Architect's speech but his mind in a lot of ways was. Its like learning the Truth of a big plot point of a book or game or movie...or anything really. Your excited about a reveal but at the same time question it and ask many other questions in your mind.
When he said that Agent Smith was there back when the first matrix existed I couldn't help myself think of Elrond saying "I was there 3000 years ago" to Gandalf😂😂😂
When I first saw the the Movie, I couldn't help but notice that Smith called the Oracle, "Mum." This got me thinking that Smith was some how going to defend his Right as, "The One" of the Matrix.
Such good acting from Hugo Weaving.
If you would have watched the directors Dvd commentary you would have found out that Neo is and is not the one and smith is and is not the one. They are both halfs of the yin yang energies and when Smith finally assimilates Neo at the end of the boss fight in the third movie they together become "the one."
Justin Aerni wow that does make more sense. especially given that the directors are explaining what's going on.
That's how I interpreted it.
Yeah, its look good, but ! When Neo jump to Agent Smith, they become to one. So ? How that fits into your theory ?
but back then neo wasn't plugged in to the source
Perhaps the ending of the first movie was both of their 'rebirths'?
If Smith was Mexican then he would be the Juan.
😂
If he was Vietnamese he would be Tuan
If he was german he would be Schmidt. Tell me how long it took you to understand that MCU fan
If he was a true american he would be The Gun
I'm Juanita. I'm the Juan 🔮👑
I just came back to the old theories. And OMG the old intro brings me back. It was just more loud and vibrant they need to bring it back D;
I never realized how eclectic the influences were for the matrix until he started naming a few, what a bizarre combination
Smith was around a lot longer than the matrix or Humanity. He is really an Elf named Elrond!
:D
best comment ever! lmao
LOL! I was about to say the same thing
So Mr. Underhill,... It seems that you've been living two lives. One life, you're Frodo Baggins
a gentile Halfling coming from a rich family. You have
a social security number, pay your taxes, and you... help your Gardner
carry out the garbage. The other life is lived in Taverns, where you
go by the alias "Ringbearer" .......
One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not.
We know that you have been contacted by a certain individual.
A man who calls himself ...Gandalf...
We are willing to wipe the slate clean, to give you a fresh start and all we are asking in return is
to throw The One Ring into Mount Doom.....
Oddly enough.... the word "One" is a very big deal in both franchises.
The Oracle saw Trinity and was like: "i'm gonna tell her she's gonna be in love with the one, that's gonna be fun"
+Wilko1991 hahaha
The chosen one is Trinity , Whomever she choose to love, that's the one.
... I'd love to see a movie where she falls in love with Smith^^
This is how I feel about this whole franchise - would our world have become so controlled and shitty if this movie had never been made? If the idea of this menacing, shadow authority had not been presented, we may never have seen it, but what if it couldn't exist without us believing in its possibility??? ugh
What if there's "the one" who's human, and "the one" who's not human and they need to merge together or something? Yin and yang?
Good point
Neo is the (chosen) one (by the machines).
Agent Smith is the anomaly, his actions weren't designed (coded) to become a self replicating virus and fry the brains of the whole mankind in the matrix, so he has to be stopped (by the machines).
7:37 "Neo doesn't actually change anything. Sure he can do some confu moves and fly, but that's about it."
Well, he can also stop bullets in mid-air, moves weapons with his mind, phase his hands through someone in The Matrix, like how he took a bullet out if Trinity, and he has the ability to change physics in The Matrix, like how he flew really really fast and caught Trinity without accidentally destroying her body or something.
And this was all shown in The Matrix Reloaded
What next? Harry Potter ISN'T the chosen one??
I'm kidding, this episode was great ~
lol
he has actually done that
that was already done! haha
Well actually he kinda already did a video on that ;)
+CreepsMcPasta he already did that lol!
"Do not speak to me about the code. I was there, Morphius, 5000 years ago. I witnessed the failure of man."
Lord of the rings reference
Welcome to Rivendell, _Mr. Anderson._
@@loIipop the matrix machine AI keep conduct you treating experience
lmao
By the series logic, Neo is the balance to Agent Smith. One cancels the other. Without each other they get too powerful and the Matrix unbalanced. However when Neo sacrificed himself for a moment there was balance, since as you put it, he had corrected his code after his fight with Neo in the first movie.
They are opposites that need the other alive, particularly after they have their "awakening" regarding the Matrix.
The function of the one was to deliver the code back to the source, that’s it, Neo being the one did that.
That was fascinating and convincing. It has bought a sense of finality to the film to which i have yet to feel untill now. That trilogy should win film of the decade. Good job.
Agreed. These theories give us a sense of closure, however theoretical they may be.
real talk - having just watched the trilogy again ..this has been both facinating and convincing. lol..makes me want to watch them again already but this time wearing agent sunglasses to go with my new perpective :)
i agree this video is great and makes sense.But film of the decade I think NOT it could have been film/trilogy of the decade if the WACHOWSKIS didn't royally fuck up the 2nd movie and completely destroy the third.
Opinions...
They weren't that bad....ehh gottta love the hater bandwagon, the one in which people hop on to avoid having to make their own opinion about sometihng,
This is very good but i think you missed one piece of evidence about neo being the one......trinity. she was told by the oracle and that she would fall in love and that man, that man would be the one. She defiantly doesn't love smith.
+Daniel Sawyers
Good point.
+Daniel Sawyers Wasnt it "dead man".
In any case, this video states that the oracle was pullting the strings using missinformation. So whatever the oracle says might be true or false depending on what she wants of the person she is speaking to. AKA she could have lied, since she knew exactly what would happen up to the end point of the third movie. As in the only actual choice made by any of the characters was at the very end of the third movie. The rest was "just as forseen"
Grega Meglic
Well... you'd be assuming the Oracle lies...
daniluchison
Im not, the video does.
Grega Meglic
Correct, but you are supporting the video's theory so all in all, it is the same.
The only thing I can think that contrasts the theory is trinity being in love with the one. Although she could have just said that knowing she would fall in love with Neo which served the purpose of convincing everyone of the ruse that Neo was the one. Even after Smith absorbs the oracle, and knows he's the one, he can only "see past the choices we (he) understand(s)", so he knows he'll absorb Neo but can't see past that cos he doesn't understand what the choice really implies.
Last thing that really doesn't fit is how he would have liberated the first humans seeing he can't leave the matrix without a human already being outside. I don't know, could be but I'm on the fence on this one
Legit only now seeing this and you could imagine my surprise and shock, when after watching the last movie with all the others replaying in my mind I began to think of this!!!! Great freaking job!
As a theory! lool
I just realized Neo is an anagram for One . I've only seen it a million times:/
Don't feel bad... same here...
If it makes ya feel better, I didn't realize Palpatine was Lord Sidious until I read the ROTS novelization. It happens.
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OMG PALPATINE WAS LORD SIDIOUS??? :-O
(ha ha, just kidding :-D )
Holy shit you're kidding right? I didn't know that about Palpatine either lol. You're blowing my mind for the second time in days :/
Haven't seen Revenge of the Sith?
... Well honestly, I don't blame ya lol. Sorry for the spoilers.
The longest comment I've ever seen is here on this video. Guess it had to be someone somewhere.
I read the comment until he said my final point. Then I realized it was 8 more minutes of reading after scrolling down 20 more seconds
i left a long clunker in the johnny yesterday
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HAHAHHAHAAHAH I WAS JUST LOOKING FOR MORE COMMENTS ON THAT
Well hot damn! Here's to the guy who asked him a follow up lol. The troll powers are strong with that one.
I still think the loose end remains on the "other" ones that came before Neo. If it was Smith all along he should probably remember that he rebooted the Matrix all those times, or at least not to know that he was an agent since the first version.
Matrix is the equation that needed to be balanced said the oracle. Imagine it as x=x. To balance it add 1 on both sides(smith and neo). It was not balanced with them, hence they both die and the equation is back at starting stage, hence the reload. And same thing happens in a never ending loop because man could never make a perfect machine as god could not create us. Accept each others people and wake up!
What if I Told you
You could have taken both Pills.
I took the blue pill once, ended down a rabbit hole in court 15 days later......helluva night at Vegas that was
Sounds like the craziest overdose
+Wow Elijah Doesn't give a damn No, an overdose would get you in a 6 foot hole.
Ryoko that's exactly what would happen if you took both open reality and the opposite pill at the same time, you'd die...
+Benjamin “CHUGGADILO PRIEST” Byham wow that is weird, just before I looked at the comments and started watching the video I was thinking that I would have taken both pills. weird.
I believe that Neo and Smith were equal and opposites. I believe that was even stated by a character in the movie, they both shared similar coding. Neo was a catalyst to Smiths actions, and Smith played a catalyst to Neos actions. They both seem to be the one.
😮🙂😃😄Thank You!!!😄 Finally!! Someone gets it! Thank you!😄
Nah people think he's badass only because of his looks lol its so obvious. If her were fat nobody would think so lol
i believe in God
+Angel Rodriguez Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.
It was the Oracle who said it, but Neo and Smith do not combine to equal 1... remember she said Smith was Neo's opposite, his negative, so one is +1 and the other is -1 making -1 added to the remainder +1 yielding the balanced equation.
1 - 1 + Balanced Equation = Balanced Equation
10M (not like 10.1M and stuff), 5 years mark, ahh yes, here we go, rewatch. I forgot what I wanted to say and actually didn't really, but 10M.
What about the theory about the Merovingian being a past "one?"
He was once like Neo Persephone said. He can change the code, as Neo saw it was different in the elevator from the rest of the Matrix code. Maybe he was the first to set them free, before dying/changing into Merv?
+The Film Theorists hate to burst your bubble, but there's another theory to wrap your minds around. What if Both Neo and Smith are the One? How you ask? Simple. When Neo goes to visit the Oracle in the first movie she tells him that he isn't the one but he has the gift and he's waiting on something. Then the fight for Morpehus takes place and he ends up getting shot, and presumably killed by Smith. But here's the thing, while many people think Neo imprinted some of his code on Smith when he dived into him, it's the other way around. The thing that Neo was waiting on to become the One was for Smith to imprint his code into Neo. And Smith does that when he shoots him. Because when an agent assimilates a human, their entire code is -re-written into the host body, including clothes, gun and bullets, which are all part of the Agents's code. That's why when Neo gets the code and becomes the One, the very next thing he does is unplug Smith, because the code told him to. And when they merged they became a single entity with the complete code of the One, until they separated back into two entities each with part of the code of the One. That's why in the end, the Machines needed Neo to get assimilated by Agent Smith in order to acquire the entire code of the One, since they could have gotten Smith's code through any other human he had assimilated that was still plugged in to the matrix. Really want to hear your thoughts on this.
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OSOM a much more interesting theory. thanks man
Neo and Smith are the One... Only Smith is the reflection of Neo (Smith is the Negative side)
What I'm saying is that the code for the one was split into both Neo and Smith and only when it was combined did it becomes the code of the One
Little mistakes there. The Oracle never tell Neo that he's not the One. Check that conversation again. The Oracle let Neo say what he think it's true, never confirm or deny it:
Oracle: But... you already know what I'm going to tell you.
Neo: I'm not The One.
Oracle: Sorry, kid. You got the gift, but it looks like you're waiting for something.
That "You got the gift" tells you everything.
First time I regret pressing "read more"
i saw your comment i was like what could happen and then i pressed and reloaded the page as soon as i saw the scrolling bar
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spie killer dude put a whole book on his comment
Buhahahahahaha 🤣🤣🤣 for reals!!!!
I always wondered why the matrix didn’t reload as soon as Neo jacks into the source to fight Smith
Had to come back to this. Such a great theory!