In the context of the movies, “there is no spoon” isn’t all that complicated. They’re in the matrix, everything is data, bits, ones and zeros. The spoon isn’t anymore real than say, a gun in a video game. It might look and function like a gun within the confines of the game, but it isn’t a real, tangible thing. It’s code representing a gun, not a gun in itself.
More importantly, it is his electrical impulses in his brain that effectively creates the sensation of the spoon. Therefore if he changes himself, and changes his mind, in the matrix, he then changes the spoon. Manipulating the Matrix is all about thinking backwards.
@ I’m sorry, but no. First of all it’s not “more importantly”, if anything it’s a consequence of the fact that “there is no spoon” rather than the meaning of it, you shouldn’t conflate the two. Secondly, “electrical impulses in his brain create the sensation of the spoon”? Sure, but that has nothing to do with the Matrix, that’s how the brain registers reality as well. More importantly, you’re once again conflating two different things: The sensation of the spoon is not the spoon, whether the latter is a digital representation of a spoon or a spoon per se. Finally, you haven’t established anything beyond how the brain creates perceptions, and your conclusion (the “therefore”) doesn’t follow from that.
0:51 - "There is no spoon" refers to the core concept of the Matrix. Everything that is happening in the Matrix, is happening virtually, in code, there is nothing physical about it. The spoon bends, because the boy knows the spoon is not real - after that, anything's possible. Neo finally realizes this when he wakes up from the dead, it's all just the code of the Matrix and it can be rewritten, reassembled, reloaded, rearranged, refactored etc. 'The shock is all in your head.' 49:19 - Sort of, it's simpler. Neo is the anomalous person that refuses the programming and the machines keep resetting the Matrix to try and understand why. What's really going to bake your noodle later on is: it's never mentioned in the films if Neo is human, we're only hinted at the fact that the machines can move their consciousness into human bodies and that they are indistinguishable from humans. It's quite possible Neo is a learning program designed to spy on the people who outright refuse the programming of the Matrix and actively fight against it.
... and that code is interpreted by your brain just like signals from your eyes and ears would be without the Matrix, so it's only if you accept the data uncritically that the Matrix has power over you. With the discipline of The One, you manipulate the code, not vice versa.
It should also be noted that the 'there is no spoon' concept isn't just a matrix thing. It's a concept that goes far back in several ways and refers to the concept that the real opponent that one has to overcome is one's self. For example, in martial practice when breaking the board, it's not the board that's important, it's managing yourself to overcome the board or the brick, focusing yourself is the most important factor, the board will follow.
Seraph is a Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol, in which one party presents a question ("challenge") and another party must provide a valid answer ("response") to be authenticated, sort of like a password requirement but more sophisticated
And, as a fighter, you never really know your opponent as well as when you face them in combat, and they relay their deepest internal thoughts dedicated to battling you.
Another interesting thing I’ve noticed, when Neo first meets the oracle in the last movie she says he’s not too bright when he fails to realize that Trinity likes him. Here, the architect compliments his intelligence when he figures it out quicker than the other Ones did.
"I have dreamed a dream, but now that dream is gone from me." This is in reference to the book of Daniel where King Nebuchadnezzar has a dream but immediately forgets until the prophet Daniel not only tells him the dream but interprets it for him.
7:56 Nebuchadnezzar was a royal lineage of ancient Babylon, with Nebuchadnezzar II being the greatest king of the Empire. Edit: The Merovingians were the ruling family in France from around the middle of the 5th century to 751.
"I've dreamed a dream and now that dream is gone from me." In the Bible, King Nebuchadnezzar asking all his wise men to tell him his dream and it's interpretation. Daniel was the only one who could tell him.
@@danielcameron9857 The latter is a silly statement to make. In Islam, we consider Jesus, peace be upon him, to be one of our great prophets. Have some respect, coward.
@@MarkKnightSHG And you are all wrong, sweet summer kids :) You were for so long programmed to believe that religion is all myth atht you are not ready to see the truth.
I think you missed the part where Smith infected that guy right before he jacked out of the Matrix. He's acting weird because it is Smith in a human body. Also the part where the Oracle was explaining that ghost sightings or other super natural sightings are rogue programs doing things they aren't supposed to be doing. The Marovingian and his goons are a bunch of rogue programs that's why they have weird abilities like the ghost brothers.
This is also why they were watching a vampire movie. Miranda, you said you thought that was purposeful...well kinda yeah since they were playing vampires (that's why she needed silver bullets to shoot the one in the head before sending the other to tell her husband what she did).
The Merovingian dynasty (/ˌmɛrəˈvɪndʒiən/) was the ruling family of the Franks from around the middle of the 5th century until 751. They first appear as "Kings of the Franks" in the Roman army of northern Gaul. By 509 they had united all the Franks and northern Gallo-Romans under their rule. They conquered most of Gaul, defeating the Visigoths (507) and the Burgundians (534), and also extended their rule into Raetia (537). In Germania, the Alemanni, Bavarii and Saxons accepted their lordship. The Merovingian realm was the largest and most powerful of the states of western Europe following the breakup of the empire of Theodoric the Great. .
what amazes me is that the motorcycle stunt driver, and the vehicle stunt drivers did the weaving thru traffic all practically, what a testament to their skill level
Fun fact: The Nebuchadnezzar is named after a historical King from the 4th dynasty of Babylon, his name means "Protect my first born son". He also invaded and destroyed the city of Jerusalem 9 years after his invasion. "The Hanging Gardens" is considered one of the 7 wonders of the world and is believed to have been built in the era of his reign and by him, as a present and sign of affection for his wife Amytis.
Another reactor somehow completely misses the scene where Smith overwrites Bane and escapes into the real world. Please don't take this as criticism, I'm just curious how it's such a common thing to happen among so many reactors. While I personally feel like its quite clear what happens there, enough people seem to not understand it to ask the question what could the movie have done to make that scene more clear?
Not sure. I also thought it was quite clear, but I have missed things in other movies that seemed clear. Also, I did not fully understand the dialog with the architect the first time
She was talking about 'Elrond' the first time and didn't notice there were several of him. And making the same joke the second time, so she didn't notice him injecting Bane. Recurrent theme.
I think a lot of people somehow missed that on the first watch. Also, most reactors "watch" the movie while constantly trying to think of comments, jokes, etc, so it's pretty common for reactor channels to miss quite a bit. I've also noticed that reactors that don't stop the movie to make comments miss a lot, as they're talking over scenes.
I also missed it the first time I watched this movie. Probably because I just completely forgot about a new character, and there’s so much other information to process.
The main reason that they miss tons of stuff because they have to talk over scenes to escape the YT copywrite system. You can't talk over a movie and expect to get everything, not that there is anything of substance to understand in the Matix sequels.
I saw both the Matrix movies and the Lord of the rings movies all in the movie theaters. I knew Hugo Weaving as agent Smith first, so when I watched Fellowship, my brain went “Bring forth the ring… Mr. Anderson.” He’s such a great actor: Agent Smith, Elrond, V for Vendetta, Megatron, and Desmond’s father in Hacksaw Ridge… What CAN’T he do???
The whole "You've already made the choice, you're now just trying to understand why you made it" is not as much about purpose but about how people make decision based on gut feeling and rationalize the reasons afterwards. We don't really make conscious choices that much, we simply think we do, but in reality it is our instincts and feelings that do the decision making. All that back and forth we do in our minds is just us trying to rationalize an answer to why we made the choice we did.
(to complete) Example : In the first movie, Morpheus give to Neo a choice of a red pill and of a blue pill. But Neo is already on his quest of "What is the Matrix". So, the choice was an illusion.
It is YOU trying to rationalize a process that does not need rationalizing. Understanding is irrational in it's nature. Trying to rationalize the choice and understanding the choice are different things.
@@gogaonzhezhora8640 we are not talking about Understanding choices, we are talking about rationalization of actions after the fact. the explanations of these "choices" take different forms: some act like they totally did it on purpose, some shift the blame, some tell the truth and say they don't know, some make excuses. Most of the time we are saying whatever we have to in order to protect our ego.
if choice is an illusion then there's really no such thing as free will, in which case nothing you do or think really matters at all. even you coming to that conclusion wasn't a realization of the truth.. just another illusion. determinism is logically incoherent.
Enter the Matrix was alright... it had some very interesting ideas... but it wasn't the Matrix game that fans wanted. That would be The Path of Neo, also on PS2...
@@SentiNel090 Enter the Matrix, definitely, as it has a keyboard console hack function. TPoN though, I'm not sure. Maybe? EDIT: Yeah, it did also come out on PC... my bad
Please do not skip over The Animatrix - it adds a whole bunch of context, including The Kid's backstory. Might be best to watch it after the 3rd movie though.
One of my favorite details about the Merovingian is that his French accent disappears when he's angry. The actor is French and speaks fluent English as well so that flow of French, heavily accented English and natural English shows how much of a facade he's putting on.
Good catch 💯🔥 and it makes sense too right? And it was ironic at the same time LOL he said right away he learned almost every language and French is his favorite, so it is a constant CHOICE he's making to speak it even though there was no other contributing factor, which was a literal opposition to the very ideal that he was telling them in the scene.....with his chosen French accent 🤣🤣🤣 gotta love this movie
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." That's a Douglas Adams quote from one of the Hitchhiker books. I grabbed it just to be a smartass about the philosopohising this movie has. But in reading it again, that's actually a pretty good summary of this movie.
cause and effect, it"s simple. you pick ,ever day you pick. you are the cause. you pick what you eat, when to sleep, what to watch on line. you create the effect.
12:45 - The techno music wasn’t actually playing in the cave it was basically the soundtrack for the montage of the love scene and the party in the caves of Zion. The song playing is “Zion” by Fluke, by the way. Probably one of my favorite EDM songs. There’s a 12” single version of it (hard to find) which is about 10 minutes long called “Slap It”.
Side note, Bane is Agent Smith. He corrupts Bane's digital projection early in the movie when they are running from an agent(A.Smith). Somehow he managed to disconnect with Bane's body from the matrix and took full control of Bane's consciousness in the real world.
There is a story on how they shot the freeway scene. The producers actually built about a 1.5 mile long section of freeway at the closed US Naval Air Station at Alameda, California. And then a bunch of professional stunt drivers doing their thing. Also, after the credits there is a trailer for part 3, The Matrix Revolutions
I'm sure someone's already said it, but in case they haven't, Smith became the other end of the equation from Neo. Neo is the one, Smith became the many.
Fun fact: those dudes that can turn invisible are "ghosts" and the dudes that Neo was fighting are some sort of "vampire". As the Oracle said, they actually exist in the Matrix, in several versions of the Matrix and they are just programs that can bend the rules.
@@defiantmopar Persephone is Persephone: the wife of Hades, stuck in hell. The two guys are Cain and Abel, with Cain of course being the biblical "first vampire." Abel is the one who Persephone shoots. Cain gets killed by Neo in the fight later on. Silver bullets aren't just a werewolf thing - in some stories, they're also lethal to vampires.
To be free means not trying to control the things can't control. Victor Frankl nailed it when he talked about that moment when you choose to control something you previously had not thought to control: your response.
The twins are some kind of older version of Agent. When they mention vampires and ghosts, it suggests that Agents had more supernatural abilities in the past. Agents were upgraded, but these two were kept around by the Merovingian
My favourite allegory in this movie was the Merovingian and Persephone. Persephone is the name of the Greek Goddess of Grain and Spring who was abducted by Hades (in one version of the story) and forced to marry him. She lived in the Underworld during winter months and could return to the surface by spring, which is what made everything thaw and flourish. She was known in the tale to rebel against Hades from time to time. The character of the same name in this movie is married to the Merovingian and goes against him to piss him off because of his indiscretion. I found that cool!
TheAnimatrix is pretty much a must-watch.. if anything, its a perfect time capsule of the anime styles of the time, but the fact its peak matrix lore and explorations is cherry on top.. cheers 🍻
The only other picture that Square Pictures did other than Final Fantasy Spirits Within was Final Flight Of The Osiris, which serves as a bit of back story for this movie and the Enter The Matrix video game... but the whole of the Animatrix is awesome... The Second Renaissance is also must watch, as it is a whole backstory as to how and why the Matrix came about (about the war between man and AI)...
@@fu6817yes it is officially lore. Last Flight of the Osiris tells the story of how they knew about the squid army’s pending attack. The Kid is where the 16 year old comes in. Animatrix is 100% canon. Sorry you don’t like animation. Every chapter is a different animator so if you don’t like one style… watch the next chapter 😊
The directors did a brilliant cross platform media rollout with this movie. There is a series of animated stories called The Animatrix that ties into this, like the story of that kid in Zion who is obsessed with Neo, and the ship crew trying to take the message about the digging to a dead drop location in the Matrix. And then you said "These action sequences would be great as a video game." Yes, they would! So there was a video game called Enter the Matrix!! The story in that game ties into BOTH Animatrix and this movie! You play as captain Niobe and her first mate and for instance, the first mission is going to pick up the information about digging from the dead drop location. And you get the driving chase on the highway where you are trying to catch up with that semi truck to catch Morpheus as he falls off the back of it. The action and weapon stuff in it is great. You can use that slow motion, diving and rolling while dual wielding pistols. It's really exciting. Oh, and for something HILARIOUS, find the short video spoof of this that was from the MTV movie awards. It stars Justin Timberlake, Sean William Scott, Wanda Sykes, and Will Farrell as the architect!
She had an entire scene talking to him prior to accepting the cookie. The cookie thing is meant to be Neo accepting what she's saying about Morpheus and Neo's fate; it's LITERALLY a tough cookie to swallow. But it's also the website joke at that point.
@@ThatSamoanGuyYou're allowed to browse the beginning of a site when entering it, just like the conversation they had. It's only after One accepts the invasive terms of the cookie, that they're actually allowed to see the true content. And, technically, for all we know, it was the cookie _itself_ that he accepted which was what _actually_ turned him into the anomaly, once the pre-programmed criteria of the cookie were eventually met.
47:10 - Correct. This is the first time The One has chosen to not reboot the Matrix. And yes, the whole thing is a system of control. The Architect figured out that a certain percentage of people will ALWAYS wake up from the Matrix and form a resistance...so why not let them do that and control them that way? The Machines essentially allow the people who reject the Matrix to escape, they allow them to form a resistance and then they 'cull the herd' every few generations in order to insure that the resistance never wins and destroys The Matrix itself. The One is also a naturally occurring error in the Matrix, maybe an evolutionary one - that eventually there will always be one human in the system who will be born with the ability to interact with the code and reshape the Matrix to their own whims. The only way to control The One is blackmail - create an elaborate story for them to become the saviour of humanity until they find the Architect where they are then forced to reboot the system and allow Zion to be destroyed and if they don't obey, the Architect will destroy the Matrix and kill all the humans plugged into it. Neo has chosen to not reboot the Matrix and to save Trinity...thus we will see in the third film whether the Architect will allow the Matrix to collapse (and we'll see the role Smith plays in that). Can't say too much more other than the fact that if THE MATRIX is about questioning reality and RELOADED is questioning Free Will, Choice and Control then REVOLUTIONS is about spirituality and fate and the idea that Neo's choice - combined with other factors beyond his control - is going to birth a new world that the previous five One's couldn't have created on their own. (And RESURRECTIONS is about the relationship between the Matrix films and us - the real humans in the audience - and how mass media and Hollywood hegemony is its own form of control and artificial reality we need to wake up from.)
It's quite a lot like the Reapers in Mass Effect, deliberately leaving technology behind after each harvest so that the next cycle's civilisations will develop their own tech along those lines, and incorporate the mass relays into all space travel (which is of course central to a swift Reaper victory).
The Architect cannot destroy the Matrix, that is the machines single source of energy, hence he is bluffing. My main issue with the whole reboot the system and begin everything again is why no one ever informed the agents, in the first movie they where after to mainframe codes in order to find the location of Zion while the Machines according to the Architect here already knows where Zion is since it was they who built it.
@@Henrik_Holst To me if always felt like the agents were bottom-tier enforcement within the Matrix itself. Smith even voices how much he hates being in the Matrix and yearns to get out and find, essentially, a better job. So just as much as its vital for the humans to engage in the roleplay of the Messianic One, it is vital for the agents to also take part in the roleplay that they're trying to stop the resistance. As the Architect points out, its in the best interests of everybody that The One makes it to the source, so having agents run around and try to stop the One adds to the theater. I think Smith as a character really shows us that agents are not mindless machines, they're living entities with feelings and loyalties and agendas of their own and can't, therefore, be trusted in the Architect's game of 4D chess. Especially since they're just low-level security AI. The illusion of "choice" and "control" always has to be maintained for the theatre of The One to fully work. At least that's my humble two cents on it.
Neo has chosen to save Trinity, but was it a free choice? The Oracle engineered Neo and Trinity's relationship, maybe because she's seen this all before and feels it's time for a change. She tells Neo he's made a choice and now he needs to understand it, but in many ways the three movies are The Oracle making a choice and then watching what this does to Neo so that she can understand her choice.
Funny enough, they made two video games. Enter the Matrix, and The Matrix: Path of Neo. Their combat systems were pretty rough to say the least but they still poured a ton of world lore and writing into both games.
The guy in the end turned into an Agent Smith clone inside the matrix in the beginning of the film, which basically means that guy is Agent Smith. That's why he tried to stab Neo. He cut himself because he wanted to feel pain in the real world.
"Agent Elrond Smith" I love it 😂 You call tell when they're in the Matrix because everything has a green tint to it. In the real world, there's kind of a blue tint.
31:48 They come from an older version of the Matrix, the Hell version of the Matrix. Persephone is named after the Greek goddess of the Underworld who watches over the honored dead in the Elysian Fields. The one she shot was Abel, and his brother was Cain, both biblical figures and the children of Adam and Eve. The Merovingian had smuggled many such programs from older versions of the Matrix to serve him. Trafficking programs is his trade, after all. Guy at the end who survived was Bane, the one who's been infected with a Smith virus.
If you want to know the back story on the kid who runs up to Neo & Trinity in the beginning when they get to Zion, watch the Animatrix. One of the shorts in that is his backstory. All of the shorts are worth watching, but that one is one of two that have direct connotations to the main series.
Okay, before you watch the 3rd movie, watch the Animatrix!!! It gives you so much awesome back story, explanations, and of course cool action scenes and characters. It really augments your whole Matrix experience! Love the reactions 😊
The guy at the end is Bane near the beginning of the film in a short scene, Smith tookover his body in the matrix before he could get out via the phone line so he is now in Bane's body in the real world. it was explained Better in the Enter the Matrix game that was out at the time. That Game also explained what that Indian looking gentleman that was being led away from the Merovingian's table when Neo and the others walked in was doing and how it effected the Oracle's appearence in the next film. I don't know why they didn't just included some of these scenes in the movies as they were filmed at the same time.
Love the talking through thoughts / theories. ‘One’ bit that may help (did for me) The biggest problem with computing / maths is repeating decimals (I.e 2/3 cannot be displayed as a whole number as it will repeat to eternity). What you need to resolve this is (you got it) a ONE 🤯 (ONE is also an anagram of NEO) Secondly my favourite part of the first film is the oracle giving Neo a cookie. This doesn’t kick in until he’s been killed (switched off and on again)
One thing I think you missed is that all the "robot" characters in the matrix are not one large system, but part of a system. They are all their own programs. The architect is a program that was created to create the matrix. The Oracle is a program created after the failure of the first two matrixes to try to understand human psychology, so they could create one humans don't reject outright. When a program dies, it can either return to the source or try to hide somewhere in the Matrix. The Merovingian is a program that has created a place for himself and other programs of past matrixes that didn't want to go back to the source. The reason his underlings are watching a vampire movie is that those programs are vampires and werewolves (hence the reference to silver bullets). The twins are ghosts. They are leftovers from the second matrix where they responded to humans rejecting paradise by filling it with nightmares. (the first matrix being paradise is where our concept of heaven comes from and the second is where all these horrors come from). This is also why the twins are fighting the agents. The agents work for the architect. They are protection programs upkeeping the matrix. The twins are programs, but they have nothing to do with this current matrix. They are in hiding under the Merovingian. I think the architect scene is why I love the matrix sequels and also why so many people hate them. There's so much great stuff in there, but it makes no sense when you're just sitting there watching it. You need to go over it again and again to get everything. Especially given the architect's over wrought speech patterns which are on purpose to show how it is a logic machine with no understanding of emotion. It's a good criticism to call these movies inpenetrable. Part of making a good movie is making it capable of being understood and experienced. If everything in these movies wasn't a million ideas compacted into every minute and instead gave them room to breathe, they'd probably be hailed as masterpieces. Ultimately, this movie is all about systems of control and how we are provided with only an illusion of choice in order to keep us under control. One might point to the two party system in the US, for example, where we are given the illusion of choice, but regardless of who is elected the government overwhelmingly does the bidding of the wealthy. And there is an amazing video game called The Path of Neo that is canon, digs more into the merovingian, and has a really fun fighting system.
On the other hand you can say the opposite and say that the matrix movies use concepts that would be considered impenetrable but packs it in an action movie making them more accessible and helping understanding them by illustrating them through the action. If anything it's popular education!
There is a quote from the movie National Lampoon's Van WIlder that has always stuck with me. "Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive" thought maybe you might like that one.
In the first movie the 1.0 version of the agents had single syllable names (Smith, Brown) The new more buff version 2.0 agents in this movie has two (Johnson)
5:40 "We don't really know how our bodies work. Our biological vehicles. Of course we have ideas. There's medicine; there's research; there's so many experiments that have been run throughout the centuries. But ultimately it's all theory. That's what I found so fascinating about Anatomy. When I took that class was realizing that our cells just work, but sometimes they don't. But every single individual cell in our body carries out a very specific task, hopefully to perfection, and we don't really have to wonder why it works or how it works." I hope that course offers a refund if that is what was learned from it.
45:50 - yes, and this is the same guy that Smith possessed at the beginning of the film (at the moment when he was returning from the matrix, via phone) - and he also caused the "accident" on the ship that exploded, which we saw. So, it's essentially mind of Smith inside the human body.
36:44 “the action sequences are really cool” - yes, some of the most expensive action sequences ever made, you should check out all the behind the scenes. The highway scene alone took 4 months to film.
30:10 I remember watching this part in the theater.. thinking how unbelievably hot Persephone is.. I probably would have picked her instead if I were Neo.
I really enjoyed how much you enjoyed this movie! It’s one of my favorites. Some notes on it (btw, it’s chock full of Easter eggs like Smith’s license plate number in the beginning being a bible verse, etc): Any issues with the CGI you have from within the Matrix Reloaded, especially during the Burly Brawl, are explained by the Matrix itself being unable to keep up with this event; this has never happened before, as you find out later, so it's having to drop the level of detail to keep the simulation stable *and* at a high enough frame-rate to keep people from noticing issues with “reality”. The dominos/bowling pin sounds when Neo throws a Smith into a bunch of Smiths were because, again, this had never happened before. The Matrix dynamically picked the sound it thought was the closest match to something like that! Remember, this is a sophisticated virtual reality that’s having to adapt to a new, more powerful Neo on the fly. When you think of it this way, not only does it makes sense, it makes MORE sense than if they picked normal, fleshy knockdown sounds or actually had the modern CGI of today, which I feel would actually look worse. The Twins are ghosts from the horror Matrix (that the Oracle described before the burly brawl -- Smith also mentioned prior Matrix versions in the first movie, like the Paradise version). Persephone shot a werewolf with a silver bullet before the Chateau fight ("notoriously difficult to kill; how many people do you think keep silver bullets in their guns?"); they are also legacies from prior Matrix versions. This was explored more in the video game Enter The Matrix. Some people think that the Merovingian and Persephone are prior iterations of The One/Trinity (“I once knew what love felt like; I want to sample it again”). Bane was the guy in the end shot... the one that Smith took over in a brief, earlier scene (“Oh, God!” / “‘Smith’ will suffice.”) and went through the phone line overwriting the brain of real-world Bane. Bane/Smith then later went to kill Neo in Zion before the kid (from The Animatrix) showed up with the spoon and effectively stopped him. For now.
I'm not sure about the Mero/Persephone being former One and Trinity, because the Architect said that none of the previous Ones had that kind of love, hence why they made the decision they did. Unless of course he was just manipulating Neo because the choice didn't matter and both doors would have eventually led to the same result anyway.
the "vampire movie in the background" - the Miro's men are vampires, warewolves and, well, ghosts. It's why a silver bullet was needed by Persephone to kill one.
It’s dope to see what each program personifies in the matrix as far as what real world programs do. Seraph being a handshake challenge authentication program, the keymaker being a program that can create shortcuts, the agents being a series of security or anti-virus programs with smith being one that becomes ‘bugged’ or corrupted and functions like a self replicating virus. In the next movie without spoiling anything too much there’s a train station that is essentially a VPN using ‘tunnels’ that exiled programs have to pass specific criteria to be allowed into the matrix. 101 as in neo’s room and the merovingians number are references to binary code. The construct is a loading interface where certain code can be inserted into the matrix since they can’t change the code that already exists within IE loading guns into their hands once they’re already in the matrix itself. There’s so many references to computer stuff it’s so well thought out
Fun bit of the freeway scene. They built that freeway in the real world and while a lot of the cars were CGI most of those crashes were practical effects. Back in the day the DVDs had really good making-of videos that may be available on youtube now.
The biggest problem with this movie is how utterly densely packed it is. This whole side plot should've been more in the forefront of the story methinks. Would've made the ending hit hard, instead of generating the "huh?" reaction it does in so many people.
As a computer engineer, I have a different take on the "there is no spoon" and similar concepts. In this instance (inside the Matrix), the spoon is just a piece of code, several lines of software. So to make it bend, you are altering the code, not bending metal with your mind. This is also how he stopped the bullets at the end of the first movie. He just altered the code to set their velocity to zero at a certain point. So he is The One, because he has the ability to do this "wirelessly".
If you want a good relaxing sci-fi movies that just has gorgeus atmosphere, and puts up some ethical and philosophical questions, we might have to think about in the future. Then I can recommend the movie: Moon.
1:20 - "There is no spoon" is a play on the Zen koan. As with much of Neo's character, there are spiritual metaphors everywhere - remember in Zen buddhism, the realization of your unity with the universe is one of the goals --- Neo is the "One" - even the word NEO is an anagram for ONE. A Zen koan is a short, paradoxical statement, question, dialogue, or story from Chinese Chan Buddhist lore that is used in Zen Buddhist practice. The purpose of a koan is to help people live with ambiguity and paradox, and to foster contemplation. The main goal of koan practice is to achieve kenshō, which is to observe or see one's buddha-nature. 5:01, aw, man, I just said that above. 5:30 - comment about her jacket all you want - just don't comment about her hair. 45:45 - you missed the phone call at the beginning where Smith transferred himself out of the Matrix and into Bane. 50:51 - yes, but your choices are a direct result of the external influences that have affected you, as well as the DNA that has made you who you are. That's why I personally don't believe in free will.
Watching the short stories of the Animatrix will give better insight into the machines plight and a deeper understanding of the anxious kid's story too. Plus it's incredibly story telling. Gritos from Tejas.
There is no spoon. In this movie, the kid says that while in a simulation. The spoon he's handling truly isn't real. It's all in his head, so by bending his own mind, or perspective as you put it, he can bend the spoon.
@@terrylandess6072 That was the original plan for the character named "switch" from the first movie. They were supposed to swap genders being one inside the matrix and the other outside of it. The creators didnt get woke just recently.
Do you want to know how the kid saved himself? or who found out the machines are coming to zion? Or about the origin of the machines, you can find all these answers and much more in The Animatrix shorts. That came out before this movie as an introduction of what's going on in this universe.
They already made the game years ago. 😅 it's called. The Matrix Path of Neo. You play through the whole story as Neo in all the Trilogy. Came out on PS2. 😂. GL finding it. I'm old I still own a copy. Full game no annoying downloads. 😂😂😂
Hugo weaving doing 3 matrix films and 3 lord of the rings films in like 5 years is crazy
And The Mask. I mean the movie he was wearing the mask.
@@jaystarr6571 V For Vendetta
V IS GREAT TOO.
@@jaystarr6571 the mask? jim carrey
@@jonnylak3856 V For Vendetta. He wears a mask.
In the context of the movies, “there is no spoon” isn’t all that complicated. They’re in the matrix, everything is data, bits, ones and zeros. The spoon isn’t anymore real than say, a gun in a video game. It might look and function like a gun within the confines of the game, but it isn’t a real, tangible thing. It’s code representing a gun, not a gun in itself.
More importantly, it is his electrical impulses in his brain that effectively creates the sensation of the spoon. Therefore if he changes himself, and changes his mind, in the matrix, he then changes the spoon. Manipulating the Matrix is all about thinking backwards.
@ I’m sorry, but no.
First of all it’s not “more importantly”, if anything it’s a consequence of the fact that “there is no spoon” rather than the meaning of it, you shouldn’t conflate the two.
Secondly, “electrical impulses in his brain create the sensation of the spoon”? Sure, but that has nothing to do with the Matrix, that’s how the brain registers reality as well. More importantly, you’re once again conflating two different things: The sensation of the spoon is not the spoon, whether the latter is a digital representation of a spoon or a spoon per se.
Finally, you haven’t established anything beyond how the brain creates perceptions, and your conclusion (the “therefore”) doesn’t follow from that.
@ The brain creating and manipulating perceptions is completely central to how Neo manipulates the rules of the Matrix. Get with the program.
@@theelitistjerkmetalhead8047 That may well be, your conclusion in the earlier comment is still a non sequitur.
The first time that this was expressed in the real world was unlocking God Mode in Wolfenstein 3D.
0:51 - "There is no spoon" refers to the core concept of the Matrix. Everything that is happening in the Matrix, is happening virtually, in code, there is nothing physical about it. The spoon bends, because the boy knows the spoon is not real - after that, anything's possible.
Neo finally realizes this when he wakes up from the dead, it's all just the code of the Matrix and it can be rewritten, reassembled, reloaded, rearranged, refactored etc.
'The shock is all in your head.'
49:19 - Sort of, it's simpler. Neo is the anomalous person that refuses the programming and the machines keep resetting the Matrix to try and understand why.
What's really going to bake your noodle later on is: it's never mentioned in the films if Neo is human, we're only hinted at the fact that the machines can move their consciousness into human bodies and that they are indistinguishable from humans. It's quite possible Neo is a learning program designed to spy on the people who outright refuse the programming of the Matrix and actively fight against it.
... and that code is interpreted by your brain just like signals from your eyes and ears would be without the Matrix, so it's only if you accept the data uncritically that the Matrix has power over you. With the discipline of The One, you manipulate the code, not vice versa.
Exactly. In the matrix the spoon isn’t real, it’s just a projection you are seeing. It’s not philosophy for real life
Eggxactly what I was going to say.
Basically the boy bending the spoon is really the mind of the boy in his pod hacking the simulation code for the spoon in the matrix to make it bend.
It should also be noted that the 'there is no spoon' concept isn't just a matrix thing. It's a concept that goes far back in several ways and refers to the concept that the real opponent that one has to overcome is one's self. For example, in martial practice when breaking the board, it's not the board that's important, it's managing yourself to overcome the board or the brick, focusing yourself is the most important factor, the board will follow.
Inserting AIRPLANE! jokes into a Matrix reaction ????? I love this woman lol
Seraph is a Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol, in which one party presents a question ("challenge") and another party must provide a valid answer ("response") to be authenticated, sort of like a password requirement but more sophisticated
And, as a fighter, you never really know your opponent as well as when you face them in combat, and they relay their deepest internal thoughts dedicated to battling you.
OMG Seraph is a CAPTCHA?
@@owenatkinson5744 had to google that. YES I guess so "Tick yes I am not a bot"
Damnit, I liked seraph, and now I'm gonna think of him as the guy who expects me to show him what pictures are of a bicycle now
Yes, he does seem like a good CHAP!
Another interesting thing I’ve noticed, when Neo first meets the oracle in the last movie she says he’s not too bright when he fails to realize that Trinity likes him. Here, the architect compliments his intelligence when he figures it out quicker than the other Ones did.
After watching the trilogy, you must watch The Animatrix as well. Trust me, it’s good.
After watching the trilogy, she should watch the fourth one - The Matrix Resurrections.
Animatrix are the best Matrix stories after the first movie
Technically, she could watch the Animatrix between 2 and 3, since it was released before the 3rd film.
Great video's.
@@3Kings_Industries I always thought it was between the 1rst and 2nd films. The kid, and the message warning Zion was my reasoning
The kid who said Neo saved him and Neo said “you saved yourself”….you get to see this unfold in one of the stories of the Animatrix.
"I have dreamed a dream, but now that dream is gone from me."
This is in reference to the book of Daniel where King Nebuchadnezzar has a dream but immediately forgets until the prophet Daniel not only tells him the dream but interprets it for him.
Yeah, Matrix i PACKED with Bible references.
And Morpheus is a god of dreams.
@@Arookun Not really.
Miranda: Re "It is inevitable": You're probably thinking of Thanos' "I am inevitable."
Or of The Matrix, in which Smith also mentions inevitability.
7:56 Nebuchadnezzar was a royal lineage of ancient Babylon, with Nebuchadnezzar II being the greatest king of the Empire.
Edit: The Merovingians were the ruling family in France from around the middle of the 5th century to 751.
"I've dreamed a dream and now that dream is gone from me."
In the Bible,
King Nebuchadnezzar asking all his wise men to tell him his dream and it's interpretation. Daniel was the only one who could tell him.
The Merovingians were also thought to be the direct lineage of Jesus Christ. Of course, JC is a myth, so they aren't.
@@danielcameron9857 The latter is a silly statement to make. In Islam, we consider Jesus, peace be upon him, to be one of our great prophets. Have some respect, coward.
@@danielcameron9857 I dunno. JC as a person possibly existed, but it's his divinity (etc) that's the myth...
@@MarkKnightSHG And you are all wrong, sweet summer kids :) You were for so long programmed to believe that religion is all myth atht you are not ready to see the truth.
I think you missed the part where Smith infected that guy right before he jacked out of the Matrix. He's acting weird because it is Smith in a human body. Also the part where the Oracle was explaining that ghost sightings or other super natural sightings are rogue programs doing things they aren't supposed to be doing. The Marovingian and his goons are a bunch of rogue programs that's why they have weird abilities like the ghost brothers.
This is also why they were watching a vampire movie. Miranda, you said you thought that was purposeful...well kinda yeah since they were playing vampires (that's why she needed silver bullets to shoot the one in the head before sending the other to tell her husband what she did).
Matrix green tint; real world blue tint.
Define real
It surprised me that she needed a guide to tell them apart. The Matrix is the one where the world doesn't look like dog shit.
But what if you eat the blue pill *AND THE RED PILL?*
@@gogaonzhezhora8640 You think that's air you're breathing right now?
@@owenatkinson5744and people wonder why popular cinema has gotten dumber over the years, even the most simple concepts and answers can't be grasped
Miranda: "What? What? What?"
Rage Against The Machine: "What you say? What you say? What you say? What?"
There's actually a backstory for The Kid. You can watch it on The Animatrix episode 4.
yeh the animatrix is a must watch too
@@KevinBrown-lv2fk Agreed, especially the Second Renaissance. Just dont watch it if you wanted to stay in a good mood.
@@KevinBrown-lv2fk Ditto on the Animatrix watching.
Matriculated is the Oracle origin story :^)
It is not really a backstory as it was randomly added after the fact.
The Merovingian's use of the word "predecessors" makes a lot more sense after the end of this movie.
The Merovingian dynasty (/ˌmɛrəˈvɪndʒiən/) was the ruling family of the Franks from around the middle of the 5th century until 751.
They first appear as "Kings of the Franks" in the Roman army of northern Gaul. By 509 they had united all the Franks and northern Gallo-Romans under their rule.
They conquered most of Gaul, defeating the Visigoths (507) and the Burgundians (534), and also extended their rule into Raetia (537). In Germania, the Alemanni, Bavarii and Saxons accepted their lordship. The Merovingian realm was the largest and most powerful of the states of western Europe following the breakup of the empire of Theodoric the Great.
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Freeway chase is still one of the best action set pieces of all time. They built all that, too.
@@nobodyimportant7804Then you didn't understand it.
what amazes me is that the motorcycle stunt driver, and the vehicle stunt drivers did the weaving thru traffic all practically, what a testament to their skill level
@@ronrowley9367 the stunt drivers were practical. A lot of the traffic was CGI.
Fun fact: The Nebuchadnezzar is named after a historical King from the 4th dynasty of Babylon, his name means "Protect my first born son".
He also invaded and destroyed the city of Jerusalem 9 years after his invasion.
"The Hanging Gardens" is considered one of the 7 wonders of the world and is believed to have been built in the era of his reign and by him, as a present and sign of affection for his wife Amytis.
Another reactor somehow completely misses the scene where Smith overwrites Bane and escapes into the real world. Please don't take this as criticism, I'm just curious how it's such a common thing to happen among so many reactors. While I personally feel like its quite clear what happens there, enough people seem to not understand it to ask the question what could the movie have done to make that scene more clear?
Not sure. I also thought it was quite clear, but I have missed things in other movies that seemed clear. Also, I did not fully understand the dialog with the architect the first time
She was talking about 'Elrond' the first time and didn't notice there were several of him. And making the same joke the second time, so she didn't notice him injecting Bane. Recurrent theme.
I think a lot of people somehow missed that on the first watch. Also, most reactors "watch" the movie while constantly trying to think of comments, jokes, etc, so it's pretty common for reactor channels to miss quite a bit. I've also noticed that reactors that don't stop the movie to make comments miss a lot, as they're talking over scenes.
I also missed it the first time I watched this movie. Probably because I just completely forgot about a new character, and there’s so much other information to process.
The main reason that they miss tons of stuff because they have to talk over scenes to escape the YT copywrite system.
You can't talk over a movie and expect to get everything, not that there is anything of substance to understand in the Matix sequels.
I saw both the Matrix movies and the Lord of the rings movies all in the movie theaters. I knew Hugo Weaving as agent Smith first, so when I watched Fellowship, my brain went “Bring forth the ring… Mr. Anderson.”
He’s such a great actor: Agent Smith, Elrond, V for Vendetta, Megatron, and Desmond’s father in Hacksaw Ridge…
What CAN’T he do???
He also did a marvelous job as a key antagonist in the most recent season of Slow Horses.
Don't forget the Red Skull.
The whole "You've already made the choice, you're now just trying to understand why you made it" is not as much about purpose but about how people make decision based on gut feeling and rationalize the reasons afterwards. We don't really make conscious choices that much, we simply think we do, but in reality it is our instincts and feelings that do the decision making. All that back and forth we do in our minds is just us trying to rationalize an answer to why we made the choice we did.
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Example : In the first movie, Morpheus give to Neo a choice of a red pill and of a blue pill. But Neo is already on his quest of "What is the Matrix". So, the choice was an illusion.
It is YOU trying to rationalize a process that does not need rationalizing. Understanding is irrational in it's nature. Trying to rationalize the choice and understanding the choice are different things.
@@gogaonzhezhora8640 we are not talking about Understanding choices, we are talking about rationalization of actions after the fact. the explanations of these "choices" take different forms: some act like they totally did it on purpose, some shift the blame, some tell the truth and say they don't know, some make excuses. Most of the time we are saying whatever we have to in order to protect our ego.
if choice is an illusion then there's really no such thing as free will, in which case nothing you do or think really matters at all. even you coming to that conclusion wasn't a realization of the truth.. just another illusion. determinism is logically incoherent.
@@joshvenning5026 Dharmic religions influenced a lot the trilogy. It's more about how you react/accept the illusion, more than free will. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The stuff The Architect said was explained by Smith in the first movie when he was interrogating Morpheus.
there's a game called Enter the Matrix that shows Niobe's story that runs alongside this film.
Yes!! Enter the matrix is awesome. that was my go to game as a kid!
@@Chriswallace0405 peak PS2 gaming
Enter the Matrix was alright... it had some very interesting ideas... but it wasn't the Matrix game that fans wanted.
That would be The Path of Neo, also on PS2...
@@MarkKnightSHG Could have sworn I played both of these on the PC tho...
@@SentiNel090 Enter the Matrix, definitely, as it has a keyboard console hack function. TPoN though, I'm not sure. Maybe?
EDIT: Yeah, it did also come out on PC... my bad
26:44 Yes, "I am inevitable" is a line famously said by Thanos in Avengers Infinity War and Avengers End Game
Please do not skip over The Animatrix - it adds a whole bunch of context, including The Kid's backstory. Might be best to watch it after the 3rd movie though.
There is a line from an old song that says, "If you believe in things that you don't understand, you suffer."
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
25:55 There was. It's called "Enter the Matrix" for the PS2. It dives into the backstory of "Ghost" and "Niobi".
And plays alongside of this Movie bringing a parallel arch to "Revolutions". Similar to the Animatrix.
I like the original XBox one, "the Path of Neo" really awesome game lol
There was also Path of the One.... the Matrix online and several other games.
In The Path Of Neo you can actually perform many of these cinematic moves during the brawl with all the (Agent) Smiths.
One of my favorite details about the Merovingian is that his French accent disappears when he's angry.
The actor is French and speaks fluent English as well so that flow of French, heavily accented English and natural English shows how much of a facade he's putting on.
Good catch 💯🔥 and it makes sense too right? And it was ironic at the same time LOL
he said right away he learned almost every language and French is his favorite, so it is a constant CHOICE he's making to speak it even though there was no other contributing factor, which was a literal opposition to the very ideal that he was telling them in the scene.....with his chosen French accent 🤣🤣🤣 gotta love this movie
Agent Smith is inside the last dude on the screen at the end. Agent Smith has entered the real world.
same dude trying to shank him in the start, after getting body snatched...
According to Douglas Adams, the secret to unlocking the power of flight is to forget gravity exists.
Well yeah. All you have to do is throw yourself at the ground and miss!
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
That's a Douglas Adams quote from one of the Hitchhiker books.
I grabbed it just to be a smartass about the philosopohising this movie has.
But in reading it again, that's actually a pretty good summary of this movie.
Douglas was a smart cookie, don't know what he thought about The Matrix, but I think he would have liked Reloaded.
Nah, Douglas Adams was actually intelligent and insightful. You shouldn't drag his name into The Matrix sequels.
cause and effect, it"s simple. you pick ,ever day you pick. you are the cause. you pick what you eat, when to sleep, what to watch on line. you create the effect.
12:45 - The techno music wasn’t actually playing in the cave it was basically the soundtrack for the montage of the love scene and the party in the caves of Zion. The song playing is “Zion” by Fluke, by the way. Probably one of my favorite EDM songs. There’s a 12” single version of it (hard to find) which is about 10 minutes long called “Slap It”.
Thanks for releasing this video before the holidays, Merry Christmas!
3:02 The whole trilogy? I think you'd love The Animatrix aswell
Strange she never posted the WTF bit at the end when Neo is able to use his powers outside the matrix
Side note, Bane is Agent Smith. He corrupts Bane's digital projection early in the movie when they are running from an agent(A.Smith). Somehow he managed to disconnect with Bane's body from the matrix and took full control of Bane's consciousness in the real world.
There is a story on how they shot the freeway scene. The producers actually built about a 1.5 mile long section of freeway at the closed US Naval Air Station at Alameda, California. And then a bunch of professional stunt drivers doing their thing.
Also, after the credits there is a trailer for part 3, The Matrix Revolutions
I'm sure someone's already said it, but in case they haven't, Smith became the other end of the equation from Neo. Neo is the one, Smith became the many.
In the virtual world of the Matrix, the key maker, who makes computer passkeys, is presented as an actual key maker.
Fun fact: those dudes that can turn invisible are "ghosts" and the dudes that Neo was fighting are some sort of "vampire". As the Oracle said, they actually exist in the Matrix, in several versions of the Matrix and they are just programs that can bend the rules.
Close. Persephone is the vampire, except she sucks emotions. The two dudes watching the monster movie were werwolves hence the silver bullet
@@defiantmopar Persephone is Persephone: the wife of Hades, stuck in hell. The two guys are Cain and Abel, with Cain of course being the biblical "first vampire." Abel is the one who Persephone shoots. Cain gets killed by Neo in the fight later on. Silver bullets aren't just a werewolf thing - in some stories, they're also lethal to vampires.
@@Tantalus010 Silver is considered to be a Mystical metal in most Mythologies
Random fact: in the UK, the actors playing the twins were best known at the time as handymen in a reality tv home decorating program
To be free means not trying to control the things can't control. Victor Frankl nailed it when he talked about that moment when you choose to control something you previously had not thought to control: your response.
The twins are some kind of older version of Agent. When they mention vampires and ghosts, it suggests that Agents had more supernatural abilities in the past. Agents were upgraded, but these two were kept around by the Merovingian
My favourite allegory in this movie was the Merovingian and Persephone.
Persephone is the name of the Greek Goddess of Grain and Spring who was abducted by Hades (in one version of the story) and forced to marry him. She lived in the Underworld during winter months and could return to the surface by spring, which is what made everything thaw and flourish.
She was known in the tale to rebel against Hades from time to time.
The character of the same name in this movie is married to the Merovingian and goes against him to piss him off because of his indiscretion.
I found that cool!
TheAnimatrix is pretty much a must-watch.. if anything, its a perfect time capsule of the anime styles of the time, but the fact its peak matrix lore and explorations is cherry on top.. cheers 🍻
Agreed. A must watch. The "eager beavers" story is in the animatrix,
It was so bad i couldn't watch it. I just didn't care for some anime stuff. Was it even official lore?
The only other picture that Square Pictures did other than Final Fantasy Spirits Within was Final Flight Of The Osiris, which serves as a bit of back story for this movie and the Enter The Matrix video game...
but the whole of the Animatrix is awesome... The Second Renaissance is also must watch, as it is a whole backstory as to how and why the Matrix came about (about the war between man and AI)...
@@fu6817yes it is officially lore. Last Flight of the Osiris tells the story of how they knew about the squid army’s pending attack. The Kid is where the 16 year old comes in. Animatrix is 100% canon.
Sorry you don’t like animation. Every chapter is a different animator so if you don’t like one style… watch the next chapter 😊
I love the one about the sprinter who ran so fast he broke the code.
The directors did a brilliant cross platform media rollout with this movie. There is a series of animated stories called The Animatrix that ties into this, like the story of that kid in Zion who is obsessed with Neo, and the ship crew trying to take the message about the digging to a dead drop location in the Matrix. And then you said "These action sequences would be great as a video game." Yes, they would! So there was a video game called Enter the Matrix!!
The story in that game ties into BOTH Animatrix and this movie! You play as captain Niobe and her first mate and for instance, the first mission is going to pick up the information about digging from the dead drop location. And you get the driving chase on the highway where you are trying to catch up with that semi truck to catch Morpheus as he falls off the back of it.
The action and weapon stuff in it is great. You can use that slow motion, diving and rolling while dual wielding pistols. It's really exciting.
Oh, and for something HILARIOUS, find the short video spoof of this that was from the MTV movie awards. It stars Justin Timberlake, Sean William Scott, Wanda Sykes, and Will Farrell as the architect!
Just thought I'd say, in the first movie the Oracle wouldn't speak to Neo until he accepted a cookie. Just like websites.
😂
She had an entire scene talking to him prior to accepting the cookie. The cookie thing is meant to be Neo accepting what she's saying about Morpheus and Neo's fate; it's LITERALLY a tough cookie to swallow. But it's also the website joke at that point.
and food is used to rewrite code, the oracle was manipulating neo from the get go
@@ThatSamoanGuyYou're allowed to browse the beginning of a site when entering it, just like the conversation they had. It's only after One accepts the invasive terms of the cookie, that they're actually allowed to see the true content.
And, technically, for all we know, it was the cookie _itself_ that he accepted which was what _actually_ turned him into the anomaly, once the pre-programmed criteria of the cookie were eventually met.
Accepting cookies to get to a website wasn't a thing when the movie was made
Life is not about making mistakes, life is about making less mistakes than the day before
47:10 - Correct. This is the first time The One has chosen to not reboot the Matrix. And yes, the whole thing is a system of control. The Architect figured out that a certain percentage of people will ALWAYS wake up from the Matrix and form a resistance...so why not let them do that and control them that way?
The Machines essentially allow the people who reject the Matrix to escape, they allow them to form a resistance and then they 'cull the herd' every few generations in order to insure that the resistance never wins and destroys The Matrix itself.
The One is also a naturally occurring error in the Matrix, maybe an evolutionary one - that eventually there will always be one human in the system who will be born with the ability to interact with the code and reshape the Matrix to their own whims. The only way to control The One is blackmail - create an elaborate story for them to become the saviour of humanity until they find the Architect where they are then forced to reboot the system and allow Zion to be destroyed and if they don't obey, the Architect will destroy the Matrix and kill all the humans plugged into it.
Neo has chosen to not reboot the Matrix and to save Trinity...thus we will see in the third film whether the Architect will allow the Matrix to collapse (and we'll see the role Smith plays in that).
Can't say too much more other than the fact that if THE MATRIX is about questioning reality and RELOADED is questioning Free Will, Choice and Control then REVOLUTIONS is about spirituality and fate and the idea that Neo's choice - combined with other factors beyond his control - is going to birth a new world that the previous five One's couldn't have created on their own.
(And RESURRECTIONS is about the relationship between the Matrix films and us - the real humans in the audience - and how mass media and Hollywood hegemony is its own form of control and artificial reality we need to wake up from.)
It's quite a lot like the Reapers in Mass Effect, deliberately leaving technology behind after each harvest so that the next cycle's civilisations will develop their own tech along those lines, and incorporate the mass relays into all space travel (which is of course central to a swift Reaper victory).
The Architect cannot destroy the Matrix, that is the machines single source of energy, hence he is bluffing. My main issue with the whole reboot the system and begin everything again is why no one ever informed the agents, in the first movie they where after to mainframe codes in order to find the location of Zion while the Machines according to the Architect here already knows where Zion is since it was they who built it.
@@Henrik_Holst To me if always felt like the agents were bottom-tier enforcement within the Matrix itself. Smith even voices how much he hates being in the Matrix and yearns to get out and find, essentially, a better job. So just as much as its vital for the humans to engage in the roleplay of the Messianic One, it is vital for the agents to also take part in the roleplay that they're trying to stop the resistance.
As the Architect points out, its in the best interests of everybody that The One makes it to the source, so having agents run around and try to stop the One adds to the theater.
I think Smith as a character really shows us that agents are not mindless machines, they're living entities with feelings and loyalties and agendas of their own and can't, therefore, be trusted in the Architect's game of 4D chess. Especially since they're just low-level security AI.
The illusion of "choice" and "control" always has to be maintained for the theatre of The One to fully work.
At least that's my humble two cents on it.
Neo has chosen to save Trinity, but was it a free choice? The Oracle engineered Neo and Trinity's relationship, maybe because she's seen this all before and feels it's time for a change. She tells Neo he's made a choice and now he needs to understand it, but in many ways the three movies are The Oracle making a choice and then watching what this does to Neo so that she can understand her choice.
Funny enough, they made two video games. Enter the Matrix, and The Matrix: Path of Neo. Their combat systems were pretty rough to say the least but they still poured a ton of world lore and writing into both games.
The guy in the end turned into an Agent Smith clone inside the matrix in the beginning of the film, which basically means that guy is Agent Smith. That's why he tried to stab Neo. He cut himself because he wanted to feel pain in the real world.
24:55 --- If you like him.. You HAVE to see V for Vendetta.. My God what a performance as V ...
Persephone - "she was not kissing your face my love"
Miranda - .... "Oh my" .... 😂
The story ends. You wake up in her bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
Miranda the quote is ' its better to try and fail, than fail to try'.
Equilibrium is good too; think The Matrix meets 1984 with Christian Bale
“If” you believe in Causality….
Then there can be no Free Will.
Trinity is so badass, she is the one of my most loved female character of all time, along side with Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley.
Now that's a real trinity!
Wake up in her bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
"Agent Elrond Smith" I love it 😂
You call tell when they're in the Matrix because everything has a green tint to it. In the real world, there's kind of a blue tint.
31:48 They come from an older version of the Matrix, the Hell version of the Matrix. Persephone is named after the Greek goddess of the Underworld who watches over the honored dead in the Elysian Fields. The one she shot was Abel, and his brother was Cain, both biblical figures and the children of Adam and Eve. The Merovingian had smuggled many such programs from older versions of the Matrix to serve him. Trafficking programs is his trade, after all.
Guy at the end who survived was Bane, the one who's been infected with a Smith virus.
If you want to know the back story on the kid who runs up to Neo & Trinity in the beginning when they get to Zion, watch the Animatrix. One of the shorts in that is his backstory. All of the shorts are worth watching, but that one is one of two that have direct connotations to the main series.
1st iteration "humans rejected the perfection" is probably one of the most blatant analogies to Adam and Eve
I don't think so. A Matrix with just two humans in it isn't the best power source for the machines. They need numbers.
Okay, before you watch the 3rd movie, watch the Animatrix!!! It gives you so much awesome back story, explanations, and of course cool action scenes and characters. It really augments your whole Matrix experience! Love the reactions 😊
"what's our vector Victor?"
ij us died lol
The guy at the end is Bane near the beginning of the film in a short scene, Smith tookover his body in the matrix before he could get out via the phone line so he is now in Bane's body in the real world. it was explained Better in the Enter the Matrix game that was out at the time. That Game also explained what that Indian looking gentleman that was being led away from the Merovingian's table when Neo and the others walked in was doing and how it effected the Oracle's appearence in the next film. I don't know why they didn't just included some of these scenes in the movies as they were filmed at the same time.
"There is no wrong, there is no right; there is only consequence, and the lesson it teach."
Love the talking through thoughts / theories. ‘One’ bit that may help (did for me)
The biggest problem with computing / maths is repeating decimals (I.e 2/3 cannot be displayed as a whole number as it will repeat to eternity).
What you need to resolve this is (you got it) a ONE 🤯 (ONE is also an anagram of NEO)
Secondly my favourite part of the first film is the oracle giving Neo a cookie. This doesn’t kick in until he’s been killed (switched off and on again)
One thing I think you missed is that all the "robot" characters in the matrix are not one large system, but part of a system. They are all their own programs. The architect is a program that was created to create the matrix. The Oracle is a program created after the failure of the first two matrixes to try to understand human psychology, so they could create one humans don't reject outright.
When a program dies, it can either return to the source or try to hide somewhere in the Matrix. The Merovingian is a program that has created a place for himself and other programs of past matrixes that didn't want to go back to the source. The reason his underlings are watching a vampire movie is that those programs are vampires and werewolves (hence the reference to silver bullets). The twins are ghosts. They are leftovers from the second matrix where they responded to humans rejecting paradise by filling it with nightmares. (the first matrix being paradise is where our concept of heaven comes from and the second is where all these horrors come from).
This is also why the twins are fighting the agents. The agents work for the architect. They are protection programs upkeeping the matrix. The twins are programs, but they have nothing to do with this current matrix. They are in hiding under the Merovingian.
I think the architect scene is why I love the matrix sequels and also why so many people hate them. There's so much great stuff in there, but it makes no sense when you're just sitting there watching it. You need to go over it again and again to get everything. Especially given the architect's over wrought speech patterns which are on purpose to show how it is a logic machine with no understanding of emotion.
It's a good criticism to call these movies inpenetrable. Part of making a good movie is making it capable of being understood and experienced. If everything in these movies wasn't a million ideas compacted into every minute and instead gave them room to breathe, they'd probably be hailed as masterpieces.
Ultimately, this movie is all about systems of control and how we are provided with only an illusion of choice in order to keep us under control. One might point to the two party system in the US, for example, where we are given the illusion of choice, but regardless of who is elected the government overwhelmingly does the bidding of the wealthy.
And there is an amazing video game called The Path of Neo that is canon, digs more into the merovingian, and has a really fun fighting system.
The next movie expounds on that in the beginning
On the other hand you can say the opposite and say that the matrix movies use concepts that would be considered impenetrable but packs it in an action movie making them more accessible and helping understanding them by illustrating them through the action.
If anything it's popular education!
There is a quote from the movie National Lampoon's Van WIlder that has always stuck with me. "Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive" thought maybe you might like that one.
Come on you apes, you wanna live forever?
25:53 should we tell her theres 2 video games? One with this particular fight scene 😅
"agent elron smith.. does he want to be friends now?" lol she's so innocent
In the first movie the 1.0 version of the agents had single syllable names (Smith, Brown)
The new more buff version 2.0 agents in this movie has two (Johnson)
5:40 "We don't really know how our bodies work. Our biological vehicles. Of course we have ideas. There's medicine; there's research; there's so many experiments that have been run throughout the centuries. But ultimately it's all theory. That's what I found so fascinating about Anatomy. When I took that class was realizing that our cells just work, but sometimes they don't. But every single individual cell in our body carries out a very specific task, hopefully to perfection, and we don't really have to wonder why it works or how it works."
I hope that course offers a refund if that is what was learned from it.
45:50 - yes, and this is the same guy that Smith possessed at the beginning of the film (at the moment when he was returning from the matrix, via phone) - and he also caused the "accident" on the ship that exploded, which we saw. So, it's essentially mind of Smith inside the human body.
36:44 “the action sequences are really cool” - yes, some of the most expensive action sequences ever made, you should check out all the behind the scenes. The highway scene alone took 4 months to film.
Love the Airplane! references, we're all counting on you.
30:10 I remember watching this part in the theater.. thinking how unbelievably hot Persephone is.. I probably would have picked her instead if I were Neo.
I really enjoyed how much you enjoyed this movie! It’s one of my favorites.
Some notes on it (btw, it’s chock full of Easter eggs like Smith’s license plate number in the beginning being a bible verse, etc):
Any issues with the CGI you have from within the Matrix Reloaded, especially during the Burly Brawl, are explained by the Matrix itself being unable to keep up with this event; this has never happened before, as you find out later, so it's having to drop the level of detail to keep the simulation stable *and* at a high enough frame-rate to keep people from noticing issues with “reality”.
The dominos/bowling pin sounds when Neo throws a Smith into a bunch of Smiths were because, again, this had never happened before. The Matrix dynamically picked the sound it thought was the closest match to something like that!
Remember, this is a sophisticated virtual reality that’s having to adapt to a new, more powerful Neo on the fly.
When you think of it this way, not only does it makes sense, it makes MORE sense than if they picked normal, fleshy knockdown sounds or actually had the modern CGI of today, which I feel would actually look worse.
The Twins are ghosts from the horror Matrix (that the Oracle described before the burly brawl -- Smith also mentioned prior Matrix versions in the first movie, like the Paradise version).
Persephone shot a werewolf with a silver bullet before the Chateau fight ("notoriously difficult to kill; how many people do you think keep silver bullets in their guns?"); they are also legacies from prior Matrix versions. This was explored more in the video game Enter The Matrix.
Some people think that the Merovingian and Persephone are prior iterations of The One/Trinity (“I once knew what love felt like; I want to sample it again”).
Bane was the guy in the end shot... the one that Smith took over in a brief, earlier scene (“Oh, God!” / “‘Smith’ will suffice.”) and went through the phone line overwriting the brain of real-world Bane. Bane/Smith then later went to kill Neo in Zion before the kid (from The Animatrix) showed up with the spoon and effectively stopped him. For now.
I'm not sure about the Mero/Persephone being former One and Trinity, because the Architect said that none of the previous Ones had that kind of love, hence why they made the decision they did. Unless of course he was just manipulating Neo because the choice didn't matter and both doors would have eventually led to the same result anyway.
the "vampire movie in the background" - the Miro's men are vampires, warewolves and, well, ghosts. It's why a silver bullet was needed by Persephone to kill one.
It would have been funnier if they had Coppola's Dracula instead (Featuring Keanu Reeves and Monica Bellucci)
"We can never see past the chooses we don't understand" is very true for anyone that dreams of the future.
“The best sci-fi has mechs”
Have you seen Pacific Rim?
14:25 This is where Agent Elrond meets Bane... Bane's actions and speech should make more sense now, enjoy!!
'A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having'
The video game did have free flowing combat. It was pretty awesome!
Except it sucks, but still kinda fun game with a lot of deleted scenes and concept ideas from the movies
It’s dope to see what each program personifies in the matrix as far as what real world programs do. Seraph being a handshake challenge authentication program, the keymaker being a program that can create shortcuts, the agents being a series of security or anti-virus programs with smith being one that becomes ‘bugged’ or corrupted and functions like a self replicating virus. In the next movie without spoiling anything too much there’s a train station that is essentially a VPN using ‘tunnels’ that exiled programs have to pass specific criteria to be allowed into the matrix. 101 as in neo’s room and the merovingians number are references to binary code. The construct is a loading interface where certain code can be inserted into the matrix since they can’t change the code that already exists within IE loading guns into their hands once they’re already in the matrix itself. There’s so many references to computer stuff it’s so well thought out
I love Architect's voice
Fun bit of the freeway scene. They built that freeway in the real world and while a lot of the cars were CGI most of those crashes were practical effects. Back in the day the DVDs had really good making-of videos that may be available on youtube now.
GM donated about 300 cars for the scene. All of them were sent to the scrapyard at the end of the filming
She didn’t catch that agent smith escaped the matrix
The biggest problem with this movie is how utterly densely packed it is. This whole side plot should've been more in the forefront of the story methinks. Would've made the ending hit hard, instead of generating the "huh?" reaction it does in so many people.
As a computer engineer, I have a different take on the "there is no spoon" and similar concepts. In this instance (inside the Matrix), the spoon is just a piece of code, several lines of software. So to make it bend, you are altering the code, not bending metal with your mind. This is also how he stopped the bullets at the end of the first movie. He just altered the code to set their velocity to zero at a certain point. So he is The One, because he has the ability to do this "wirelessly".
If you want a good relaxing sci-fi movies that just has gorgeus atmosphere, and puts up some ethical and philosophical questions, we might have to think about in the future. Then I can recommend the movie: Moon.
1:20 - "There is no spoon" is a play on the Zen koan. As with much of Neo's character, there are spiritual metaphors everywhere - remember in Zen buddhism, the realization of your unity with the universe is one of the goals --- Neo is the "One" - even the word NEO is an anagram for ONE. A Zen koan is a short, paradoxical statement, question, dialogue, or story from Chinese Chan Buddhist lore that is used in Zen Buddhist practice. The purpose of a koan is to help people live with ambiguity and paradox, and to foster contemplation. The main goal of koan practice is to achieve kenshō, which is to observe or see one's buddha-nature.
5:01, aw, man, I just said that above.
5:30 - comment about her jacket all you want - just don't comment about her hair.
45:45 - you missed the phone call at the beginning where Smith transferred himself out of the Matrix and into Bane.
50:51 - yes, but your choices are a direct result of the external influences that have affected you, as well as the DNA that has made you who you are. That's why I personally don't believe in free will.
"Why do I get the feeling (in the cave) something is about to come...", meanwhile Neo be like 8===D
I assume the “dot” in Trinity’s arm you were talking about is one of the many plug-ins people who aren’t born in Zion have?
The dot on Trinity was the plugs that people who were born in the Matrix had. Neo had them too.
Watching the short stories of the Animatrix will give better insight into the machines plight and a deeper understanding of the anxious kid's story too. Plus it's incredibly story telling. Gritos from Tejas.
Movie one Smith: humanity is a virus
Movie two Smith: overwrites people just like a virus
the line is from end game. and guess what he played red skull in that movie
There is no spoon. In this movie, the kid says that while in a simulation. The spoon he's handling truly isn't real. It's all in his head, so by bending his own mind, or perspective as you put it, he can bend the spoon.
I replaced the word Spoon with 'gender' in that little speech which is hilarious.
@@terrylandess6072 That was the original plan for the character named "switch" from the first movie. They were supposed to swap genders being one inside the matrix and the other outside of it. The creators didnt get woke just recently.
So, you mean you eat the blue pill *THEN YOU EAT THE RED PILL?*
Do you want to know how the kid saved himself? or who found out the machines are coming to zion? Or about the origin of the machines, you can find all these answers and much more in The Animatrix shorts. That came out before this movie as an introduction of what's going on in this universe.
So sad, that no one watches "Animatrix" before "Reloaded"... 🥺
Aaaand everybody should watch the "MTV Movie Awards" version of that movie. 😜
They already made the game years ago. 😅 it's called. The Matrix Path of Neo. You play through the whole story as Neo in all the Trilogy. Came out on PS2. 😂. GL finding it. I'm old I still own a copy. Full game no annoying downloads. 😂😂😂