Nitpick: It was a vase.
I know this may sound simple. But if 1 percent of the people still jacked into the matrix won’t take the program, wouldn’t the simple thing to do is just kill the 1 percent? kinda like pruning a tree ?
KISS Keep It Simple Stupid
The agents are after the keymaker because it is their job to eliminate updated programs (the Oracle tells Neo this). Rogue programs (the Merovingian) are programs slotted for deletion that were able to move and avoid deletion.
Since we now know that eating food in the matrix allows new programming code to be introduced into the individual’s program, we need to ask what the Oracle is giving Neo every time they meet. In Matrix, she gives him a cookie…in Reloaded, it is a piece of candy.
Perhaps the candy allows Neo to remain in contact with the Matrix (wi-fi software?) , even when he is not jacked in. This would explain his ability to shut down the Sentinels at the end. The sentinel controlling software is being run on the same hardware as the Matrix software. Or, (sinister version), the candy is the code needed to reboot the Matrix, and Neo has to deliver it.
I don’t believe any of the programs knowingly lie. A computer cannot tell you that 2+2=5, unless it has been programmed to, and in that case, it believes the answer to be true.
minor nitick-- The Architect does NOT give Neo the choice of saving Trinity vs rebooting the Matrix. His options are to return to the Matrix, where Trinity happens to be dying, or to reboot it. The fact that Neo loves something about to be destroyed in the Matrix is the reason this version of the “One” is the first one to choose returning to the Matrix vs. rebooting it.
also-the red pill could also be software allowing Neo to “undelete” dead programs in the Matrix(which is how he gained the ability to resurrect Trinity)
I tried to find the answer on my own, but I gave up. How do we know this?
Can I take a time out for a couple of really remedial questions? Please don’t laugh, but I had a hard time just following the very basics of the plot, and I don’t really want to sit through the whole movie again.
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Was Agent Smith (that’s his name, right?) shown existing in human form in Zion?
Who was the person who approached Nemo with the hidden knife, and why didn’t he kill Nemo right then?
Who was the other comatose person (besides Nemo) in the last scene?
Apologies for the silly questions.
Ooh, ooh! I know that one. 'Cuz the guy with the really lame French accent sent the dessert to the woman and it had a program in it to make her horny.
actually it caused her to have an orgasm.
also, how does Morpheus introduce the virus which detaches Neo from the Matrix in the first place?
By giving him a pill.
The ONLY reason I can see for the cake/orgasm scene is to show us that programs can patch or edit other programs by giving them code in the form of food (but they never force the other to eat it, there is always a choice).
Didn’t it seem like the camera focused on the candy the Oracle gave Neo just a little bit too long? Seemed to be emphasizing the action.
Agent Smith uploaded his “self” into the body you saw at the end of the movie. This was the same person trying to slice up Neo. When Agent Smith put his hand into the guy at the beginning, replicating himself into that person’s program, and then answered the phone, pulling that data back into the real person, who then went to Zion. He didn’t kill Neo because the teenage superfan of Neo ran up behind them and alerted the group to Agent Smith’s presence.
I have read a theory that says Neo stopped the sentinels at the end by generating an EMP. Neo, still somewhat connected to the Matrix, also falls into a coma as a result. The Agent Smith human also generated an EMP(the early one that shut down the ships), which also put him into a coma.
What if the Archictect is just lying his ass off about everything?
FYI, Neo didn’t eat the candy.
I disagree. I think the whole point was to offer a counter-arguement to the idea of a prophecy. The French guy is basically saying that it’s not having some mystical ability to see into the future, it’s “cause and effect”. If you know enough of the causes, you can predict the effect fairly accurately.
In other words, he could have made a prophecy that the woman would have an orgasm, but in reality it’s a prediction based on the fact that he programmed the cake to make her have an orgasm.
It’s an arguement against fate. And based on the information the Architect gives us, it seems pretty accurate.
And here, I thought that it just made her have to pee. That, or it was just an excuse to zoom in on a woman’s digitized nether regions, which is of course a perfectly worthwhile thing to do ;).
As for the Architect: If what he said is true, then he has no motive to lie. But there’s some circular reasoning, there. A simpler explanation: Morpheus was right. If Neo managed to reach the source, the machines would have been defeated, and the war would be over. The machines don’t want this to happen, of course (at least, the machines in power don’t), so they send a program right in front of the code to guard it against Neo. They already know they can’t outfight him, so they outbluff him instead. The program (who may or may not actually be the Architect; we only know that because he says so, and we can’t trust him) tells Neo some mumbo-jumbo that makes him choose not to go to the source.
Meanwhile, on the subject of prophesy, oracles, and dreams: There’s no solid evidence of anyone predicting the future. The Oracle appears to be an expert cold-reader, using the same techniques as used by telephone psychics, but we never see her doing anything more than cold-reading. The alleged architect, if what he did was a prediction at all, is still based on some pretty obvious interpretation of Neo’s response. I mean, we in the audience were all able to figure out that he’d rescue Trinity, right? Why should it be any harder for the “Architect”? And even at that, the “Architect” is pretty vague in what he says.
Finally, even Neo’s dreams don’t necessarily constitute prophecy. Certainly, what’s in Neo’s head can influence what happens in the Matrix, right? That’s what being the One is all about. So, either some agency in the Matrix read the contents of Neo’s dreams and based the eventual scenario on that, or Neo himself subconsciously re-shaped the scenario on what he was dreaming. There may even have been some element of common cause: Perhaps, for instance, Neo picked up on the existence of the skyscraper and its significance before the dreams, based the dreams in part on that, and then re-shaped the Matrix after the dreams to fit more closely with the dreams.