# Sorting Out the Matrix

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorting-out-the-matrix/213523>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 16, 2003, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorting-out-the-matrix/213523 "2003-11-16T07:21:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![justplainDave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@justplainDave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justplainDave)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorting-out-the-matrix/213523/1 "2003-11-16T07:21:40Z")

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Ok, I have just seen the Matrix Revolutions, and I have been reading what people have to say about the film, and I started thinking, what the hell happened?

So I ask the the teeming millions help me out by starting from the very beginning of the trilogy and sorting out everything. I have seen all three movies, but I am in agreement with just about everyone when they say that the third movie didn’t answer anything from the second. Help me figure out what everything meant. It is a large task, but judging from some of the other conversations, we can do this.

I welcome all definitive answers and random postulations, but I discourage opinions on what people thought of the movies from a critical standpoint.

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorting-out-the-matrix/213523/2 "2003-11-16T11:22:23Z")

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There is a ridiculously huge thread on _Reloaded_ [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=184142&highlight=matrix+reloaded), a thread with optimistic speculation for _Revolutions_ [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=213969&highlight=matrix+reloaded), and a thread discussing the complete trainwreck of a final installment [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=221627).

Enjoy.

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**Author:** ![JRootabega](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e7dd6/32.png) [@JRootabega](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRootabega)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorting-out-the-matrix/213523/3 "2003-11-16T15:19:32Z")

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Hmm…I think I would use quicksort.

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**Author:** ![justplainDave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@justplainDave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justplainDave)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorting-out-the-matrix/213523/4 "2003-11-17T04:09:37Z")

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I read all of those threads, and it didn’t do a damn thing for me, since the reloaded thread was all speculation that mostly turned out to be wrong. And I know what happened in the final installment, but it would be nice to put all three together now that we all saw it.

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**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorting-out-the-matrix/213523/5 "2003-11-17T06:07:57Z")

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I vote for radix sort.