I recently saw the final Matrix movie and I was left wondering, “what was the little girl supposed to represent?” I don’t remember any other little girls in the movie but for clarity Neo met her and her parents on the subway (train?) early in the movie, then she was making cookies with the Oracle later on. I’ll put the rest in spoiler mode as a curtisy to those that haven’t seen the movie.
At the end of the movie she’s there with the Oracle and I think she claims to have created the sun rising. After thinking about this I wondered if she was supposed to be “hope” like at the end of Pandora’s box. Any thoughts?
Remember the speech by her dad, where he says that in the Matrix, no program is allowed to exist without purpose, and that’s why he’s sending her Outside? It seemed pretty clear to me that she exists for no other reason than that her parents loved each other and wanted to have a family, and were willing to defy The System to do so. As Heinlein once said (or should have, if he didn’t), little girls need no excuse.
As for the end, that may indicate that she’s found a purpose, or it may just be that the Oracle is humoring her, much like any kindly adult might humor a child.
There have been tons of other threads on this, and while I’m too lazy to look for one, I don’t think any amount of discussion has really pinned down what she’s supposed to represent.
I believe the closest we came to agreement was that she was the one in charge of making beautiful things. Thus the machines had no use for her.
Of course the machines had use for beautiful things. If nothing else, a world utterly without beauty would be just as implausible to the humans in the Matrix as a world without strife, and would have been rejected. And even aside from that, it’s pretty clear that the programs (most of them, anyway) appreciate aesthetics. And the fact that she’s the only child program we see is, I think, significant: A program in charge of an integral part of the matrix would not be young, but an unauthorized offspring “born” of a program couple might well be (and indeed would be, if we assume that they couldn’t keep her hidden for long). And since “young” programs wouldn’t efficiently serve any purpose, the only young programs would be unauthorized ones.
I had never considered that before. I knew her parents were programs with functions, and just assumed she was a program. Then she was forced to be hidden because she was without function.
But I had never considered that she was “born” to the two programs. Does anyone remember what her parents functions were? Is it possible she’s a mixture of the two? In hind sight, it seems kind of creapy that the “programs” were able to spawn. Very Jurassic Park…
No, I disagree, watch the movies again, and see if you can find anything beautiful like a sunset. I remember watching the commentary from the first movie and one of the brothers said that they made the world inside of the Matrix deliberately bland and gray.
I haven’t seen the other two movies nearly enough times to see if they’ve been consistent on this, but it was definitely true for the first one.
But going back over the theories from this board and many others (google to your hearts content people) Sati, the girls name, could mean lots of things.
She could control the weather, as in making the sun, or when Agent Smith uses her powers to create storm clouds.
Sati could be a new type of intelligent program that isn’t automatically assigned a purpose and developes a sort of free will. (Although if an example of choosing your own destiny is needed I don’t see it nessesary to look beyond agent smith.)
She could be an AI feeling of love.
Sati apparently means free choice, in some language, not exactly what I would call a reliable quote, but I think I’ve heard something like that before.
Sati could be the next Oracle.
Sati could be the next ONE.
Also from another message board. (Posted by someone name Kronos oddly enough)
Now I don’t claim to understand all of this, nor am I saying that this is all fact, but if someone more enlightened than I would be willing to verify this, I would say that the theory at least holds water. The only thing that I can add is that I do know that the Brothers were influenced by foreign philosophy and religion.
Then again… Maybe she truly had no purpose, and giving her the job of making sunrises is supposed to be a happy ending to the whole mess.
Do you mean just “beautiful”, or “beautiful like a sunset” specifically? If the latter, then I suppose that the closest I can come is the clouds in the park where the Oracle is feeding the birds, in the second one, or possibly the mountain range where the Merovingian has his front porch. Of course, this does not necessarily mean that there are no such things in the Matrix world; only that that’s not where the action is.
And I see no reason why, in the Matrix world, a pair of programs could not have a baby program which would slowly grow up. Whether this is a natural process for them, as it is for us, or if they had to write her, I do not know. But the father describes the mother as being a computer programmer, and very creative, so the latter is not inconceivable.
Certainly, she had no purpose to the Matrix. As for whether she had a purpose in the grander scheme of things, then you have to ask who or what is giving her that purpose. God? Maybe, but He’s never mentioned.