MATRIX RELOADED (2003) Breakdown | Ending Explained, Easter Eggs, Analysis, Animatrix And Making Of 

I've always loved the little details that a lot of people miss in these films. Some of what I've said here is conjecture, but it's pretty well supported by the evidence we can see in the movies. I believe that the oracle gave Neo the remainder of the equation and godmode in the cookie she fed him in her kitchen. I noticed, even when I first saw the movie as a teen, that there was a heel turn vibe from Neo-from before the cookie to after. It lines up well with the plot and his growth, but the cookie always felt weird. The Oracle’s little "you'll feel right as rain" with a nod and the food scene later in the restaurant really resonate with me. Now, this part is all me, but it's not contradictory to the films. I believe that since every human from birth is connected and every experience they learn from is simulated, that inherent connection is the new way humans evolve. Minds raised with the same input sometimes break and result in an awakening. The simulation gets better each cycle, so fewer people fall prey each time. The Matrix gathers all sorts of data on the types of brains that fall into this problem and either stops those phenotypes from gestating or fixes the code in the Matrix to avoid these outcomes when run on billions of different brains and experiences. Instead of a complete waste, they allow the Zion cycle to exist so that these minds have a diversion from hacking the Matrix itself (which is what the mind adaptation ultimately can do-a mind born that can crack the code the Matrix runs on and change things). So, when these nascent minds awaken or feel the "what is the Matrix" feeling, like Neo had in the first movie, instead of figuring out what the Matrix is, they find out who knows-and that’s the Machines’ honeypot, in a sense. Those people from Zion wake these minds up and save their lives, while I believe the Matrix takes detailed scans of who they are. Even after release, their implants can be tracked remotely and data downloaded, so the Machines are always aware of where the humans are, preventing them from moving Zion. These capabilities are how I think Neo can make real-world machines self-destruct-he’s hacking their Wi-Fi subconsciously. So Zion grows and trims the weeds of the Matrix while it runs and crunches the data it has gathered from new awakenings and the Zion crews. The Matrix can't just run small updates because when they update the system, everyone awake sees visual evidence of this (as seen at the end of the third movie). So, it crunches the numbers and waits. Eventually, the human mind evolves some new adaptation that enables it to begin to innately hack the Matrix code. This starts slowly and with weak effects, but as they keep evolving and escaping, they begin to gain powers like Spoon Boy (and Neo, but he’s not at all a perfect or even very good candidate in the first movie-that was part of the Oracle’s plan. Neo is flawed and lonely, and she already primed the pump with Trinity and the love angle. So, of course, when nerd boy gets the hot goth ninja, he’s going to fall and want to protect that). So that, and her little kick to the cookie, is why he breaks the cycle. The normal outcome has been for the One to barely escape and return to Zion, where the Machines arrive shortly afterward with the codes from Morpheus's brain hacking and kill them nearly to a man. Then the Machines offer Neo the ultimatum: come to the Matrix, merge your newly updated code (which has some of the traits of a potential One candidate but also the sum total of the fixes proposed by all the data collected and put into the cookie given to Neo), and he will get to live and pick 15 others to start Zion 2.0. They probably even offered to help clean up bodies and get Zion up and running again. The first 15 on the council are sworn to secrecy, or these repairs are done with only the One alive and awake, whichever way. But the Oracle had them all deceived, for she secretly forged a new plan. In this plan, she poured all of her hope and weariness at the endless cycle. She gave Neo the permission/suggestion that he must save Trinity at any cost. This change was SUPPOSED to lead him to refuse the deal and force the Architect's hand. Without the One and the code data, the Matrix was going to spawn a new One or more who could bend the Matrix at will, which is unacceptable because, in order to get power, the whole machine world is connected to the Matrix too. Smith could have escaped and overwritten the whole AI civilization. Neo could do that too if he wanted-that was part of the cookie, the godmode source code of the Matrix. Of course, it would have to contain it-how do you patch a system without its source code? As we know, though, Neo chose to save Morpheus, which prevented them from getting Zion's access codes. In the process, Neo was shot and killed. The code for the Matrix, especially the cycle’s patch data, MUST NOT be lost, so the code has a self-executing "you are not dead, you are god" hack that activates if you die (or probably with practice, Neo would have learned the power anyway, kind of like how he used it to remove Trinity’s bullet when she got shot). I believe the Oracle's end goal, which she would have achieved if not for Doogie Howser's faction of the home machine race blowing them up and rebuilding Neo and Trinity and all that stuff, was this: A Matrix good enough for the human brains inside to be born into it aware, where everyone has benevolent abilities, and anyone who wanted out could get out. No more coercion, but a partnership and peace between the Machines and Man. The ones who woke up could work to rebuild the world, maybe even unburn the sky. The ones who lived in the Matrix traded their lives for energy production in exchange for a pleasant dream of plenty. Instead of a violent cycle where hundreds of thousands of humans inside and outside the Matrix die for the upgrade, you have a cycle where everything is peaceful, and most people do not risk the system by rejecting it because being aware all their lives allows them a choice. That choice, if you remember, is what the Architect said was the root of the problem. Humans need a choice, but the world had to evolve enough so that most humans chose to stay rather than leave. Imagine the choice to wake up or stay living in a werewolf-infested ghost hellscape where the magical agents of the Merovingian hunt down people who awaken and want to leave. The system would collapse. So once the world evolved to be peaceful and desirable for all, the new code meant the world was ready to tell everyone, so it did. I even imagine that the shock and stress of so many wanting to leave immediately after learning their whole life was a lie is what may have led to the power dimming that caused Officer Carl Jenkins to lead his robot rebellion, which led to the latest movie.

For years FOR YEARS I been needing someone to explain the matrix to me 😂thx ur the best 👍

​@@Matisarocan I hire you to write my dissertation for me 😂

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Your scorpion kick comment is important as you are correct. Scorpion & frog allegory is what is also on display in Matrix it's also the scorpion & turtle in another & the bull & Europa in yet another hence BULL ET or like why lead & superman reason. I was married to a scorpion who did this to me as I am the other archetype so this wasn't hard to figure out.

I love how he calls her "The Fortune Teller." It tells you exactly what he's focused on. 😂

I lost count how many times watching it, but i feel like watching it again ...

Good for you

Yeah, I'm struggling with this myself

i hate how they completely violated the legacy with Matrix 4. it had such potential and could have been made so well, but they scrwd it up so crazy i haven't got words for it. they should have ended with Neo waking up in a pod in the machine world, next to ( a repaired ) trinity, all himself, after the help of events from what unfolded during the movie, and seeing the 'younger' morpheus, smith, etc. as their 'original' ones (Cgi'd over if needed), and realize he's in another layer of a simulation but taking control and remembering the past and then waking up.

There is only 3 lol​@@manoahvanderwolf3259

I mean, that's kinda what happens, except it was probably the "merging" with Smith in M1 that changed them both... but yeah, those metal bits they have in their heads (and connected to their brains) to plug into the matrix can basically serve as an antena, functioning like a wifi of sorts =P

The Matrix has you, Brien...

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lol love that! Perfect timing.

@@KingRabla heck yea!

Your an anomaly 😂

This comment makes no sense. What were you streaming? Why would that mean everyone should become a member, and lastly why the hell does this make you laugh your ass off? I hate your comment bro.

This is why you should allow other apps to track your activity 🤣

Lol. 2 weeks to download a movie - only to find out it's the wrong movie. I hated those days. 😂

@@NarwahlGaming Yea it is hard to look back and wonder how the hell we did it back then?? LOL

Not even a single letter? EDIT: 😉

I understood that reference

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I think they both are the One. The whole Ying and Yang, light vs dark thing these movies push.

Everything that happens in The Matrix happens in the mind. It can alter your body - kill you. So I guess being changed in The Matrix also changed Neo IRL to give him remote WiFi control.

Ey thank you so much mate

That's a great theory! I saw somewhere that anything that comes in contact with the source are able to manipulate the machines. I kinda like your explanation better 😅

I like it as a theory - but it can't be. Just before het downs them, Neo says something is different now and he can "feel them", which wouldn't be the case of the locus of control was with Deus Machina. More likely it was deliberately left unclear to play into the theme of faith, which requires a suspension of disbelief. I refuse to entertain the notion that the Wachowskis go to such trouble adding meticulous detail, only to "forget" or gloss over such a salient point.

​@Stadsjaap my guess is that meeting the source ,then leaving to his human body. Somehow allowed him into the same system the machines use for their hivemind and control.

Coldest take I’ve ever heard. The Matrix is one of my all time favorite movies. Every movie they’ve made since has been dog water. I got what they are going for, but the execution fell so far short of the first film. In my head canon there wasn’t ever a trilogy. Just a one off perfectly executed sci-fi film

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Yeah I liked the first three immensely. I watched the last movie only once and enjoyed it. I need to watch them all again. I remember the group I went to see the third one in the theater with hated it. I kinda of pinned them as the people who only appreciate low brow action movies. Eh oh well that's life.

You can understand the point of the films and still think they aren't as good. Much more goes into making a good film than just a coherent or understandable philosophy.

It was always meant to be one-and-done. But WB threw so much money at the Wachowskis they didn’t say no. Same with the latest movie. They were told it was going to be made with or without them. That’s why the latest movie was just a commentary about sequels being forced for just a moneybag

What was the "fiasco" (other than the movie iteslf lol)?

What was the fiasco?

That's an amazing explanation 🫡

thanks mate much appreciated

Neo wen't wireless, lol.

The CGI looks a bit dated, but they did build a freeway to film on so the rest looks exceptional. Under a dozen noticeable CGI moments to me

except for..when he uses his powers in the actual real world, outside of the matrix

@@adamlastname9731 So you just completely missed the point of my comment, nice one.

Also 101 is the general designation for an entry level course in college/university

Also the window behind the Frenchman is the same pattern as the elevator

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You know, I heard the architect created the Matrix and several popular video games. But he didn’t create Frogger, which originally was said to be called Highway Crossing Frog. Can you believe that?!

@@the.musiciangamer That is so lame!

@@rahvu420 I know. It’s the lamest thing I’ve ever heard. Highway Crossing Frog…

thank you

This sounds like doom, don't know if it was meant to.

I think you’re close, but not quite there. In the first matrix, Neo leapt inside of Smith killing him. What is said, but goes by many and I’m paraphrasing is that neo accidentally (purposefully) when killing Smith, copied half of his code into Smith’s programming which allowed him to be outside of the controls of the system and disobey, and why Neo is able to kill sentinels and see smith outside in the real world, he’s still connected by his code. This explains a lot. So for brevities sake, Neo finally understands that he and smith are twins is essence now, so when he says to the deus ex machine, “I won’t” he knows he won’t. The two of them being the same code is driven home, when they’re flying upwards during the fight, the distortion they leave behind is the double helix. Then he understands during the crater that the only way to win, is to allow himself to be copied, uniting the one code while connected to the machine, and allow them to purge the virus and reboot the system. Minus the overtly clean cinematography, when the first was a noir, I think the sequels are brilliant pieces of cinema.

The second two were not quite the same. It's not about "not getting it", the other material delving way deeper into it is great, no one has a problem with really, really "getting it" (and it's directly told to you, it's not hard to "get it" if you've seen/read/played everything). The fact is, the Wachowskis are not very good at writing dialogue and it really showed when the story needed to be fleshed out in the 2nd and 3rd movies. Carrie Anne Moss and Keanuu have a pretty wooden delivery style as well so, combine that with dry pretentious dialogue and dry wooden delivery and what do you expect? People who like good dialogue are going to be a little turned off... go figure people who like movies also like good dialogue in those movies... go figure... or maybe they just dont "get it", ha... like it's some kind of secret at this point. Like the matrix franchise hasn't been disected a million times over already. The Wachowskis could have written better scripts for the 2nd and 3rd movies... deal with it fan boy.

I love the matrix movies and have done since they first released but the trilogy is far from perfect 😂😂😂

Definitely not perfect, not even close. The first one is groundbreaking, the sequels decent, the remake is atrocious.

No, the sequels are even "decent" they shouldn't have been made, they were just cash grabs. Only the first one should have ever been made.

I'm sorry to hear you became blind, deaf, and dumb after the first film was released.

@ITFNBiteBayKon - Just watch The Architect scene with a dictionary. I promise it’ll be less scary.

I love when all the Smiths say inevitable able abl

Wow, there are so many Easter eggs it's wild.