Just got sent these in an email, anyone who likes the film it makes for interesting reading and answers alot of questions.

Thing is, not sure how to add it on here as an attachment from my hotmail? (shit, I sound like a right geek! better go out and buy an anorak)

Just copy & paste it

Zion is a program, just like the Matrix. How is Neo able to figure out that he is able to stop the sentinels in Zion near the end of the film? The spoon given to him earlier. It had obviously been bent loads, but how outside the Matrix?? This gave Neo the inspiration and the understanding that Zion is still a matrix.

 

 

 

The One explained

 

"The One" is a program, but has to be "attached" to someone in the Matrix. So Mr. Anderson got it in the 6th version of the Matrix. Then "The One" program's purpose is to allow Zion to be destroyed then to rebuild it. The reason for this is because of anomalies - the 1% of humans that don't accept the Matrix. These are all brought out of the Matrix program and into the Zion program by the "Morpheus" program and other similar "ship captain" programs. Then once all the anomalies are out of the Matrix (and in Zion), that is the time for Zion to be destroyed, thus killing all the anomalies off. The Matrix is then upgraded, thus creating the next version of the Matrix, but Zion must be rebuilt so that the next lot of anomalies can bebrought out again so that they can be destroyed. This is the feedback-loop, and is the reason to retain a handful of people so that Zion can be rebuilt. So this is why Neo said the prophecy was a lie - the One's purpose was not to end the war as the prophecy stated. Unfortunately, "The One" program must be re-used each time, or copied, so it can be "attached" to a new anomaly inside the Matrix. So what happens to the old "The One" program? It faces deletion, and as the Oracle explained, it goes into exile instead, just like the French bloke (the Merovingian) did. He was the first One (probably from the second version of the Matrix), and once he fulfilled his duty, he became an exile program and "abdicated" his "Oneness" by choosing Persephone and power. This is evident in the bogs when Persephone asks Neo to kiss her. She says she wants him to kiss her so she can feel what it is like again to be kissed by something close to human, just like the Merovingian used to be. Then she says to Trinity that she envies her, but that these things are not meant to last. So the Merovingian used to be just like Neo - a One - thus proving further the feedback-loop explained earlier.

 

 

 

The correct door in the Architect's room

 

Now there are two possibilities here:

 

1. All the previous One's chose the right door allowing a "temporary dissemination" of their code into the Matrix (i.e., the code they "carry" thus indicating Neo is indeed human), then he must select (unplug) 23 people from the Matrix to rebuild Zion. This takes away the possibility that stories from previous rebuilds of Zion will be carried through. But Morpheus indicated in the first Matrix that this is the case anyway. He said, "there was a man born inside, able to change things, it was he who freed the first of us," - basically the One previous to Neo. And this proves that the previous One chose the right door also. Neo's purpose is also to choose the right door, but he does not because he faces deletion afterwards and has the choice of going into exile - programs choosing to go into exile is the one thing that can't be accounted for in program parameters. Thus, he chooses the left door instead this time. How was Neo able to choose the other door? Because of his extreme willpower? - Even the Architect indicated that he'd noticed this - "Interesting. That was quicker than the others." Or more likely, because the Oracle upgraded his coding with the candy on the park bench. The candy/cookie was a method to change the One's program. She said he has made a believer out of her - this is quite human-like and perhaps the previous One's didn't accept the upgrade candy, now she has hope... hope that Neo will finally choose the other door.

 

2. All the previous One's chose the left door, saving Trinity and letting

 

Zion fall. So this time is no different. But the Architect does say, "You are here because Zion is about to be destroyed. Its every living inhabitant terminated, its entire existence eradicated," and also, "this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it," - assuming the Architect isn't lying, then they have already destroyed Zion (i.e., Zion has fallen) five times - i.e., the result of going through the left door.

Morpheus and Trinity are programs. Morpheus's purpose was to find the One and deliver him to the Architect. Trinity's purpose is to control the One by getting in love with him. Trinity is supposed to be the mother of the new One every time the Matrix is Reloaded. That's why the sex scene was so important and why she was named Trinity.

The Architect says, "she is going to die, and there is nothing that you can do to stop it." He was correct though because she did die just like Neo did in the first Matrix (Oracle said he or Morpheus would, and she didn't lie, but he came back to life). Trinity dies, but comes back to life (we are using medical definition of death in all this of course!).

The Architect has already laid down an ultimatum for Neo choosing the left door:

The Architect - "Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash killing everyone connected to the matrix, which coupled with the extermination of Zion will ultimately result in the extinction of the entire human race."

Neo - "You won't let it happen, you can't. You need human beings to survive."

The Architect - "There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept. However, the relevant issue is whether or not you are ready to accept the responsibility for the death of every human being in this world."

Looking at this further, the Architect does say "coupled" with the

extermination of Zion will the human race be exterminated. So he says everyone connected to the Matrix will die, but if Zion is not exterminated, the human race will not necessarily die. Also, there is likely to be a time-window between not going through the right door, and the cataclysmic crash, thus allowing Neo to unplug as many as possible from the Matrix, then those people won't die. This will be the start of the next Zion. As for the Matrix, a cataclysmic crash doesn't mean the end of the Matrix - just needs rebooting or reloading!

The next bit you're getting with all the spaces etc, cos that took ages to do and was boring.

Agent Smith explained

 

Agent Smith is the only "human" in this world. He's the one spreading

 

himself like a virus replicating himself over and over until the Matrix will

 

finally get overloaded and fail. Smith is the one who wants to get out of

 

the Matrix for good. He said so in the first Matrix, "I must get out of

 

here, I must get free! And in this mind, is the key," squeezing Morpheus's

 

temples, "my key! Once Zion is destroyed, there is no need for me to be

 

here!"

 

Smith knows that by killing Neo he can escape the Matrix because Neo is the

 

key to resetting the Matrix, or to shut it off. It was originally killing

 

Neo (in the first Matrix) that allowed Smith to become powerful (cloning

 

ability) - so killing Neo again will allow him to gain Neo's powers

 

completely, and thus gain the power to shut down the Matrix.

 

So where the hell did Smith come from if he wants to destroy the Matrix?

 

He's obviously not meant to be there - he's a computer virus as he has every

 

characteristic of a virus - he multiplies and spreads and infects (and

 

emulates) other programs like one. He is exactly as he described humans at

 

the end of the first Matrix - "You move to an area and you multiply and

 

multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can

 

survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this

 

planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus."

 

But who put him there? This will only be revealed in Revolutions

 

(Revelations?) I guess - but I'm betting on humans in the real real world,

 

i.e., outside of Zion and the Matrix. They're at war with the machines and

 

trying to destroy them by infecting them with this virus - Agent Smith. So

 

the irony with this theory is that Agent Smith represents the human race!!

 

Neo represents the machines! Agent Smith says to Neo just after he's seen

 

the Oracle that he became free when Neo destroyed him in the first Matrix

 

(remember when Neo entered his body and exploded him from inside out) - as a

 

virus, Smith has the ability to "inherit" other programs' abilities and thus

 

inherited some of Neo's.

 

 

 

The anomaly explained

 

The anomaly is all the humans that do not accept the Matrix. The Architect

 

says "Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent

 

to the programming of the matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly,

 

which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what

 

is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden

 

to sedulously avoid it, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure

 

of control." This includes Neo, but Neo's Matrix avatar is attached with the

 

One program so that he can follow his purpose as explained earlier under

 

"The One explained". However, he is also supposed to protect himself and

 

destroy anything that gets in his way - i.e., Agent Smith - so that he may

 

fulfil his purpose.

 

Further proving Neo - and other non-accepters of the Matrix - are the

 

anomaly, the Architect says, "Your life is the sum of a remainder of an

 

unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix." The clue

 

here is Neo's program name - "The One". Take one-third for example. 1 over 3

 

is 0.33333 recurring. A computer cannot deal with recurring numbers, so must

 

accept a limit, let's say 0.33333 for argument's sake. Multiply by 3, you

 

get 0.99999 - never 1.00000, where has the "remainder" 0.00001 (One) gone?

 

This is the limitation of computers, this is the mathematical imprecision

 

inherent in programming (of the Matrix) and the eventuality of the One

 

anomaly unable to be eliminated.

 

 

 

What is the equation then?

 

Not sure, but it definitely involves pi. The Keymaker refers to the window

 

of time to open the door to the mainframe as 314 seconds. 3.14 is pi to

 

three sig. figs., or the number of radians in half a circle. Half a circle

 

is like the cross-section of a womb, similar to the alcove of Neo and

 

Trinity's love scene - conceiving the next One? "NEO", incidently, is an

 

anagram of "ONE". Trinity and Neo - one on one; a choice - one or one. Leads

 

us to 101. "101" is mentioned numerous times in Matrix 1 and Reloaded. Neo's

 

room at the beginning, Merovingian is on the 101st floor, the 101 freeway of

 

the car chase in Reloaded, then when Trinity is hacking into the power plant

 

system, she resets the password to Z10N0101. Freaky. Indicates that she is a

 

program because that's not some random password she's put in. 101 is binary

 

for 5, which in zero-based binary counting: 000 is 1, 001, is 2, 010 is 3,

 

011 is 4, 100 is 5, 101 is 6 - And this is the 6th version of the Matrix!

 

Then there's 303. 303 is the room Neo got shot in Matrix 1, the Oracle lives

 

in room 303, it's also the hotel room number Trinity is in in Matrix 1 and

 

it's seen at the end when Neo fights the Agents and Smith and begins to

 

literally see the code that makes up the Matrix. 101 x 3 = 303, a trilogy, 3

 

+ 0 + 3 = 6 = the 6th Matrix. Trinity means 3.

 

 

 

Who is the "mother" that the Architect refers to?

 

The Architect says, "Please," in an almost disapproving sense when Neo

 

suggests the Oracle, but does not reveal who it really is or even directly

 

that Neo is wrong. The architect was the one who created the Matrix; the

 

co-creator is neither Persephone nor the Oracle. Both of them are only

 

programs that have a purpose in the matrix, just like the rest. The

 

Architect is in charge of the Matrix world and the co-creator is in charge

 

of Zion. She has almost the same age as the Architect. Therefore, that woman

 

is the Head Counsellor, the only woman of importance that lives in Zion and

 

the one who asked for the two captains to volunteer at the council meeting.

 

She's the one who knew all along about the Matrix. She was the one who told

 

Zion's Defence Minister to cool off and to let Morpheus do his work so

 

things could go as planned.

 

Or alternatively, it could indeed be the Oracle. She is the only program

 

that truly wants humans to have a free choice... at the same time, she sees

 

the future, because she knows the program code - she is like God - which is

 

why Seraph protects her - see "Who is Seraph?" below.

 

 

 

What's so special about Neo's avatar?

 

Neo is a skilled hacker, and his avatar in the Matrix is based on the person

 

that founded the AI of the original machines that eventually took over the

 

world... How? Take a look at the disc he gave to the bloke at the door at

 

the beginning of Matrix 1. It said "DISC AI" on it. The hollowed book Neo

 

takes the disc out of is "Simulacra and Simulation" - a collection of essays

 

by the French postmodernist philosopher Jean Baudrillard. He opens it to the

 

section "on Nihilism" (meaning nothing is truly known, etc.). "Baudrillard's

 

concept of simulation is the creation of the real through conceptual or

 

'mythological' models which have no connection or origin in reality. The

 

model becomes the determinant of our perception of reality--the real." And

 

Morpheus says, "Welcome to the desert of the real," in Matrix 1. I'd say

 

this book describes The Matrix to a tee. So this disc contains the key to

 

the AI, and thus how to destroy the machines, so I think they'll use this

 

info in Revolutions to ultimately destroy the machines, which means he'll

 

have to go back to the nightclub and find the guy he gave it to.

 

 

 

Who is Seraph?

 

The reason Seraph (the guy Neo meets before meeting the Oracle) had golden

 

code and was so spectacular is that he came from the first incarnation of

 

the matrix, which was heaven. "Seraph" is singular for the plural

 

"seraphim". The seraphim are the highest choir of angels and included

 

amongst others: Lucifer, Gabriele, Raziel and Malaciah, and they sit on the

 

8th level of Heaven just one below God. So Seraph will obviously have a big

 

part in Revolutions, but whose side will he be on - the machines or the

 

humans?? That is the question.

 

The Twins

 

They are exiled programs that emulate the human myth of ghosts as the Oracle

 

explained. They are programs behaving badly. Persephone killed one of the

 

Merovingian's bodyguards with a silver bullet because he was emulating a

 

werewolf. So if the Twins could phase into ghost form, why didn't he when

 

his arm was trapped in the door of the garage? Was it because he was wounded

 

or because he can't phase when his arm is trapped? No of course not. The

 

doors of that building, when shut, always led somewhere else (usually in the

 

mountains) when opened again without the Keymaker's key. So if it were

 

slammed shut due to the Twin phasing into ghost form, the Twin's arm

 

would've ended up god knows where, but certainly not attached to the Twin's

 

body.

I'll get my anorak..........

Originally posted by james300

I'll get my anorak..........

 

Yeah and dont forget your train spotting book on the way out too ;)

 

 

Acutally I thought of most that stuff myself.

 

Stuart

Originally posted by SRRAE

Yeah and dont forget your train spotting book on the way out too ;)

 

 

Acutally I thought of most that stuff myself.

 

Stuart

 

I shouldn't of wasted my time then. :rolleyes:

 

The person who wrote it....now that would be some serious nerd. I was just passing it on!

No I wasnt implying you wrote it. There are a few ideas there which I thought after I saw the film.

 

The whole virus thing and the past "The one" people.

 

 

I was just not quite a nerd enough to spend hours typing it all out ;)

 

Stuart

Is this the thread for people with no life ??:D :D

Originally posted by Nelson MainFella

Is this the thread for people with no life ??:D :D

 

No, just for people who liked the film and were thinking wtf?

Very Very interesting read. Thanks for putting this up it has actually answered allot of my questions about the film.

 

However, there is a bit that I don't agree with and that's the "A computer cannot deal with recurring numbers" statement. Binary code can not deal with fractions, but computers can. Anyway I'm sure that in the machines created by AI would have been created using Trinary (Base3) rather than Binary (Base2).

I mean, humans work in Base10, for computers to become that advanced I would have expected at least Trinary maybe even Octal or Hex programming.

 

But if anyone has any other theories let me know :D

you can do fractions in binary :)

 

I agree with some of that, there are parts that are wrong though heh, its all based on assumptions, only the writers of the film know the truth and it will all be explained in time.

Originally posted by smw1

 

But if anyone has any other theories let me know :D

 

Whenever you get in the bath, the phone will always ring.

Originally posted by MikeGroves

you can do fractions in binary :)

Ok Mike,

What's the binary code for 1.5 ?

radix set after 6th bit

 

00000110

 

 

=

000001.10

 

 

=

 

1 + 1/2

 

=1.5

WTF!!!!!!:confused:

Originally posted by smw1

WTF!!!!!!:confused:

 

 

its all about how the system inperprets the binary.

 

the machine deals with on off impulses we just tell it to take certain values for certain pulses, these impulses are purely at our own discretion. If I build my own basic machine I could tell it that

 

010010110 = chicken :)