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Damini
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This thread is just to take the spoilers to elsewhere, and I've found some very precise spoilerage, which begins to explain half the stuff me and Kenny wandered out of the cinema going "Hrm? So... if...then...?"
The Architect creates a virtual simulation of a human paradise, it fails as stated by agent smith in the first movie. ( This was the Matrix version 1.0 )
The Architect decides to create a second matrix which replicates all the disasters/tragedies of human history and as the Architect (Coronal Sanders looking guy) states "Its grandeur was only surpassed by it's monumental failure" ( This was the Matrix version 2.0 )
In an effort to figure out why, he enlists the help of another program (The Queen of the matrix) who suggests to him that the minds be given a choice even if its an unconscious one, which he does. But although the tries account for all possibilities, some minds make the choice NOT to go to the matrix. These minds go to Zion (The real world), which is in fact a simulation as the matrix is, except the minds in this simulation believe they are free. (This is matrix version 3.0)
Simply, If there is no choice, the matrix would break down so he doesn't want these minds in the matrix anyway because they would cause its destruction.
Also as a side effect to its programming, there is an anomaly. In programming terms an anomaly is a bug or a side effect in a systems programming where the programmer cant figure out what it is or why it happens. In most circumstances, a programmer (in this case the Architect) will try to calculate all possibilities of what the anomaly will do and try to program around them.
So what the architect did was use this anomaly (Neo) to collect data about why people are rejecting the choice to go to the matrix, then use that data to report back to "the source" which clears out zion, reloads the matrix and starts over with the improvements Neo brought to the source. At which point the anomaly is reprogrammed to pull 16 men and women from the matrix to restart Zion which is where the "prophecy" comes from, restarting the whole process and explaining why the movie is called the matrix RELOADED.
As the Architect stated, this happed five times before, Neo being the sixth.
So Five times before, when the anomaly (Neo) surfaces, he programmed it to find its way back to the source. Because the anomaly is human (or at least a human living inside the matrix/Zion simulation), it must believe the decisions are a choice or the Matrix programming will fail. Which is signified by the red pill, blue pill crap and the two doors which neo has to choose to reload the matrix with the "code" he's carrying or save
Trinity.
It is clear that the architect tried to take into account all the possibilities of Neos actions as signified by all the TV screens in his office, his current choice is the one he accounted for which is the screen it focuses in on.
This time the anomaly is different, he's in love which throws the Architects system out of whack. He saves Trinity, which in turn is supposed to save Zion but kill everyone hooked into the system. Zion was destroyed anyway for reasons below.
Programming software is allot like determining probabilities, so the Architect created programs (Oracle, agents, etc) to help increase probability that the choices the minds make are to his favor.
Oracle:
Her function is to get people who didn't make the choice to stay in the matrix out. Because if they are left in, the matrix will fail as it did 2 times before. Being that the only way the Matrix functions properly is to make the minds believe they are making a choice, she is programmed to make other minds (such as Morpheus) believe they are choosing to free people and bring them Zion. But this is actually important to the Architect because if those people stay in the matrix, it crashes.
Agents:
Although agents seem to be always working against them, but all they really are are tools to help increase probability that the minds (Warriors of Zion) have a strong belief system that they want to be free. Which also increases probability that the citizens of Zion will pull more and more people out of the matrix and into the Zion simulation, which lowers the probability of the matrix failing again.
So there you go. I quite liked the film to be honest, though I thought it was quite obvious when they turned it into exactly the same graphics I expect they use in the game sequences, and it didn't have the inherent cool of the original matrix, which I think is down to the fact that it was more of a sci fi film than the original cyber punk type one.
But I did get a bit tangled up on the plot towards the end. I wasn't sure if Zion was gone or not at the end, and I wasn't sure if they were still in the Matrix always, or whether after the architect scene they were tricked into thinking they had left the matrix, but were still inside. You know, like that shit star trek film with fatty Kirk and skinny Picard.
The Architect creates a virtual simulation of a human paradise, it fails as stated by agent smith in the first movie. ( This was the Matrix version 1.0 )
The Architect decides to create a second matrix which replicates all the disasters/tragedies of human history and as the Architect (Coronal Sanders looking guy) states "Its grandeur was only surpassed by it's monumental failure" ( This was the Matrix version 2.0 )
In an effort to figure out why, he enlists the help of another program (The Queen of the matrix) who suggests to him that the minds be given a choice even if its an unconscious one, which he does. But although the tries account for all possibilities, some minds make the choice NOT to go to the matrix. These minds go to Zion (The real world), which is in fact a simulation as the matrix is, except the minds in this simulation believe they are free. (This is matrix version 3.0)
Simply, If there is no choice, the matrix would break down so he doesn't want these minds in the matrix anyway because they would cause its destruction.
Also as a side effect to its programming, there is an anomaly. In programming terms an anomaly is a bug or a side effect in a systems programming where the programmer cant figure out what it is or why it happens. In most circumstances, a programmer (in this case the Architect) will try to calculate all possibilities of what the anomaly will do and try to program around them.
So what the architect did was use this anomaly (Neo) to collect data about why people are rejecting the choice to go to the matrix, then use that data to report back to "the source" which clears out zion, reloads the matrix and starts over with the improvements Neo brought to the source. At which point the anomaly is reprogrammed to pull 16 men and women from the matrix to restart Zion which is where the "prophecy" comes from, restarting the whole process and explaining why the movie is called the matrix RELOADED.
As the Architect stated, this happed five times before, Neo being the sixth.
So Five times before, when the anomaly (Neo) surfaces, he programmed it to find its way back to the source. Because the anomaly is human (or at least a human living inside the matrix/Zion simulation), it must believe the decisions are a choice or the Matrix programming will fail. Which is signified by the red pill, blue pill crap and the two doors which neo has to choose to reload the matrix with the "code" he's carrying or save
Trinity.
It is clear that the architect tried to take into account all the possibilities of Neos actions as signified by all the TV screens in his office, his current choice is the one he accounted for which is the screen it focuses in on.
This time the anomaly is different, he's in love which throws the Architects system out of whack. He saves Trinity, which in turn is supposed to save Zion but kill everyone hooked into the system. Zion was destroyed anyway for reasons below.
Programming software is allot like determining probabilities, so the Architect created programs (Oracle, agents, etc) to help increase probability that the choices the minds make are to his favor.
Oracle:
Her function is to get people who didn't make the choice to stay in the matrix out. Because if they are left in, the matrix will fail as it did 2 times before. Being that the only way the Matrix functions properly is to make the minds believe they are making a choice, she is programmed to make other minds (such as Morpheus) believe they are choosing to free people and bring them Zion. But this is actually important to the Architect because if those people stay in the matrix, it crashes.
Agents:
Although agents seem to be always working against them, but all they really are are tools to help increase probability that the minds (Warriors of Zion) have a strong belief system that they want to be free. Which also increases probability that the citizens of Zion will pull more and more people out of the matrix and into the Zion simulation, which lowers the probability of the matrix failing again.
So there you go. I quite liked the film to be honest, though I thought it was quite obvious when they turned it into exactly the same graphics I expect they use in the game sequences, and it didn't have the inherent cool of the original matrix, which I think is down to the fact that it was more of a sci fi film than the original cyber punk type one.
But I did get a bit tangled up on the plot towards the end. I wasn't sure if Zion was gone or not at the end, and I wasn't sure if they were still in the Matrix always, or whether after the architect scene they were tricked into thinking they had left the matrix, but were still inside. You know, like that shit star trek film with fatty Kirk and skinny Picard.
