Originally posted by ellipsis
But seriously, what point does any of the first movie or anything have, if they are all in another matrix ? the whole 'fight the system, done with power' message is kinda lost too, if its futile.
The first movie deals with, "WHAT is the matrix" and how, "it's the question that drives us".. but as the architect said, "the first question may seem the most pertinent but also the most irrelevant" (ok, not sure if the quotes are right)
and also, the whole issue about choice? neo was given the red pill and the blue pill, and again with the oracle offering him a red lolly- but it had already been decided what he was going to "choose", but the choice was an illusion... they need to ask the more fundamental question, WHY? if everything happens for a reason, why is it happening?? up until now, they've just been accepting everything the oracle says without question.
i agree with the whole upgrading of the system with each 'the one'... are they making it so that neo will bring about the end? since there are many indications that he is different to his predecessors?
e.g. when agent smith(s) said at the beginning of the film "exactly as it had happend before" "well, not exactly".. and agent smith telling him how neo coming back to life in unloaded was not meant to happen... the architect saying he thinks faster than the others... etc
i dont really understand a lot of the things- is neo human or a program? i think he is human because the machines keep saying "he is (still) only human"... etc, but then how can he be a part of each version of the matrix there is?
and why can he do all these special things like coming back to life? remember in the first one when morpheus says, if you die in the matrix, ur body will die too because the body can not live without the mind?
OH! and i reckon time will be an important theme in the next one, coz neo was dreaming about something without the restriction of time.... not quite sure what that meant. and there were references to it, like morpheus saying, "it's a matter of time" and in the first one, he said, 'time is always against us'... which made me think... is time controlled by the matrix?