Ok, I didn't want to read any reviews before the movie came out... so now I went to
AintItCoolNews.com, and in one of the talkbacks, as usually how those movie geeks are, some of them probably got the entire point of it (I wouldn't be surprised if they saw it 20 times already)... I can say is I was pretty close too... but I guess we'll only be certain after the third movie...
Here's what that guy, who goes by the nickname of 'Uncle Sam' wrote:ALMOST NO ONE "got" the true meaning of what really happened at the end of Reloaded! Read the following (MAJOR SPOILERS):
Comment: At the end of Reloaded, Neo and his pals are running away on foot from a fleet of Sentinels, in the sewer system of the real world. But then, Neo realizes "something", and simply STOPS the Sentinels with a gesture of his hand, as he would stop bullets in the Matrix. Most people immediately thought "So, Neo has powers in the real world as well, now?". But NO! This means that the "real world" DOESN'T ACTUALLY EXIST! That it is nothing more than an extension of the Matrix! If properly understood, this final moment validates absolutely EVERYTHING that was mentionned thoughout the film. It explains how Agent Smith was able to dowload a copy of his program into a human being in the "real world", it explains why the Merovingian seems to be the first "one", even though he is nothing more than a sentiant program. It explains why it is mentionned that the City of Zion and the human resistance has been created and destroyed five times already BY THE MATRIX, it also explains why it is suggested that NEO HIMSELF is in reality a mere computer generated simulation. So, this is the truth: In the beginning, the Matrix knew that a few human beings would eventually realize that they were living in a virtual fantasy, and that these individuals would attempt to escape, to wake up from this dream world. So the machines created ZION, a virtual recreation of the real world, that these individuals could "awaken" into. The humans were completely fooled by the illusion of Zion, of the "real world", but the machines realized that they would need to create a belief system enabling them to control the minds of these people. Enter the Oracle, an artificial intelligence which would convince the human resistance that a messiah was coming by telling them of the prophecy of The One. And then they created The One, a sentiant program convinced that he was a human being, that he was able to manipulate the Matrix at will. His apparent "physical body" in the "real world" would eliminate any doubts that he was a mere illusion, a fabrication of the Matrix. And so, five different Ones unknowingly lead five different human resistances to their own inevitable downfall. The children of Zion could have liberated every single human mind from the Matrix, it would not have mattered, for the real world was in actuality nothing more than another Matrix. This mind-blowing stuff probably will be far above and beyond most people's heads, just as it was over the heads of practically every character in this movie. At the end, Morpheus loses his faith. No shit, if you found out that a hundred years of war had been entirely futile, and that the Messiah was merely another program being manipulated by the Matrix, wouldn't you lose your faith as well. And since the cycle of creation and destruction of both Zion and the Matrix is repeated every hundred years, and this is the sixth and final time, then in the REAL real world, its not the year 2199, but more like the early 28th century. - I WANT YOU, but not in that way.
And one guy in his reply wrote:Subject: Uncle Sam, I sure hope you're wrong....
Comment: BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE REALLY FUCKING STUPID! This notion has floating around a lot lately, perhaps due to this ending. If this is true, it will be the worst betrayal of film fans in the history of cinema. The original Matrix was cool, interesting and different. If it follows the "it was all a dream" bullshit cop out, then I will officially hate these sequels. The real world can't be another matrix because if it is, then nothing means a goddamn fucking thing. It's all just bullshit, and the entire world would have been LIED TO! Nothing learned, nothing gained, no fucking ANYTHING! No humanity, no moral, no lesson nothing real at all. Just a big flashily wrapped fucking video game foisted en masse to a glossy-eyed public that just want s to se stuff get blow'd up. Naw, fuck that! That would tantamount to Luke Skywalker waking up and saying "Whew, what a bad dream. And you were there Uncle Owen, and you too Aunt Beru! And farmer Kenobi was a wizard master that taught me to fight with a laser sword!" WOW, wouldn't that have been all deep and introspective? Of course you could just claim that it was "over my head" or that I "just didn't get it" as if that was this whole mind-blowing ending that would turn my whole understanding of life on it's fucking ear.
And a final one from a guy who wrote:From: Celicaster
Subject: Uncle Sam is close but not quite right.
Comment: I normally wouldn't post on this mess of flames, but I thought I'd make a contribution. SPOILERS Uncle Sam, I think you're mostly right. However, the story is not as hopeless and detached as you make it seem. Yes, the real world as we see it at the end of Reloaded is part of the Matrix. There are two possibilities. 1) When Morpheus left the Matrix through the door just before Neo went to meet the Architect, he actually entered a fake real world simulation program. However, I think that's unlikely. It's far more likely that: 2) Neo realized when he stopped the sentinels the same thing that he realized that gave him in the first movie. He realized that there is no spoon. Or in this case, there were no sentinels. The real world is indeed part of the Matrix. However, Neo has, through human choice (that unpredictable factor that has perplexed the machines so much), broken the cycle. He has made the realization that the real world does not exist and has learned to bend the rules there. This does mean, however, that there is a REAL real world. The "real world" as we see it, that includes Zion, was created to account for the 1% of human minds that rejecting the Matrix. It satisfied their desire for something more. However, they were still deceived. Neo will free their minds, this time with no need for a false prophecy, bring down the system, and reveal the REAL world, not the fake simulated one, as he frees mankind at the end of Revolutions
valid points...
Sorry for adding so many other people's comments, and not my own, but it just made a lot of sense to me, and I thought why not share it... Cleared up a lot of stuff for me, I know I'm gonna watch it again...
