you take the blue pill the story ends you wake up and believe whatever you want to believe you take the red pill you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes all I'm offering is the truth nothing more one of the coolest shots in film history on the red pill side Neo's left arm reaches up for that red pill but on the blue pill side that same arm remains lowered at his side two different realities one where he never reached out one where he did this single shot I believe not
only changed Cinema it fundamentally broke Society into redpilled paranoia to Deep dive down rabbit holes just like this driven by an itch to find the glitch sometimes even in YouTube videos I'm Eric Boss and this is the Deep dive let's dive deep into the Matrix a perfectly crafted Masterpiece that continues to influence films decades later suddenly coded with existentialist philosophy Christian theology themes of gender identity and conspiratorial details that continue to free our minds to this day we must re-enter the Matrix because even on this latest hack I discovered dozens of new details and I
realized this film prophetically trapped us within a matrix of misinformation lies that we prefer to the truth because red meat tastes so much better than tasty wheat and ignorance is blast we actually open with composer Don Davis's [Music] horns there's already so much meaning hidden in this music these two opening chords are mirrored versions of each other E minor C major E minor is B down four semones to G and then down three semones to e whereas C major is C then up four semitones to e and then up three semmit tones to G so
E minor is the sorrowful hell of the Matrix whereas C major is the triumphant freedom of the real world that Neo flies up toward in the final shot Davis plays E minor with a whole horn section the imprison masses while C major is a smaller number of trumpets the few free two parts mirroring each other and each successive Matrix film will actually Ascend to show Mankind's gradual Ascent toward Freedom the first in E [Music] Minor Matrix Reloaded in F minor and then Matrix Revolutions a half step up to G [Music] minor film's opening title cards
and the reigning numerals are all the color green as a green ENT colors every shot that takes place inside of the Matrix to convey its artificiality compared to the real world which is colored in blue and the humans artificial constructs which are blank canvas white green was the color of early monochrome computer monitors and starting the film already in this green coded Matrix makes us feel like the world of the viewer may also be simulated opening with green text is one of many things the wowski pulled from the 1995 anime Ghost in the Shell which
also explored is the existentialist implications of a future when human brains can be hacked and consciousnesses can be detached from the body the wowski pitched the Matrix showing producers of Warner Brothers Ghost in the Shell and many things from the character of major similarity to Trinity the idea of plugs in the head the visual of cracking concrete upon landing and all the shootouts just evoke the great animation of that film this reigning Matrix code is actually a type Bas made up of mirror images of had wit Cana characters Western letters and numerals designer Simon Whitley
reportedly based this code on his wife's sushi recipes yet this idea of mirror images recur throughout this film and so does this imagery of raining code the window wipers on the skyscraper the rain gushing down the Adam Street bridge and on the back windshield of that car these are literal prison bars trapping these humans inside and we open on this code because this is an opening point of view shot from the eyes of the Matrix a trace program listening in on Cipher's call with Trinity you weren't supposed to relieve me I know but I felt
like taking a shift this opening exchange already tells us that Cipher is annoyed that Trinity dropped in on him because these late night hacks are when he is able to feed Intel to the agents the informant is real and so Cipher teases Trinity you like him don't you you like watching him Cipher teases Trinity's voyerism knowing that the real Voyer is the Big Brother also listening in on this call the phone number is 31255 690 312 area code for Chicago the wowski hometown they shot this movie in Sydney Australia but all the street names like
Wells and Lake these are all Chicago references Neo's metacortex boss is a picture of Chicago in his office 555 because it's a fake movie number and 555 numbers don't exist in the real world and 0690 because this movie is also horny as F and we pushed in on the Zero of the number to reveal it as columns in Columns of sophisticated analog Machinery zapping like the stacks of human farm pods suggesting that even something as simple as a zero masks and array of simulated Clockwork and we arrive from this at the police flashlight representing the
matrix's eye of Sauron is a Clos in on The Ghost and their machine Trinity her name are first of many nods to Christian theology the Holy Trinity and her room number is 303 which is a triple of 101 Neo's apartment number 303 is also the htgp status code meaning the requested resources available at another location this is the same room Neo is directed to in the final Chase and runs into agent Smith this HTO the City hotel is the same one recognized by Smith when he looks up at it during that chase remembering it from
this opening scene which is how he's able to cut Neo off in the exteriors of this block there are signs for Kung Fu and Up on the Rooftop an actively smoking sign for guns and ammo for shadowing this kind of action we should brace ourselves for in this movie there's a great split Focus shot of Trinity in focus in the foreground in the cop in focus in the background framed in the fold of her arm we also see this with agent Smith looking up at the fire escape it's just a way of showing heightened sentience
of being aware of the simulation but not as cool as the bullet time a visual technique created by VFX supervisor John Gada who won an Oscar for this film Getta credited Akira director atomo katsuhiro and Michelle gandre for this look but he used an array of Steel cameras pointed at a singular subject timing each of these cameras to go off right after the other and combining these still images with tracking motion cameras reaching a frame frequency upwards of 12,000 frames per second gaeda wanted to create quote a visual analogy for privileged Moments Of Consciousness within
the Matrix as these characters are able to bend the laws of gravity and have a 360° awareness of the simulated reality around them but these dazzling visuals were really the marriage of revolutionary camera work in VFX but also straining wire assisted stunts choreographed by Hong Kong action Cinema director Yuen Wu ping this way the actor is always able to maintain intense focus in the stunt to convey the camera movement as their own astral perspective spinning around them after she beats up all the cops you'll notice on Trinity's laptop screen are images of Neo so she
knows that the Matrix will now be targeting him and has to make her move tonight Choy and dour with a right rabbit tattoo to were likely agents of Morpheus as well these rooftop sets were previously used in the film dark city which is another story about Humanity being kept in an intricately constructed simulation the customer Kim Barrett designed Trinity's black leather to look Mercury like an oil slick to reflect light in an interesting way so that she literally looks like she's slipping in and out of this code Kim's name is actually scratched in graffiti on
the elevator later and when Trinity Torpedoes through the window I like how she curls her fingers into fists so that she doesn't break her fingers on that glass after Trinity gets out through the phone booth the camera pushes in on the p phone and Zips back out on the a of searching on Neo's computer as the search for him is on Neo sleeps and is woken up with the message this movie's First Act actually shows Neo waking up three times here here in this scene and then after the club and then a third time after
the agent bugging each time making the previous scene feel like a dream of his but each of these are really false Awakenings foreshadowing the true Awakening into the real world in act two and then his final Awakening as the one in act three the thought experiment of this film is that our entire reality could be a dream and we wouldn't know it as Neo sleeps the music of the band Massive Attack sings These interesting words a direct antithesis to what Choy will tell him moments later you're my savior man my own personal Jesus Christ so
Neo is obviously posed as a Christ figure in these films but we begin with a debate over whether or not he is the savior Neo of course is an anagram for one and it means new whereas his Matrix name of Thomas Anderson comes from the disciple of doubting Thomas and Anderson meaning son of man Neo is searching for Morpheus and this International headline translates to the killing of Iraqi sh dafair and seven others in Aman one of many ways the Big Brother operation of the Matrix is using the media to paint Morpheus as a terrorist
Neo's apartment number is 101 and Room 101 is where in George Orwell's 1984 Big Brother tortures Winston in the ministry of love and Winston's job was at the ministry of Truth where he would alter headlines in the media just like this on and zeros are of course also binary code as everything we are seeing in the simulation is technically digital projection now Neo keeps his files in simulakra and simulation a philosophical treaties by Jean Bard that the wowski require the cast to read it's about how the rise of capitalism has led Society to adopt simulated
copies of things or simulakra as our realities the example being Disneyland an artificial dream world in which we seek to recapture the joy of childhood that in reality we probably never really had Nostalgia roast ined glass it's a crazy phenomenon we're not actually remembering real experiences we're remembering the last time we felt when we remembered it our own minds lie to us so that now as adults whenever we hear things like John Williams music and then we tweet things like oh this gave me the feels what the is the feels it's really just shorthand for
these formula dosages Nostalgia when really we are mourning the fact that we have never really experienced anything that's why I think it's so ironic that Neo hollowed out this book on a page titled on n ISM he's too apathetic to even investigate the source of his own apathy and he fills this book with what this dirty capitalistic side hustle technology is literally wearing the skin of human culture it's the perfect movie symbol now Choy breaks Neo's mind for a second no this never happened you don't exist and he goes on to say look it just
sounds to me like you know you need to unplug man you don't exist you need to unplug all messages to Neo to wake up and Neo asks you ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're awake or still dreaming this comes from the thought experiment of philosopher Renee Dart who posed how can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream Dart used the idea of waking up but still being in a dream as an example of not being able to trust our senses and our perceptions as the basis of reality
and in his first meditation he hypothesized that the perceived world might actually be an illusion created by a demon to deceive us this is also referred to as the jeang XI Paradox xang XI argued while he is dreaming he does not know it is a dream only after he wakes does he know it was a dream and someday there will be a Great Awakening when we know that this is all a great dream Neo was told to follow the White Rabbit DJ's tattoo of course a not to L Carrol's Alice and Wonderland really an extended
metaphor throughout this film Morpheus promising to show Neo How Deep The Rabbit Hole goes the rabbits on the TV and the Oracle home and Neo's amorphous Looking Glass the wowski shot the club scene in a real Sydney BDSM bar just told the patrons to dress as they are Neo meets Trinity whom he knows as a renowned hacker I just thought um you're a guy so in the late '90s wowski were known as the wowski brothers but have since come out as trans women Lily and Lana wowski and in over the years many critics have looked
back at this film with fully valid interpretations that the film is really an allegory for gender dysphoria the character switch in this movie has that name because originally the character was going to switch genders when they went in and out of the Matrix and the way agent Smith condescendingly calls Neo Mr Anderson totally represents the way go out of their way to misgender people Goodbye Mr Anderson my name is Neo Neo works at metacortex a term that literally translates to transcend the boundaries of the brain his boss Mr Reinhardt is a simul of agent Smith
you have a problem with authority Mr Anderson oppressive Authority in this movie always wears the same face to Neo and when Neo sits at his desk he spaces out in front of his monitor perhaps waiting for that dark screen to come alive with green text with more instructions but instead it comes via the sickest Nokia 8110 with a springload a keypad cover Neo Crouch runs around the cubicles hiding from the agents which will later Inspire everything everywhere all at once the window washer lift is the same one that the washers used in the previous scene
but as Neo scales across the scaffolding on the street below notice the cars drive against a traffic paint because this was actually not Chicago but Sydney where they drive on the other side of the road and the traffic arrows would be painted thly Trinity sees Neo arrested in her side view mirror and several women in red pass the woman in the red dress of course is what mouse uses to disguise an agent we see Neo detained in an unnecessary wall of video screens that looks like the arc ARS room and Matrix Reloaded is maybe him
watching this sixth anomaly working his way through the sixth generation of the Matrix Neo's file text is printed in the OCR font which was designed to be recognized by both computers and humans his file says that he was born March 11th 1962 in Capitol City Fu USA fu is in Neo's response to agent Smith the file list of mother's name as Michelle M the art director of this film and that he attended Owen Patterson High Owen Patterson being this movie's production designer his passport expiration date is insanely September 11th 2001 yikes one of many details
that led to this film inspiring internet conspiracy theories the agents melt Neo's mouth shut something that they do not need to do if they're bugging his Naval but they actually do it to make this moment so surreal that Neo when he wakes up later will dismiss it as a dream so later when the MCU pulls this move by having the Scarlet Witch erase black Bolt's mouth in an instant it's not as haunting as seeing keanu's mouth melt and then briefly pry openen before it oozes shut again I almost made this the thumbnail because I hate
it but I also love it Neil gets picked pied up by Trinity switch and APO APO named because he was originally going to be the hacker Behind The Four Horsemen virus switch says listen to me Copper Top yes copper toop is their slang term for humans still plugged into the Matrix as in morpheus's Durell battery metaphor they debug him while they are on the Move in the car as opposed to in a stationary spot so that they'll be harder to track and they take them to this old hotel the location Morpheus will later be captured
in with black and white checkered tiled floor like the on and off switches of binary code and Neo meets Morpheus originally the role of Neo was offered to Will Smith and Morpheus Dev V Kilmer which would have been a very different version of reality or who knows maybe will was a Neo of a past iteration of the Matrix Morpheus in Greek mythology was the god of sleep and dreams so it's fitting that he chose this name as the Lord of Awakening trap souls he describes the Matrix it is the world that has been pulled over
your eyes to Blind you from the truth like everyone else you were born into bondage born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch so the term Matrix was used in the cyberpunk context in a number of sources before this including William Gibson's Neuromancer building on ideas from science fiction writer Philip K dick who in 1977 said we are living in a computer programmed reality and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed and some alteration in our reality occurs they laughed at him then but this is
where the wowski got the concept of the glitch this idea also comes from Plato's allegory of the cave in which prisoners are chained in a way so that they only only view of reality is Shadows on the cave wall the philosopher King's Mission according to Plato is that of Morpheus here is to intellectually unchain the unenlightened so that they can finally see the world's True Form notice Neo's eyes hurt when he leaves the cave you've never used them before this theme of real perception versus simulated perception is linked to why characters so often wear sunglasses
in The Matrix also it looks cool shut up agent Smith's sunglasses reflected Neo back at himself during the interrogation and Morpheus reflects Neo in this amazing shot that we open this analysis with these reflective mirror surfaces are windows into alternate life paths like the architect screens showing the different choices made by pass NEOS from taking the red pill in this mirror he goes into the other room to merge into another Looking Glass but first as he enters Cypher hands Morpheus S phone and glares at Neo Cipher is morpheus's phone guy and later during the attack
when Morpheus asks Cipher for a cell phone Cipher Pats his clothes looking for one empty-handed because he tossed his phone in the trash to set up the trace to betray them cyh to me is the most interesting character of this movie like this moment where Morpheus says the red pill was a trace program to detach Neo from The Matrix so they can locate him cyer is the one to say it means buckle your seat Bel Dorothy cuz Kansas is going bye-bye and in my running theory that all American movies are trying to be either The
Wizard of Oz or Citizen Cane The Matrix with all of its dream debates is all Mr Wizard but I'll talk more as we go why Cipher is so important to the story Neo's perception unravels with the image of a mirror which is our symbolic Gateway into another reality have you ever had a dream Neo that you were so sure was real what if you were unable to wake from that dream how would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world mirrors are the first part of the Matrix code to break down
because they have to program us seeing ourselves in a way that doesn't freak us out too much so when Neo gets that liquid mirror on his body and goes into shock the others are not seeing the mirror goo that's just what Neo sees as his mind is breaking leading to this sick transition keanu's human scream transitions into digital noise as he opens his eyes to see his own plugged body in this pink goo pod these PODS of a weathered and dirty and greasy and gross look to them to convey how generations of human batteries would
have lived and died in these and when the machine unplugs them Neo sees his own bald reflection in its surface just like he saw nent Smith's and morpheus's sunglasses now yes I am a proud nerd so it shouldn't come as any surp surpris that I like learning it's fun and it makes me feel smart it's part of why I spend so much time on brilliant.org brilliant.org is the best way to learn math and computer science interactively I didn't even know math could be fun but it is brilliant has thousands of lessons from foundational and advanced
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first 200 of you will get 20% off brilliant's annual premium subscription Neo's Flush body is picked up by their hovercraft the Nebuchadnezzar named after the ancient Babylonian King who according to the Bible had a dream that he couldn't remember and searches for an answer the ship's plaque reads made in the USA year 2069 69 Mark 3 number 11 possibly another biblical allusion Mark 311 and whenever those possessed by evil spirits caught sight of him they would fall down in front of him shrieking you are the Son of God they upload Neo to the construct which
is a blinding white space meant to look like the simulated home of the end of 2001 A Space Odyssey fish bured sunglasses at first are fully opaque so that the camera wouldn't be reflected in the lenses but when we cut back to him the pinch lenses are suddenly reflective once more Morpheus wears a green tie in the scene which remember was the normal white shade of the Green Tinted Matrix now to show Neo and us the color difference of this blank construct in the blue shaded desert of the real the term desert of the real
is a direct quote from Similan simulation it is the real and not the map whose vestages persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the Empire but ours the desert of the real itself now the the wowski comic bits and pieces of information and the sequence the second Renaissance in the 2003 animatrix elaborate on the fictional backstory of the Matrix an AI murder of a human family leading to a Dread Scott style court case the establishment of an AI Nation called 01 in the Middle East War then operation Dark Storm
that morphus alludes to here etc etc but what works best about this film is that they don't go into any of that we don't see Zion yet in this film instead the lore is kept focused on Neo and his relationship with with this former simulated reality and that keeps us like Cipher more lured in by the simulation than by the Grim truth of the real world the film really only spends 14 minutes in dystopian sci-fi before swinging back into a kung fu movie supposed to start with these operation programs first let's do something a little
more fun how about combat training tank is played by Marcus Chong son of Tommy Chong of ching chong Marcus had a huge falling out with Warner Brothers over his contract and was arrested for allegedly making threatening phone calls to the W this movie led to many people doing some interesting among the fighting styles we see on the screen is drunken boxing fight choreographer Yuan Wu ping worked in drunken boxing in the jackiechan film Drunken Master y was initially hesitant to work on this film but the wowski kept coming back to him agreeing to hire pay
and final creative Authority on all fight choreography in this movie they really just wanted him at all costs and it totally paid off in this movie it's interesting how first it's all offscreen I know Kung Fu show me and from here the movie shows us how good y really is it's not just his wire work like there's one combination here in the fight Keanu Reeves does three types of kicks with the same foot stay balanced on his left foot the whole time in the limited time I did tawo as a kid I would try to
do this during sparring all the time and I would always fall on my face and eat Matt notice how Neo does a similar move on the rooftop later Reeves and Fishburn did much of the sparring in the scene themselves and you had to alter the choreography because they kept hitting and bruising each other but KS has always celebrated his stunt performer team and his stunt man Chad tosky would return turn to work with him in the John Wick films Morpheus and Neo's GES form y shapes and the opposing colors from each other so there's this
overhead shot where they kick simultaneously and their colors mix in away to make them Yin and yangs of each other Neo fails the Jump program everybody falls the first time so why design a program this way not to test to see if someone might be able to beat it but really as a kobashi Maru where the pavement hardens to teach a more valuable lesson I thought it wasn't real your mind makes it real if you're you're killed in The Matrix you die here the body cannot live without the mind then Morpheus walks Neo what Neo
thinks is a matrix but it's actually another training program for agent awareness yet another source of uncertainty we can never be certain of our reality we can never be certain of our reality mouse uses the woman in the red dress to distract Neo and she works on us too you don't notice this at first but many of the extras in the scene are duplicates of each other there are two nuns two Sailors two bald men Mouse double up on these NPC designs in order to save code Morpheus warns every single man or woman who has
stood there their ground everyone who has fought an agent has died but where they have failed you will succeed and as Morpheus says this Neo's reflection in his glasses has the agent's Desert Eagle right in his face foreshadowing the moment one of these will totally get Neo in the chest but he will succeed from this failure Neo asks what are you trying to tell me that I can dodge bullets I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready you won't have to this tells us that when Neo Dodges the bullets on the rooftop he will
still not be ready that will not be the final victory of this movie they have to hide from a sentinel or a Squiddy as Dozer calls it the machines left behind their humanoid forms and adopted squid and insectoid forms to be more efficient Hunters a similar approach to movie Robot design that Christopher Nolan used in interstellar practical robots would not be human- shaped Neo sneaks up on Cipher who turns off its displays the one on the top left is the same one that tank later pulls up showing the hotel blueprints this tells us that Cipher
was actively leaking this so that the Matrix could seal off the exits and then Cipher makes red meat lovers out of us all ignorance is bliss two interesting details I just caught about this one that piece of steak that Cipher cuts and holds in the first half of the shot changes when we come back to him and he puts it in his mouth a glitch and two I seriously never noticed this and it's freaking me out in the reflection on the glass behind them in this restaurant the other two agents are watching this go down
from where the camera is positioned Cypher says that he wants to be someone important like an actor whatever do you want Mr Reagan Mr Reagan I'm pretty sure the joke here is that Cipher would have been reinserted as Ronald Reagan an actor turned US president Cipher is an example of the institutionalized man that Smith later refers to in his monologue to Morpheus someone who prefers The Matrix and he is the most important character in this film because let's be honest we are Cipher if we knew knew the truth we would all choose that blue pill
we do it every day with Escapist Fiction with sports and games to avoid news headlines Cipher is really what gives this movie plausibility he gives it stakes and stake Cipher is exactly why Humanity lost the war of all of these characters we all probably relate with Cipher the most so on the way to see the Oracle Morpheus nods to this blind man who nods back to him perception extending Beyond mere sight the Oracle was inspired partially from tesus and Greek mythology who was blind in interesting detail the close up on the doorknob masks the camera
lens in plain sight covering it with a jacket and a fake tie that matches morpheus's green tie in the waiting room the floating blocks show a helicopter which is how they free Morpheus and one of the potentials says only try to realize the truth there is no spoon then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends it is only yourself which is if you think about it a solid description of bullet time it's not reality bending it's our own view of reality as we are the ones who are bending Neo meets the Oracle
And while everything in the kitchen is Matrix green on the Oracle with the natural light coming in it casts her as an earthmother archetype she feeds Neo cookies in internet slang cookies are identity assessing trackers that you get when you first use a site much like the way the Oracle is assessing Neo's identity here the Oracle points to the sign above the door which translates to know thyself it's a reference to the inscription above the entrance to the Oracle of Deli in Greek mythology and the ancient Greek aphorism of philosophers like Socrates and Plato when
Socrates visited the Oracle he famously claimed all I know is that I know nothing and the Oracle replied that he was the wisest man on Earth so this Oracle keeps a sign to remind visitors to be aware of their own ignorance when Cypher says ignorance is bliss he's not wrong we would all do better to acknowledge our own ignorance the Oracle cryptically says you already know what I'm going to tell you I'm not the one sorry kid yes notice how the Oracle phrased it so that no matter what Neo said next there that would be
the truth Neo said that he wasn't the one and that doubt is what is holding him back here she says that he's waiting for your next life maybe who knows which is true because it will be after Neo's death and his resurrection when he becomes the one during all this mouse is looking at a fold out of The Woman in Red but notice that when he answers the phone the light shines through the paper from the other angle to show that it is totally a different woman another glitch and speaking of that [Music] devil Deja
Vu established to mean a glitch has been made in The Matrix we can never be certain of our reality in fact you may have noticed that the reality of this YouTube video has been glitched you have not just seen me but rather six iterations of me glitching from one digital self-image to the next it seemed like it happened right as we were on our way into visit the Oracle so before the Matrix patches this glitch let's talk about an individual named Sophia Stewart a writer in paralal who calls herself the mother of the Matrix and
claims that the character the Oracle was based on her Stuart has claimed that she wrote the story that Warner Brothers and the Wow's turned into the Matrix and the story that James Cameron and fox turn into the Terminator series she sued for copyright infringement and her case was dismissed in June 2005 she filed another lawsuit against her attorneys and in 2014 a judge ordered that she was entitled to over $300,000 in attorney fees from her own attorneys but in October 2004 Stuart got an article published in the Salt Lake City Community College Globe newspaper titled
mother of the Matrix Victorious falsely reporting that she won a court case and would receive 2.5 billion in profits this article was completely bogus and the globe issued a correction but by then the story had been picked up by other websites and social media and it's now a full-blown conspiracy theory shared by people who believe in Stuart's story fueled by beliefs that Hollywood sometimes steals ideas and by other anti- wowski sentiments when you Google Sophia Stewart the top results are are not Wikipedia or legitimate news sources but Stuart's various social media posts her personal website
books she's written podcasts she's hosted articles with headlines that don't outright refute her which anytime you Google something and that's the kind of result it tells you that someone has juked it you seriously have to scroll and scroll and scroll before you find the PolitiFact article debunking this PolitiFact Is the Pulitzer winning news site that debunks hoaxes and conspiracy theories just like this and they rated Stuart's claim as false no joke literally every video or post I made about the Matrix on YouTube or anywhere has said people in the replies repeating steuart's debunked claims you
will no doubt see her name come up in the comments here feel free to argue with them but you will be wasting your time you may yourself have been fooled by this conspiracy theory I'm sorry if that's you but you're probably not hearing anything I'm saying right now you're just writing your comment in all caps probably if many of these were Bots designed to search for her name and link to a tweet linking to an Instagram post linking back to that retracted article I wouldn't be surprised I regret even bringing her up but I do
so to illustrate this is exactly what the Matrix has done to society now on social media people can just say whatever they want online and if they have a sympathetic enough claim something that sounds like it's something that could have happened and they never let it go and continue to repeat it and repeat it and repeat it the truth will get replaced by their truth you cannot argue with conspiracy theorists online because they will always defend a reality where they have cause to feel victimized they believe that only they have been redpilled when in fact
they actively blue pill themselves because the LIE is more more comfortable to them and ignorance is bliss now this is not the sole fault of the Matrix film but the movie was so impactful on pop culture and on all society that this remains part of its Legacy For Better or For Worse and I think we need to shine a light on this whenever we talk about this movie online to separate valid analysis from the because we can never be certain of our reality we can never be certain of our reality now of course the black
hatat is a Superstition representing bad luck and it is the first step of the series explaining all super superstitions like vampires ghosts angels as really old Matrix code the promise of guns and ammo gets delivered as mouse goes down and a storm of bullets they try to escape through the walls and the SWAT officer's face rains with green code AS agent Smith takes over remember our very first shot of Neo had lines of computer text glowing on his face he was once part of that code that agents could have weaponized agent Smith fights Morpheus in
the bathroom and I just noticed now that even the window in this bathroom is sealed with brick literally every external exit was sealed with brick in that glitch Cipher pulls the plug on them not like this Belinda mcl's read of that line has haunted me for decades the accent's just a little weird I just think it's because the actor is focusing on the emotion of this because think about it switch probably imagined their death in so many ways but for them to go so unfairly with no way to stop it at the hands of one
of their own after being freed and fighting to free others for years this is the most horrifying way to go not like these Cipher says there would need to be a miracle to stop him from killing Neo if he were the one and sure enough tank makes use of Cipher dropping that zappy zap right next to his freaking hands and as that bolt hits Cipher if you pause it's definitely Joey pant stunk guy and I love it because it means that that guy had to commit to getting yanked back by wires in the shot to
sell the action when Morpheus is detained we get this brief shot of the helicopter flying toward the skyscraper camera angled upward setting up the visual of the helicopter crashing into the glass of a different building later Smith explains how the first version of The Matrix was a Utopia but that was a disaster because humans rejected a perfect world for one that would be more chaotic and cruel like the one we know this concept actually comes from the philosopher Emanuel Kant who argued that people are their own agents of Deceit and that it's easier for humans
to live in a world of lies and for them to know truth they must choose to openly pursue it now the glitch line I've been repeating throughout this analysis has been we can never be certain of our reality which is true but that's really just the first half of this movie's root myth we can never be certain of our reality therefore we must determine our reality for the wowski that meant that Society couldn't tell them what their names and pronouns are and for Neo and Trinity it's that what they were told by the Oracle doesn't
have to dictate their action or their inaction they are here because of that initial red pill choice and they could choose to determine their fate right now by Saving Morpheus Smith tells Morpheus that human beings have less in common with mammals than they do with viruses it's clear here that he admires the efficiency of a virus for how Smith will transform himself into a virus and Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions and Smith finally shows his cards I can taste your stink every time I do I fear that I have somehow been infected by it is
repulsive I must get out of here from here forward Smith is no longer just a stiff agent program he is a bitter desperate hypochondriac who will never stop he becomes a much more fearsome character here now this Lobby shootout is a spectacle of Zack stamberg's Oscar winning editing and Bill Pop's should have been Oscar winning cinematography the ballistics and pyot Technics are also perfectly timed and consistent down to the way they were able to time one of those panels falling off right as the elevator closed but notice how as the scene moves forward the structural
Integrity of all the columns never revert as we intercut forward through the scene also this idea of Neo and Trinity never bothering with reloading they just toss their guns and wait for the other guys to run out and pull out two other fully loaded guns this way they give themselves two advantages they get physically lighter as they go forward and they create more broken debris to use as a smoke screen they bomb the elevator and take the fight to the rooftop where the agent looks super cool dodging Neo shots but of course Neo looks even
cooler the famous bullet time shot but it's interesting how bullet time in this instance is less efficient Neo doesn't fully Dodge the bullets it's really an act of desperation but by preceding it with like a perfectly clean efficient agent Dodge it makes this supernatural act from Neo look more natural and I just love that one of the most iconic action moves in all of Cinema isn't an attack or an act of aggression it's an act of evasion it's a purely defensive maneuver they take the helicopter to morpheus's floor and tear the room apart and with
the fire sprinklers flooding the room it creates this gorgeous imagery where everything is raining the sprinklers raining the bullet casings and waterfalls sloshing down the side of the building all of it forms the image of green digital rain because the Matrix is still calling the shots here morace is able to pull out of his cuffs and run the agents shoot through the wall giving us another bullet time shot now the shots do come in horizontal not at an angle as they should but it is still really cool how Smith aims for morpheus's leg not his
head because he still needs the key to Zion from him and he needs to keep him alive Trinity crashes a helicopter into the side of the building and I love how the glass undulates before it shatters showing how the Matrix architecture unlike people cannot bend it can only break with morvus rescued this could have been the end of the movie but nope we got Sentinels incoming in a Subway fight graffiti on the platform wall reads save us from us interesting detail and Neo and Smith leap at each other giving us our final bullet time effect
of the film and I love what they say when they land you're empty so are you which means they were both counting each other's shots during that initial charge Neo does another one of his one-legged Combos and hook kicks a crack in his Smith's sunglasses exposing his eye perfectly in that crack Smith only showed us his eyes before and his moment of vulnerability with Morpheus so Neo is chipping away at his shell Smith tries to get Neo run over by a train but Neo back flips off the tracks and right before Smith gets sideswiped behind
him on the wall is an ad for hulet Packard as this computer part is about to get scrapped but when Smith respawns on the train little detail I just caught there's a guy standing on that train who backs away from him like what the having just seen someone shape shift into Hugo weaving when Neo snatches that guy's phone the guy shouts and for a second you see him behind Neo waving his arms around that is totally Hugo weaving gesturing for a beat Smith continuing to physicalize the action of the guy whose body he took and
my favorite extra in this movie is this woman in red reacting to the agent launching a guy through the crowded Street not my problem Neo flee through this crowd through the apartment building over the fire escape and then back to the Heart of the City hotel room 303 which Smith remembers in the first scene and that is how he is here waiting for Neo and Neo dies just as the Sentinels break in and Trinity reveals the Oracle said she would fall in love with a dead man who would be the one and she kisses back
to life making Trinity the prince who delivers a story book resurrected kiss our Christ figure resurrects and saves all of us Neo stops the bullets midair and completely owns agent Smith and while he fulfills the prophecy to become the one it is worth remembering that the sequels reveal the prophecy to be a lie orchestrated by the Oracle and the architect to seek out the anomaly of each generation of the Matrix and reset the program that said Trinity's kiss occurred in the real world a real world miracle and the true anomaly of this generation of the
Matrix was really the two of them together Neo now sees the Matrix in its true digital rain form and he leaps inside a Smith to blast him open one chunk of him containing his screaming face that flies past the camera The Sentinel Bears down on them just as Neo rushes to the phone in perfect editing here Morpheus flips the switch to the EMP and you see Trinity yank the plug out of Neo's head at the precise second so the film's final scene returns to the trace program of the opening but this time it fails rather
than Matrix spying on the humans it is now Neo spying on them this city block is actually the same location where in Matrix Revolutions Neo will fight the agent Smith virus they even kept that same exact phone booth in the shot and as Neo Soares upward toward the camera he leaves a trail of curved bent reality in his wake like the bullet trails in bullet time he has become the projectile bullet that's going to tear hole after hole through this entire simulation Neo's final words in this movie are where we go from there is a
choice I leave to you yes Neo leaves us with a choice he only shows us the door we are the ones who have to walk through it because we determine our own reality and in this Brave New World of conspiracy thinking that the Matrix has left us with For Better or Worse we can always choose to go through the door of Enlightenment we will be questioning our reality this entire month on the Deep dive channel on the weeks ahead we got analyses of inception get out bite club and Spider-Man into the spiderverse so subscribe turn
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