For those who don't know, in the high occult circles they have a ritual called the revelation of the method where controllers of this world expose their methods after using them on us.
The Matrix is a system which is very true
In the entire film, there are only two "homegrown", real humans - Tank and Dozer. They both have names of machines
It's been said that Neo being an anagram for "one". I think it's more important to realize that Neo means "new". His real name is Thomas Anderson. He is called Thomas at the beginning of the movie, when he doubts the truth -- that the world as he knows it is not real. Thomas is the "doubting" disciple in the Bible. Moreover, Anderson means "son of man". Hence, Neo Anderson is the New Son of Man. The biblical references go on and on... Trinity, Nebucadnezzar (the name of the ship -- in fact, the name plate on the ship makes reference to a verse in Mark chapter 3), Zion... So not only is Neo "the One", he has gone from being the doubter to the new son of man.
At the beginning of the film when Neo is talking to his his boss, his boss says to him 'You think that you are somehow special and that the rules do not apply to you.' Neo is the one and the rules of the matrix don't apply to him.(Neo is the elite families that run this planet)
When Neo gets a tour of the Nebuchadnezzar it shows a "License Plate". The plate reads "Mark III no. 11. That is really a bible verse that relates to the story: "And whenever the unclean spirits beheld him, they fell down before him and cried out, 'You are the Son of God.'"
The free land, Zion, is a reference to Mt. Zion in Jerusalem, where the Dome of the Rock stands on the peak, and where the Jewish Temple was once. In the end of time, according to the Revelation, there will be 'a new Jerusalem', and Zion was frequently used in the bible as another name for Jerusalem.
The film's premise was based on Plato's Dilemma of the Cave.
In the Oracle's kitchen, there is a sign over the door which says "know thyself." The quote originally appeared over the door of the temple at Delphi, in Greece, which housed the Delphic Oracle. But the sign in the kitchen is written in Latin, not ancient Greek.
Check out the room numbers for Trinity and Neo. When the cops bust in on Trinity in the opening scene the number is 303 ("trinity") and since Neo is "The One" the number of his apartment is 101 the binary code for male female.
When Neo gets into the car with Trinity and Switch for the first time, Switch calls him, "Coppertop" later on, you see Morpheus say "..all to turn humans into this.." and it is a Coppertop battery.
Causality or the dialectic,the laws of nature which the elite understand and use that to further enslave humanity.
In the third Matrix movie, the Oracle hints at her true purpose, which is to bring imbalance, rather than balance, to the equations that form the Matrix. In that she is opposed to her counterpart, The Architect, who brings balance to the equations that form the Matrix. The Oracle's purpose is to aid The One and the humans following him by means of the Prophecy (predicting the victory of the One and the fall of the machines), not in order to bring down the Matrix, but rather so that they can voluntarily disconnect themselves from the system, ensuring its stability while preventing its destruction. As discovered by Neo, the prophecy is "just another system of control." The role of the Architect is then to reunite the One with the Source and bring about the destruction of Zion. The pair together ensure that the Matrix is rebooted and the population of Zion starts over when necessary, thus bringing the cycle of the Ones full cirle and ensuring control over the humans for at least one more cycle.
The Grand Architect in if you notice was pure logic no emotion, he is unable to see the world as anything beyond a series of equations. It is also because of this that he is unable to comprehend choice and free will and cannot see the results of such choices as they are nothing more than variables in an equation to him.
This Yin-Yang relationship itself is a form of balance between opposing forces, so it becomes obvious that the Architect and the Oracle are the two balancing forces of the Matrix itself: the fallible human factor and the logic of the machines. (And revealing the hermaphroditic agenda for those in the know) This idea is even hinted at in the films as the Oracle is wearing yin-yang earrings throughout the third film. This process of balance between opposing forces is even more realized in the conflict between Smith and Neo at the end of the third Matrix movie, when they literally annihilate one another, like a collision between matter and anti-matter. Since the Oracle and the Architect are the Yin and Yang for the Matrix itself, they both must exist for the Matrix to exist. So when Smith took over the Oracle, he became a threat to the very existence of the Matrix itself.
Agent Smith and other Agents have the ability to take over the simulated body of any human that is a part of the Matrix, converting it into a copy of their own. If that body is killed, or an Agent needs to change his location quickly, he can assume the shell of any other human hard-wired to the Matrix in a matter of seconds. The allegory behind this is in reality people, the public, the profane, the dead etc. who believe in this big lie this matrix slave system will literally turn on turn you for telling them the truth and hand over to the authorities, so yeah they are potential agents like Morpheus said.
Agents also have the ability to communicate with each other instantaneously, represented via their earpieces (thus, when Agent Smith removed his earpiece during the first Matrix movie, he briefly severed his link with the other Agents).
Agent Smith
You become what you hate and ironically, Smith eventually becomes a literal virus, multiplying until he has overrun and remade the entire Matrix.
The idea of Smith's transformation from being an Agent of the System into becoming a "free Agent" is similar to Satan's Fall from Grace. In both cases, a former Agent of the System (in the two sequels, Smith is no longer referred to as "Agent Smith", but simply as "Smith") becomes able to move freely, and comes to have a dangerously rebellious and opposite nature. The virus-like qualities he gains may also be a reference to this, as one of the traditional titles of a demon is Legion, for they were many.
All Agents are Caucasian males......Other Agents have names like Brown, Johnson, and Thompson — common, innocuous, Anglo-Saxon names.
In addition, the name "Smith" is explicitly attributed (as "IS 5416" on the license plate of Smith's car in The Matrix Reloaded) to Isaiah 54:16 in the Old Testament:
"Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy."
The Matrix series were pretty good in my opinion in them they gave you predictive programming and also as always they rubbed this ancient religion in our faces.
Having learned but a bit on the occult, and somewhat of how they work, it is shocking to go back over this Series and have revelations about the material that were not there before.
Awesome post.
I absolutely love this movie. The first one more so than the last two. It is filled with so much truth and philosophical truths that they hide it right under your nose. The causality vid is awesome and all he says in that clip simply IS. There is no getting around it. We make choices every single day about everything that we do but, some things just are and there is a causality that surrounds everything in life. Very simple and very true.
I have known about the similarities of this movie since it has come out but I have never witnessed someone culminate such a detailed order of thoughts down on the topic. Thank you so much, this was definately a good read, very well done!
Permalink Reply by Reg on December 13, 2009 at 11:50pm
Grand Architect Speech Doesen't play here
Playable link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQSXNq7b8GQ
Interesting overview here as well, link: http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/movie/essays/understanding-the-matri... Recap and Explanation: To reiterate, all battery-people are FULLY embedded with cyborg components that can completely take over full perceptual control - this was made abundantly clear in the first movie. The cyborg components run completely throughout their nervous system - only the outside pieces are ever removed. If you view the trilogy with these points in mind, here are some actual plot points to reconsider:
The sentient program in Neo first “turns on” and temporarily “takes over” the body “Neo” when the human portion of him dies in the first Matrix movie (M1).
This explains why the agents want to kill Neo in M1, even though he’s the key to the architect’s control system (another question often asked). To meet the Architect’s needs, the sentient program portion of Neo has to fully engage and this only happens with the death of the host. The Oracle knew this, which is why she “predicted” this.