The Matrix: Reloded on DVD

Reloded came to theatres in March. We didn’t go. Movies are expensive when young children are involved. It’s just plain easier to wait for the DVD to come out to see the flicks we want to see.

So between then and now, the most heard thing was “the sex scene in The Temple”. What a build up!

When it actually came to that part in the movie, it was nothing compared to what we had heard. I’ve definitely seen worse “sex scenes”. It was closeup shots intermixed with the crowd dancing in that chaotic religious fashion. The worse part was really the crowd. Neo and Trinity was bad, sure, but rating things, I can’t say it was anywhere near as horrid as others had reported.

Beyond that, we’d also heard what a “dissapointment” this movie is, it was just “more of the first”.

I beg to differ. This movie is the mid-point of a story. It is more of a ‘story’ than the first Matrix movie is. This movie shows Neo in fine form. Able to fight many at one time, particularly Smith’s. Pretty cool effects.

But Neo is still questioning himself about “Choice”. Where the movie is going, I can’t say, but it fits well in a religious sense still. Whether that is Christianity or some other so-called “religion”. Neo get to the Mainframe, and, in my opinion, just doesn’t ask the right questions, nor see the sham that is before his eyes. He goes away disbelieving. He goes away to save Trinity, his Love, from death. A choice that he’s been dreaming about for a long time, according to the event of this movie. The “architect” as well as the “oracle” all tell him it’s not about choice, he’s already chosen … but then the “architect” still puts a choice in front of him. The group, Neo, Trinity, and Morpheaus are mocked by another character for “just doing what they were told to do”. They did what the “oracle” told them to do, go find that guy and find “the keymaker”. Well, they believed at that point they were just doing the thing that had already been chosen for them, that their path is set before them, the prophesies are true, they are following that path to save Zion, the last city of true men, to dismantle The Matrix. But Neo, every time he’s on his own, disbelieves to some degree, and looks for “choice” and “what to choose”.

Now Neo is incredibly gifted at this time, doing amazing things. In spite of his disbelief. If only he was able to see himself through his operators eyes … he’d believe.

Now it comes to the end, that after the “architect” in the Mainframe, Neo leaves to save Trinity, instead of doing anything else. He saves Trinity from falling and restores her to the living. But sees nothing amazing about that. They then have their ship destroyed by the machines that are out to destroy Zion.

Then the machines come in to attack the people who escaped the ship before it blew up. They are running to hide, and Neo turns around and says “something feels different” or something to that effect. Then he puts his hands up and the things seem to hit an invisible wall and fall down dead. Neo sinks to the ground, unconscious. Amazing. No one seems to think anything about it though.

Another of the Zion ships is still out there, and finds them soon after. Neo is in sick bay, and there is another person, the one survivor of the Zion attack … the roaming ship found him. And there they both lay, unconscious, with “To be Continued” written in green in the next frame.

That other person was someone bad. Here’s my analysis of the whole thing.

Zion existed truly as it was there. One Zion. Neo believed a lie. The “architect” was a computer program or a real person “in the Matrix” and looking as he wished to look. He looked important sitting there. Where was his authority? Neo was vunerable and believed a devil maskerading as “God”.

The entire Matrix started going down the path in this movie of saying “this time …” and such things, which when you see the movie the second time or more … you’ll notice it from the beginning. Someone controling the Matrix is controling everything. Why NOT implant a lie that says, this is the 6th time. You are the 6th anomaly. Zion has been destroyed over and over. The history of Zion is not true, just as much as the history of the world in The Matrix isn’t true. But Neo believed it, didn’t question it enough. He accepted nearly everything he was told, except for anything to do about Trinity dying.

Well, this is only a guess. I perhaps will reformulate this as I watch The Matrix Reloded again, and again.

It wasn’t a let down, it was a continuation of the first, going on to end in the next, hopefully. It had a different bent to it than the first, and it really, to me, set up the whole thing to be an uncovering of an evil plot to control the world, and the freeing of all those batteries, at the least. With Neo as an incredible salvation figure.

This is a story that paralells the real world, but isn’t the real world. It’s a story that is very interesting. Why they can take Gods name in vain at times, but have no sense of “God” in anything else, I don’t understand. A real good version of this would be to have entirely cleaned the language of those cuss words … and have no references outright in normal speech of God. This is a different world, in my interpretation. Not ours, another one, as was Middle Earth. Similar, nearly the same, but different. A good place to tell a story. A story with truth in it. So, what’s the truth that The Matrix is trying to tell? It seems that’s something different, depending on who you talk to, or read. 🙂

One more thing about The Matrix Reloaded. Is “The Real World” in this movie “really the real world”? For if so, then this movie has set Neo up for doing something more in the next. He stopped those robot killing machines just as if he was “in the Matrix”. Hmmm. When he awakes, as he most likely will, it shall be interesting. I’m not saying it is or isn’t supposed to be the real world. I’m just saying it’s a category split, either one or the other. If it is the real world, Neo is REALLY The ONE. And that would scare “the architect” to pieces, enough to set up an elaborate lie.

This may be the first of many, or a few at least, posts on this movie subject.