On Finally Understanding The Matrix Sequels

I began dating my wife, Melissa Anderson, in 2005. Ive dressed as Agent Smith for Halloween every year since, just so I could say "Hello, Mr. Anderson" to my father in law.

I guess this is why I love Matrix: I am " someone who loves philosophical conversations and also enjoys ridiculously over the top action sequences " I am the target audience

The Merovingian's line "Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without," foreshadows the Architect's scene in that the Machines are trying to offer the humans a choice but to constrain it to make the choice come out in their favor.

The Matrix Trilogy is really just live action anime.

"Listening to some guy explain philosophy for 15 minutes at a time"... The video lasts 15 minutes... I see what you did there o.ó

Good thing neo took the blue pill and became john wick

"The only way to live in an unfree world is to make yourself so absolutely free that your very existence becomes an act of rebellion" Albert Camus

"hugo, stop having so much fun"

I love the scenes with The Architect. It's silent, but tense, and if you pay attention to what he's saying it is actually easy to follow. It's brilliantly done, because it actually feels like a computer outputting data rather than a person communicating an idea. Cold, precise, and unrelenting. Can you imagine if they did the typical "super-villain" thing, having the architect all emotional and evil?! That would have been a major flaw.

I've always been partial to the idea that, when he's heard that there were other Ones before him, Neo suddenly realizes "Wait, this has happened before. Time and again, they've chosen that door. Just to mess with your head, I'm going to choose this door, save the woman I love, and save Zion for real. How do you like them drumsticks, Col. Sanders?"

A point that people often miss when talking about Neo choosing the Love door in the Architects Room, is how that love came to be. In the first movie, Trinity tells us that The Orcale told her that The One would be soulmate. :) I've always read this as The Oracle setting up this version of Neo to chose the Love door.

When Neo says "It was inevitable" it was his way of goading Smith into assimilating him, thus ensuring his own demise. He was tricking him.

Joke's on you, 15 year old me thought the architect's speech was amazing.

"So why did he actually go through this door?" To rage against the machine my dude... to rage against the machine.

Matrix 4 guys... Was it really inevitable?

"While art doesn't change, you do" Good job!!

The Matrix trilogy is so empowering to me because essentially when you watch it, every single scene builds up to the one moment: “Why do you persist?” “Because I choose to” That one line without context is quite poor but because nearly everything we’ve seen is telling us that free will doesn’t actually exist, it’s immensely powerful. Because whether or not he even has free will in that moment, whether or not his choice to keep fighting is just a matter of everything that’s happened to him up to that moment, HE STILL CHOOSES TO FIGHT. Even if it’s not really a choice, he doesn’t care. He’s going to fight anyway. And because of that fact he’s going to win. And that’s amazing.

Some people say the Matrix movies are pretentious, I think it is more an issue of having a fucking amazing idea for the characters and universe but not being able to execute them in the most optimal way possible. Great video dude.

I think The Matrix Reloaded is pretty good. It ends on an amazing cliffhanger. My issue with Revolutions is that it seems like an inordinate amount of time in the film is taken up by a subplot where the guy who played Michael on Lost pilots a Gundam