»All Questions Answered, apart from 2!«

OK. so i've seen all three matrix films, animatrix, and enter the matrix.

All my questions have been answered by the matrix series apart from 2, which i feel are not answered in the film.

if you can refer me to a part of the film which explains the answers to these questions, then i would be very greatful.

Altenaltivly any theories are welcome.

So, here's the questions?

1. How did neo come back to life at the end of matrix1?
2. What's the cat at end of matrix3?

Thanks.

neo came back to life because he is the christlike figure.... and when he relized that he is the one, (because trinity would fall in love with the one and she told him that she was in love with him ) he woke back up....

the cat represents deja vu.... or somethign in the matrix changing....

like the matrix resetting... (bashed in tiles returning to normal... or how smith had changed the matrix because he was getting so powerfull and it changing back)

i just thought that if something changed they experianced dejavu.

It doen't necessarily have to be a cat. Does it?

Was the cat there originally at the end of matrix3....or did it just appear?

Using the cat to show deja vu prolly wasn't nessicary. But they did use a black cat to show it in the original Matrix so the brothers prolly threw it in as a treat for us hardcore matrix fans.

1- Because Neo is some kind of GOD!
2- Is the final dejavu that means the matrix is changin' ( it is restarted by Neo body inside the source.)

but what made neo different to his predaccessors?

How come they couldn't come back to life..


How come neo was more powerful?


ANy answers? Please!

When Smith takes over the oracle, what happens, why does everything start to get sucked in? HELP!

Smith will surfice wrote:

but what made neo different to his predaccessors? How come they couldn't come back to life.. How come neo was more powerful? ANy answers? Please!

In my opinion, Neo actually is THE One, as opposed to one of those other Ones. To put it in Christian terms, which it seems we are supposed to because of the "crucifixion" scene (when Neo sacrifices himself to save the world from Smith and you see him held up by the machines in the crucifixion pose and a glowing gold cross superimposed on his torso and arms), he would be the second coming of Christ. Those other Ones were just enhanced purposely by the Architect - Neo is actually the Savior. It also may be the convergence of three particular people - Neo; Trinity, who inspired such a fierce and pure love in Neo; and Morpheus, who believed with his whole being that Neo was the One and would save them. Which of course leads us to the Trinity (father Morpheus, son Neo, holy spirit Trinity). Anyway, that's my take on it.

Also, as far as the movie goes... I think it was good up until the anticlimactic climax of Neo "beating" Smith. I put beating in quotes because it seemed to me that the machines beat Smith by surging power through Neo's body... this may not be what I was supposed to think but I did. I understand they had their story to tell and that included Trinity and Neo dying but I think they should have had a more exciting ending to the final Neo/Smith clash. It took me 5 minutes to think of about 5 different endings that would have been better than what was used. Ultimately I don't feel like the series was ruined or anything, but the way the ending was done was very much a letdown. I'm almost sad that they didn't just stop after the fabulous first movie because the next two really muddled things and tarnished the legacy.

1. Neo did not come back to life on his own. Its the code within him that 'rebooted' him. He wa designed from the start to take the abuse and upgrade when required. This was one of the upgrades. He went down and the emergency code program inside him was activated.

Once again, this goes back to my 'Anti-Virus' theory (matrix-explained.com...) , as Neo had code that would awaken him if he came across something which was a potential problem (Like Smith). Once he was awaken, he came back in a new 'mode' where more power was made available for him. Think about this: he was never meant to save the humans, but rather protect the machines. He had to protect the Matrix and as Smith was going out of control, Neo as his counterpart had to be stepped up as well.

2. The cat was the sumbol (as explained in M1) of changes being made by Machines within the Matrix. What we saw at the end of M3 is the Machines rebuilding the Matrix which was destoryed (in some part) by Smith.

Hmm... double posted.

People die everyday in hospitals all over the world and get brought back.
Even after Neo "died" Trinity knew he could hear her, that he couldnt be dead-dead. He was only mostly-dead. He came back because he loved Trinity also: it was yet another choice (although at a near unconscious level perhaps?), just like he told Smith, he lives because he chooses to.

Now the Smith-Neo thing I think is like this: the first thing is he wanted out really bad, he was sick of following the rules, just like Neo was. I think Smith set it all in motion. Lemme 'splain...

There were five previous "Ones" similar to Neo, and they all followed a similar path to reach the source/architect. Smith apparently knew and interacted with those previous "ones" cause he says how its all the same- not exactly though.

Well, why not exactly? Because Smith never had that power before. So...
1 Smith is the One's alter ego: his reflection, his exact opposite
2 If Neo became more powerful, as his reflection, Smith must also
3 If Neo "dies", so must Smith
4 But Smith was loyal for the past 5 "ones" That means he never died before.
5 That means the one never died before either

So Smith taking matters into his own hands and shooting the One was the start of what freed everyone and changed Neo's destiny.

We have no clue about the other ones. They could've died just like Neo did in the original and became reborn. We have no info to base that on though. Except the architec talking about the ones cycle.

I also dont think the other "ones" were more powerful then Neo. They just chose to take the other door and restart the cycle. Maybe if the other "ones" found love like Neo did they wouldve choose the same path he did and the peace between the humans and robots mightve been brought about much sooner.

Dwayne wrote:

We have no clue about the other ones. They could've died just like Neo did in the original and became reborn. We have no info to base that on though. Except the architec talking about the ones cycle. I also dont think the other "ones" were more powerful then Neo. They just chose to take the other door and restart the cycle. Maybe if the other "ones" found love like Neo did they wouldve choose the same path he did and the peace between the humans and robots mightve been brought about much sooner.

Yeah we have no specific info on any of the ones, but that th Oracle says Smith is the exact opposite of the One- the mirror, the anti-One. And we do know that Smith never died. So that would imply that the One didnt die before either.

I dont think the other ones were as powerful as neo either. Its like niobe says, she doesnt believe the prophecy, she believed in Neo. Neo was almost in a class of his own. He rose above his "destiny" to do something more.

My point is this though. The other ones chose to give the architec the code and let the matrix be reloaded. But maybe if the other Ones didn't chose that path they mightv'e risen to the same level as Neo.
Sadly we will never know though because the other Ones did not choose the same path as Neo.

we don't KNOW that the other ones didn't do the exact same thing as neo, we BELIEVE so..two different things..ofcourse i definitely believe that neo was the one to end the war, and that it hadn't already happen a bunch of times before, but we'll never know.

each following 'one' is more powerful than the previous, and neo was the first to jump into smith, imprinting upon him part of his code, allowing his cloning abilities. each 'one' died, at what time who knows. consider this, whenever you load a new program into your computer, you must 'restart' it so that it can integrate the new program. neo's death allowed the emergence of the code he carried. my theory anywho.

i think we DO know that the other Ones didn't do the same thing as Neo, because we were told so by the Architect. he's too mechy to LIE about something.

what do you think he is, a human?

If Neo were Agent Smith's counterpart, wouldn't it make sense that, as Agent Smith became stronger that Neo would also become stronger, thus balancing the equation? When Neo allowed himself to be encoded by Agent Smith, he was virtually removed from the equation, unbalancing it, irreparably. Without Neo to balance out Agent Smith's part of the equation, Agent Smith was destroyed to balance out the equation again.

Just some musings from a tired old person.

Dwayne wrote:

My point is this though. The other ones chose to give the architec the code and let the matrix be reloaded. But maybe if the other Ones didn't chose that path they mightv'e risen to the same level as Neo. Sadly we will never know though because the other Ones did not choose the same path as Neo.

if this code is recorded on Neo then NEO is not a error, he was created by machines. So is that correct why they dont like him?

I believe that the cat was thrown in for the more casual Matrix fan so they could know what was going on. They just recal from the first one that a dejavu represents a change, and they see the cat and then the Matrix is "repaired". I think it was just for the casual fan to understand why everything was suddenly fixed.

I am still puzzled about two things...

1) How does Smith (a computer program) take over a human body outside of the Matrix?

2) Why does Neo have power (stopping squid, seeing or 'sensing' without eyes etc) outside of the Matrix (in the 'real' world)? - I know that this is linked to the whole 'code' thing mentioned a few times above - But how can 'code' be insterted into a human body?

I must be missing something

Cartesian dualism. The thinking part of us is incorporeal and seperate from the physical side of us, our bodies. The Wachowskis are playing with Descartes view of this by allowing a program to take over the thinking part of someone and then control their body. Neo is both program and human so his thinking/program part can remain in the matrix even when his body has no direct link to it. Screwed up isn't it?

Why didn't they bring back the twins? Whhy, Whyy?

i always got the impression that the meravingion had some kind of cool power hidden up his sleeves. But turns out he simply knows cool people. He's just a good runner himself. He should have been able to do something surely? Breathe fire or something I don't know!

I also thought we'd see Persephone doing some kung fu but no!

I too am disappointed with the Merovingian. The trailers and previews leading up to both sequels hyped a list of characters that didn't seem to serve more than scene or two of purpose, which is somewhat ironic. "It is purpose that defines us," to quote Agent Smith. While a few of these hyped characters did serve some purpose (Merv, Persephone,) others, like the Twins, were good for a mere action sequence or two. They ultimately solved nothing.