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• ❑ Plot: Okay this opens up like a continuous movie (Lord of the rings style of
continuity). Some new and important names are introduced and the crucial
essentiality of Choice is used over and over again with the oracle conversation.
Neo is trapped between machine world and matrix world by a program called the
Trainman (owned by, of course, the Merovingian. The "in-between" link is
controlled by the Trainman who smuggles programs in and out of the Matrix. So the
Merovingian has the Trainman, who can smuggle any program around the Matrix,
working for him, and he had the Keymaker, who can open any door in the matrix,
basically giving him the power to alter and open doors in the Matrix. At this void
world, Neo meets Ramadhandra program and his wife who are programs. The
Merovingian is known as the "Frenchmen". The Ramakhandra guy gets
philosophical -- this got a little too zen, whooey-looey for me, in the 3rd matrix
movie, but it's still great philsophy, just a little more than I wanted in an action movie,
at least -- but the great advice is that this program goes to the Frenchman to free his
daughter out of love for his daughter. Neo is shocked because it is a human
emotion -- but the program corrects him saying it is simply a word, but the
CONNECTION it implies is the important thing. That's such a powerful distinction.
Love, Hate, Passion, all of those are simply words, but they have a very strong
reactionary connection to the physiology, again that word is a cause for teh effect of
a strong connective reaction, so causality is at the root of things again. Neo and the
program realize they are both ttheir for love. The Trainman is some toothless,
dishevled hobo on a train with a gun. It was funy watching the three cahse them as
they nimpbly cleared the gats as he His wife is incredibly direct. His philosphy of
karma, having gratitude for his wife and daugther and knowing what he must do is
key. That seraph guy is really cool. That loop in the train was funny. Apparently it
has some loophole code. The Frenchman is a hedonist but he does it just for kicks,
almost as a philosphy, not recklessly at all, perfectly away of rhe causality so it's not
sloppy, almost mathematical with his precison, and iphisloy. Meanwhile, Morph,
Trin, and Seraph visit the Merovingian and shoot up some of his ceiling-walking
goons at what appears to be some bondage dance party. What's cool about the
Merovingian is that he acts like a sophisticated epicurean who is above hedonism,
but he indiulges in everything tactfully, with calculation. Everything is calculated,
but completely with suave debonnair. "No action without consequence" he warns.
He knows because it is his business to know". He's always making deals, but like a
calculated mathematican, with dignified genteel He always sees consequence over
coincidence; cost over chance. Then the Merovingian wants the eyes of the Oracle
for Neo, Trinity decides to attack, gets a gun pointed at Mero, its a big shooting
hold-off. The Mero says the most hysterical phrase, "It's remarkable how similar the
pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity". The Deal is saving Neo or they all die.
Neo is meanwhile meditating to try to get himself out of the train area. Apparently,
Tinity cut a good deal. That was a funny.
• ❑ The Oracle could just as easily be an old woman who says big things and bakes
cookies, but people apply all this meaning to her words.
• ❑ Neo sees the Oracle to figure out where things are going. The Oracle says that no
one can see beyond a choice they don't understand, again, the power and
necessity of asking "Why" to understand choices, some choices we have already
made. Apparently, NEo hadn't decided he was ready to know about the Architect
and Zion and whatnot. Then he decides he is ready to know how he was able to
stop 4 sentinels and how he could jack into the Matrix without hardwiring in. The
oracle tells him that the power of the One extends outside the matrix allthe way back
to the source and that he should be dead, but he obviously wasn't ready for death.
Apparently, things happen when you are ready for them to happen. The Architect
balances the equation. Then the Oracle's purpose is to unbalance the Equation
The Oracle talks about the end, darkness, and death and that Smith could destory
everything and that he is Neo, he's his opposite, his negative. It's just the equation
trying to balance itself out. This makes a lot of sense in really cool very grand-scale
elaborate mathematical way. In other words, you've got Neo -- this loving, altruistic,
all-seeing powerful One -- which means there has to be a single person who is
intensely hateful, selfish, all-powerful, powermongering, which is Smith to avoid
upsetting the equillibrium. Everything is in eqiubilibrium. Your own life's actions
and gand macroscale actions. Then Smith, apparently wakes up in the Ship.
Apparently, the Smith Clone Platoon atacks the Oracle building and Seraph (an
awesome martial artist) and Sati flee. Funny that he said humans were like a virus,
and clealry he is the Virus here. Really he is just a computer virus. This is
interesting Apparently smith raped the Sati gril, possibly, which is sick and perverse
when he said all things need love. The Smith person can leak into the real world,
like the real world into the matrid, makes sense for that balance.
• ❑ Meanwhile the only survivor guy wakes up and uses that same philsophical logic as
Smith -- if he wasn't me, who was, etc.
• ❑ This is stronlgy reminiscient of 20,000 leagues under the sea with the "Sentinel
squids". Nairobi's ship, "Logos" returns okay. The Oracle began to seem like a slot
machine, or the daily news, that everyone stops by to hear "exactly what they
needed to here.
• ❑ Then Neo says he needs to fly to the Machine city. Naiobi says that she'll give up
her ship to neo not because she believes in the One, but because she believes
simply in Neo, which is, in a way, more powerful than a generaleze "One" because
it's perosnal belief instead of just in an idea.
• ❑ Then Trin and Neo take off in Logos to the machine city. Cool that they are in
"reasoned speech" which is logos going to face machines. Then ,of course, the
smith dude ends up on that ship. Damn, Trinity, was caught by the Smith guy. So
then Smith makes it into the real world in a way that I don't don't understand, NEo
gets his eyes burned out by Smith as the "blink Messiah". Then he someonehow
sees without seeing, and sees the fiery shadow of "smith"without the body. The fire
could represent devil-like qualities. Neo looks really gored up, but can see the
essence of things, like some hindu person, which is a higher level of the "One", of
course.
• ❑ VERY interesting symmetry with the machine world versus huamn world. It seems
like your home portaryas whatever you lack. The huamn's lack order and structure,
so their cities are organized, the machiens lack spontaenoity, so their world is very
nature-like tree-like. Also, it's cool that the Zion people use machines to defined
against machines and the sentinel machines use human "thought process and
tactics. The machines all have order in them so their worlds is someone
assymetrical. Cool stuff. Everything, again, is causality. The Merovingian's wife is
VERY hot.
• ❑ The driving of naiobo was amn impressive, THe swarm of sentienls just massacre
people wa wspretty frigtehtning. . That guy kept looking at the camera and you
coudlnt' understand his words, that's what was so intensie.Then that kid gets to safe
teh day kind of. It seems ridiculous that all thos sentinenls wouldn't take care of one
dude. He constantly looks at teh camera, which makes the acting terrible. He is
MUCH better with the slow parts than the rambunctious, loud ones.
• ❑ That was interesting about the sentinels having some kind of thought process, tact
to it. That was a cool final moment, but when he said he believe
• ❑ That commander is a terrible actor because he's always intense. Good actors build
and save that intensit and adapt.
• ❑ that's a good script line, he's the one who believes in miracles.
• ❑ trininty should have been more astonished about his stuff. And so should he have
been more powerful. this just had some bad acting, the commander, the coloenl,
then it got creaz.e The trinity-Neo dialogue just took WAY too long and was way to
chunky and distorted. That sunrise was the only REAL sunrise the whole trilogy!
Man, he just didn't process the not seeing at all. The not seeing thing is kind of
funny, then he gets pissed.
• ❑ The build-ups were off, they should have killed off trinity at the WAY WAY end, not
2/3 into the movie. Cool that neo draws the insect like deal. That's a good want.
Peace, love, and happiness. Taht's aactually a VErY VERY cool realzation. The
humans use machines to fight and the machines use human-like strategies to fight
back.
• ❑ I wasn't ready for the hostel stuff, but maybe now I could be! Some fo the burly battle
walls loked like a set. Some of it just looked So stages. The machien baby seemed
to tak on a clealry neutral role. Smith the obvious evil role and NEo the obvious
good role.
• ❑ SMith says that love, peace, etc are illusions and love is insipid. He doesn't
understsand why NEo persissts and THAt persisstnence really pisses him. He
simply persists because he choose to. HE called him NEo. He doesn't no how to
end it. Interesting that Smith "died" by Neo letting him kind of . The Oracle woman
was Smith, in a way? So Neo saved The machines from Smith? But why were the
machines attacking them in the first place. Cool stuffwith the Machine CG. Also
cool taht Smith had light in him, good light. Taht little girl just sleeping on the street.
So was the Archietc smith?
• ❑ Change always is a dangerous game.
• ❑ the MEssage of beleif is cool and paramount, too. If you don't know, you can belief.
Exactly 2 hourrs.
• ❑ The Sentinesl were based out of Insect things, too, which was cool. That's just
chees that it's a baby face, They put way too much into the face, one of thoe things
woudl have been cool, they made it this increidlby compelx algorith.
• ❑ COOL: "Epics transcend it's historical period." The matrix is definitely epic. It's
HUGE with it's message. It speaks to it's historical era, but, simultaneously,
completely transcends it
• ❑ Filming the matrix looked SO fun, with all that Space camp floating stuff. I think I
have been trying to be outside for a VERY long time! I guess I am an insider, that's
it. I am introvrted!
• ❑ Usually people who are VERY (abnormally) animated like Kramer or this other dude
in movies, are VERY calm and have lots of control over their mind -- meaning they
are philosophical -- in real life.
• ❑ That one guy seems cool, but he's just putting the wrong type of energy into it,
pssibbly, because you can't hear what he's saying, his words are just grunts.
• ❑ It was bizarre seeing the Oracle almost acting apologetic, when before she had
such a subtle power, but she is still centere,d which is cool
• ❑ The Oracle looks liek Gloria
• ❑ The Oracle is changed and appears different because, she says, she made some
choice of helping Neo and Morpheus. She says that it is still important to her
because she seriously is doing it again!
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