»Rage Against the Machine / The Halting Thereom«

To me, it is no coincidence that the first two movies were ended w/ Rage Against the Machine songs in the ending credits. It is acutally quite likely that the trilogy has been an attempt to raise consciousness amongst the population. The first movie ended with "Wake Up" off rage's first album. While Zack de La Rocha is screaming to a complacent country to realize they are just being controlled by a system that disguises itself with expensive suits and police uniforms, the matrix is LITERALLY this engineered/mechanical system where people are just helpless sheep, being herded for the gain of an authoritarian system. Here's some interesting lyrics from "Wake Up":

"'Cause all these punks
Got bullets in their heads
Department of police, the judges, the feds
Networks at work, keepin' people calm
You know they went after King
When he spoke out on Vietnam
He turned the power to the have - nots
And then came the shot"

&

"Whadda I have to do to wake you up
To shake you up, to break the structure up
'Cause this blood still floods in the gutter
I'm like talkin' photos
Mad boy kicks open the shutter
Set the groove
Then I stick and move like I was Cassius
Rep the stutter step
Then bomb a left upon the facists
Yea, the several federal men
Who pulled schemes on the dream
And put it to an end"


The second movie ends with "Calm Like a Bomb." These lyrics are ominous:

"This aint subliminal
Feel the critical mass approach horizon
Tha pulse of the condemned
Sound off Americas demise
Tha anti-myth rhythm rock shocker
Yes I spit fire
Hope lies in the smoldering rubble of empires
Yes back through tha shanties and tha cities remains
Same bodies buried hungry, uh-huh
With different last names, uh-huh
The vultures robbin everyone
Leave nothing but chains
Pick a point here at home
Yes the pictures tha same"

* there seems to be an emphasis in this song on the idea of the picture "being the same", which relates somewhat to the matrix. (i.e an object oriented programmed simulation) :

"Pick a point on the globe
Yes tha pictures tha same
Theres a bank, theres a church, a myth and a hearse
A mall and a loan, a child dead at birth
Theres a widow pig parrot
A rebel to tame
A whitehooded judge
A syringe and a vein"

For the end of the third movie, I think they will use the song "Freedom" Here's the full lyrics:

"Solo, I'm a soloist on a solo list
All live, never on a floppy disk
Inka, inka, bottle of ink
Paintings of rebellion
Drawn up by the thoughts I think

It's set uplike a deck of cards
They're sending us to early graves
For all the diamonds
They'll use a pair of clubs to beat the spades
With poetry I paint the pictures that hit
More than the murals that fit
Don't turn away
Get in front of it

Chorus:
Brotha did ya frget my name
Did ya lose it on the wall
Playin' tic - tac - toe

Yo, check the diagonal
Three brothers gone
Come on
Doesn't that make it three in a row
Anger is a gift

Chorus

Yo, check the diagonal
Three million gone
Come on
'Cause ya know they're counting backwards to zero

Environment
The environment exceeding on the level
Of our unconsciousness
For example
What does the billboard say
Come and play, come and play
Forget about the movement
Anger is a gift"

Here's some reaons why I think this song will be used, and if it is used, and this really what the writers of the matrix had in mind, than Larry and Andy Wachowski are unbelievable geniuses. There is also a possiblity that it is pure coincidence, then I'll of course feel stupid.

* note that tick tack toe can be looked at as a 3 X 3 matrix in mathematical terms

* note the lines from rage's song: "Yo, check the diagonal....cause ya know they're counting backwards to zero"

the way many recursive algorithims work is that each time they perform an operation they subtract one from a counter. once zero is reached (the conditions are met) it stops and displays the work it has done. For instance, note an implemnation of factorial (note that the factorial of 5 is: 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 *1 )

(define (fact n)
(if (= n 0)
1
else (* n (fact (- n 1))

* this algorithim systematically computes a factorial by multiplying each subsequent number by one minus itself, until it recognized the original number it passed in has reached zero. Then it just returns one, and effectively "halts."

One of the most useful operations done w/ matrices in mathematical practice is taking the "determinant". When you take the determinant of a matrix,
you multiply each diagonal seperately and then subtract both of them:

for instance:

let A be the 2 X 2 matrix :

a b
c d


then the determinant of A,

det (A) = ad - bc

A 3 X 3 matrix is slightly more complicated, for one needs to perform a laplacian expansion:

let A be the 3 X 3 matrix :

a b c
d e f
g h i


det (A) = aei-afh-bdi+bfg+cdi-ceg

for further reference:

Why Rage Against The Machine? Well, look at the name of the band. Rage AGAINST THE MACHINE. They are fighting AGAINST THE MACHINE.