»Initial Thoughts: the Reality of Zion, Neo & Trinity, a«

1. Zion is in the real world. The reason Neo's abilities have transended the Matrix is because he is not just the One picked and guided to fulfill his role by the machines. He is the One for all humanity, the Christ figure. The Matrix is a story of the Second Coming. Throughout Reloaded, the Oracle, the Merovingian, and the Architect commented on how Neo was faster, smarter than his predecessors, and the Architect spoke to some length of how, while all previous Ones experienced "love" for his fellow man, Neo felt a focused singular love for Trinity. The Neos were evolving to our Neo. It is because of this singular, perfect love between he and Trinity that he is able to take the door to his left, and risk extinction. It is this choice that separates him from previous Ones, and it is this coupled with the exchange of code with Smith gave him the ability face the Machine Juggernaut in the real world. He performed just as christianity's messia did, in the end sacrificing himself to the powers that be, that his people may one day be free. Zion was not within another Matrix. Zion was a real place in the real world, and Neo did the things he did because he was the One for all humanity, not just those still pluged in.

2. Neo and Trinity. If you accept the concept that Neo is a christ figure and this story is about his second coming, I find an interesting contrast in the life that Christ, and indeed many holy men, and Neo to be striking, especially in terms of love. Christ lived a pauper, and expressed his love for people as a whole. When he said "I love you, and my father loves you", I feel he meant "Yes, of course you, too" to whomever he was counseling. He genuinely loved them as beings. He did not love in that singular, focused manner that Neo and Trinity share with each other, and so, were you to imagine Christ standing in front of the Architect, it seems clear he would choose the door to his right, and return to the Source. Christ lived and died, I think, not alone but perhaps lonely, being so far evolved from those around him. Neo feels this too, I think, but he has refuge in Trinity where Christ did not. They empower each other and are there for each other on all emotional, physical, spiritual levels. They are each others reason for doing everything that they do. It was only after he had held Trinity during her last breaths that he was ready to give himself to the eradication of Smith and save Zion. It was only after that love had seen its end that Neo was ready to see his.

3. The Oracle is the mother of the Matrix. Others have suggested that her purpose would ultimately be the same as the Machines, and the source, but I do not believe so. The architect alluded to her beginnings in Reloaded "created to investigate certain . . . aspects . . . ". The Oracle not only stumbled upon the solution to the Architects failed matrix, but also saw the potential that existed in humanity to rise up and overcome it's shackles. This is what she is speaking of to Neo in Reloaded, "You've made a beleiver out of me". She is refering to her most daring and soaring hopes for her study subjects. the Oracle recognizes the "something" missing in the perfection of the Architect, and she sees very clearly that something in humanity. She had become a beleiver that one day, yes, there would be a One who would choose the other door and roll for the whole of his species.

I have to say that I walked out of the movie feeling that this is not the script I would have written.

But I have eaten dinner now, and relaxed a bit. I have read some other posts and thought about past scenes . . .

I am beginning to think it might be pretty brilliant.

I need to see it again.

The Matrix is been influenced by many religous works, Matrix is also about re-incarnation, the past Ones didn't have what it took to actually pull it off, the Oracle was waiting for the right One, and one day he came along.
At the end of the movie Neo dies because he admits it was inevitable (kinda like lord of the rings Arwen situation, even if everything you wish for' comes true you will still die but we still have hope) Neo's final incarnation finally reaches nirvana and becomes one with the brahman or source of life.
When they carry Neo out he shines brighter than any of the machines, who are simply extention of the human mind that created them. Machines are not evil they simply represent the consequences to human decision making, but Neo accepted his death and accepted the end. HOPEFULLY this is why Trinity took forever to die, to prove Neo things end, his love not pure nor special LOVE is just a word, that connection implied with the word which the machines seem to understand better than we do, and like Rama-Chandra said "I do not resent my karma" I'm thankful for it, and Trinity and our love that came to a halt when she died. So I do what I must to honor them. You could also think of Neo as the final incarnation of the One who finally reached Nirvana.

The Matrix is influenced by many works we get a mix of all of it.