There is a lot of wordplay in the movies. Nearly every sentence has a double
meaning. Just to point out a few:
- Splinter
Morpheus (before giving the red pill): "Let me tell you why you're here...You've felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is but it's there, like a
splinter in your mind driving you mad."
Splinter in your mind? What a nice description of the 'stick' that is plugged into
the brain in your Matrix cocoon.
- Human
Talking about Neo being 'human' does not mean he is 'a human'. The
Merovingian talks about Neo as "just a man"
and a few sentences later about Persephone as "woman"
(while we know she's a program),
thus his "man" doesn't mean
'a human'.
When the Architect talks about 'human' he maybe uses it synonymously for
'imperfect' and 'dense':
- Architect: "Though the process has altered your consciousness,
you remain...human. Ergo...some of [my answers] you will not
[understand]"
-
Architect: "the imperfection inherent in every human being."
- Jesus talk
- Cypher (to Neo about saving the world): "Jesus. What a mind job."
Well, how true. Neo (Jesus) has a 'mind' job to do.
- In Matrix 1 in the
beginning a guy (Choi) and his 'white rabbit' girl-friend comes to
Neo for a CD:
Choi: "Hallelujah. You're my savior, man. My own personal
Jesus Christ."
Neo: "If you get caught using that..."
Choi: "Yeah, I know. This never happened. You don't exist."
- Operation successful, all humans dead
'The war will be over' does not mean that humans will win.
Morpheus: "When the Matrix was first built, there
was a man born inside who had the ability to change whatever he wanted,
to remake the Matrix as he saw fit...As long as the Matrix exists the human race will never
be free...The Oracle prophesied his return and that his coming would hail
the destruction of the Matrix and the war, bring freedom to our people."
Does that sound good? Yes. But what if you read it like this:
- "His coming would hail the destruction of the Matrix"
- well Smith can probably destroy the Matrix.
- "bring freedom to our people" -
well "as long as the Matrix exists the human race will never be
free", thus destruction of the Matrix will make people free.
- "a man born inside" - well, Smith
is born inside (= has no equivalent body in Zion)
- Oracle: "The path of the one is made by the
many"
...does she mean Smith as the One?
Thus Smith could be the war-ender, the prophesized returner.
- Oraclish
The Oracle always speaks 'oracl-ish', e.g. answering questions with questions etc.
For example she never said (in Matrix 1) that Neo wasn't the One. But it sounded so:
Oracle: "So, what do you think? You think you're the one?"
...
Neo: I'm not the One.
Oracle: "You got the gift, but it looks like you're waiting for something...Your
next life maybe, who knows?"
And so it happened. Neo died (shot by Agent Smith) and rose
from the dead.
In
Matrix 2 (Matrix Reloaded)
when she says...
Oracle: "You've made a believer out of me. Good luck"
...it means, that now she BELIEVES instead of KNOWING and now it's FATE instead of programmed future. But did you notice it the first time you heard it?
- How many Neos?
How many 'Ones' have there been? See special section  How
many?
Pick the nit
- Denial (and not Zion) has been destroyed five times
You could be really really picky and claim that the Architect never says Zion
will be destroyed for the 6th time:
Architect: "You are here because Zion is about to be destroyed."
Neo: "Bullshit."
Architect: "Denial is the most predictable of all human responses, but rest assured, this will be the
sixth time we have destroyed it"
You could read this as: 'We have destroyed human denial for the sixth time'.
Veeery nitpicking. To carry it even further:
-
Architect: "but rest assured, this will be the
sixth time we have destroyed it"
Destroyed the rest.
-
Architect: "this will be the
sixth time we have destroyed it"
Destroyed the time.
OK, enough. This is too stupid and if the Wachowskis really wanted the
Architect to state that denial, rest or time have been destroyed for the 6th
time, then this is at the edge of lying to the viewer.
However there is an argument for it = denial: How the heck can Zion be destroyed
for the 6th time? Was Zion rebuild 5 times already? How can a handful
fleeing humans (starting with 23 people) built big cities like that? Maybe this
is a hint, that Zion is just part of the Matrix as stated in the section Is
Zion real? Theory 3
- Morpheus is over 100 years old
Also too picky:
Morpheus: "I remember that for 100 years we have fought these machines."
- No One
Neo says in the Architect's room
Neo: "Either no one told me, or no one knows."
You could read it (pickily) as:
Neo: "Either no One told me, or no one knows."
OR
Neo: "Either no one told me, or no One knows."
OR
Neo: "Either no One told me, or no One knows."
- Trinity is the Source, Survival of the Onest
Architect: "The function of the One is now to return to the Source, allowing a...dissemination of the code you carry"
In other words: 'The function of Mr. Anderson is now to return to Trinity, have sex
and disseminate DNA'.
One could read it that way, but most probably one shouldn't.
On the other hand it could be, that Trinities resurrection (at the end of Matrix
Reloaded) accomplishes that dissemination (Neo is inserting a hand into
Trinity).
- 1% don't accept their mother
Architect: "She [the Mother, an
intuitive program] stumbled upon a solution, whereby nearly 99% of all test subjects accepted
the program, as long as they were given a choice"
You could it read as '99% accepted the Mother'. Oooh! You could also read it
as '99% accepted the Mother as long as they were given the choice to accept
her or not'. Double-Oooh!
- Neo is not the One
Architect: "The function of the One is now to return to the Source, allowing a
temporary dissemination of the code you carry"
Why does the Architect say "the One"
and then "you"?
Why not 'Your function is now to return to the Source, allowing a temporary dissemination of the code you carry'?
Does that mean Neo is not the One? Whatever the reason is, the Keymaker
said...
Keymaker: "There's a building. Inside this building there's a level...filled with
doors...but one door is special...Only The One can open the door"
...and...
Keymaker (dying): "You [Neo] will know which door. Hurry, Neo."
...and...
Seraph (after fighting with Neo): "The Oracle has made enemies. I had to be sure."
Neo: "Of what?"
Seraph: "That you are The One."
Thus Neo most probably is the One.
On the other hand #1: The Merovingian asks very questioning (as Neo comes to his
table):
Merovingian: "Ah, here he is at last. Neo, the One himself,
right?"
On the other hand #2: Since Neo already went to the Architect, there may be a
new 'One' underway. The Kid, for example (the one from Animatrix
who self-ejected out of the Matrix).
- There is only 1 choice
Architect: "99% of all test subjects accepted the program, as long as they were given a choice"
You could read it as 'accepted the program, as long as they were given a choice
to accept the Matrix or not'.
I think this is too nitpicking, because thruout the movies a lot of choices are
presented to Neo, e.g. left door right door.
- Neo is the Architect's mind
Architect: "I have since come to understand that the answer eluded me because it
required a lesser mind...you will be required to select from the Matrix 23 individuals"
Could Neo be the Architect's lesser mind? Funny idea and probably wrong.
Do
you have more word play?
Send me your thoughts !!
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