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After watching did you understand the movie "The Matrix"? It's science fiction based and they worked on so many concepts that make us hyptonized & it becomes harder to understand.
Hence, this movie is analyzed here (you have to skip parts that you understand document is really large):
A phone rings and text appears on the screen: "
Call trans opt: received. 2-19-98 13:24:18 REC: Log>" As a conversation takes place between Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) and Cypher (Joe Pantoliano),
two free humans, a table of random green numbers are being scanned and
individual numbers selected, creating a series of digits not unlike an
ordinary phone number, as if a code is being deciphered or a call is
being traced.
Trinity discusses some unknown person. Cypher accuses Trinity of enjoying watching him. Trinity counters that "Morpheus [(Laurence Fishburne)]
says he may be 'the One'," just as the sound of a number being selected
alerts Trinity that someone may be tracing their call. She ends the
call.
Armed policemen move down a darkened, decrepit hallway in
the "Heart O' the City Hotel," their flashlight beam bouncing just
ahead of them. They come to room 303, kick down the door and find a
woman with short hair, facing away from them. It's Trinity. She brings
her hands up from the laptop she's working on at their command.
Outside the hotel a car drives up and three agents appear in neatly pressed black suits. They are Agent Smith (
Hugo Weaving), Agent Brown (
Paul Goddard), and Agent Jones (
Robert Taylor).
Agent Smith and the presiding police lieutenant argue. Agent Smith
admonishes the policeman that they were given specific orders to
contact the agents first, for their protection. The lieutenant
dismisses this and says that they can handle "one little girl" and that
he has two units that are bringing her down at that very moment. Agent
Smith replies: "No, Lieutenant. Your men are already dead."
Inside,
Trinity easily defeats the six policemen sent to apprehend her. She
calls Morpheus, letting him know that the line has been traced, though
she doesn't know how. Morpheus informs her that she will have to "make
it to another exit," and that Agents are heading up after her.
A
fierce rooftop chase ensues with Trinity and an Agent leaping from one
building to the next, amazing the policemen left behind. Trinity makes
another daring leap across an alleyway and through a small window. She
has momentarily lost her pursuers and makes it to a public phone booth
on the street level. The phone begins to ring. As she approaches it, a
garbage truck, driven by Agent Smith, careens towards the phone booth
as well. Trinity makes a desperate dash to the phone, picking it up
just moments before the truck smashes the booth into a nearby brick
wall.
The three Agents reunite at the front of the truck. There
is no body in the wreckage. "She got out," one says. The other says,
"The informant is real."
"We have the name of their next target," says the other, "His name is Neo."
Neo (
Keanu Reeves),
a hacker with thick black hair and a sallow appearance, is asleep at
his monitor. Notices about a manhunt for a man named Morpheus scroll
across his screen as he sleeps. Suddenly Neo's screen goes blank and a
set of text messages appear: "Wake up, Neo." "The Matrix has you."
"Follow the White Rabbit." Then, the text says "Knock, knock, Neo..." a
knock comes at the door of Neo's apartment, 101. It's a group of ravers
and Neo gives them a contraband disc he has secreted in a copy of
"Simulacra and Simulation." The lead raver asks him to join them and
Neo demurs until he sees the tattoo of a small white rabbit on the
shoulder of a seductive girl in the group.
At a rave bar Neo stands alone and aloof as the group he's with continue partying. Trinity approaches him. "Hello, Neo."
"How
do you know that name?" he asks. "I know a lot about you," she replies.
She introduces herself and he recognizes her name; she was a famous
hacker too and had cracked the IRS database. She tells him that he is
in great danger, that they are watching him and that she knows that he
is searching for answers, particularly to the most important question
of all: what is the Matrix?
The pulsing music of the bar gives way to the repetitious blare of Neo's alarm clock; it's 9:18 and he's late for work.
At
his job at Metacortex, a leading software company housed in an ominous
high rise, Neo is berated by his boss for having a problem with
authority, for thinking he's special. Back at his bleak cubicle Neo
receives a delivery as "Thomas Anderson." Upon opening the package he
finds a cellphone which immediately rings. On the other end is
Morpheus, who informs Neo that they've both run out of time and that
they're coming for him. Morpheus tells him to slowly look up, toward
the elevator. Agents Smith, Jones, and Brown are there, obviously
looking for him, as a woman points towards Neo's cube. Morpheus tries
to guide Neo out of the building but when he is instructed to get on a
scaffolding and take it to the roof Neo rejects Morpheus's advice,
allowing himself to be taken by the Agents.
In an interrogation
room the Agents confront Neo. They've had their eye on him for some
time. He lives a dual existence: one life is as Thomas A. Anderson, a
software engineer for a respected company, the other life as Neo, a
computer hacker "guilty of every computer crime we have a law for."
Agent Smith asks him to help them capture Morpheus, a dangerous
terrorist, in exchange for amnesty. Neo gives them the finger and asks
for his phone call. Mr. Smith asks what good is a phone call if he's
unable to speak. Neo finds that his lips have fused together. Panicked,
he is thrown on the interrogation table by the Agents and they implant
a shrimp-like probe, a bug, in his stomach, entering through his
belly-button.
Neo awakens with a start in his own bed, assuming
it has all been a bad dream. His phone rings and Morpheus is on the
other line. He tells Neo that the line is tapped but they've
underestimated his importance. Morpheus tells Neo he is the One and to
meet him at the Adams St. bridge. There he is picked up by Trinity and
two others in a car; they all wear black latex and leather. A woman in
the front seat, Switch (
Belinda McClory),
pulls a gun on him and tells him to take off his shirt. Trinity tells
him it's for their mutual protection and that he has to trust her. He
takes off his shirt and she uses a device to remove the probe that Neo
had believed had been just part of a nightmare. Trinity drops the bug
out into the road.
Trinity takes Neo to Morpheus. Morpheus
explains that he's been searching for Neo his entire life and asks if
Neo feels like Alice in Wonderland, falling down the rabbit hole. He
explains to Neo that they exist in the Matrix, a false reality that has
been pulled over their eyes to hide the truth. The truth is that
everyone in the world is a slave, born into bondage. Morpheus holds out
two pills. In his left palm is a blue pill. If Neo takes it he will
wake up in his bed and "believe whatever you want to believe." But if
he takes the red pill in Morpheus's right hand, then "you stay in
Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." Neo takes the
red pill.
As the rest of Morpheus's crew straps him into a chair
(it is at this point that Switch, a platinum blonde, calls him
"coppertop") Neo is told that pill he took is part of a trace program,
to "disrupt his input/output carrier signal" so that they can pinpoint
him. Neo looks at a shattered mirror placed next to him which
miraculously reforms itself. Neo touches the surface and the silver
begins to creep over his skin, engulfing him as Morpheus's crew attempt
to locate something on the monitors around them. The silver takes Neo
over and he blacks out....
...and awakens inside a purple
embryonic pod, extending from the side of a circular building, a
massive power plant. He is hairless and naked, with thick black tubes
snaking down his throat, plugged into the back of his skull, his spine,
and invading most of the rest of his body. He finds his pod is open and
that he is surrounded by tower after tower of pods just like his, all
filled with bodies. Suddenly a menacing, hovering nurse robot grabs him
by the throat. The tubes detach and Neo is flushed down a tube into a
pond.
Just as he's about to drown in the muck a hovercraft
appears above him, snags him and hauls him into its cargo bay. Neo
finds himself surrounded by Morpheus's crew again, but they are dressed
differently, in simple knit garments. Just before Neo passes out
Morpheus says to him, "Welcome to the real world."
Neo drifts in
and out of consciousness. At one point he asks, "Am I dead?" "Far from
it," replies Morpheus. Again he wakes, his body a pincushion of
acupuncture. "Why do my eyes hurt?" he asks. "You've never used them,"
Morpheus replies.
Neo finally awakes, fully clothed, with a
short shock of hair appearing on his head. He removes a connector that
is sunk deep into his arm and reaches to find the large socket at the
back of his neck when Morpheus enters the room. "What is this place?"
Neo asks. "The more important question is when," says Morpheus, "You
believe it is the year 1999. When in fact it is closer to the year
2199." Morpheus continues to say that they really don't know when it
is. He proceeds to give Neo a tour of his ship, the Nebuchadnezzar
(they pass a plaque stating it was built in 2069). Neo is introduced to
Morpheus's crew including Trinity; Apoc (
Julian Arahanga), a man with long, flowing black hair; Switch; Cypher (bald with a goatee); two brawny brothers, Tank (
Marcus Chong) and Dozer (
Anthony Ray Parker); and a young, thin man named Mouse (
Matt Doran).
Morpheus
gets to the point. "You wanted to know about the Matrix," he says,
ushering him to a chair. Neo sits down in it and Trinity straps him in.
A long probe is inserted into the socket at the back of Neo's skull.
Neo
awakes in a world of all white. He is in the Construct, a "loading
platform" that Morpheus and his team use to prepare to deal with the
Matrix world. Gone are the sockets in Neo's arms and neck. He has hair
again. Morpheus tells him that what he is experiencing of himself is
the "residual self image, the mental projection of your digital self"
and bids him to sit while he explains the truth. "This," he says,
showing an image of a modern city, "is the world that you know." A
thing that really exists "only as part of a neural, interactive
simulation that we call the Matrix."
Morpheus shows Neo the
world as it truly exists today, a scarred, desolate emptiness with
charred, abandoned buildings, black earth, and a shrouded sky.
Morpheus
goes on to say that "at some point in the early 21st century all of
mankind was united in celebration as we gave birth" to artificial
intelligence, a "singular consciousness that birthed an entire race of
machines."
Someone started a war, and no one knows who, but it
was known that it was mankind who blotted out the sky, attempting to
deprive the machines of the solar power they required to function.
Instead the machines turned to humans as a power source; a man provides
more electricity than a 120 volt battery and over 25k BTUs in body
heat. Morpheus shows Neo fields where machines grow human beings,
connecting them to their outlets, ensconcing them in their pods, and
feeding them with the liquefied remains of other human beings. "The
Matrix," says Morpheus, "is a computer-generated dreamworld created to
keep us under control, to turn us..." into a mere power source, into
coppertop batteries.
Neo rejects this information so feverishly
that he pulls himself out of the Construct. He is back in the chair on
the hovercraft. He fights to free himself from this harsh, new reality,
only to end up vomiting on the floor and passing out.
When Neo
awakes back in his bunk Morpheus is beside him. "I can't go back, can
I?" Neo asks. "No," says Morpheus. He then apologizes to Neo for
breaking a cardinal rule they have: after a certain age people aren't
brought out of their simulacrum, but Morpheus explains he had to bring
Neo out. When the Matrix was created there was a man born inside it who
could create his own reality inside it. It was this man who set
Morpheus and the others free. When he died, the Oracle (
Gloria Foster)
prophesied that he would return in another form. And that the return of
the One would mean the destruction of the Matrix. As long as the Matrix
exists, humanity will continue to live in complacency inside it and the
world can never be free. "I did what I did because I believe that
search is over," says Morpheus.
The next day Neo starts his
training. Tank is his operator. Tank and his brother Dozer are "100%
pure old-fashioned, homegrown human. Born in the real world; a genuine
child of Zion." Zion, Tank explains, is the last human city left,
buried deep in the earth, near the core for warmth.
Tank straps
Neo back into the jack-in chair, by-passes some preliminary programs
and loads him up with combat training, starting with Jiu Jitsu. When
Tank hits "load" Neo is shocked by the force of the knowledge pouring
into him. "I think he likes it," says Tank, "want some more?" "Hell
yes," replies Neo. Neo is fed a series of martial arts techniques
including Kempo, Tae Kwon Do, Drunken Boxing and Kung Fu. Morpheus and
Tank are amazed at Neo's ability to ingest information, but Morpheus
wants to test Neo.
Morpheus and Neo stand in a sparring program.
The program has rules, like gravity. But as in many computer programs,
some rules can be bent while others can be broken. Morpheus bids Neo to
hit him, if he can. They fight with Neo impressively attacking but
Morpheus easily parrying and subduing him. The rest of the crew gathers
around the monitors to watch the fight. Morpheus ends up kicking Neo
into a beam, explaining to him that the reason he has beaten him has
nothing to do with muscles or reality. They spar again. "What are you
waiting for?" Morpheus asks him. "You're faster than this!"
Neo finally gets a punch near his teacher's face. They can move on.
A
jump program is loaded. Both men now stand on one of several tall
buildings in a normal city skyline. Morpheus tells Neo he must free his
mind and leaps from one building to the next. Neo nervously tries to
follow him and doesn't make the jump, falling to the pavement below.
Neo wakes back in the Nebudchanezzar with blood in his mouth. "I
thought it wasn't real," he says. "Your mind makes it real," replies
Morpheus. "So, if you die in the Matrix, you die here?"
"The body cannot live without the mind," says Morpheus underlining the very real danger faced in the simulation.
Later,
Trinity brings Neo dinner. Outside his room, Cypher remarks that
Trinity never brought him dinner. He asks Trinity why, if Morpheus
thinks Neo is the One, he hasn't taken him to see the Oracle yet.
Trinity says he'll take him when he's ready.
Morpheus and Neo
are walking down a standard city street in what appears to be the
Matrix. Morpheus explains that the Matrix is a system and that the
system is their enemy. All the people that inhabit it, the people they
are trying to free, are part of that system. Some are so inert, so
dependent upon the Matrix that they can never be free. Neo notices a
stunning girl in a red dress. "Are you listening to me?" asks Morpheus.
He asks Neo to look at the girl again. Neo turns to face Agent Smith,
pointing a gun straight at his head. Morpheus stops the simulation,
which has just been created to look like the Matrix.
Neo asks
what the Agents are. "Sentient programs," says Morpheus, that "can move
in and out of any software hard-wired into their system, meaning that
they can take over anyone in the Matrix program. "Inside the Matrix,"
Morpheus says, "They are everyone and they are no one." Thus Morpheus
and his crew survive the Agents by running from them and hiding from
the Agents even though they "are guarding all the doors. They are
holding all the keys and sooner or later, someone is going to have to
fight them." But no one who has ever stood up to an Agent has survived;
all have died. Still, Morpheus is certain that because the Agents live
in a world of rules that they can never be as strong, never be as fast
as he can be. "What are you trying to tell me," asks Neo, "That I can
dodge bullets?" "When you're ready," Morpheus says, "You won't have
to." Just then Morpheus gets a phone call. "We've got trouble," Cypher
says on the other line.
The Nebuchadnezzar is on alert. They see
the holographic image of a squiddy, a search and destroy sentinel,
which is on their trail. They set the ship down in a huge sewer system
and turn off the power. Tank stands at the ready switch of an EMP,
electro-magnetic pulse, the only weapon man has against the machines in
the real world. Two squiddies search for the ship -- the crew can see
them -- but they move on.
Neo startles Cypher, who is working at
a computer console streaming with green code. Cypher offers Neo a drink
and says that he knows what Neo is thinking, "Why, oh why didn't I take
the blue pill?" Neo laughs but is unsettled. Cypher asks Neo if
Morpheus has told him why he's here. Neo nods. "What a mind job," says
Cypher, "so you're here to save the world."
Cypher is now in a
fancy restaurant with Agent Smith in the Matrix. Agent Smith asks if
they have a deal. Cypher cuts up a juicy steak and ruminates that he
knows the steak is merely the simulation telling his brain that it is
delicious and juicy, but after nine years he has discovered that
"ignorance is bliss." He strikes a deal for the machines to reinsert
his body into a power plant, reinsert him into the Matrix, and he'll
help the Agents. He wants to be rich and powerful, "an actor" maybe.
Smith says he wants access codes to the mainframe in Zion. Cypher says
he can't do that, but that he can get him the man who does, meaning
Morpheus.
Meanwhile, inside the Nebuchadnezzar's small dining
room in the real world, the rest of the crew is trying to choke down
the oatmeal-gruel that they have as sustenance. Mouse muses on the
mistakes the machines may have made trying to get sensations right,
like the taste of chicken. Since they didn't know what it tasted like
they let everything taste like it. Morpheus interrupts the meal,
announcing that he's taking Neo to see the Oracle.
Morpheus,
Trinity, Neo, Apoc, Switch, Mouse and Cypher are jacked into the
Matrix. As they walk out of a warehouse Cypher secretly throws his cell
phone into the garbage. On the car ride to the Oracle, Neo asks Trinity
if she has seen the Oracle. Trinity says that she has but when she's
asked just what she was told by the Oracle, she refuses to answer.
The
Oracle, Morpheus explains, has been with them since the beginning of
the Resistance. She is the one who made the Prophecy of the One and
that Morpheus would be the one to find him. She can help Neo find the
path, he says. He enters the apartment of the Oracle. Inside are the
other potentials: a mother figure and numerous children. One child
levitates blocks, one reads Asian literature, another is playing chess.
One bald child is bending spoons. He gives one spoon to Neo and says,
"Do not try and bend the spoon, that's impossible. Instead, only try to
realize the truth...that there is no spoon." Neo bends the spoon as
he's called in to see the Oracle.
The Oracle is baking cookies.
She sizes Neo up and asks him whether he thinks he is the One. Neo
admits that he does not know and the Oracle does not enlighten him. Neo
smiles and the Oracle asks him what is funny. Neo admits that Morpheus
had almost convinced him that he was the One. She accepts this and
prophesies that Morpheus believes in Neo so much that he plans to
sacrifice himself. She tells Neo that either he or Morpheus will die,
and that Neo will have the power to choose which one it will be. She
then offers him a cookie and promises him that he will feel fine as
soon as he's done eating it.
As the crew returns to their jack
point, many floors up in an old hotel, Tank, in the control room,
notices something odd. Meanwhile Neo, walking up the stairs, sees what
appears to be the same cat cross a room twice. "Deja vu," he says,
which gets the attention of Trinity and Morpheus. Deja vu, they explain
to him, is a glitch in the Matrix; it happens when they reset the
computer parameters. Outside, the phone line is cut. Mouse runs to a
window which has now been bricked in. They are trapped. Mouse picks up
two machine guns but he's no match for the police coming into the room.
He's riddled with bullets.
Back on the Nebuchadnezzar, the real Mouse spurts blood from his mouth and dies in the chair.
More
police and Agents stream into the bottom of the hotel. Morpheus has
Tank find a layout of the building they're in, locating the main wet
wall. The Agents arrive on the floor they're on, finding a coat that
Cypher has left behind. They only find a hole in the bathroom wall.
Meanwhile the crew is climbing down the plumbing of the wet wall. As
the police approach Cypher sneezes, once more giving them away. The
police open fire. The crew, including Neo, begin to fire back.
An
Agent takes over the body of one of the policemen, reaches into the
wall, and grabs Neo by the neck. Morpheus, who is above Neo in the
walls, breaks through the wall and lands on the agent, yelling to
Trinity to get Neo out of the building.
A fierce battle between
Agent Smith and Morpheus ends with Morpheus face down on the tile.
Agent Smith sends the police unit in to beat him with their batons.
Cypher
returns to the Nebuchadnezzar before Trinity, Neo, Switch and Apoc. As
Tank attempts to bring the others back, Cypher attacks him from behind
with an electronic weapon. Dozer attempts to tackle Cypher, but Cypher
electrocutes him as well.
Trinity attempts to call Tank but
Cypher pulls the headset off of the smoking remains of Tank and
answers. As Cypher talks to Trinity inside the Matrix he leans over the
still form of Trinity in the hovercraft. Cypher recounts the things he
hates about the real world, the war, the cold, the goop they have to
eat, but most especially Morpheus and his beliefs. "He lied to us,
Trinity."
Cypher pulls the plug out of the back of Apoc's head,
and Apoc falls down dead in the Matrix. Cypher then moves to Switch and
as she protests "Not like this..." in the Matrix, Cypher kills her on
the ship. She falls down dead before Trinity and Neo. Cypher moves on
to Neo's supine form, saying that if Neo is the One, a miracle will
prevent Cypher from killing him:
"How can he be the One, if he's
dead?" he asks. He continues badgering Trinity, asking her if she
believes that Neo is the One. She says, "Yes." Cypher screams back
"No!" but his reaction is incredulity at seeing Tank still alive,
brandishing the weapon that Cypher had used on him. Tank fries Cypher
with the electrical device.
Tank brings Trinity back and she finds out that Dozer is dead.
Meanwhile
Agent Smith, a tray of torture instruments near him, marvels at the
beauty of the Matrix as he gazes out at the city all around them. He
informs Morpheus, who is tied to a chair, that the first Matrix was
designed as a utopia, engineered to make everyone happy. "It was a
disaster," says Agent Smith, people wouldn't accept the program and
"entire crops were lost." "Some believed," continues Smith, "that we
lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I
believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through
misery and suffering. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive
cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was
redesigned." Agent Smith compares humans to dinosaurs and that
evolution is taking hold. Another Agent enters and relays that there
may be a problem (as they now know that Cypher has failed).
Back
on the hovercraft the shuddering form of Morpheus betrays the torture
he's being put through by the Agents in the Matrix. Tank realizes that
they're trying to get the codes to the mainframes of Zion's computers;
each ship's captain knows them. Because a breach of Zion's defenses
would mean that the last remaining vestiges of mankind would be wiped
out, Tank says their only choice is to unplug Morpheus, effectively
killing him.
Back in the Matrix, the Agents process their next
move. If Cypher is dead, they deduce that the remaining humans on the
ship will terminate Morpheus. They decide to stick to their original
plan and to deploy the Sentinels.
Tank is performing what
amounts to last rites for Morpheus, laying one hand on his head as his
other moves to the back of his skull to remove the jack. Just as he's
about to pull it out Neo stops him. He realizes that the Oracle was
right. He now has to make the choice to save himself or to save
Morpheus; his choice is to head back into the Matrix. Trinity rejects
the idea. Morpheus gave himself up so that Neo could be saved since he
is the One.
"I'm not the One, Trinity," Neo says, relaying his
understanding of the discussion with the Oracle: she did not enlighten
him as to whether he was the promised messiah. And, since Morpheus was
willing to sacrifice himself, Neo knows that he must do that same. Tank
calls it suicide; it's a military building with Agents inside. Neo says
he only knows that he can bring Morpheus out. Trinity decides to come
with him, reasoning with Neo that he will need her help and she's the
ranking officer on the ship. "Tank," she says, "load us up!"
Meanwhile
Agent Smith continues to share his musings with a brutalized Morpheus.
Because humans spread to an area, consume the natural resources and, to
survive, must spread to another area, Smith says we are not mammals but
viruses, the only other creature that acts that way.
In the
Construct, Neo and Trinity get armaments. "Neo," protests Trinity, "No
one has ever done anything like this." "That's why it's going to work,"
he replies.
Morpheus has yet to break and Smith asks the other
Agents why the serum isn't working. "Maybe we're asking the wrong
questions," responds one. To that Smith commands the other Agents to
leave him alone with Morpheus. Smith removes his earphone and his
glasses and confides that he hates the Matrix, "this zoo, this prison."
Smith admits that he must get out of this "reality." He hates the
stench. He's sure that some element of the humans will rub off on him
and that Morpheus holds the key to his release. If there is no Zion
there's no need for Smith to be in the Matrix. "You are going to tell
me, or you are going to die."
Downstairs, in the lobby, Trinity
and Neo enter, heavily armed. They shoot their way past the guards and
a group of soldiers and make their way into the elevator.
Agents
Brown and Jones enter the interrogation room to find Smith with his
hands still fixed on Morpheus's head. Smith looks embarrassed and
befuddled and the others tell him about the attack occurring
downstairs. They realize that the humans are trying to save Morpheus.
In
the elevator, Trinity arms a bomb. They both climb through a hatch to
the elevator roof, attaching a clamp to the elevator cable. Neo says
"There is no spoon" before he severs the cable with a few shots. The
counterweight drops, propelling Neo and Trinity upward. The elevator
falls to the lobby exploding upon impact and filling the floor with
flames.
The Agents feel the rumble of the explosion and the
sprinkers come on in the building. "Find them and destroy them!" Smith
commands.
On the roof, a helicopter pilot is calling "Mayday" as
Trinity and Neo take out the soldiers there. Agent Brown takes over the
pilot and appears behind Neo. Neo shoots several rounds at the Agent,
who dodges them and pulls his own weapon.
"Trinity," yells Neo,
"Help!" But it's too late. The Agent begins to shoot. Instead of being
shot, Neo dodges most of the bullets, though two of them nick him. As
the Agent approaches Neo, who is lying on the ground, he levels a kill
shot but Trinity shoots him before he can fire. Trinity marvels at how
fast Neo has just moved; she's never seen anyone move that quickly.
Tank
downloads the ability to fly the helicopter to Trinity, who can now
pilot the aircraft. Trinity brings the helicopter down to the floor
that Morpheus is on and Neo opens fire on the three Agents. The Agents
quickly fall and Morpheus is alone in the room. Just as quickly the
Agents take over other soldiers stationed nearby. Morpheus breaks his
bonds and begins to run to the helicopter. The Agents fire on him,
hitting his leg. Morpheus leaps but Neo realizes that he is not going
to make the leap and throws himself out of the helicopter, a safety
harness attached.
He catches Morpheus, but Agent Smith shoots the helicopter's hydraulic line.
Unable
to control the helicopter, Trinity miraculously gets it close enough to
drop Morpheus and Neo on a rooftop. Neo grabs the safety line as the
helicopter falls towards a building. Trinity severs the safety line
connecting Neo to the helicopter and jumps on it herself as the vehicle
smashes into the side of a building, causing a bizarre ripple in the
fabric of the building's reality as it does.
On the ship Tank says, "I knew it; he's the One."
Neo
hauls Trinity up to them. "Do you believe it now, Trinity?" asks
Morpheus as he approaches the two. Neo tries to tell him that the
Oracle told him the opposite but Morpheus says, "She told you exactly
what you needed to hear." They call Tank, who tells them of an exit in
a subway near them.
The Agents arrive on the rooftop but find
only the safety harness and line. Though Agent Smith is angered, the
other two are satisfied. A trace has been completed in the real world
and the Sentinels have been dispatched to attack the Nebuchadnezzar.
In
the subway, they quickly find the phone booth and Morpheus exits out of
the Matrix. A wino watches this occur. On the rooftop Agent Smith locks
in to their whereabouts through the wino and appropriates his body.
Meanwhile,
as the phone rings, providing Trinity's exit, she confides to Neo that
everything that the Oracle has told her has come true, except for one
thing. She doesn't say what that thing is and picks up the phone just
as she sees the approaching Agent Smith. Smith shatters the ear piece
of the phone; it's impossible for Neo to exit there now.
Instead
of running, which Trinity implores him to do as she looks on from the
ship, Neo turns to face Smith. They empty their guns on each other,
neither hitting the other. They then move into close combat, trading
blows. Neo sweeps Agent Smith's head, breaking his glasses. "I'm going
to enjoy watching you die, Mr. Anderson," says Smith. They trade some
thunderous blows with Smith hitting Neo so hard he spits up blood in
the Matrix and in the chair aboard the ship.
"He's killing him," says Trinity.
Neo
gets back up, sets himself and beckons Smith to start again. This time
it's Neo who delivers devastating blow after blow. But Smith counters,
throwing Neo into a wall then pummeling him with body blows. A wind
from the tunnel signals that a subway train is approaching and Smith
has a wicked notion. He throws Neo into the subway tracks then drops
down there himself. He puts Neo in a headlock and, in the glow of the
oncoming subway says, "You hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound
of inevitability. It is the sound of your death. Good-bye, Mr.
Anderson."
"My name," he replies, "is Neo." Then, with a mighty
leap, Neo propels them to the ceiling of the tunnel. They fall back
down and Neo backflips off the tracks, leaving Agent Smith to the
oncoming train.
Neo heads for the stairs, but Smith has already appropriated another body and emerges from the doors of the train.
Meanwhile the Sentinels have arrived to attack the Nebuchadnezzar; there are five of them and they are closing fast.
Morpheus tells Tank to charge the EMP. Trinity reminds Morpheus that they can't use the EMP while Neo is in the Matrix.
"I know, Trinity, don't worry," says Morpheus, "He's going to make it."
Back
in the streets of the Matrix, Neo swipes a cell phone from a nearby
suit. He calls Tank: "Mr. Wizard, get me the hell out of here." He
races through a crowded market while Agents appropriate bodies right
and left. They force Neo down a dark alley. He kicks in a door and
rushes through an apartment complex where the Agents appropriate more
bodies, including that of a sweet little old lady who throws a knife at
Neo as Agent Smith. Neo leaps down into a pile of garbage with the
Agents in hot pursuit.
On the Nebuchadnezzar the Sentinels have arrived. They begin to tear the ship apart.
Back
in the Matrix, Neo arrives back at the "Heart O' the City Hotel." Tank
tells him to go to room 303. The Agents are literally at his heels.
The
Sentinels breach the hull of the ship. They are inside. Trinity,
standing next to Neo's body in the chair, begs him to hurry.
Neo
reaches room 303 and enters. He's immediately shot, point blank in the
gut, by Agent Smith. Smith empties his magazine into Neo's body. Neo
slumps to the floor, dead.
On the ship Neo's vital signs drop to nothing. "It can't be," says Morpheus.
Agent Smith instructs the others to check Neo. "He's gone," one replies. "Good-bye, Mr. Anderson," says Smith.
The Sentinels' lasers are beginning to cut through the major parts of the hovercraft. Trinity leans over his dead body.
"Neo,"
she says, "I'm not afraid anymore. The Oracle told me that I would fall
in love and that that man... the man that I loved would be the One. So
you see, you can't be dead. You can't be... because I love you. You
hear me? I love you." She kisses him. In the chair Neo suddenly
breathes. In the Matrix, Neo opens his eyes. "Now get up," orders
Trinity.
The Agents hear Neo rise behind them and they open
fire. "No," Neo says calmly, raising his hands. He stops their bullets
in mid-air. They drop harmlessly to the floor.
"What's happening?" asks Tank. "He is the One," says Morpheus.
Back in the Matrix, Neo can see things for what they really are, green cascading code.
Agent
Smith is furious. He runs to Neo and attacks him. Neo blocks Smith's
blows effortlessly before he sends Smith flying with one well-placed
kick. Neo then leaps into Smith's body and appropriates him. Smith's
shell explodes in a sea of code and Neo is all that is left, the walls
buckling in waves as they did when the helicopter crashed. Agents Brown
and Jones look at one another and run away.
The Sentinels are now fully in the ship. They are right above Trinity and Morpheus.
Back in the Matrix Neo sprints to the ringing phone in the room.
Morpheus has no choice but to engage the EMP. He does and the Sentinels fall inert to the floor.
Neo has made it back. He kisses Trinity.
The screen is black. A command prompt appears: "
Call trans opt: received. 9-18-99 14:32:21 REC: Log>" then "
Carrier anomaly" "
Trace program: running" As the grid of numbers appears again a warning appears "System Failure." Over it all is Neo's voice:
"I
know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid...
you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future.
I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to
tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and
then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see.
I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and
controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is
possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you."
In
the Matrix world, Neo hangs up the phone. He looks at the mindless
masses around him, puts on his glasses and then looks up. From high
above the city we see him take flight.
Sources:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/