A machine called "The Tuning Fork" rotatable at degrees was specially constructed for the effect of Neo and Smith fighting in the air, heading upwards into the sky.
Maggie and Captain Rowland both briefly mention the term "VDTs" to describe a possible cause to what happened to Bane, and why he has self-inflicted cuts not knowing that Bane is possessed by Agent Smith.
However, VDTs are never defined or explained throughout the entire movie. This, as well as Zion as the last human settlement, would imply most of the main action of the film franchise takes place in the Middle East. The ship referred to as the Hammer was actually named the Mjolnir, after Thor's hammer. The hammer in the Norse legends always returned to its master, sparking lightning and thunder along the way.
Like the hammer, the ship returned to its master Zion , with its own lightning and thunder. Sati is the ancient Hindu practice of a widow immolating herself on her husband's funeral pyre.
This practice is now illegal in India. According to Hindu mythology, Sati is the name of a Hindu goddess who burns herself, as she could not bear the insult heaped upon her husband Lord Shiva. The key of the beginning theme you hear at the beginning of every Matrix movie rousing strings and horn blasts ascends with each movie.
The Matrix Reloaded , Enter the Matrix , and this film were shot back-to-back-to-back. Seraph is the singular of Seraphim, a Hebrew word that literally means in English: "the burning ones". However, the word in Hebrew is another name for "Angels". There are visual effects shots, almost all of them containing some kind of a live-action element. The special effects crew spent two months designing the apparatus to make the perfect rain drop. In one interview he joked that he would have had them sing "This is the one, see what he does".
He asked that the Wachowskis Lilly Wachowski and Lana Wachowski to bring him some sort of text, appropriate to the movie, which the choir would sing. They returned with extracts from the Upanisads, which reflect the themes of the trilogy. Mary Alice played Laurence Fishburne's mother in his first professional stage appearance, when he was ten years old. The crew of the Hammer all have names related to firearms.
AK refers to the Kalashnikov series of automatic rifles. Colt and Mauser are the names of firearms manufacturers. And Maggie is short for Magnum. Zion, from Hebrew, refers to the citadel in Palestine, which was the nucleus of Jerusalem, or the Jewish homeland that is symbolic of Judaism, or of Jewish national aspiration. Neo now has the potential to stop the cycle of mass extinctions. Possessing no humanity themselves, the machines are unable to predict what will happen if Neo chooses the door allowing him to save Trinity, selecting love over saving the human race.
In the end, Neo chooses to save Trinity. Trinity finds herself fulfilling the nightmarish visions Neo has been having of her. As they fight, she is forced to leap out of the building. As she falls down in a hail of bullets and broken glass, shooting unsuccessfully at the Agent, who dives after her, Neo flies through the city in a blaze unlike anything seen before.
Fire trails behind him, and cars and street matter are swept up behind him in his tumultuous, tornado-like wake. He reaches inside of her and massages her heart, resurrecting her as she did him. They kiss. Morpheus and Link look on at the board.
Back on the Nebuchadnezzar , Neo reveals the falsity of the prophecy to Morpheus. Sentinels show up near the ship but stay out of EMP range. The Nebuchadnezzar explodes as Morpheus watches, confused and despondent. The crew ventures out onto the mechanical wires of the real world, becoming utterly vulnerable. The sentinels attack, but something has changed—Neo can feel their presence.
He stops running from them and disables them all with his own self-generated EMP. Then, exhausted, he collapses and enters a coma. The crew of the Hammer relates a pointless tragedy in which five ships were lost by an improperly discharged EMP. Seraph calls the Hammer , and the Oracle beckons Morpheus. Neo wakes up in a pure white train station. A small Indian girl, Sati, hovers over him.
Sati, who is a program, not a human, explains that the Trainman will soon come to take her away. Seraph, Morpheus, and Trinity meanwhile meet the Oracle in her new shell. She explains to them that the Trainman, who smuggles programs between the Matrix and the real world and who works for the Merovingian, eventually will hold Neo hostage. They have to save Neo or Zion will be lost, but the Merovingian has set a bounty on their heads.
Rama-Kandra and his wife, Kamala, both of whom are programs, have made a deal with the Merovingian to smuggle Sati away from the coming battle to safety in the custody of the Oracle. Neo wonders how these programs can feel such human emotions.
Rama-Kandra says love is only a word and what matters is the connection the word implies and the actions that follow based on that connection. Seraph, Morpheus, and Trinity approach the Trainman on one of his subway cars to try to make a deal for Neo, but the Trainman refuses to make a deal without the approval of his boss.
The three chase him through a station, making the Trainman late to pick up Sati. The Trainman narrowly escapes their pursuit by jumping in front of an oncoming train and disappearing into it from the opposite side of the tracks as it rushes by. Neo tries to run after the train out of the frame, but he loops back to the other side. The program has trapped him in a closed circuit. They kill the bouncers and then the guards at the gun check.
The amused Merovingian, wearing a bright red shirt, agrees to talk with them above the dance floor, amid masked thugs with guns. Sitting next to his wife, Persephone, who also wears red, and the grungy Trainman, the Merovingian licks two olives provocatively. Seraph, Morpheus, and Trinity try to make a deal for Neo, whom the Merovingian will return only in exchange for the eyes of the Oracle. Trinity refuses that deal and knocks away the nearest guns. The brief fight concludes with guns drawn all around, but no one dares shoot, since Trinity has hers pointed directly at the Merovingian.
Powered by her willingness to die for Neo, Trinity revises the deal. Either the Merovingian returns Neo, or she pulls the trigger, sparking a chain reaction that will inevitably result in the deaths of everyone present. Persephone and the Merovingian both understand that her threat is sincere. Meanwhile, at the station, Neo concentrates in an attempt to envision a means of escape.
A train finally pulls up, and Trinity, who has persuaded the Merovingian to release Neo, gets out. The two embrace and kiss. The Oracle agrees and helps him realize he has no choice but to go back to the Source, and that the fate of Zion lies with him.
Seraph takes Sati from the Oracle and tries to lead her to safety, but they are cornered by many Smiths. Waiting calmly, the Oracle sits at the kitchen table, smoking. The Oracle allows him to do what he came there to do, so he replicates himself into her. The first Agent Smith steps back in confusion as the new Agent Smith stands up and laughs.
The health monitor, Maggie, notes his unusual neural activity and try to figure out a way to force him to remember. Alone in his quarters, Neo again envisions the three cables winding up through some dark, ravaged land. Finally, the Hammer locates Niobe and the Logos , which is damaged but reparable. The city is evacuated, but Zee stays behind to volunteer. She grinds handmade artillery shells in her metal bunker apartment.
The Kid offers himself as a volunteer to Captain Mifune, who realizes that though the Kid may be young, every available volunteer is needed. Neo enters and announces that he must take one of their ships to the Machine City. Roland strenuously resists this idea, pointing out that no one in a century has ever made it even close to the city.
Maggie tries to sedate him, but he stabs her to death before she can warn anyone. Neo and Morpheus say goodbye warmly, as do Link and Trinity. Niobe pilots the Hammer , which takes off for Zion. Just as Trinity and Neo get set to launch the Logos , all the power shuts off. Trinity investigates the fuses below the hatch.
Realizing that Bane must have stowed away on the Logos , the crew know they cannot go back, because Bane may have gained control of another EMP. Slowly, Neo realizes that Smith has concealed himself in Bane.
He taunts Neo by slipping into the shadows of a stairwell as Neo waves his arms helplessly. He frees Trinity from the fuse room, and they embrace. At Zion, the dock prepares for battle. The Kid loads ammunition into the anthropomorphic robots, but because he is inexperienced and too eager, he spills the ammunition, costing the soldiers valuable time.
Mifune and his men strap themselves into their robots, and Mifune delivers a rousing speech. Zee and a volunteer friend promise to stand and fight with each other.
Niobe approaches Zion slowly, creeping quietly through the tiny mechanical line. Despite her skill, she nicks an outcropping, and the sentinels instantly sense her. Demanding full power, she orders Roland and Ghost to man the turrets and Morpheus to work as her copilot.
She races down the line. The machines finally breach the dome. A monstrous corkscrew splits the upper sphere and falls through the city, causing massive damage. Hundreds of sentinels swarm into the opening like a plague of locusts. Zee and her friend load rocket launchers with their handmade shells—Zee loads, her friend shoots—and they take a leg off a drill. At the dock, bullets fly. To reload the oversize robots, the men have to wheel ammunition onto the dock while under attack and then elevate the ammunition awkwardly into the robot as the battle continues.
Sentinels swarm over a command center. Niobe races toward Zion, covered by sentinels and driving recklessly but successfully. In response, several sentinels try to squeeze into their narrow opening. The gate jams, but Zee and the Kid together manage to fight off the sentinels and open it manually. Niobe blasts through the half-open gate and slams into the city wall. The Logos discharges its EMP, and thousands of sentinels, suddenly disabled, stream down through the sky and cylinder to the pit of the city.
The people greet the disembarking crew as heroes, and Link and Zee reunite. Lock blows up a shaft, sealing the city off for a couple of hours from the incoming sentinels, which have already arrived in a mushroom-cloud-like plume. The three captains report to the Council, explaining their decision to give a ship to Neo, a decision Niobe and Morpheus defend.
Trinity and Neo slowly approach Machine City, hovering over a vast crop of humans awaiting harvest. Neo, using his second sight, directs Trinity toward a mountain range, where he sees the three power cables he saw earlier in his vision.
Massive city-sized ships emerge from the landscape and unleash hundreds of pods at the Logos. Neo wards off as many as he can but is unable to deflect them all. Sentinels attach themselves to the ship. As they rise, sentinels fall away, and for a brief, beautiful moment, Neo and Trinity peek up above the black post-nuclear clouds into a brilliant pink and orange skyscape.
Just as quickly, they descend back down into the dark, flying behind the city, straight toward the heart of a tower. They crash. Neo crawls over to Trinity, who has been impaled by many twisted rods.
Through the wreckage, Neo is amazed at what he sees—nothing but light all around. Morpheus also served as the prototype for the Echelon IV global communications and surveillance system. Echelon IV evolved into Daedalus. In , Morpheus is stored in a locked room inside the home of Morgan Everett, the acting leader of the Illuminati.
Having been in continuous operation for at least a decade, Morpheus had spent ample time absorbing information about the world and drawing intelligent conclusions from what it had learned. Its capability for making incisive remarks indicates that it understood humanity's evolved nature with perfect clarity. It observes humanity's sociality, narcissism, empathy, and longing for absolution with an uncanny, child-like candour and apathy. According to a book found in the room with Morpheus, it had been recorded that the machine was recently behaving erratically, exhibiting what may be cursory signs of true self-awareness.
Morpheus is confined to an isolated system, although it is equipped with a nebulous, holographic projection of a face. The presence of a virtual face was important in order to enhance the sense of interpersonal empathy that it would require in order to be most fully disarming and thereby entertaining to visitors.
Both fights between them in this one have Neo and Smith each gaining the upper hand repeatedly, before Neo flees rather than continuing to fight endlessly. As the Architect implies, the definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. But even the more relevant story beats are only part of the larger purpose of moving the pieces around in time for the third film. The Matrix Revolutions is long overdue for a re-assessment.
There, I said it. In that six months between films, it would be a massive understatement to say that expectations were diminished from the pre- Reloaded hype. With some distance and hindsight, Revolutions is a far better film because if the Wachowskis really did make up these sequels after the first one became so popular, then the endgame was probably the first thing they came up with.
In so many areas where Reloaded failed to expand upon the central themes of the series or move the plot forward, Revolutions succeeds with bells on. In the same vein as Reloaded , it comes across as a little flabby in the beginning. Meanwhile, his treachery in the real world has left Zion missing a number of ships ahead of the massive Sentinel assault headed their way.
Consistent with their showdowns in Reloaded , neither of them outright wins or loses — Smith blinds his enemy in the scrap, but gets his human head taken off by Neo for his trouble. Meanwhile, Zion is taking a battering from the initial onslaught of Sentinels, as the military takes on the squiddies with mech suits and infantry soldiers. This is another sequence which still stands up over a decade later. Commander Mifune might have the best death in all of the films, going down swinging, shooting, screaming and swearing at the Sentinels as they swarm all over him and lacerate him to death.
But with every defence wiped out, the machines decide to send out every remaining Sentinel they have left- in winning the battle, Zion may have lost the war. The cycle endlessly repeats because machines are now superior to humans in every single way, except that humans are more resourceful when it comes to war. If it needs saying any more baldly, then the Oracle actually does — Agent Smith has become the equal and opposite to Neo by being a creation of the machine that has the same thirst for conquest and war as humans, just as the loathed Mr.
Anderson is a human who can do what programs can do.
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