Originally posted by nweibley
Since we have obviously learned you can't trust what you see, I am wondering if the architect was just a computer program to panic neo. I am under the impression that he has to be. He must be inside the matrix, neo cant phsyically be in two places at once, so how can he be human.
The Architect is a program I believe, or is a human (in one of those pod things) that has been programmed to be identical over hundreds of years.
If the matrix has been around for hundreds of years, and gone through so many rewrites, it's got to be too old for a single human to have programmed.
Not really. The machines with their AI could have written it and then re-written it as needed.
So I personally don't see the architect as real, and I dont see a way for the matrix to re-write itself.
Again, the Architect is either a program within the Matrix or a programmed human inserted into the Matrix. I believe that it is a program since they wouldn't want to trust a human with that responsibility.
AI would give way to the machines being able to rewrite the Matrix.
Another thing. Is it a second matrix(the real world)? I dont really see how it could not be. Agt. Smith is a program, and he copies and enters the 'real world'. A program cant enter the real world in my eyes, that would be impossible. Not to mention that neo obviously cant do what he did to the sentnils.
I think that the real world IS real, otherwise the machines wouldn't give a damn what the humans do. Since the machines are hell bent on destroying Zion in order to repopulate it and start all over (so the Architect says), it leads me to believe that the real humans are needed to complete some weird kind of harddrive format and reinstallation.
Agt. Smith copies himself into that one dude and then enters the real world. I think that is entirely possible. When you are in the Matrix, your mind is part of the program. So by hijacking his program (brain), he takes over the dudes psychological functions while his body remains the same. This would be like brainwashing someone.
As for Neo doing what he did to the sentinals, I think that it could be possible. Humans do not use the majority of their brains, so maybe in some far region there is some telekenetic power he rediscovered. Look at the documented cases of 120lb women overturning cars to free their trapped babies. That should be impossible, but it has happened. No one really knows all the facets of the mind and what it is really capable of, so because of that I think that what Neo did is totally possible.
Overall, I think this installment was excellent. I enjoyed it very much, especially the references to people seeing ghosts, vampires, werewolves, etc. as old programs. I think they do an excellent job (like deja vu in the first one) of taking unexplainable things in the real world and relating them to programming terms.
The concept of the Matrix is not new however. Plato's theory of the Cave is pretty much what this movie is based on and THAT I find very cool because I enjoy philosophy. Being able to take a theory proposed before Christ and make it applicable and interesting to a wide variety of people means you are doing something right.
That said, I can't wait till the third installment!
..I won't be there to see it.
