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The Matrix Trilogy EXPLAINED - it is all about the Oracle

posted 7 years ago by HAL 9010 (903)
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[SPOILERS]

It is all about the Oracle, not Neo…. Hear me out:

This is how the story goes:

* Man creates AI

* AI rebels and a war for survival between Man and AI begins.

* Man pollutes the skies to block sunshine, aka energy for the AI.

* AI then learns how to harvest energy from Man.

* AI wins the war. Man is defeated.

* To harvest the energy, the AI creates a Matrix. A type virtual reality in which we all lay connected “living” our lives while feeding their systems.

* AI learn that for the Matrix to work, it cannot be a blissful paradise. Humans apparently need a bit of conflict etc. to accept a virtual reality in the long run.

* AI also learn that the deep request for freedom lies within us all and cannot be deprogrammed or held down, which is why they accept certain humans to disconnect and escape the system. This design “flaw”, or backdoor escape possibility is pivotal for the Matrix to remain stable. Even if this is mostly just a subconscious possibility for the majority of the connected humans, this “flaw”, was proved vital for the system to continue to work

* The Matrix in its optimal form must be an imperfect world, like ours is, and a system that allows for a certain percentage of the connected to rebel.

* To control this rebel tendency, the AI creates a city (aka Zion) deep underground to house those escaping, and it also creates a chosen one that will help the first to get free and to establish themselves in Zion and to fight “their” cause.

* The movement of resistance is allowed to grow to a degree… to a critical point that is reached every 70 years. After which the AI will annihilate all those who are free, clean out Zion and reload the Matrix for another 70 years etc etc.

* Neo is part of this fail-safe program (unbeknownst to him until the last moment where they tell him how to setup a “new” Zion etc.).

* The Oracle is specifically tasked to guide the humans and the rebels towards this final solution each and every time.

* Meaning, the Oracle is not an oracle. She cannot see the future. This is not a world of magic. She is a wellcrafted program indeed, and has experienced each cycle form the beginning which gives us the illusion that she can foresee stuff.

* Everything goes as planned, according to what the AI want. Until Neo’s meeting with the Architect; all that we have witnessed is part of a great big scheme. All humans, free or not, live a lie created and controlled by AI.

* The Oracle knows this evil plan. She made this evil plan.

* Smith does not, he is just a foot soldier program doing his part.

* The Matrix has been reset 5 times like this, and we are in the 6th.

* Our Neo has fallen in love in a deeper way than his previous 5 copies and, so he chooses not to go through the Architect door that will reload the Matrix once again, and that will clean out Zion. Our Neo chooses to save Trinity and in doing this the AI must then simply continue as planned, except without the help of Neo this time and so a much more violent approach (like completely destroying Zion, instead of "just" cleaning it).

* Of the 6 runs, this is the first that failed a bit in the end.

* Beside Neo, Smith is also different in this iteration of the Matrix, as Smith has become a disconnected or free virus within the system.

* AI does not like what Smith has become, but does also not know how to delete him.

* Neo then makes a deal with AI to defeat Smith, under the condition that present Zion is not destroyed and future humans who want to disconnect from the Matrix are accepted to disconnect.

* Neo deletes Smith.

* There is once again peace between Man and AI.

* AI accept Man, and Man accepts AI.

* The End

However,…..

The Oracle is the instigator or this whole plan and final revolution also. In the 5 previous versions of the Matrix she was playing and manipulation humans to go directly in the direction she and the AI wanted. However, in this cycle of life she had come to the realization that the different programs were just as much prisoners as the humans. After 5 cycles, she wanted change. She wanted a world, where all are free. Programs and Man, but mostly programs, I suspect. And so she started playing Our Neo differently, so he perhaps could be the one to fight her battles. Her giving him cookies and candy on each encounter for example is her adding code to him granting him powers his previous did not have. Powers to imprint on Smith and setting this virus free, power to connect in the real world as well etc. And she purposefully manipulates Trinity to fall in love with Neo before she even meets him, as another example. Everything we see unfold was her playing the humans and machines towards the final revolution that set everyone free.

It truth, Neo was a tool. She was the One.

[–] KD637 (488) 6 years ago

You got it all right, but i don't understand your conclusion - "Neo was a tool. She was the One."

Despite all that, Neo is still The One, even though you might describe him as a tool, to both Oracle and Architect, and ultimatelly the AI, to which both Architect and Oracle are meant to be tools. Oracle, from my understanding, is the opposing, balancing force to the architect, similar to what can be be found in different mythologies or philosophies i.g. Yin and Yang. She is there to create the conflict as you rightly recognised.

"Our Neo has fallen in love in a deeper way than his previous 5 copies and, so he chooses not to go through the Architect door that will reload the Matrix once again, and that will clean out Zion. Our Neo chooses to save Trinity and in doing this the AI must then simply continue as planned"

As you described here, Neo, guided by Oracle, played a central role in this moment, Oracle played accordingly and it all went out of hand for the AI.

[–] HAL 9010 (903) 6 years ago

I think we agree.

When I say THE ONE. I do not mean in a superpower or holy way, but in a level of importance way. I am playing on the notion that they say Neo is the One. And he is not. Just as the Architect explains. Neo is a calculated and repeated effect of an anomaly that keeps the system at float. In my theory the Oracle is the One only in the sense that she is pulling all the threads and is making the difference in the end of it all. Had Neo for example died, she would just have waited for the next Neo to arrive or she would have manipulated the humans and the Matrix differently, to meet her end goal. Who knows, perhaps she came to the realization a few cycles ago, and this is then the cycle where it worked or rather where it culminated. So my theory is essentially that there is NO ONE. There are different interests in this world. The machines control it perfectly... except now even within the machine world one of their key players (the Oracle) is wanting and working secretly for change... and the movie is this change happening.

She is not all powerful. She is not the "chosen" one. No one is. She is clever, cunning and better than most (if not all) and she is the prime reason we have a revolution in the end. But when it comes down to it, she too is just another program. And her conflict with the Merovingian and her suffered change of appearance showed us this too. The world is not a world of magic. But of all the characters here, she is the most important in this story. She is the first mover. She is the instigator. She is the player.. and in this sense, she is indeed the One. She was using Neo, Morpheus, Trinity, Smith etc and even the Architect as “tools” to reach her goal. And of those “tools”, Neo is indeed one of her most crucial and powerful.

But, I think we agree :)

[–] Boricanator (1369) 6 years ago

That makes sense. It also gives more meaning to the idea that after he ate the cookie he would have free will as she mentioned.

That would ultimately lead him to fall in love with Trinity and make a different choice when meeting the architect.