The athlete


How come the athlete ran so fast that he broke out of the matrix yet when Neo was flying in reloaded he didn't break out since he was going much faster than the athlete.

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Neo was already unplugged.

"There's a difference between simply being, and knowing you are."

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it wasn't speed, it was exertion and focus.

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"it wasn't speed, it was exertion and focus. "

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"Morphology? Longevity? Incept dates?"

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How could you think the faster you went the closer you got to breaking the matrix? Surely everyone who went over 30mph in a damn car would start unplugging. It'd be madness.


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The atlete was doing what Morpheus told Neo to do: Freeing his mind.

He wasn't letting the "rules" of his world dictate to him what he could or could not do.

Always-Severus Snape

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i didnt get the very end of that though, when he was in the wheelchair, was that before or after he got freed

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After. He woke up and was captured again.

Always-Severus Snape

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Yeah, when he got up, he was trying to break free again. The nurse rhetorically asks what more could you want (to be the fastest man in the world), and he utters "freedom"

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The nurse rhetorically asks what more could you want (to be the fastest man in the world), and he utters "freedom"
The nurse didn't say that, that was the agent watching them from a distance.
The matrix had planted the nurse there, to fill his head with mundane stories, almost like a lullaby.

"I am U-571! Destroy me!"

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i think since neo already knew and was unplugged. the athlete was unaware of the matrix and pushed himself so hard that it was beyond human capability or something like that. i think the idea of that story was really good, thats my favorite stand alone story of the animatrix excluding the 2 parter second renaissance.

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Yeah, the athlete didn't know anything about The Matrix but he wanted to be free. I actually liked World Record a lot, I don't know why it gets so much flack. Matriculated was the weirdest one, I still don't really understand that one. All of the others were good though, Osiris was a bit too short, I was hoping that would be much longer than it was.

"I am the ultimate badass, you do not wanna `*beep*` wit me!"- Hudson in Aliens.

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The final flight of Osiris is actually a bit longer than it should (compare to the rest in Animatrix collections IMO). If you want it being made longer then it would be the Matrix movie (1st movie) and then we no longer want another Matrix movie, we already has one.

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