You Remain Irrevocably Human...

So, I'm up late, dabbling about the interwebs, as being unemployed has allotted me quite a bit of time to not only do a huge tonne of work, but get lost in my imagination like I used to back in college. My peeps will attest to the fact that I am a huge Matrix fan, and have been for many years. I've re-watched each film enough times to simply indulge myself into formulating an original screenplay (attempted, but second guessed myself after the fact, I'll discuss that at a later point). Nonetheless, here I am, having just finished Reloaded, and I've found myself some 4 hours after the movie's completion, skimming the surface of what will ultimately become one of the most profound narratives in movie history.

And here's where I found my first new clue in as many years:

The Matrix: Reloaded, as well as Revolutions, was not well panned in the U.S.. Some saw it as essentially "reaching", however falling short of the catastrophically monumental achievement that was the first movie (in what it's done for the industry as a whole more so than the prowess of the Wachowski's as filmmakers). I never understood the skepticism people held toward the final two films; they were exactly where a franchise of this caliber could have gone, but, that's beside the point.

Within Reloaded there is the infamous Architect scene, where our main protagonist, Neo, must face the grand designer of the very prison he was born into, and allude answers as to his next moves. This scene, a confounded, densely assorted diatribe of collegiate level verbiage largely went unappreciated and mocked in many various forms for it's implied intent, but missing the mark. But not me.

I've watched that scene over and over, visited various "theory based" sites and the hand-me-down "Matrix Wiki" pages, absorbing the many, although farfetched at times, but soundly described theorems that fans across the world have complied, and I must say I think I've stumbled upon one of THE most missed points throughout this entire franchise which, if I'm correct, will most certainly validate my projection for this film's importance.

Please, feel free to watch it here, in case you don't care to read the transcribe.

Let's begin:

ARCHITECT: Hello Neo.

[Before we continue, let me point out for the sake of rhetoric that the Architect has been watching Neo for a long time, since the first film. As a matter of fact, if you recall the interrogation scene from the first movie, just after Mr. Anderson commits himself to the police and is escorted away in handcuffs, there is a scene where you're in a room full of monitors, resembling, briefly, what appears to be just the monitors for the interrogation room at the police station where the Agents took him. This is not so, it is in fact the Architect watching as his path unfolds before him.]

NEO: Who are you?

ARCHITECT: I am the Architect-I created the Matrix. I've been waiting for you.

ARCHITECT Cont.: You have many questions, and although the process has altered your consciousness, you remain irrevocably human. Ergo, some of my answers you will understand and some of them you will not. Concurrently, while your first question will be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize that it is also the most irrelevant:

NEO: Why am I here?

It is only in these first shared moments that THE single most concise piece of theorem I believe has ever been haphazardly discovered exists, while simultaneous THE most cleverly disguised. Allow me to explain:

There is a prevailing theory that Neo is still alive at the end of Revolutions, this is in accordance with the blindingly illuminating aura he exhibits after his fight with Smith, and is carted away by the... I guess Reaper Beetle of 01 (the name of the Machine City where Neo faces Dues Ex and pleads for peace in lieu of taking on Smith). Why is this important? 2 simple factors:

Further into their dialog, the Architect states that:

ARCHITECT: The function of the One is now to return to the source, allowing a temporary dissemination of the code you carry, reinserting the Prime Program...


The second factor? C.O.N.T.E.X.T

Ladies and gentlemen, I have carried with me for many years this standard, and it very well may be carved into my headstone (should I keep one), along side "Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen-He Was #1":
Context. Is. Everything. You can hide the truth in plain sight, and no one, especially those that do not pay attention, would be the wiser.

I want you to reread that first paragraph from the Architect:

You have many questions, and although the process has altered your consciousness, you remain irrevocably human. Ergo, some of my answers you will understand and some of them you will not. Concurrently, while your first question will be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize that it is also the most irrelevant:

The Architect has been watching Neo for some time, but the context behind the bold and underline text is indicative of someone he's spoken to before, on MANY occasions.

Neo inhibits what is called the Anomaly, it is a purposefully generated "bug", allocated by the Architect as he works with the Oracle in writing the programming for the 3rd iteration of the Matrix. Why this Matrix, the Matrix we're experiencing now, is so important is that this is the first time since the first two attempts that there has not been a cataclysmic loss, only a systemic restart, comparable to updating apps on your phone, rather than downloading an entirely new Operating System. Each of these systemic restarts come as a result of this anomaly, or code, the resulting sum of combined programming between both writers. At the end of each Anomaly's run, as the Architect THEN states:

 The function of the One is now to return to the source, allowing a temporary dissemination of the code you carry, reinserting the Prime Program...

Each restart allocates the return of this source code, which inherently becomes the "Patch", for the newly restarted Matrix: The One, IS code! It's always just code that randomly appears in a new person born inside the Matrix, and every time it inhibits itself within the system, a counterbalance always appears. Prior antagonists are never mentioned, but we know for our boy Mr. Anderson, it was Smith.

When Neo dies in the first film, Mr. Anderson is DEAD!
[ July 2016 UPDATE: I can corroborate this theory even further by outline the conversation The Oracle has with Neo during their first meeting, inside her kitchen:

The Oracle: That's the way these things go. (Neo snickers) What's funny?
Neo: Morpheus. He uh... he almost had me convinced.
The Oracle: I know; poor Morpheus. Without him, we're lost...
Neo: What do you mean "without him"?
The Oracle: Are you sure you want to hear this? (Neo nods) Morpheus believes in you, Neo. And no one, not you, not even me, can convince him otherwise. He believes it so blindly, he's willing to sacrifice his life to save yours.
Neo: What?
The Oracle: You're going to have to make a choice: in the one hand, you'll have Morpheus' life, and in the other, you'll have your own.
The Oracle (cont.): One of you is going to die. Which one, will be up to you. ]

That resurrection we witnessed was the code substantiating itself into a human being, AS DID SMITH in Reloaded when he took over Bane's body!

"although the process has altered your consciousness," every time this sequence transpires, a piece of the original code becomes conflicted or changed, and in the case of Neo, his assimilation of Mr. Anderson was such an extensively (speculation) different undertaking, that the root nature of his purpose (choose the salvation of Zion with the freed 23 individuals he has to choose from the Matrix prior to the restart), was greatly affected; the resulting causality of his decision to save Trinity instead of Zion resulted in a hugely disproportionate fluctuation in his coding, which inherently makes Smith more powerful, while simultaneous being the first genuine change in the cycle!

The Architect is well aware of this, and was in no way speaking to what we presumed to be Mr. Anderson, he was merely speaking to the same line of code that has existed since they wrote the 3rd Matrix iteration (The Architect quite literally has repeated this speech 5 times prior to Neo)! And upon Neo's demise after the fight with Smith, the code is once again returned to the source, were a temporary dissemination was allowed (the spreading of his core code parameters that essentially, at the end of Revolution, gives everyone the choice to be free of the Matrix, or stay), thereby reinserting the Prime Program! HIS program! The Program!

This shit is fucking bananas to me! It completely restructures the beauty of this franchise's narrative. There are plenty still loop holes that I can't make sense of, but I believe as this story unfolded, so too did the integrity of the underlying premise behind creating purpose for this new, super powerful entity.

The One is inevitable, only this time, no one saw Neo coming. I guess love is a powerful thing indeed.

Cheers!