Link not Kain. Got it. I got the name from some movie site with photos.

101 Interesting. Merovignian was also in room 101, wasn't he? Most people who saw the first movie thought it was a reference to the book 1984. Trinity was in room 303, and Morpheus was in room 1313. Could this also be considered where they are 'born' in the movie?

I'm making my way through the video game. I'm in the airport right now (for the first time?). It's certainly no Alternate Reality. It's not even a Metal Gear Solid. It's basically a Max Payne with kung fu. The hack your old saved games thing is clever, but kinda gimmicky.

The "Zion is part of the Matrix" theory makes a lot of sense to me, and I wouldn't be surprised if that were the truth, but there are things - not having to do with what's actually in the movie - that sorta make me think otherwise. That the Whachowski Bros made the "real world" have a different color scheme than the matrix world (sickly green v. warm yellow). That the actors kept referring to zion as the real world in an interview I saw.

Certainly if I was creating a system designed to keep the dissidents in line, it would be to allow the dissidents to think they're actually having an influence. Sort of like elections in the United States. Yeah... vote, make your voice heard. The real power center in the US is the corporations, which are pretty much above the law, but as long a we can lobby Congress, we feel like we have some control.

So far, the One / Neo hasn't rebooted the system, he just eliminated Zion.

I was just thinking about how the previous One could let Morpheus continue to think that he needs to find the One if he was that elder who talked to Neo, and then I realized that he said it in his speech. People need to exist in equilibruim with the machines.

Maybe it's because I played Alternate Reality, but I guessed what The Matrix was before I saw the movie. Now... what revelation could be as mind blowing in Revolutions? Perhaps they've all been abducted by aliens, and... whoops. Perhaps they're all computer programs in a simulation designed to see what a war with AI would be like, or what a war with the humans would be like.

I don't think the Oracle outright lies, so when Morpheus quotes her as saying that when the Matrix was created, there was a man born inside who could shape it to his will, I think it might be true. However, which matrix are we talking about?

Could the purpose of the Agents actually be to provide enough resistance to the rebels that they feel like they're really rebelling against something? To occupy them enough so that they don't question their own existance - again. Where does Agent Smith want to go in the first movie when he says that he wants the codes to Zion so he can get out of the Matrix?

Are there mp3's online of the architect's speech yet? I'd love to be able to hear it again. Or maybe a transcript somewhere? Ahhh found a transcript:

http://www.theantitrust.net/articles/viewarticle.php?articleid=108

I'm gonna have to read this again tonight.

regards,
Mark


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