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May 20, 2003

 09:37 AM - What is the Matrix?


Normally, I avoid reviewing films and other artifacts of popular culture, but in this case I cannot resist. I had thought that the brothers Wachowski would have some difficulty achieving similar levels of novelty, complexity, and depth in the sequel as in the original movie. Thankfully, I was dead wrong. The Matrix Reloaded has all of the depth of the original and more. By the end, you are left wondering, in Morpheus’ words, “What is real?”


Throughout the course of the plot, various adversaries of humankind refer offhandedly to Neo’s “predecessors,” although neither Neo nor the audience has any inkling of whom they are speaking. Towards the end, this mystery is (partially) clarified as a godlike figure called the “Architect” reveals that the both the Matrix and its archnemesis Zion are periodically reconstructed from scratch, and that they are currently at the very end of the sixth cycle. Neo is thus revealed to be sixth in a chain of anomalous figures (with supernatural abilities like himself) each of which are somehow crucial to the rebirth of the Matrix/Zion system.


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