Analyzing ‘The Matrix Reloaded’
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Word.
Except for most of that stuff about having figured it out yourself. As I said, I’m very shallow when it comes to movies and meanings...
Well, I don’t really like *analyze* it as I’m watching it or anything. Previous story lines, mythos, and threads of plots just kind of draw lines to each other. Like the whole antideluvian “bad program” thing...I wouldn’t have blinked if Buffy had jumped out and dusted Mero’s crew. 
At any rate, yes, all of the poser-dorks are wrong. This is a great film, on any level. My only problem I had with it was the first Neo / Multi-Smith fight scene. It felt way too heavy on the CGI, and reminded me very much of Spiderman. Which worked there because it’s a comic book--but not here, because this is borderline hardcore sci-fi.
Nail on the head, I’d say. There are very few things from this essay that I didn’t walk out of the theater thinking myself. The Merovingian’s correlation with Hades was simple enough, as is Neo’s name meaning “New”, for whatever purpose. Drawing that the 6th means 1-5 = the books of Moses is a bit of a stretch, but might be what the W. brothers were thinking. The covenant with Israel, and the law, is not spread through all 5 books that Moses wrote. Since the convenant was struck with Abraham in Genesis, from a creative standpoint I can see an author using that.
The connection between Merovingian’s servants and the Nephelim I connected at the very moment Persephone shot one of the guards with a silver bullet. With my affinity with Buffy, Blade, Kane, V:TM, and other vampiric lore, this is a knee jerk reaction. However, this is a new twist--from the Oracle’s comments about “monsters and ghosts” being programs that are doing things they aren’t supposed to be doing. The angels were not supposed to be having offspring with human females. In the Bible, this made a race of super-human bullies. In vampiric lore, this created all sorts of baddies. In the Matrix, this makes wicked wreckless programs who can dematerialize and get accused of pigeon-holing albinos as bad guys. (Geez, people, their eyes weren’t even pink...)
I can’t wait until the questions are answered. They can be answered in many ways, but like I am with most forms of media--I only care about and want to know the author’s version.
If Zion is fake, I’m going to be mad. That’s a Star Trek episodic writer’s way to paint yourself out of a corner.
By Derek Jones on May 26, 2003 at 09:32pm link