The Matrix Trilogy EXPLAINED - it is all about the Oracle

Thanx :). When I got the idea of how the Oracle was really the player, it all makes sense and actually most of the meat on the story is in the last two. I love the trilogy as I see it now, a great story. Indeed the first one is magnificent, but together they work as a whole.

Fair point. The first one might indeed only ever had been imagined as a face value stand alone, but even if we only see it like this, the Oracle is devious still. As Morpheus says; "She told you exactly what you needed to hear". And they make a point out of saying that whatever the Oracle says, stays between her and whomever she speaks to. In other words, she is a player and in line with the movie, she was preparing Neo for his wake up. Of course, he was the One, and she knew it. The whole setup with looking for the One in those kids… please :) At least this is how I saw it then, back in 1999 (wouu, is that really 19 years ago, that is crazy).

We later learn that the Oracle is the "mother" of the Matrix and pivotal to the design of the control system over the humans. In other words, she is a baddie; as much a part of the Matrix and its design as the Architect is. And she never really comes clean to the humans, except to Neo in the end... sort of. She played her own game and interests from the beginning. Of course when we meet her she is in her game of changing things to the "better"... she had changed her mind by then, a double agent gone good or better, but still a double agent with her primary loyalty to her beloved programs?

I do not think Neo's and Trinity's love had anything to do with her change of heart. Love between programs like that of the Rama-Kandra family did. This is what drove her to reconsider how the Matrix ought to be.

Remember how the Oracle tells Trinity that she will fall in love with The One. This is even before Trinity met Neo in person. Why would she tell her this, if not to achieve something? She even tells Neo that Trinity is interested in him, before he might had been himself, remember:

Oracle: "No wonder she likes you."
Neo: "Who?"
Oracle: "Not too bright, though. ...."

So I dare say, their love connection is her game as much as anything else. A means to an end. Not the other way around as you suggest. She plays them in this direction from the beginning, or even before the beginning.... as the dialogue above suggests..... she needed "love" as she knew this was the only emotion that would push Neo to the "right" door when faced with this ultimatum at the Architect's room. She needed the "one" to be in a position where he would choose love above reason.... Love was crucial to her plan for change, and so she seeded this from the very beginning, I think. Humans were pawns to her. Played to achieve her greater plan; to recreate a Matrix where freedom and peace is possible - for programs and for humans alike.... though not all humans, only those that want and chooses to be free. She is after all still no saint - even robots gotta eat.

Yes, she did.

Smith was needed for the Oracle’s grand plan to work. He was pivotal. She needed Smith to cause so much trouble that the Machine world would strike a deal. She needed Smith to consume/infect/overwrite her in the end (and everyone else), so her core code could help ensure his defeat from within at the right moment - Neo was not the only one fighting Smith at the climax.

If Smith had not been there for some reason, if Neo had not imprinted him with powers; the Oracle would have surely found some other way. Perhaps even another “Smith?” And we can say this about all of them. And because of that, he (or anyone) cannot be accredited above being a badass character or an important pawn in a higher game.

In the end, Smith was a tool like the others - used for a higher purpose, he had no idea about.

And this is the beauty of the story.

How she did it?

She manipulated Neo to confront Smith. She knew the showdown would happen. She prepared Neo, in many ways. Neo imprinted on Smith... how? Only ever happened once in the whole trilogy. Why? She only needed this type of imprintment to happen once.

Remember, on every meeting, the Oracle offers cookies or candy, not only to him but also to Sati and even Smith in the end. It is not just a past time; there is an intent behind these cookies or candies. And after each meeting, Neo seems to update his powers, and it is always handed with some vague instruction from her. She had a purpose with him, and the candy was part of that.

The Oracle: “Here, take a cookie. I promise, by the time you’re done eating it, you’ll feel right as rain.”

However, the actual connection comes from the meeting with the Merovingian. We see how he uses a cake to infuse a code into an unsuspecting woman, who gets turned on by these codes. I believe this scene, was primarily there to show us how code can be infused into beings via foods.

My point is, she updated Neo as the story unfolded. Plus, "cookies" is an IT term for tracking.... old news today, but in 1999?

if you mean Zion, this link explains why it has to be real: https://moviesandscience.com/blog/movies/the-matrix/faq-zion

I often meet is that Zion and the real world must be another level in the Matrix because Neo exhibits powers here as well.

He does, but this is not the explanation.

The Architect explained to him that he was kind of an agent, not technically human. Needed to create hope, and to help facilitate humans outside the Matrix in the real world (which is why this “agent” had to be biological). He is an extension of their control system, and his part is meticulously planned out. As an “agent”, it stands to reason that he would have a connection to the machine world, even when he is not in the Matrix.

Remember, all previously connected humans are massively augmented with connections, outlets down their spine, to their muscles, and an extensive connection into their brain. There is more to these humans than flesh and bones.

Neo’s power is not super magical in the real world. Ha can only do things that a neural connection to the machines would allow him to do: Shut down nearby flying Sentinels, detonate nearby missile-sentinels, and see signals when he is blinded (wifi signals?). I submit that he was connected still, and, if so, then his real-world abilities make sense?

If you could hack the communication signals of the US Army, you too could shut down their drones, and detonate missiles. And your hacking device could “see” these signals. From a certain point of view, he is not doing anything impossible.

His hacking transcended the Matrix because he was part of both the Matrix and the Machine world. The Oracle even tells Neo that he is connected to the Source in both realms. I think this is what she meant.

In my view, it makes good sense that Neo has a dormant connection somehow, as he is ultimately their tool and vital for their intricate plan and control system to work. The machines need to have intelligence on his whereabouts, etc. It would be too big a risk having someone this vital to their plan just wander around, unsurveilled.

His real-world powers are proof of him using this connection to his advantage. He is a hacker, after all.

He is not dodging bullets or flying like Superman. It is these very limitations that tell us he is in the real world, and not in another simulation anymore: where he, he would have powers that he (or any machine) couldn't have in a real world. And that is not the case.

You think that's the real world you're watching?