Even more SPOILERS AHEAD!!!
Do NOT read unless you've seen Matrix Revolutions!!!!
arvirus wrote:attention! for people who dind't see the movie: spoilers ahead!
questions which remain unanswered are (imho):
-why could neo stop the sentinels in the real world?
-what's the meaning of the merowinger?
-is the architect human or machine?
and the most important one:
-was it all a game between the oracle and the architect?
/arvirus
Here's my view of things:
Neo can stop the sentinels in the real world, because he is the chosen one. Information gained from the first Matrix movie, suggests that the chosen one is a conscience born within the Matrix itself, and not someone pluged-in. Note that there has been several "chosen ones" before Neo. Much like agent Smith do in Revolutions, Neo's conscience has probably taken over a body that no longer served a pupose. He can therefore exist on both levels simultaneously. Because of the fact that he from start is a part of the program, he is directly connected to the entire machine system. Thus he is able to affect the machines in the real world. There is no way for us to know the extent of his full involvment in the system.
The Merovingian has not general purpose. He is just a "thug" program that got bored of serving his original purpose as an "ordinary" program, and started kind of a "mafia" organisation. He just happens to be in the way of Neo and the others, because he's gained so much control after is "break-out" and happened to have stuff they needed. The "mafia" bit is put to show greatly with the Trainman-bit. They smuggle programs that want exile, into the matrix without the system knowing of it. For a heavy price, I imagine.
The Architecht is a program, designed to construct, and uphold, the Matrix. That is made clear in Reloaded. In the end of Revolutions he drops a remark. "What do you take me for? Human?", wich is said in such a way he's offended to be compared with humans.
The relationship between the Oracle and the Architecht is that they both were designed to create the Matrix. They chose two ways of going about it, though. The Architecht relies on equaltions and mathematical probabilities, while the Oracle rely on the element of choise (also made clear in Reloaded). It was the "choise" bit that made the Matrix work completely for the firsat time. The Oracle, not much unlike the Merovingian, has grown tired of the system and the fighting, and seeks a new solutions, wich she think is to create peace wetween machines and humans. That's why she helps Neo.
What do we learn from this, then? That the answers to much of the last film lies in information from the first two films. Especially the second one. This makes Reloaded a really important part of the puzzle, containing a great deal of revealing information. All three movies are equally important to making the whole thing come together. I think it's one of the greatest trilogies in history of motion picture.
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it was already disproved in endless forum-threads!