![]() Saati, a young girl program who Neo met in the space between reality and the Matrix, is happily alive inside the Matrix with the Oracle. ![]() Smith is dead, as far as we know, and Weaving isn’t returning to reprise the role. Machines take his limp body offscreen, and what happens after that is unclear. Neo is presumably dead, as he’s last seen allowing Smith to infect him before the Machine leader uses his plugged-in body as a conduit to purge Smith. Luckily, it worked out, and there’s the promise of an actual, lasting peace… Well, at least until The Matrix: Resurrections. Speaking with the Architect, the Oracle admits she helped orchestrate all this, taking a big gamble on Neo. Humanity is saved and the Machines say they’ll make good on their promise, sparing Zion and offering everybody the choice to leave the Matrix. Neo battles Smith but realizes he can’t beat him in a straight fight, and so he allows his nemesis to infect him, a seemingly fatal decision-and in doing so, gives the Machines the direct access they need to purge Smith, since Neo is logged into the Matrix through them. If Neo can defeat Smith, the Machines will stop their attack on Zion and forge a peace with humanity. Despite the loss, Neo reaches the Machine leader and cuts a deal: Smith has taken over every single person and program inside the Matrix, meaning the Machine’s energy source is in danger. They make it to the Machine city despite heavy resistance, and Trinity tragically dies when their ship crash-lands. Neo can still “see” the machines, though, as he’s somehow still tapped into their code. Neo is able to kill the flesh-and-blood Smith, but not before Smith blinds him with a gnarly electrical cable during their fight. Meanwhile, Neo and Trinity are attacked by Smith, who snuck aboard their ship. Neo’s role isn’t to end the war, it’s to start the cycle over again. He’s the sixth, and the entire prophecy is a sort of failsafe that allows the Machines to keep humans alive in the Matrix so long as they have the potential to reject its unreality. In an effort to fulfill the prophecy before the Machine army wipes out Humanity, Neo eventually meets a program known as the Architect (Helmut Bakaitis), who reveals the horrible truth: Neo isn’t the first One. No longer an Agent serving the Machine’s agenda, Smith has gone rogue and has become a self-replicating virus who is turning the inhabitants of the Matrix into copies of himself. Meanwhile, in the Matrix, we learn that Agent Smith was not actually destroyed, but he has been changed. Their numbers are such that it seems almost impossible for humanity to fight them off. In the real world, the Machine army is bearing down on Zion, the only “real” human city, located deep, deep underground. In The Matrix: Reloaded, Neo has become even more powerful, but things are looking grim, both in the real world and inside the Matrix. Once in the real world, where they operate from a cool ship called the Nebuchadnezzar (one of many resistance ships, each with its own crew), Morpheus explains the nature of reality. They offer him a Red Pill that frees Neo from the Matrix. He encounters Trinity (Moss) and Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), figures who are renowned cybercriminals in the world of the Matrix but who are really members of the human resistance against the Machines in the real world. The first movie introduces Neo (Reeves), a seemingly normal guy with a skill for hacking. It, along with all the other movies, is streaming on HBO Max. The rest of the Animatrix is fine, but The Second Renaissance is extremely good, extremely upsetting, and adds a lot of context to the franchise. We get a brief recounting of this history in the first Matrix, released in 1999, but to see it play out properly you can watch The Second Renaissance, a two-part segment in The Animatrix, an anthology film produced by the Wachowskis that came out ahead of 2003’s Reloaded.
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