Originally posted by VWboraIV
Did anyone notice the two allusions at the end of the movie??1) When Smith is destroyed and it cuts back to Neo being engulfed in light, arms outstretched and legs close together... that alludes to Jesus on the cross. Add in the idea that Jesus sacrificed his human form for the good of all man kind… you get what happened to Neo!! Body was sacrificed, but his mind/sole is part of the Matrix!!!
2) At the end when Neo is being carried away by the machine and the scene goes to Neo’s vision of light, what does that look like?? If you remember reading about King Arthur in school… when he dies he is carried off by 3 queens on a boat. You don’t know if he is dead, but there is a promise of his return!! And not to mention that the story of King Arthur is an allusion in itself back of Jesus!!
I think the answers were there, but the directors just hid them for interpretation purposes!!!
I like Jasonabc’s theory on how Smith was destroyed, but if that was true and the machines destroyed Smith… I thought the deal was for Neo to defeat Smith??? Also if all they needed was a person plugged into the matrix to be copied by Smith to upload an antivirus program.... what about the other hundreds of thousands copies of Smith that were on people still plugged into the matrix. Not to mention the Matrix Agents that he copied himself onto???
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The relation to Neo and Jesus has been made since the first Matrix, with the Death and resurrection, along with many many other details that I am to lazy to type right now. If you're really curious PM me, and I'll give you a bunch more.
The way Neo was carried off on the platform was more reminiscent of a viking funeral than of the King Author myths - which are also based on fact BTW (as in there really was a King Author, but not how we perceive him from myth), and, in both fact and fiction, it is clearly stated that King Author died. I was fascinated by the legends growing up...
Anyway, as for your question about why the Machines needed Neo if all they needed to do was "unplug" a person connected to the matrix. If you read my previous posts, you'll notice that I've talked about this - but it works like this:
Neo carries the anomaly. Smith is the exact opposite, trying to balance out the anomaly. Smith did not really take over Neo, as the anomaly was to powerful to allow for the mind to be completely destroyed when Smith takes over like that - thus Smith only had control of Neo's connection to the Matrix, and inadvertently gave Neo full access to the collective consciousness of all the Smiths (if you remember, they demonstrated in Reloaded that they were all connected in one thought pattern when Smith approached Neo in the park after meeting the Oracle). Because the anomaly causes fluctuations in all mathematical processes, this gave the machines a direct connection to all Smith programs running, and not just the one connected to Neo. Without the anomaly, they would have just destroyed the Smith connected to the person they unplug, and nothing else.