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Thanks for the info on "Enter the Matrix" - I had heard that it filled in quite a few blanks, and your snippet is helpful in explaining some things.
The Merovingian says to Neo at the restaurant "Give the fortune teller this message: Her time is almost up", so evidently that has come true.
And an important child? Things are looking so bleak for Zion and the humans that recently I have begun to think that Revolutions might end with a reboot of the Matrix, but with some special difference, that will make the next incarnation the final one in which the Machines keep control. For example, for all the inhabitants to gain Neo's power, or some such vital change.
Neo is the sixth anomaly - perhaps the child is the seventh? Seven is a number with religious implications, isn't it?
As for your ideas about Neo's abilities in the real world... well, I am still not convinced that the real world is at all real. We have had little or no hints in the series so far that there has been any great leap in human evolution (could there be, with humanity plugged into machines?), so regardless of what abilities he might possess inside the Matrix, I am not swayed by the possibility of him gaining them in a 'real' reality, ditto for Smith's control of the Bone/Bane character.
I think there is some merit in the idea that Neo himself might be a program built into the Matrix - the Architect describes him as being a product of the systemic anomaly arising from the tiny minority of humans that choose freedom - if he is a program, then the reality he awakens to in the original film surely can't be real.
Beyond this, his experience is different from that of the previous anomalies because he has fallen in love - something machines can't do?
So, if Neo is a program, Zion must be another level of the Matrix.
If Neo is not a program, but a human, his powers and Smith's new abilites further suggest Zion is another level of the Matrix.
That's my take for now. |