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Originally posted by pkgrl
Here's another head-scratcher: If Zion is just another level of the Matrix, then how come some of it's inhabitants don't have plugs? Remember in The Matrix, Tank said didn't have any plugs because he was "100% home-grown human, born right here in the real world," just like his brother Dozer. Link and Zee don't have plugs either, and neither did several others I saw in the Zions scenes. Anyone who believes that Zion is another part of the Matrix have any ideas for that one? Tabitha? Cersei? |
C'mon!
If Zion is just another level of the Matrix, then we are back to layers of belief. Thomas Anderson at the beginning of the first movie didn't have honking great black spots all over him because he didn't KNOW he was in the Matrix. By the same token, I believe that Morpheus and Trinity et al *believe* they are in the real world, and therefore accept everything in it. It is Neo's sudden control over the machines that begins to show the cracks of this world - isn't it convenient that the only people that might really know, or have some perspective on the truth are unconscious?
When I say that Zion is another level of the Matrix, I believe that none of the humans are actually aware of this. They think they are really free, fighting a war against the machines, when in reality I believe they are also hooked into a simulation maintained by the Architect, or other humans, or somthing else altogether. The difference between the rebels and the humans in the original Matrix is that they sensed something wasn't right, and discovered part of the 'truth'. They made the choice not to accept the Matrix, but what they didn't know that rather than wake into reality, they were simply moving between levels.
The whole freak-out factor of the first film was that the simulation was so real it was impossible to tell it from reality. Doesn't that throw every 'reality' into doubt? Or is the 'Real World' and Zion just so terrible it has to be real?