The focus is Zion. Instead of freeing the people of the Matrix, as the first one suggested, the sequels have been all about saving this dirty underground city we don't care about. What the hell happened to the people of the Matrix? It's like the movies don't even care.
The people of Zion are people that were originally in the Matrix, so why would we not care about them? It would be terribly hard to free the minds of the Matrix without a) people actively trying to do so and b) a place for these minds to go aside from the garbage and sewage we see Neo dumped into in the original. Therefore (or ergo if you're pretentious like the Architect), the survival of Zion supercedes the freeing of humans within the Matrix. As it happens, Zion is about to be attacked by a shitload of squids trying to exterminate them.
Are the people in Zion more likely to fight back against the machines in hopes of saving themselves (and eventually allowing them to free more minds after the immediate problem of death is put at bay) or to ignore their imminent extermination and piddle around in their ships trying to free more minds to be exterminated along with them. Imagine that. Morpheus promising people immediate death after leaving their warm and cozy Matrix. Not terribly likely.
Nobody is freed, Trinity and Neo die, and we're left with the same situation we had at the beginning of the first movie. We've invested our attention to these three movies all for nothing. It was pointless.
Even if you weren't bright enough to complete the logical outcome of the story (briefly: If the machines agreed to not fight the humans any more then, gee golly, I suppose the humans are free to do what they will), the last conversation between the Oracle and the Architect explicitly says that the minds of those still trapped in the Matrix would be free to go if that were their choice.
This freedom is even more drastic now, thanks to the sacrifice of Neo, because the cyclical creation and destruction of Zion has ended. Prior to Neo humans were freed but eventually destroyed in Zion once the machines felt they were becoming a threat. No one was ever really "freed": they were allowed to escape from one system of control into another so that the Matrix would function as the machines desired.
At the end of Revolutions, thanks to Neo, any mind still within the Matrix has not only the freedom to escape from the Matrix, but also freedom in the real world without fear of destruction by the machines.
Trinity dies, Neo sacrifices himself, and every mind within the Matrix is free if it chooses to be.
Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars come awfully close to having the all encompassing history, a history defined purely by those that live it, that the Dune series has.
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The focus is Zion. Instead of freeing the people of the Matrix, as the first one suggested, the sequels have been all about saving this dirty underground city we don't care about. What the hell happened to the people of the Matrix? It's like the movies don't even care.
The people of Zion are people that were originally in the Matrix, so why would we not care about them? It would be terribly hard to free the minds of the Matrix without a) people actively trying to do so and b) a place for these minds to go aside from the garbage and sewage we see Neo dumped into in the original. Therefore (or ergo if you're pretentious like the Architect), the survival of Zion supercedes the freeing of humans within the Matrix. As it happens, Zion is about to be attacked by a shitload of squids trying to exterminate them.
Are the people in Zion more likely to fight back against the machines in hopes of saving themselves (and eventually allowing them to free more minds after the immediate problem of death is put at bay) or to ignore their imminent extermination and piddle around in their ships trying to free more minds to be exterminated along with them. Imagine that. Morpheus promising people immediate death after leaving their warm and cozy Matrix. Not terribly likely.
Nobody is freed, Trinity and Neo die, and we're left with the same situation we had at the beginning of the first movie. We've invested our attention to these three movies all for nothing. It was pointless.
Even if you weren't bright enough to complete the logical outcome of the story (briefly: If the machines agreed to not fight the humans any more then, gee golly, I suppose the humans are free to do what they will), the last conversation between the Oracle and the Architect explicitly says that the minds of those still trapped in the Matrix would be free to go if that were their choice.
This freedom is even more drastic now, thanks to the sacrifice of Neo, because the cyclical creation and destruction of Zion has ended. Prior to Neo humans were freed but eventually destroyed in Zion once the machines felt they were becoming a threat. No one was ever really "freed": they were allowed to escape from one system of control into another so that the Matrix would function as the machines desired.
At the end of Revolutions, thanks to Neo, any mind still within the Matrix has not only the freedom to escape from the Matrix, but also freedom in the real world without fear of destruction by the machines.
Trinity dies, Neo sacrifices himself, and every mind within the Matrix is free if it chooses to be.
Seems like a pretty fucking big difference to me.
Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars come awfully close to having the all encompassing history, a history defined purely by those that live it, that the Dune series has.