If you were paying close attention, you might have seen that the Orcale was wearing earings with the Yin/Yang symbol. That alone explains the whole movie. It's all about opposites. Machines vs Man, Neo vs Smith, the Orcale vs the Arcitech. The machines and man always fought for control but neither one had full control and this represents the Yin/Yang symbol in that both dip into each other but one never succumbs to the other. Neo and Smith reached harmony when Neo let Smith take over his body. This made the two opposite forces cancel each other out. To really show the influence of Daoism in Revolutions, Yin is considered feminine and black and the Oracle is a black woman. The Yang is masculine and is white and the Architect was a white man. Their constant struggle between chaos and order kept the Matrix together. Neo's power to stop machines in the real world was actually Ch'i and "the source" mentioned is the Dao itself. Neo and Trinity both must die because like Smith said "everything has an end" and is the way of the Dao.
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If you were paying close attention, you might have seen that the Orcale was wearing earings with the Yin/Yang symbol. That alone explains the whole movie. It's all about opposites. Machines vs Man, Neo vs Smith, the Orcale vs the Arcitech. The machines and man always fought for control but neither one had full control and this represents the Yin/Yang symbol in that both dip into each other but one never succumbs to the other. Neo and Smith reached harmony when Neo let Smith take over his body. This made the two opposite forces cancel each other out. To really show the influence of Daoism in Revolutions, Yin is considered feminine and black and the Oracle is a black woman. The Yang is masculine and is white and the Architect was a white man. Their constant struggle between chaos and order kept the Matrix together. Neo's power to stop machines in the real world was actually Ch'i and "the source" mentioned is the Dao itself. Neo and Trinity both must die because like Smith said "everything has an end" and is the way of the Dao.