How can you naively think that what he does in his personal life doesn't affect HOW he does his job?
A person's true character is revealed in two places - When he/she is in a crisis and when he/she thinks no one is watching! Think about it.
Pres. Clinton made a poor decision to have an affair when he thought no one was watching. Then, when he was in a crisis -pressure of the Ken Starr investigation - he tried to lie his way out of it. Those actions show more about his true character than all his years of political life!
--"Integrity is doing what is right, even when no one is looking!"
The trick is that by overpaying, they are putting the pressure on YOU to be the honest one. When you are worrying more about your own honesty (or dishonesty and possibly getting arrested or sued, or both!) then you can easily forget to question the guy's sincerity. Since the majority of people are basically honest, they if someone else is going to "trust" them with more money, that person must be an honest person too.
I don't think Revolution was better than M1, but I agree is was better than Reloaded. I also agree that the main point is FREEDOM OF CHOICE. Throughout all three movies that is the runing theme.
In the first one, it is Neo exercising his FREEWILL and showing that his choices. It also has the scene where Smith is telling Morpheus that humanity defines itself by its misery. I felt that the triumph of Neo over Smith shows that humanity defines itself (at least one human at a time) by its choices/actions.
The second movie tries to show us that free will is the problem. The world sucks because people make bad choices. It is the architect's bane (no pun intended) for people to exercise free will b/c he wants all the pieces to fit - very obsessive conmpulsive! Disorder and chaos reign when people make their own choices, especially when they have the intestinal fortitude to follow through on their chosen course of action. AS Neo did when he chose to save Trin.
The third movie shows us that Free will is the answer. Neo choses to sacrifice himself. (Yes, he IS dead, just like Elvis!) Trinity choses to go with him (on the one-way trip). Cmdr. Lockes' choices on how to defend Zion. Niobi's choice to let Neo take her ship. The conscious exercise of free will is the ultimate result - those who want to be freed will be. (I think he was referring to both programs and humans).
Ultimately it is the choices that we make that define us. We are the results of our decisions, hence the Oracle's wise counsel to Neo, "we can never see past the choices we don't understand." We don't truly know who were unless we understand WHY we act the way we do; why we make the choices we do.
SOAPBOX: We are an accumilation of the results of our decisions. For better or worse, for good or evil. Many people would choose to let their circumstances define thier existence, but they make the choice to have that attitude. There are those who inexplicibly suffer, having made no poor decision themselves. Although I do not undersand everything that goes on in this world, I believe there are reasons bigger than ourselves for things that happen. Even when we suffer an adverse consequence for someone else's poor choice (example - an abused spouse), we still have to make the decision how WE will deal with it. As long as a people exercise the power to make choices, their circumstances cannot define them. DONE btw, Morpheus either should have been killed off early in the show, or their should have been more development between him and Niobi!
The point is this: The program "family" was trying to smuggle their daughter -Kayda? - INTO the Matrix so she would not be deleted.
I had a hard time figuring this out until I saw here with the Oracle. So, the subway station was how programs from the machine (or REAL world)access the Matrix illegally.
It can be assumed that letting any program enter and exit the Matrix at will would have devastating consequences/ ramifications for everyone in the Matrix. Hence, programs are forbidden (* Access Denied*) to enter it. This is why "frenchie" (the Marivingian) smuggles programs into the Matrix.
I disagree. Neo is definately dead, that is why the machines dragged his lifeless body off to who-knows-where (maybe they are going to make a memorial to the human who brought peace?).
The Oracle was probably referring to the fact there may be another "one" in the future. Since she is a program and the little girl too, they will be around long enough to see him again. If it comes to that.
As she (the Oracle) said to Neo earlier in the movie, the Architect is interested only in balancing the equation. Therefore, there may be an "need" for another "one" in the future!
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How can you naively think that what he does in his personal life doesn't affect HOW he does his job?
A person's true character is revealed in two places - When he/she is in a crisis and when he/she thinks no one is watching! Think about it.
Pres. Clinton made a poor decision to have an affair when he thought no one was watching. Then, when he was in a crisis -pressure of the Ken Starr investigation - he tried to lie his way out of it. Those actions show more about his true character than all his years of political life!
--"Integrity is doing what is right, even when no one is looking!"
The trick is that by overpaying, they are putting the pressure on YOU to be the honest one. When you are worrying more about your own honesty (or dishonesty and possibly getting arrested or sued, or both!) then you can easily forget to question the guy's sincerity. Since the majority of people are basically honest, they if someone else is going to "trust" them with more money, that person must be an honest person too.
In the first one, it is Neo exercising his FREEWILL and showing that his choices. It also has the scene where Smith is telling Morpheus that humanity defines itself by its misery. I felt that the triumph of Neo over Smith shows that humanity defines itself (at least one human at a time) by its choices /actions.
The second movie tries to show us that free will is the problem. The world sucks because people make bad choices. It is the architect's bane (no pun intended) for people to exercise free will b/c he wants all the pieces to fit - very obsessive conmpulsive! Disorder and chaos reign when people make their own choices, especially when they have the intestinal fortitude to follow through on their chosen course of action. AS Neo did when he chose to save Trin.
The third movie shows us that Free will is the answer. Neo choses to sacrifice himself. (Yes, he IS dead, just like Elvis!) Trinity choses to go with him (on the one-way trip). Cmdr. Lockes' choices on how to defend Zion. Niobi's choice to let Neo take her ship. The conscious exercise of free will is the ultimate result - those who want to be freed will be. (I think he was referring to both programs and humans).
Ultimately it is the choices that we make that define us. We are the results of our decisions, hence the Oracle's wise counsel to Neo, "we can never see past the choices we don't understand." We don't truly know who were unless we understand WHY we act the way we do; why we make the choices we do.
SOAPBOX:
We are an accumilation of the results of our decisions. For better or worse, for good or evil. Many people would choose to let their circumstances define thier existence, but they make the choice to have that attitude. There are those who inexplicibly suffer, having made no poor decision themselves. Although I do not undersand everything that goes on in this world, I believe there are reasons bigger than ourselves for things that happen. Even when we suffer an adverse consequence for someone else's poor choice (example - an abused spouse), we still have to make the decision how WE will deal with it. As long as a people exercise the power to make choices, their circumstances cannot define them.
DONE
btw, Morpheus either should have been killed off early in the show, or their should have been more development between him and Niobi!
The point is this: The program "family" was trying to smuggle their daughter -Kayda? - INTO the Matrix so she would not be deleted. I had a hard time figuring this out until I saw here with the Oracle. So, the subway station was how programs from the machine (or REAL world)access the Matrix illegally. It can be assumed that letting any program enter and exit the Matrix at will would have devastating consequences/ ramifications for everyone in the Matrix. Hence, programs are forbidden (* Access Denied*) to enter it. This is why "frenchie" (the Marivingian) smuggles programs into the Matrix.
I disagree. Neo is definately dead, that is why the machines dragged his lifeless body off to who-knows-where (maybe they are going to make a memorial to the human who brought peace?). The Oracle was probably referring to the fact there may be another "one" in the future. Since she is a program and the little girl too, they will be around long enough to see him again. If it comes to that. As she (the Oracle) said to Neo earlier in the movie, the Architect is interested only in balancing the equation. Therefore, there may be an "need" for another "one" in the future!