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The Matrix Decoded Chapter 20 - Off to See the Oracle |
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TANK: Here you go. Breakfast of champions. MOUSE: If you close your eyes, it almost feels like you're eating runny eggs. APOC: Or a bowl of snot. MOUSE: But you know what it really reminds me of? Tastee Wheat. Did you ever eat Tastee Wheat? SWITCH: No, but technically neither did you. MOUSE: Exactly my point, because you have to wonder, how do the machines know what Tastee Wheat really tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong, maybe what I think Tastee Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish. It makes you wonder about a lot of things. Take chicken for example. Maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like which is why chicken tastes like everything. And maybe-- APOC: Shut up, Mouse. DOZER: It's a single celled protein combined with synthetic aminos, vitamins, and minerals. Everything your body needs. |
Mouse gets to show his true colors in this scene. Notice how he talks about what he can feel and taste and see...physical things that are of little consequence to our spiritual self. |
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MOUSE: It doesn't have everything the body needs. MOUSE (To Neo): So I understand you've run through the Agent training program? You know, I wrote that program. APOC: Here it comes. MOUSE: So what did you think of her? NEO: Of who? MOUSE: The woman in the red dress. I designed her. She doesn't talk much but if you'd like to, you know, meet her, I could arrange a more personalized milieu. SWITCH: The digital pimp hard at work. MOUSE: Pay no attention to these hypocrites, Neo. To deny our impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human. |
Ah...here we go. Mouse is much more interested in the flesh, in the physical things that the Matrix itself was able to easily manipulate, than he is interested in whether or not Neo is truly the saviour of the world. His arguement almost seems plausible...that to deny physical impulses is to deny those things that make us human. But what he forgets is that those physical impulses are exactly what he CAN't count on, as he should have learned from the Matrix. Those physical impulses make us no different from animals or the bodies in their pods. The freedom of his mind, the freedom of his will is what separates him from the beasts. |
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MORPHEUS: Tank, take us up to broadcast depth. We're going in. I'm taking Neo to see her. NEO: See who? TANK: The Oracle. |
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TANK: All right, everyone please observe that the no smoking and fasten seat belt signs have been turned on. Sit back and enjoy your flight. MORPHEUS (To Tank): We're in. MORPHEUS (To Switch, Apoc and Cypher): We should be back in an hour. |
This is just a cool scene. Great camera work. Phones represent a bidge between life and death, the pathway between the real world and the matrix. The Wachowski brothers, "We liked the suggestion of old original phone hackers." Cypher throwing the phone away in the garbage can is symbolic of his desire to stay trapped in the matrix (have no connection to the real world) and keep the others there as well. |
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(In the Car) MORPHEUS: Almost unbelievable, isn't it? Neo nods. NEO: God... TRINITY: What? NEO: I used to eat there... Really good noodles... NEO: I have these memories, from my entire life but... none of them really happened. |
Neo sees some of what was so attractive in the Matrix, trying to come to grips with the fact that all of it is a lie. It is easy forget that the world is a place of lies...it looks so good and doesn't seem like sin a lot of the time. Being in the world every day, it does become difficult to remember that we hold onto truths that, though unseen, are more real good and precious than anything the world can offer. |
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NEO: What does that mean? TRINITY: That the Matrix cannot tell you who you are. NEO: But an Oracle can. TRINITY: That's different. NEO: He turns to the window for a moment and then turns back. NEO: Did you go to her? TRINITY: Yes. NEO: What did she tell you? TRINITY: She told me... NEO: What? MORPHEUS: We're here. Neo, come with me. |
This is an interesting exchange. I've skipped past it many times, but watching it again one evening it made me wonder about Trinity. She seems so sure of the Oracle...yet she offers a weak "that's different" when questioned. HOW is it different? When the Oracle scenes come up, listen for what the Oracle actually says, or, rather, doesn't say. CAN someone else tell Neo who he is? Or does she simply point him towards his own heart to find the answers? Not that WE know the truth, but that God has built the truth into us and sends the Holy Spirit to guide us. The Oracle is a poor excuse for the Holy Spirit, if that is what the Wachowski brothers intended. I see her as simply a wise woman, good council. |
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(Morpheus nods to a blind man who nods back.) NEO: So is this the same oracle that made the, uh, prophecy? MORPHEUS: Yes. She's very old. She's been with us since the beginning. NEO: The beginning? MORPHEUS: Of the Resistance. NEO: And she knows what? Everything? MORPHEUS: She would say she knows enough. NEO: And she's never wrong. MORPHEUS: Don't think of it in terms of right and wrong. She is a guide, Neo. She can help you find the path.
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Wait...check that again. Yes, the blind man nodded back. No, I don't know how he knew Morpheus nodded to him. If he is not blind I don't know why he is pretending to be. Perhaps he is simply blind to the Matrix, and therefor sees the truth? Again, it is hard for me to reconcile the Oracle as scripture or the Holy Spirit if she can only guide and not tell us truth. There are others who have good reason to attach those meanings to her, however, so check out CyberPunk Parable if you want more. However, as a wise person, this makes sense and reminds us that we should be willing to go to people who are wise Christians to get their support and opinions. |
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NEO: She helped you? MORPHEUS: Yes. NEO: What did she tell you? MORPHEUS: That I would find the One. |
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