The Matrix Decoded

Chapter 27 - Matter of Belief

DVD Script
(fairly close, anyway)

Notes

AGENT SMITH: Have you ever stood and stared at it, Morpheus? Marveled at its beauty. Its genius. Billions of people just living out their lives... oblivious.

AGENT SMITH: Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost.

AGENT SMITH: Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery.

AGENT SMITH: The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization.

Agent Smith attempts to break Morpheus' faith by telling him that he is a victim of evolution. He adamantly tells how much he hates humanity, and how much he wants to be free of the prison of the Matrix as well!

The original design of the Matrix could be a reference to the Garden of Eden.

Satan hates mankind with an utter hatred. And like Agent Smith, Satan is not free. God already limits Satan's activity, and it will only get worse for Satan. God will eventually further confine Satan to an eternal lake of fire. (Revelation 20:10)

Agent Smith states, "I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery." In reality, it is the choices that matter to us...the freedom to choose our life direction, not merely pain and suffering for no true purpose.

AGENT SMITH: I say 'your civilization' because as soon as we started thinking for you, it really became our civilization, which is, of course, what this is all about.

AGENT SMITH: Evolution, Morpheus. Evolution. Like the dinosaur. Look out that window. You had your time.

AGENT SMITH: The future is our world, Morpheus. The future is our time.

AGENT SMITH (to Agent Brown): Double the dosage.

AGENT JONES: There could be a problem.

(On Neb)

NEO: What are they doing to him?

TANK: They're breaking into his mind. It's like hacking a computer. All it takes is time.

NEO: How much time?

TANK: Depends on the mind. But eventually, it will crack and his alpha pattern will change from this to this.

TANK: When it does, Morpheus will tell them anything they want to know.

Breaking into his mind...a little like Satan whispering lies to us over and over again, tempting us with deceit.

Tank is taking things into his own hands now. Unable to see a way out, to think 'out of the box,' he uses his human mind to solve the problem.

We often do this...as Christians, however, we should always be looking to God for the answers and we should expect Him to do more than we can imagine. (Ephesians 3:20)

NEO: What do they want?

TANK: The leader of every ship is given the codes to Zion's mainframe computer. If an Agent had those codes and got inside Zion's mainframe, they could destroy us.

TANK: We can't let that happen, Trinity. Zion is more important than me. Or you or even Morpheus.

NEO: There has to be something that we can do.

TANK: There is. We have to pull the plug.

TRINITY: You're going to kill him? Kill Morpheus?!

TANK: Trinity, we don't have any other choice.

(in the Matrix)

AGENT SMITH: Never send a human to do a machine's job.

AGENT BROWN: If, indeed, the insider has failed, they will sever the connection as soon as possible, unless...

AGENT JONES: They are dead. In either case...

AGENT SMITH: We have no choice but to continue as planned. Deploy the sentinels. Immediately.

I love the way they finish eachothers sentences as if they are one, which, being controlled by the Matrix, they are.

(On Neb)

TANK: Morpheus, you were more than our leader. You were... our father. We will miss you, always.

NEO: Stop!

NEO: I don't believe this is happening!

TANK: Neo, this has to be done!

NEO: Does it? I don't know. This can't be just coincidence. It can't be! Can it?

TANK: What are you talking about?

NEO: The Oracle. She told me this would happen. She told me...

The term "father" can have two parallels here. One is as God the Father, who sacrificed Himself so he could get us out of a fallen world if we choose to accept him. Yeshua said, "I and the Father are one" in John 10:30, meaning that it was indeed the Father who also died on the cross in the Trinitarian sense (also see Isaiah 9:6) As stated before, Morpheus can sometimes represent God in the film - but not in the sense that Agents can hold him captive!

The other idea for "father" can be that of a mentor or trainer (disciple-maker). The Apostle Paul called his disciple Timothy "my true child in the faith." (1 Timothy 1:2) Paul was often persecuted or imprisoned for his ministry, and Timothy ministered to him in these afflictions, much as Neo will go to rescue his trainer Morpheus.

Or, perhaps, God the Father, who made possible a way for us to 'be saved' from our sin.

NEO: That I would have to make a choice...

TRINITY: What choice?

TRINITY: What are you doing?

NEO: I'm going in.

TRINITY: You can't!

NEO: I have to.

TRINITY: Morpheus sacrificed himself so we could get you out! There's no way you're going back in!

NEO: Morpheus did what he did because he believed that I'm something I'm not.

TRINITY: What?

NEO: I'm not the One, Trinity. The Oracle hit me with that too.

TRINITY: No, you... have to be.

NEO: I'm sorry, I'm not. I'm just another guy. Morpheus is the one that matters.

TRINITY: No, Neo. That's not true. It can't be true.

NEO: Why?

TRINITY: Because...

Neo's logic seems, to Trinity, just as foolish as God's wisdom does to us.

TANK: Neo, this is loco. They've got Morpheus in a military- controlled building. Even if you somehow got inside, those are Agents holding him. Three of them! I want Morpheus back, too, but what you are talking about is suicide.

NEO: I know that's what it looks like, but it's not. I can't logically explain to you why it's not. Morpheus believed something and he was ready to give his life for what he believed. I understand that now. That's why I have to go.

TANK: Why?

NEO: Because I believe in something.

TRINITY: What?

NEO: I believe I can bring him back.

Faith does not consider obstacles; God can overcome anything. "Nothing is too difficult for You [God]..." (Jeremiah 32:17)


Neo must go because he believes. True belief demands action. Faith produces works just as naturally as fire produces heat. Someone who claims he has faith, but has no works to prove it, does not have faith at all, but has a dead, false 'faith'. (James 2:14-26)

"Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends." (John 15:13)

(Trinity goes to her console)

NEO: What are you doing?

TRINITY: I'm coming with you.

NEO: No, you're not.

TRINITY: No? Let me tell you what I believe. I believe Morpheus means more to me than he does to you. I believe that if you are serious about saving him then you are going to need my help and since I am the ranking officer on this ship, if you don't like it then I believe that you can go to hell, because you aren't going anywhere else.

TRINITY: Tank, load us up.

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