IMO:
This film is sooo close to being a uber-cool -- BUT there was just a bit too much cheesy dialogue and it was hard to feel sympathy for the characters. The special effects, of course, are unparalleled and the fight in the dome/temple was amazing. The most interesting interpretation and theories I have read are below. (Mods, please edit if this is too long.)
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WHY ZION IS STILL NOT REAL...
Neo's blindness
In the first movie he can see while in the Matrix, but when he leaves the Matrix into Zion, his eyes won't open initially because they hurt. Morpheus says, "because you've never used them." Morpheus suggests that while in the Matrix, Neo has been blind. Later, in Revolutions, he is blinded in the world of Zion, but can still see in the Matrix. This juxtaposition with the first movie suggests that perhaps Zion is a constructed world as well. I know that the movie leaves more obvious clues (which I believe is purposeful misdirection) suggesting the reality of Zion, but you have to work through the subtleties. Allow me to continue.
The color scheme of the trilogy
As we all know, blue represents fake while red is real (this is borrowed by the Wachowski brothers from Alice in Wonderland). In the first movie, they don't even use these colors (except for the pills) because the audience is not meant to know what is or is not real. As we see the next 2 movies, more is understood. Neo wears blue while in Zion, as does Trinity and Bane, whereas Morpheus wears red. [*Trinity is a program as well as Neo and Smith, which will be discussed later*] When Morpheus makes the big cave speech in Reloaded, he is in bright red while the elder councilman who introduces him is in blue. This same councilman speaks to Neo when neither of them can sleep (note that this is right after Morpheus says "Goodnight Zion", and that Neo is never really sleeping in any of the movies) and leads him to the basement where there are only machines and they feel more comfortable. In Revolutions, the color logic continues in spades. Look for it.
When Trinity breaks through the literal/figurative clouds of her world in Zion, she sees the bright BLUE sky above her. Right after this symbolic recognition of the limits of her world, she dies and knows that Neo cannot bring her back this time, because she no longer has a purpose. As she says at the end of Revolutions, “You saved me once before, but this time you cannot bring me back Neo.” The sky is shown in the daylight with a moon in the background. It could have been any color: it didn't actually have to be blue because it is a world the audience has never seen. Blue was chosen to represent its falsity.
Morpheus’s last line in the film
The last shot of Morpheus shows him looking upwards and asking “Is this real?” Morpheus’s name is from the Greek god of dreams, and his ship is named after Nebuchadnezzar, a Babylonian king mentioned in the bible who is haunted by bad dreams.
There is a shuttle system between the two worlds, controlled by the Merovingian, that only programs can use. [* More on this transport system is below *]
Smith can transport himself to Zion through Bane
As a program, and on at least this point there should be no debate, Smith would not be able to transport into Zion unless it were a computer construct as well. I have heard 2 unfounded possibilities how he can do this without Zion being simulated. First, he somehow "hacks the brain" of Bane and implants himself inside his head. This is unsubstantiated by the science fiction "rules" of the movie. Second, that he has gained the power from Neo as a result of their encounter in The Matrix. But then how does Neo get this power in the first place? There is no other explanation other than Zion being another matrix.
It would be highly improbable hat Zion is physically being built over and over again after it is destroyed. If Zion was real, then by the first time the machines had destroyed it, they would have likely dug through most of the world to reach it. How could another 5 Zions have been created under their noses unless they allowed it to be as a simulation to house those that would not accept their former construct of the matrix world. Furthermore, it is to the benefit of the machines that Zion be a simulation. When the Architect saw that certain matrix inhabitants didn't accept their world, he had to put them somewhere where they would accept it. This way, the Architect and the machines could still harness Zion’s inhabitants as batteries.
Neo retains his powers in Zion
There are numerous examples of this. At the end of Reloaded, this phenomenon was first realized when he stopped the sentinels. As he says, "Wait, something is different." He realizes that this world is not real as well, so its rules can be broken the same as in the Matrix. The shock of this connection collapses Neo who is sent to Limbo.
Programs die once they’ve served their purpose in Zion, just like in the Matrix. Specifically, Trinity dies after guiding Neo to his destiny. [*More on this is below*]
The architect reveals that all the previous Zions were created by the system.
During the speech in Reloaded, the Architect tells Neo he is meant to rebuild Zion with 23 people from the Matrix. Why would the Architect along with Neo's help bother to build the system unless it was part of their plan? Having built Zion, the System would undoubtedly know its location, so the machines would never have to look for it. Zion is built as a another simulated reality to house and continue to utilize all those who don't accept the first Matrix.
The people of Zion are religious.
Architect: "Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion... the source of your greatest strength".
It is interesting how people who are freed from the calculated world of the Matrix set up a Zion where religious belief is common and strong. The Wachowski's brothers conclude the movie (as I'll show by the end of this essay) with a very negative view of religion, and specifically Christianity. When Neo goes to fight Seraph, there is a shot of different religious objects (frame of Jesus, statue of Buddha, etc.) being sold to the public. In Zion, as Neo and Trinity get off the elevator Neo is bombarded by many religious figures that want his help. Some have brought gifts, a woman approaches him to cure her sick child as Jesus did, and there are even Buddhists in the background. The rave party is called the 'temple gathering' and Hamann's speech 'opening prayer'. Further Hamann, the councilman of Zion, is named for the despot "Haman" who mistreated the ancient Jews and is today reviled during the Jewish holiday Purim. Councilor Hamann even says to Neo, "I think about all those people still plugged into the Matrix and when I look at these machines, I.. I can't help thinking that in a way, we are plugged into them."
THE MOST CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE:
There is a picture of Neo in Zion on one of the monitors in the background during the speech with the Architect.
It is at 1:51:17 on the top left monitor in the frame. It is certainly brief, but you can definitely notice Neo's blue sweater and shaved head - his costume attributes while in Zion. For the Architect to have a picture of this, that world must be another simulation constantly monitored by the Architect.
That Zion is not real doesn't necessarily mean there is a world higher than it where humans exist and can eventually escape to. Perhaps in this highest world, God is really the machines, who after a war with humans, has banished them all to both these lower worlds. Despite what happens with Neo, humans may always be trapped here. This explains the phrase "perception defines reality". Both of the worlds are constructs, created by the perceptions of its members. When one doesn't accept the world they are in, they shuttle back to the other (i.e. Cypher back to the Matrix, Morpheus to Zion). At the end, though, Morpheus doesn't accept Zion either (he looks up towards the clouds and asks "Is this real?"), so where this goes is left to the audience.
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PERSEPHONE IS THE FIRST VERSION OF TRINITY, AS THE MEROVINGIAN IS THE FIRST VERSION OF NEO.
First, Persephone from the perspective of Greek mythology... The beautiful daughter of Demeter and Zeus, Persephone is the focus of the story resulting in the division of the seasons, giving us the sweetness of Spring and the bitterness of Winter. Hades did not woo the beautiful Persephone, he abducted her and took her to his underground kingdom. After much protest, Persephone came to love the cold blooded king of the underworld but her mother, Demeter, was consumed with rage and sorrow. She demonstrated her anger by punishing the earth’s inhabitants, gentle and fierce with bitter cold and blustering winds. Unless Persephone was returned of to her mother’s side, the earth would perish.
In the trilogy, Hades is really the Merovingian, who keeps Persephone at her side. That the Merovingian is Hades helps relate why he controls the Train Station, symbolic of the river Styx [* more on the Train Station below *]. Demeter is really the Oracle, who is Persephone's mother and has created Persephone/Trinity as the Eve to the Merovingian/Neo's Adam. [* More about Trinity's specific role below *]
As the first One, the Merovingian was created in the first version of the Matrix, a Utopia created by the Architect that didn't allow for choice. [* more on this below *]. Consequently, the Merovingian believes in causality (the existential view) rather than choice. The Oracle, who wants to end the war (as she says in Revolutions to Neo), is the "intuitive" program that came up with the idea of choice (as the Architect says in Reloaded). Thus, the Merovingian wants her dead. The Merovingian restaurant is on floor 101. Neo's apartment in The Matrix was 101. The Merovingian never had to make the choice posed by the Architect to Neo. As such, he never had to save Persephone and their love was not put in jeopardy, so it withered away. They only still remain together forcibly by their very natures, but the love is gone. This is why Persephone wants to kiss Neo, to remember that passion she once had with the first One. The name "Merovingian" refers to an old French dynasty (The Merovingian speaks French) who claimed they descended from the line of Jesus "The One" Christ.
As the first and only superpower in the first Utopian version of the Matrix (he did not have Smith as an enemy), the Merovingian is able to take control of the Keymaker and the Train Station. The train station is like purgatory, or limbo. Note that "Mobil" Ave. (the sign in the train station) is an anagram for Limbo, which is why Neo cannot escape no matter where he runs. This realm is akin to the river Styx, the Greek's portal between the Earth surface and the underworld, and controlled by Hades. The dirty bum that conducts the trains is akin to Charon, the vile boatman of Styx, who ferries souls across the river. Despite Neo's powers granted to him in the Zion and Matrix worlds, here Neo can do nothing. In Greek mythology, no one could cross Styx without Charon's permission.
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WHO IS SMITH?
Architect: [To Neo] You are the eventuality of an anomaly.
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Architect: she [Oracle] stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly 99.9% of all test subjects accepted the program, as long as they were given a choice, even if they were only aware of the choice at a near unconscious level. While this answer functioned, it was obviously fundamentally flawed, thus creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly, that if left unchecked might threaten the system itself.
The architect speaks of 2 anomalies. Neo is the first, but Smith is the second. The Oracle created choice but this also created the “contradictory systemic anomaly” that is Smith. In every version of the matrix that allows choice, the systemic Smith virus is created and it causes an increasing probability of system crash. As the Oracle says in Revolutions, Smith and Neo are the same in respect to being an anomaly caused by the free will allowed to humanity in the Matrix. 'Choice' is in contradiction to "a harmony of mathematical precision" and thus causes the anomaly of Neo and Smith.
Specifically, why is Smith a virus? In The Matrix, he correctly categorizes humans not as mammals, but as viruses during his speech to Morpheus. When Neo - the Son of Man and the representation of humanity - is spread through him at the end of the first movie, Smith is imbued with this aspect of humanity, the one he hates the most.
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NEO’S ROLE AS THE ONE AND HIS FAILURE TO FULFILL THAT ROLE IN THIS VERSION…
Lets go over most of the architect's important speech in Reloaded:
Architect: You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision.
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Neo: Choice. The problem is choice.
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Architect: I have since come to understand that the answer eluded me because it required a lesser mind, or perhaps a mind less bound by the parameters of perfection. Thus, the answer was stumbled upon by another, an intuitive program, initially created to investigate certain aspects of the human psyche. If I am the father of the matrix, she would undoubtedly be its mother.
Neo: The Oracle.
Architect: Please. As I was saying, she stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly 99.9% of all test subjects accepted the program, as long as they were given a choice, even if they were only aware of the choice at a near unconscious level. While this answer functioned, it was obviously fundamentally flawed, thus creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly, that if left unchecked might threaten the system itself. Ergo, those that refused the program, while a minority, if unchecked, would constitute an escalating probability of disaster.
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Architect: The function of the One is now to return to the source, allowing a temporary dissemination of the code you carry, reinserting the prime program. After which you will be required to select from the matrix 23 individuals, 16 female, 7 male, to rebuild Zion. Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash killing everyone connected to the matrix, which coupled with the extermination of Zion will ultimately result in the extinction of the entire human race.
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Architect: Which brings us at last to the moment of truth, wherein the fundamental flaw is ultimately expressed, and the anomaly revealed as both beginning, and end. There are two doors. The door to your right leads to the source, and the salvation of Zion. The door to the left leads back to the matrix, to her, and to the end of your species. As you adequately put, the problem is choice. But we already know what you're going to do, don't we? Already I can see the chain reaction, the chemical precursors that signal the onset of emotion, designed specifically to overwhelm logic, and reason. An emotion that is already blinding you from the simple, and obvious truth: she is going to die, and there is nothing that you can do to stop it.
Neo went to the door on the left and made the choice to fail “to comply with this process” and it indeed led to the “cataclysmic system crash killing everyone connected to the matrix.” This is what happened at the end in Revolutions: everyone in the Matrix was killed because Smith – “the cataclysmic system crash” – took over everyone in that world. When Neo destroyed Smith, all the crops of humans he had taken over were lost, but those in Zion were spared by the machines.
What would have happened had Neo chosen the door to his right, as he was supposed to? First, we have to acknowledge that all of Neo’s predecessors had done things exactly as he had up until their meeting with the Architect in which they had a choice to make between the 2 doors. This means that everything in both The Matrix and Reloaded has occurred already to Neo The Matrix Reloaded ’s predecessors. But they differ with Neo because they fulfilled their roles and chose the door to the right. Neo is unique because he allows his “emotion” to “overwhelm logic, and reason.” Had Neo chosen the door on the right, he would have returned to the Source (which he does voluntarily by the end of Revolutions anyway by flying to the Machine City), Revolutions “reinserted” himself into the matrix (as he again voluntarily does eventually anyway through the Source), and sacrifice himself to Smith via “dissemination of the code” (once again, what he does freely by letting Smith take over him). But had he realized that his “emotion [was] blinding [him] from the simple, and obvious truth: [Trinity was] going to die, and there is nothing that [he could] do to stop it” as the Architect told him (and he indeed does literally become blind), he would have chosen the door to the right. In that case, he would have defeated the virus Smith before he took over all inhabitants of the Matrix, and most of that world’s population would have been saved. The downside to this rejected option is that Neo would not rescue Trinity and return to Zion with her. Instead, Trinity would die then and there in Reloaded. Neo would have gone on to the source, where he would have stopped the Smiths early on from destroying the Matrix world. Meanwhile, Bane (as another Smith) would have infiltrated Zion easily without Neo's intervention and facilitated the destruction of Zion. He would have awoken from his state of unconsciousness and had no one to stop him. It is through Bane (literally, Reloaded “the bane of humanity”) that the Architect has become “increasingly efficient” at destroying Zion. Had Neo gone the other way, he would then have lived because the door to the right allowed for a “temporary dissemination of the code” and would then “select from the matrix 23 individuals, 16 female, 7 male, to rebuild Zion,” who would presumably take over the role of the council in the new Zion. [Reference Digression – Genesis 7:16 (NIV): “The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.”].
In fact, it is so ingrained in Neo to make the choice to go to the door to the right that this is played upon humorously in the first movie. At the end of The Matrix, Neo is running from the agents to get to a phone in Room 303, and he makes a mistake that seems like a joke to the audience at the time.
Neo (running in the corridor): "Need a little help."
Tank: "Door on your left."
Neo takes the door on his right
Tank: "No, the other left"
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IS NEO A HUMAN OR A PROGRAM?
Architect: I've been waiting for you. You have many questions, and although the process has altered your consciousness, you remain irrevocably human.
Neo is a program that is the "eventuality of an anomaly" due to the predication of free will in the Matrix, created by the Oracle. But the Oracle was "initially created to investigate certain aspects of the human psyche." Consequently, the result of her alteration to the Matrix is "irrevocably human."
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HOW DID NEO KILL SMITH?
The blinded Neo was plugged back into the Matrix through the Source (at the end of Revolutions, when the machine head plunged the large cable in his head). A rogue program, according to the Oracle in Reloaded, is either deleted or goes into exile. At this point, Smith is in exile. His earpiece is removed in Reloaded (he symbolically gives it as a gift to Neo) and he is now banished from the source's control. His newfound powers realized when Neo “disseminated his code” in The Matrix by jumping into him, Smith is now a virus and has taken over everyone in the Matrix. When Smith absorbs Neo at the end of Revolutions, Smith is once again connected to the Source and can finally be deleted directly. But all the people that he absorbed in the Matrix must die. This is the “catacylismic system crash” the architect referred to in Reloaded, if Neo was to make the choice to go to the door on his left.
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WHY DO THE MACHINES EVEN NEED ZION?
Architect: As I was saying, she stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly 99.9% of all test subjects accepted the program, as long as they were given a choice, even if they were only aware of the choice at a near unconscious level.
According to the Architect, without choice the matrix collapses. With choice, there are always some who cannot accept their reality (.1% ) and must have a reality to accept, so Zion is created for them. Without Zion, those still in the Matrix who don't accept their world can lead to a systemic failure as they convince others to the truth. As Zion grows too powerful (in this case it is when they are "freeing more minds in the last 6 months than ever before," as Morpheus says in Reloaded), it is destroyed by Bane and then repopulated by his alter-ego Neo, and the process continues anew. The machines prefer this, because they at least retain the majority of human power cells in the Matrix construct even though they lose the fewer populated Zion construct.
In the other possibility, the matrix batteries die and Zion batteries live. This option is not desired by the machines, but as the architect says in Reloaded, "There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept." The goal, however, is to keep as much of the population alive as possible.
Neo: You won't let it happen, you can't. You need human beings to survive.
The Architect: There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept. However, the relevant issue is whether or not you are ready to accept the responsibility for the death of every human being in this world."
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HAMANN IS THE PREVIOUS NEO. HE IS ANOTHER ONE.
Councilor Hamann: Care for some company?
Neo: Councilor Hamann.
Councilor Hamann: I don't want to intrude if you prefer to be alone.
Neo: No, I could probably use some company.
Councilor Hamann: Good, so could I. It's nice tonight. Very calm. Feels like everyone's sleeping very peacefully.
Neo: Not everyone.
Councilor Hamann: I hate sleeping. I never sleep more than a few hours. I figure I slept the first 11 years of my life, now I'm making up for it. What about you?
Neo: I just haven't been able to sleep much.
Councilor Hamann: It's a good sign.
Neo: Of what?
Councilor Hamann: That you are, in fact, still human. Have you ever been to the engineering level? I love to walk there at night, it's quite amazing. Would you like to see it?
Neo: Sure.
*Neo and the Councilor walk out onto the engineering level.*
Councilor Hamann: Almost no one comes down here, unless, of course, there's a problem. That's how it is with people - nobody cares how it works as long as it works. I like it down here. I like to be reminded this city survives because of these machines. These machines are keeping us alive, while other machines are coming to kill us. Interesting, isn't it? Power to give life, and the power to end it.
Neo: We have the same power.
Councilor Hamann: I suppose we do, but down here sometimes I think about all those people still plugged into the Matrix and when I look at these machines, I.. I can't help thinking that in a way, we are plugged into them.
Neo: But we control these machines, they don't control us.
Councilor Hamann: Of course not, how could they? The idea's pure nonsense, but... it does make one wonder just... what is control?
Neo: If we wanted, we could shut these machines down.
Councilor Hamann: Of course... that's it. You hit it! That's control, isn't it? If we wanted, we could smash them to bits. Although if we did, we'd have to consider what would happen to our lights, our heat, our air.
Neo: So we need machines and they need us. Is that your point, Councilor?
Councilor Hamann: No, no point. Old men like me don't bother with making points. There's no point.
Neo: Is that why there are no young men on the Council?
Councilor Hamann: Good point.
Neo: Why don't you tell me what's on your mind, Councilor?
Councilor Hamann: There is so much in this world that I do not understand. See that machine? It has something to do with recycling our water supply. I have absolutely no idea how it works. But I do understand the reason for it to work. I have absolutely no idea how you are able to do some of the things you do, but I believe there's a reason for that as well. I only hope we understand that reason before it's too late.
It is my belief Hamann was the previous One. Neither of them can sleep. when Neo says he is unable to sleep, Hamann notes that its "a good sign" and shows that Neo is "in fact, still human." Both Hamann and the Architect know that "although the process has altered your [Neo] consciousness, you remain irrevocably human" (from Reloaded). Hamann, unlike Neo, has fulfilled his role as the One. He has created Zion with 23 people from the Matrix. [* More on this role of the One below *]. He feels comfortable with the machines. He even subtly shows that Zion is not real when he says, "I think about all those people still plugged into the Matrix and when I look at these machines, I.. I can't help thinking that in a way, we are plugged into them."
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WHAT IS MEROVINGIAN'S ROLE IN "DEALING WITH [NEO'S] PREDECESSORS?"
The other previous Ones were meant to die in Zion. After they "temporarily disseminate their code" to destroy Smith and create Zion with 23 people, they are denied access back to the Matrix by the Merovingian. The Merovingian, who controls the ultimate transport between the 2 worlds (the Train Station) denies Neo the right to go back in. This is how, as the Merovingian states to Neo, "I have dealt with your predecessors before." In every other version after the Merovingian and before Neo (including Councilor Hamann), Merovingian waits for the time when Neo connects to the Source, and then banishes him from the Matrix construct through the train system. He even does it again, as he is supposed to, to Neo in Revolutions. He traps Neo there after Neo connects with the machines in Zion. But Neo does this prematurely, when he goes through the wrong door in Reloaded and then stops the Sentinels in Zion.
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THE ULTIMATE CATCH-22...
The lives of the humans in the trilogy are caught in a catch-22. The more successful Zion is in freeing minds, the more imminent its doom is. Further, if the One becomes significantly attached to Zion (via Trinity) over the Matrix construct, then the more imminent the doom of the Matrix world is. One of them has to be destroyed, though, along with its population.
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YIN AND YANG…
The destruction by Bane and repopulation by Neo is akin to this Japanese philosophy. It is similar to how the human body operates by catabolism and anabolism; neither character is the “good” one – there is no such thing as evil. Furthermore, Bane is part of the crew of the Caduceus, which refers to the symbol of the medical profession - a winged staff with two serpents twined around it. It is fitting that as both Neo and Bane lie across each other in a coma, they are treated by the ship's doctor.
The trilogy also parallels the Yin and Yang with Rama Kandra/Brahma (as Sati's parents; Rama Kandra, as seventh version of Vishnu is regarded as the Preserver while Brahma is the Creator), and the Architect and the Oracle (calculating and pragmatic versus the Oracle's "intuition").
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CONCLUSIONS:
Neo may be Jesus, but not the Jesus typically envisioned.
Neo is Jesus, but this does not allow for a traditional happy ending. Like the biblical coming of Jesus, Neo’s final choice kills all the nonbelievers of the matrix world and frees the enlightened of Zion. But do these Zionites achieve salvation by Neo? Are they really better off? Morpheus and the rest of the rebels’ purpose was to free as many trapped minds as they could. Now, they have no one else to free.
In every previous version of the Matrix, the people of Zion were destroyed and the majority people of the Matrix were preserved. In this version, the exact opposite happens. All people still in the Matrix perish and Zion lives. The Wachowski brothers would have you believe Neo is a Jesus figure. But it is an entirely different take on Jesus. Neo does die for humanity, as Jesus does, but he doesn't save the world. Instead, he saves a select few humans of Zion selfishly because of his love of Trinity.
The implication of Neo dying for Trinity rather than humanity says that Jesus sacrificed himself for the glory of his father god (the symbolic reason for choosing the name Trinity), rather than for the salvation of humanity. The purpose of this whole trilogy, other than to entertain on a massive scale, was devised to give the Wachowski's opinion of Jesus Christ. Further, they make a comment on the free will, or choice, that is characteristic of humanity. Free will can lead to greed and selfishness when it is abused. As the Architect says, “the relevant issue is whether or not you [Neo] are ready to accept the responsibility for the death of every human being in this world,” which is what Neo causes.
The only happy ending is in the matrix world.
At a cursory glance, the movie might make you think it was a corny, happy cop-out ending where everyone was freed. This duplicity is the ending’s genius. The movie is really only a happy ending for those computer programs still in the matrix - Seraph (the wingless angel), Oracle, the mother of the world, and the Architect, the father of the world. It would be a drab existence for them too like the Zionites had not Sati been born - the first program born of other programs. Eventually, the matrix will be repopulated, but not with humans, but rather with the creation of other programs. Remember, the sun rises in the Matrix, not in Zion. Zion is still covered in dark clouds. And as the oracle wakes up after Smith is destroyed, the black cat appears as in The Matrix (when Cypher betrays Morpheus and company) and represents déjà vu, the recurrence of something (note from Alice in Wonderland that Alice believes she is an animal called "Deja Vu" and must ask the Chestershire Cat for help). In this case, the Matrix is being renewed. While this Neo was the 6th version of the One - representing the 6th day of god's work - the 7th day of rest is only found in the Matrix. Sati's father in the movie is credited as “Rama Kandra”, who is in Buddhism regarded as the 7th avatar of the god Vishnu, which drives home the point.
The cycle is finally over.
This cycle of matrices being recreated finally does end, with all the human inhabitants of the Matrix dead, and all other humans condemned to a “free” life in the bleak, post-apocalyptic Zion. Meanwhile, the Matrix construct is started anew, clean of the humans Smith had earlier described as “viruses.” Perhaps, one day the peace created in Zion will fracture. The Architect suggests this when he asks the Oracle "how long is it [the peace] going to last." The world of Zion will eventually see more bloodshed once the peace ends. In case of this, the Matrix will always exist so that it can be repopulated by the inhabitants of Zion. The role of Neo as the One, though, will likely not be implemented again because he turned out to be a failure.
Zion is not real.
Zion is not real because the machines still survive even without the power cells of the Matrix population anymore. This is “the level of survival” the Architect says he is willing to accept. With the Matrix destroyed, the machines in Zion should run out of power. They don't, however, because there are still inhabitants of Zion whose bodies reside elsewhere, generating the power for both the Zion construct with its limited population and a now less complicated version of the Matrix that just includes Sati, the Oracle, the Architect, and Seraph.
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