To see a list of everything that has been recently updated, see the bluepill "Updates" button below. If you are curious about my personal opinion about The Matrix Resurrections, see Introduction: The Matrix Resurrections. Some have asked about the "trans metaphor" news that came out. For my thoughts on that, see Higher Meanings: Trans Metaphor.
There are very substantial clues here, here, and here, that point to an "Animatrix 2.0" being produced. It may be titled Animatrix: Ø for Ørigin.
Did you love The Matrix, like Matrix Reloaded, and dislike Matrix Revolutions? If so, this website is for you. This is the reaction of most people who watched all three movies, and it's not because the third movie is worse than the other two. It is because the third movie (and part of the second movie) went straight over most peoples' heads. Even most people who think they understand the last two movies really don't. Once you understand the last two movies as well as the first movie, you will see all three movies as one great story instead of seeing the last two movies as blemishes against the first movie.
As a reader of this website named Logan writes:
"I am a huge fan of your site, Matrix Resolutions. As a Matrix fan, I had almost given up on trying to find a credible go-to Matrix site (if it
wasn't the MWM hypothesis it was cyborg-Neo or some such nonsense). Now, whenever I re-watch the Matrix films, I always have your site open on
my web browser!
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The purpose of this website is to document and answer questions about the Matrix movies, using anything from a definitive answer to a theory to a mere possibility, and using as much support from all four movies as possible. I will sometimes mention symbolism that is either relevant to the plotline or that is very interesting, but symbolism is not the focus. Finding possible explanations for the plotline that work within the realm of science fiction is the focus. The bigger purpose here is to hopefully resolve the frustration so many felt (as I did) after watching the third movie, due to what felt like being given too many religious copout explanations to support the movies, making it seem like a blur between science fiction and religion/fantasy fiction.
This website assumes that you have already seen all four movies. If you haven't yet, stop reading this right now and go see them! This website will also spoil the Enter The Matrix video game, various Matrix comics, as well as The Animatrix, which is a collection of nine animated short stories released between the first and second movies (one episode of The Animatrix has been called "Matrix 1.5" because it shows part of what happens between the two movies). If you have seen all three movies, and if you are fine with all other Matrix media you haven't seen being spoiled, then by all means read on!
There was an MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online) game called The Matrix Online (MxO), which takes place immediately after M3 ends. The storyline of this video game was not written by the Wachowskis, but the Wachowskis gave the game makers a green light to do what they wanted with it. Events that happen in MxO cannot be directly used to enhance our understanding of the movies. For example, in MxO, Morpheus commits acts of terrorism, setting off code bombs in the Matrix revealing the truth of the Matrix to many people at once, refusing to stop until Machines give Neo's body back. After only a few short months or a year, Morpheus is killed in the Matrix by The Assassin. But in M4, Morpheus is elected high chair of the council of Zion until its destruction by machines years or decades later.
But indirectly, I will still refer to certain elements from MxO since everything in MxO was based on what the writers knew about M1-M3 and were told by the Wachowskis. For example, redpill hackers in MxO no longer died in the real world if they died in the Matrix. They were given the protection of an "auto-jackout" mechanism that jacks them out of the Matrix at the moment when they would have died in the simulation. While it's true that this element of the game had a certain mechanistic necessity in order for the game to even work (there had to be a reason for players to respawn in the game after dying), it's also very possible that this mechanism is what allow both Neo and Trinity to come back to life in the first two movies after dying in the Matrix. In M1-M3, The One is one of the most vital parts of the Matrix system, and it wouldn't make any sense for some kind of protection like this not to exist, especially when Agents are genuinely trying to kill The One.
This site was written with the assumption that readers will follow the links in the left window mostly in a top-to-bottom order. That doesn't mean the site can't be understood when read in random order. If you do not wish to read the pages in top-to-bottom order, no matter what your background, I do recommend at least starting with Introduction: Website Terminology, Introduction: People, Places & Things, and Matrix System (and all of its sub-pages). Starting with these pages will ensure that readers and I are on the "same page" so to speak. Reading about the Matrix system first is also especially important since it discusses in general terms how the Matrix system is supposed to work. Everything else on this site discusses what is happening over the very specific time interval represented by the Matrix movies.
You will also notice various images throughout the site advertising authentic Matrix gear such as sunglasses and resin busts. The official "Matrix Shop" no longer exists, but I decided to keep the links and graphics intact for nostalgia's sake.
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