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I had seen Reloaded and had some problems with it. I was somewhat hopeful that the 'One film broken in two' nature of Reloaded and Revolutions would help to resolve the problems that I had with Reloaded.
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As I already said, I think
Revolutions made
Reloaded look
worse by comparison simply because it did what the second movie utterly failed to: engage me emtionally.
You and others seem upset that this or that plot point wasn't wrapped up.
- I much prefer dangling threads left over to having everything wrapped up nice and neat and presented on a silver platter. The former gives us something to think (and talk) about, the latter does our thinking for us.
- Many of the unaswered questions you raised were either mildly interesting but unimportant, or based on categorically bad assumptions (e.g. Neo is a program).
Then I don't get some of the complaining about how it ended (I don't know if you personally expressed this view, Alex; It's not necessarily directed at you unless it applies). I thought we all agreed long before
Revolutions came out that this was the only way the trilogy
could end.
Sure, maybe vanquishing all the machines, destroying the matrix and unplugging all the humans would have seemed more gratifying in a clichéd action movie sorta way, but think about what such an ending would have involved. Destroying the matrix would have doomed the vast majority of humanity to death by starvation, and would have meant more or less the same to a significant portion of the machine population. Mass murder isn't terribly heroic, especially when it kills so many of those you're trying to save.
So Neo's final triumph over Smith didn't come from punches and kicks? No offense, but good. If Neo is supposed to be a literary surrogate for Jesus Christ and Buddha, I should
hope his final triumph doesn't come at the end of a punch, kick or gun barrel. He made his final triumph through truth, understanding, and self-sacrifice, not violence.
