#Neo the matrix code
#Neo the matrix free

Just as their representation for the sake of the audience. This is their nature: they're entirely arbitrary. However, this provides evidence of the artificialness of all restrictions that he accepted to apply in his previous life. What you could call an epiphany, is what later corrupts Smith himself. When Neo is shot by Agent Smith he realises that he can simply refuse to die. The most fundamental limitation of a human is their mortality. Regardless if your (mental) freedom is limited forcefully by somebody else, or by your own inability or unwillingness to live without a given set of rules, if you want to to loose these restrictions (as all non-bluepills do) you have not only to be aware of their presence (as the redpills generally are) but understand their nature. Whether this control has its source in the people themselves, as the Matrix: Revolutions suggests or in a Orwell-like government/secret-society/background-organisation like The Matrix (film) suggests, is irrelevant. The Matrix, or more precisely its visual representation ('the green code') is an allegory for the control people are subjected to.

#Neo the matrix free

I think the debugger analogy is an excellent one.īut I think the choice to show the same falling-symbols visual as that on the external monitors, is meant to show Neo fully breaking free of the boundaries of the Matrix in a way that no other connected human can. He can see, and rewrite, in real time, the flow of information that represents the virtual world around him.

#Neo the matrix code

By seeing the Matrix code Neo can more easily understand how the virtual world is being formed, and alter it. He sees the world he's immersed in the same way that a disconnected human sees the world on the monitors, and has the same control over his environment that the machines do - that of an outside entity looking in. This allows him to do things that no human has been able to do - defeat Agents, fly, etc. Neo, at the end of the first movie, breaks past that barrier, and is finally able to fully grasp the illusion of Matrix while jacked in. The humans, even though they know its not real, can only progress so far into convincing their own minds. The Agents have the benefit of being completely disconnected from the pseudo-reality of the Matrix, and thus aren't constrained at all by the 'rules' of the world. The code imagery, I think, is largely symbolic, but Neo really does have a unique perspective on the Matrix.Īs Morpheus points out early on, even knowing that the Matrix is not real doesn't help the redpills beat the Matrix' programs, like Agents.