Matrix Explained

This is my intrepretition of the story. I think the Matrix can be viewed from two angles : one as a pure science fiction story the other provoking philosophical questions and thoughts. These philosphies may not be tied to a specific relgion : but seem to be influenced by Hinduism.

Matrix as a Science Fiction Story

The story is primarily about a war between Humans and the Machines. The Machines have won the initial battle and now control all humans. Humans are required to provide fuel for running the machines. (There is no sunlight : obstructed by clouds which were a result of the war between Machines and Humans).

The humans are plugged into a program called the Matrix. This progam was been designed by the 'Architect' (Father of the Matrix). His initial versions of the Matrix : though perfect in design : were rejected by humans who were plugged into them. The reason being sub-conciosly humans had needed to have the feel that they were deciding what needs to be done : or as put in the film : Problem was Choice or the lack of it. This aspect was hit upon by an Intutive Program (most probably the Oracle : Mother of the Matrix) .

Because of this the Architect was forced to introduce the concept of Choice in the Matrix. The problem now was that though 99% of the humans excepted this solution there were about 1 % still rejected the program . This rejection was due to 'Anomoly' introduced in the Matrix because the Architect had to introduce 'Choice' in the system.

Though it is not clear what this anomly was or why it caused a problem : my theory is as follows. The Matrix was designed in a way that for any action : there would be choices which the human had to make. The Matrix was able to accurately predict what Choice a human would make for most of the cases (99%) but there were a small number of cases where humans would make choices that the Matrix did not expect them to make. So I presume there was no code to control such humans and they were able to escape the Matrix. Most of the crucial events in the film are always preceded by a choice offered. The Red or Blue pill scene , choosing the Right or Left door scene.

So the way the World functioned was as follows. There would be people who rejected the Matrix and escaped into Zion. The Matrix had a control here in the form of Agents of the system would try and prevent this from happening. After a particular period (around 100 years) 'The One' would make an appearance. The One would have the capabilty or realization that within the Matrix everything is un-Real and his thoughts could drive the way the wanted to behave in the Matrix.

Once the 'The One' makes an appearance he is guided to the Source. The Oracle helps in guiding him there. Once the 'The One' reaches the Source : he meets the Architect there who provides 'The One' with two choices. One is to save exit back to Matrix which would lead to the destruction of the Matrix and the other to choose 16Males and 7 Females to repopulate Zion. In either case the machines destroy Zion (done it 5 time previously and are experts for on the same).

It seems the previous One's naturally chose to save mankind and did not return directly to the Matrix. In this case however Neo returns to save Trinity, something which the Architect had not expected.

Neo after renetering the Matrix and saving Trinity then returns to the Oracle for guidance. The Oracle guides Neo to go to the Machine City