At the same time, this trilogy is also a great history of human thought, from a world of opposition between good and evil to a world of vague relationship between good and evil, until the opposition between good and evil completely disappears, and it is the general trend of human development, and the prophet earrings with yin and yang patterns illustrate this point.
The Final Battle is about the trinity culture of China's traditional Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, an ideal of "harmony" rather than desire. Neo was in a coma at the subway station, which led to the Indian girl Sadie. At the same time, Trinity and others found Melovinga, forced him to release Neo and saved him again with love. The prophet told Neo that only he can save the virtual and real world now, and Smith is the opposite of Neo. Then a group of Smiths invaded the prophet. Zion is being attacked by machines, and there is news from the trapped Logos spacecraft. Ghioni people took Neo and his team to help Niobie. By this time, Neo had realized what he should do, so under the pressure of Zion parliament, he asked to go deep into the machine city to negotiate with the machine. Niobe knew it was time for her to help Niobe and gave Nitrey her Logos ship so that they could try to change the previous cycle in Zion. But at this time, Bourne, possessed by Smith, killed the doctor who took care of him and lurked on the Logos spacecraft.
Then there is a two-line narrative. On the one hand, it was the battle of Zion, and people with lofty ideals did their utmost, including 16-year-old teenagers and hero families who lied about their age. On the other side, Neo and Sany went deep into the machine city according to Neo's hunch, and Byrne appeared on the road. In the battle with him, Neo went blind and destroyed the last sensory deception, but he could feel everything in front of him with his heart. In the battle with many robot jellyfish, Sany crossed the dark clouds and saw the sun, but when Logos reached the core of the machine, she died of the attack of the robot jellyfish. The battle in Zion has reached the last moment, and all the ways of human resistance have been exhausted, ready to give their lives. Neo negotiates with the machine, demanding reconciliation between the machine and human beings. He will subdue Smith and there will be peace between the two worlds. At the moment of negotiation, the attack of the machine stopped. Morpheus knew that Neo had succeeded and took the lead in laying down his weapon.
In Thunderstorm, Neo and Smith fought a battle. This is a Smith's world. As his antithesis, Neo obviously can't be his opponent. At the last moment of the battle, the prophet appeared in Smith's body and said, "Everything has to end." Only then did Neo understand the mystery and handed himself over to Smith. When Smith completed his invasion of Neo, annihilation came like this. In the light, both worlds are calm, and the life of machines and human beings is finally at peace.
If we only regard the Matrix series as stunts and myths, it will inevitably be biased. This story must have such an ending, without coincidence or drama, because "the spoon does not exist", this story is actually about the real history of mankind, not the unattainable dream of Hollywood. From the point of view of natural science, any closed system will exhaust its order (low entropy) and will move towards chaos and chaos (high entropy), and the earth destroyed by human beings and machines is no exception. When the earth's resources are exhausted, the only way out is for human beings and machines to coexist: human high-order thinking energy will produce low entropy for machines to use, while machines provide the basic needs of human life. Asimov's "The Last Question" also has a similar prediction: people will eventually abandon their own bodies and establish a new existence of pure consciousness with the help of computers. So, from this perspective, if human bodies have to spend their lives in the mother tower, as long as they know the truth and are willing to do so, they are still free. The complete peace between mother and Zion gives human beings the opportunity to choose freely, whether they want illusory happiness or real desert. They are free to choose and respect each other's choices. This is true freedom. Compared with this freedom, the old Zion always put all people on the barren earth, which is actually no different from the mother's slavery to people.
From the perspective of Heaven and Earth Avenue, the death of the Trinity is inevitable. She represents the western Christian civilization, which is a binary opposition. The power of "either the east wind overwhelms the west wind, or the west wind overwhelms the east wind" can only cause the plane to crash and people to die. She chose to listen to Neo, not out of worldview, but out of love. Christianity based on love, if it is incomplete from the Buddhist point of view, is "leaking" and "leaking is bitter", and she must bear this bitter fruit with her own life in the end, so she can't go to the last step. Neo must also put aside the power of love, with compassion for the world, tolerate the intolerable things in the world-Smith, thus laughing at the ridiculous people in the world-and eagerly wait for human beings to conquer the machine audience. Look at their ship, the Logos. This is logic and the most brilliant achievement of Greek civilization. In this way, a Chinese-Western hybrid, with the help of Greek civilization and Christian civilization, reached the core wisdom of this world-reconciliation.
Zhang Zai, a thinker in the Northern Song Dynasty, said: "If there is an image of Sri Lanka, it is the opposite, and if there is an enemy of Sri Lanka, it is the sum of the enemies." The prophet said that Smith was the opposite of Neo, not that they were positive or negative. In fact, the earrings of Yin and Yang, which occupy a large lens, have made it very clear that Neo is Yang and Smith is Yin. They complement each other and are in unity of opposites. The spoon that Neo received in "Reload" has already said that the spoon does not exist, people and machines should be unified, and there should be no war. So the final result can only be "revenge and reconciliation." Finally, Smith entered Neo, which means that now, there are me among them and you among me, so all contradictions have been solved.
The Matrix trilogy begins with slavery and hatred. First, it tells the history of Judaism and Christianity. It is the complete opposition between good and evil, and the life-and-death contest between God and Satan. The scene set in the film is Hellenistic, which is Plato's "Cave Fable", telling people how to define the truth and how to discover it. Neo became the savior because of the most powerful love power of Christianity, so at that moment, when Neo was resurrected by an Iraqi kiss, he became the savior of Christianity.
Reloading into battle is an existential story. This is an era of "God is dead", and Superman begins to doubt the meaning of existence. This is also the vague stage of the opposition between good and evil. Just like Camus' literature, it is not the opposition between good and evil, but the opposition between light and darkness, and its boundary is blurred. At the same time, Neo's confusion is also Guo Jing's confusion. What can judge good or bad? If freedom is good, what about Smith's destructiveness? Existentialism believes that human freedom is the freedom of choice, not necessarily the choice of what to do, but also the choice of what not to do. Inaction is more free than doing something, because inaction will not offend others' actions. So Neo didn't accept the prophet's candy in the last battle and made the opposite decision to the second episode.
After the development of existentialism, the prescription for the western world was oriental civilization, which was the basis of the third episode. Liang Shuming believes that there are three ways for human civilization to treat "desire". The first is to struggle and satisfy desires, which is the western way; Second, the desire for self-regulation, the doctrine of the mean, and the doctrine of the mean, which is the way of Confucianism and Taoism in China; The third is the restriction and elimination of desire, which is the path of Buddhism. These three roads are neither good nor bad, it is only a matter of time. China and Buddhism are too advanced, so when people still want to satisfy their desires, neither can become the mainstream. However, times will change, and people will eventually realize that the attitude towards desire must change. At this time, the era of Confucianism and Taoism came, and then the era of Buddhism. The film runs through the attitude of Buddhism from the beginning, but the actual behavior of human beings tells us that the era of desire extinction is far away in the future, and only China's golden mean is the solution to the current battle. This golden mean is not a compromise to Hollywood as some viewers think, but a road to heaven and earth.
Neo realized that he and Smith were originally one, and the loss of either side would be the destruction of the whole world and a waste of life. Without Neo, the hegemony of machines will prevail. Without Smith, man would do everything possible to defeat the machine. They are originally an inclusive whole, so they must eventually merge, annihilate or mix. In the end, neo's life and death is no longer a problem. The point is that he started a new era.
When I walked out of the cinema, I felt a sense of relief. This is the most sincere film I have ever seen, the heaviest and the most touching. It deeply shakes our hearts, and anyone can find their own things from it, so with such reverence, I wrote the book Decoding @ Matrix to let the people of China, praised by the Wachowski brothers, know their sympathy.
On a vibrant grassland, the architect decided to give human beings the right to choose freely, and the prophet's belief in peace was realized. What we see are white-haired people and black people who symbolize the most primitive power of mankind. They have finished the task. Standing next to them are young China people, leading young Indians. This peaceful picture has said everything.