Film Theory: The Matrix has NO ESCAPE

Morpheus: You take the blue pill, your life stays as crappy as it was. Neo: And the red one? Morpheus: Same. But it's strawberry.

I hope my gta character never figures all this out

The best prison, is the one you think you have escaped from already. When you never had escaped to start with.

Ah, the movie that gave me my first existential crisis. Memories.

Isn't it amazing that 18 yrs down the line, we are STILL analyzing this movie?

Philip K. Dick had a story called The Defenders where humanity was forced underground after a war. They left the machines on the surface to continue that war, but the machines soon came to the conclusion that war was illogical. The machines then became unknowing caretakers for humanity pretending to continue the war, but in reality protecting those exiled to the surface and cleaning up the wartorn Earth. I wonder if a similar logic could be applied to these films.

I always thought there should have been a short mid or after credits scene on the third film showing one of the minor characters in Zion experiencing a little déjà vu and then just shrugging it off.

There is a concept known as "The Golden Prison". The concept hypothesizes if you make a prison so nice that no one would want to leave you need not spend resources forcing prisoners to stay - they stay of their own volition. I have believed this theory since the movies were released; They never left the Matrix. By making people believe they had escaped the Matrix to a grittier "real world" the prisoners would never question if they were still inside. Hunting down humans in the "real world" was just to keep up the ruse. The Architect actually touched on The Golden Prison when he explained an earlier version of the Matrix gave everyone everything they could ever want - but it failed. The machines learned they had to make a prison within a prison.

ROSES ARE RED VIOLETS ARE RED TULIPS ARE RED BUSHES ARE RED TREES ARE RED FENCES ARE RED OMFG MY GARDEN IS ON FIRE!

Hey Matt, could you do a film theory exploring the theory that the machines in the Matrix are in fact the good guys, protecting the humans in the matrix while they fix the world that humans themselves made uninhabitable?

In the second movie, the Oracle offers a red pill-shaped piece of candy to Neo. This subtle moment perfectly symbolizes the idea that what they perceive to be the truth revealed by the red pill is just another thing to pacify them.

I was re-watching the movies the past week and one thing I kept thinking something similar: why does no one consider the possibility that the "real world" (where Zion is) is also a simulation. I think that once you have proof that you were living in a simulation, there's no way that you can be certain that the new reality isn't also a simulation

This is exactly what I THOUGHT the plot of the movie was when I first saw it- that they had never actually left the Matrix at all- but no one else seemed to agree even though they weren't entirely sure what had just happened either!

A simulation.. inside a simulation..... INSIDE A SIMULATION

I love the colour symbolism too, I'm not sure if someone already mentioned it, but in the matrix it's all green, morphious wheres a green tie, the other guy a greens shirt but in the real world it seems okay but you realise it's all blue. Even their clothes are blue/sometimes and zion is orange which is blues complimentary colour.

My personal theory is that the 'humans' in the matrix aren't really humans. Which makes sense, they were grown, not born, so maybe they're just a different species, meaning it's possible they can interact with the matrix a little bit weirdly, since they were born to.

Take both pills. Red and blue, this is the only escape.

The way Neo is able to stop the machines in the real world is simple. He figured out the machines wifi password.

I'm pretty sure Morpheus asking "Is this real?" was him questioning if, for once, the war was actually over - not if the real world was real. Kinda like asking "Are you serious?" or "Is this really happening?"✌🏾

My favorite aspect of this theory is that we can use it to retcon the stupid “humans are batteries” thing as part of the illusion and not the actual purpose behind the Matrix.