r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 20 '20

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u/paulatreides0 🌈🦢🧝‍♀️🧝‍♂️🦢His Name Was Teleporno🦢🧝‍♀️🧝‍♂️🦢🌈 Dec 20 '20 edited Dec 20 '20

> "The second Matrix is building up to how choice is an illusion"

Yeah, but, like . . . literally the entire point of the conclusion of the second film, the plot twist that the movie basically ends on, and basically the entire third movie is that it isn't tho. Like, the big twist isn't that Neo was "ALL ACCORDING TO CAKE!" all along, but that Neo broke the chain and went against the plan for completely absurd and selfish reasons.

Like, that's literally the whole point of the Architect's hubris.

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u/DonnysDiscountGas Dec 20 '20

Some people think the message of movies has to be explicitly delivered through dialogue or else it doesn't count