as that is precisely its function in the movie.
Without the "machine of the Gods" Neo was SOL for getting back into the
Matrix to destroy Smith.
will
Haggerty, Mike wrote:
> I thought the city itself was the source, and the face was just its
> spokespiece.
>
> M
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 3:36 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Matrix Revolutions (Spoilers)
>
> If they had presented The Source as something other than a place that he
> actually reached (machine city), then I would agree with you. But we
> specifically saw him go to machine city and talk to The Source.
> Sometimes in
> stories the journey is the important part, but here there was a tangible
> destination that he did have to reach.
>
> I like your concept of the source though, and I think it's why the first
> movie worked. But I don't think that's what was presented in the second
> two
> movies. The first movie kept it simple, and the source code that Neo saw
> was
> all that mattered. IMO, the Architect and fleshing out of the Oracle and
> such only lead to contradictions.
>
> -Kevin (frustrated)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Angel Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 2:11 PM
> Subject: RE: Matrix Revolutions (Spoilers)
>
> > Neo was journeying to *find* the source.
> >
> > Not necessarily *to* the source as though the source was some place.
> >
> > -Gel
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> > Sorry Angel, but I don't think that's right. I get what you're saying
> > and it
> > would make sense except that if that was the case then there wouldn't
> > have
> > been the whole need to journey to the source in Reloaded and then to
> the
> > machine city in Revolutions.
> >
> > So as I see it, we have the following choices:
> >
> > a.) The green "source code" that we see is not The Source.
> > b.) The green "source code" that we see _IS_ The Source and most of
> the
> > driving plots of movies 2 and 3 are bunk.
> > c.) The Wachowskis were smoking something and didn't share.
> >
> > -Kevin
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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