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<blockquote data-quote="GMMichael" data-source="post: 8494451" data-attributes="member: 6685730"><p>I just did a rewatch with subtitles. That helped a lot. Thinking "bugs" was modern (80s?) lingo for programs/agents was obviously my mistake. But anyway...</p><p></p><p>I wouldn't call it a retread in disguise. I'd call it a metaphor, plot element, and nostalgia device (the last of which was brought up by Morpheus). The movie starts off by retreading Matrix 1, shot by shot, but Bugs says there's something wrong. Something's different. Then the similarities take a different turn, moving away from the storyboard and further back, to the plot. As in, someone has to be rescued from the Matrix. Then that person has to go back in to save someone from the Matrix. . . etc. Another evolution of the movie is that it brings up several themes from M1, but offers more information or a different take on them as they come up. For example, Agent Smith from M1 points out that humans define themselves through suffering, which is why the perfect-world Matrices didn't work out. The Analyst, however, takes a different (more recent) approach: humans thrive on suffering, and become more productive during conflict. Next layer: people don't care about facts; they care about feelings. These aren't grand reveals that play out in the movie, but you could look at the real world and ask if the Matrix is explaining what happens here.</p><p></p><p>But I can see how some people would find that boring.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GMMichael, post: 8494451, member: 6685730"] I just did a rewatch with subtitles. That helped a lot. Thinking "bugs" was modern (80s?) lingo for programs/agents was obviously my mistake. But anyway... I wouldn't call it a retread in disguise. I'd call it a metaphor, plot element, and nostalgia device (the last of which was brought up by Morpheus). The movie starts off by retreading Matrix 1, shot by shot, but Bugs says there's something wrong. Something's different. Then the similarities take a different turn, moving away from the storyboard and further back, to the plot. As in, someone has to be rescued from the Matrix. Then that person has to go back in to save someone from the Matrix. . . etc. Another evolution of the movie is that it brings up several themes from M1, but offers more information or a different take on them as they come up. For example, Agent Smith from M1 points out that humans define themselves through suffering, which is why the perfect-world Matrices didn't work out. The Analyst, however, takes a different (more recent) approach: humans thrive on suffering, and become more productive during conflict. Next layer: people don't care about facts; they care about feelings. These aren't grand reveals that play out in the movie, but you could look at the real world and ask if the Matrix is explaining what happens here. But I can see how some people would find that boring. [/QUOTE]
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