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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShinHakkaider" data-source="post: 850425" data-attributes="member: 9213">Trinity kisses Neo at the end of the movie because her love makes her believe that he is the ONE. The Matrix establishes very early that that world is based on the power of belief. It’s one of the concepts of Buddism, I forget exactly which type, but (to paraphrase) it says that reality doesn’t exist out side of perception and because of that, reality is what you percieve it to be. The Oracle told her that she would fall in love with that ONE. She was drawn to/ in love with him from the beginning of the movie. In the sequence immediately after the opening credit when Cypher and Trinity have their little talk.Cypher: Yeah.Trinity: Is everything in place?Cypher: You weren't supposed to relieve me.Trinity: I know, but I felt like taking your shift.Cypher: You like him, don't you? You like watching him.Trinity: Don't be ridiculous.Cypher: We're going to kill him, do you understand that?Trinity: Morpheus believes he is The One.Cypher: Do you?Trinity: It doesn't matter what I believe.Cypher: You don't, do you?Trinity: Did you hear that?Cypher: Hear what?Trinity: Are you sure this line is clean?Even still she still had her doubts that he was the ONE, but regardless of that she still loved him and when it looked like he was lost her that’s when she was finally able to admit that and it’s that admission, that admission of love is what revives Neo. It makes him believe that he is the ONE, otherwise he’d be dead. When he comes back he’s finally able to see the Matrix for what it is. He believes BECAUSE of her love for him. It’s a little corny but it doesn’t come out of nowhere. Everything is established in the structure of the story from jump. You see for all the people out there who claim the depth of the story rings hollow, for you it does. However if you recognize the concepts and the bits and pieces of philosophy that are in place in the story it becomes a little more than an empty exercise in wire-fu, martial arts and special effects. Because I was able to see ideas that I’d read about while in school I was able to appreciate it a little more. While the average person who doesn’t, well, doesn’t. A film student can tell you why the GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY is a ground breaking film, but to the average person it’s just some silent movie. A flim student can tell you why CITIZEN KANE left the mark that it did on cinema or why the french new wave was so important and why it was so fresh. The average person cant. Not holding THE MATRIX up to any of those films but if it’s there and you recognize it it’s something more, if you don’t then it’s not. >>Why does anyone not just slap Zhang Zi-yi's character into the middle of next week the first time she opens her mouth? Why would anyone like her or trust her or even want to be anywhere near her?<<Well the first time that she opens her mouth she’s in the guise of the young aristocrats daughter, submissive, yet curious and uses that to win the freindship of Yu Shu Lien, Michelle Yeoh’s character. Which is why, despite the obvious havoc that she causes, Shu Lien tries to resolve the issue of the stolen sword as discreetly as possible right up until their fight near the end of the movie. She’s the classic petulant child, she’s not corrupt even Li Mu Bai recognizes this when he duels with her for the second time after she returns the Green Destiny. The character has redeeming qualities, her respect and affection for both Jade Fox and Shu Lien. She cared enough about Jade Fox to try and spare her feelings about surpassing her in skill and not understanding the training manual. She obviously loves the desert bandit, Dark Cloud. As I said before there’s a subtext to her characters actions that needs to be watched in respect to what’s going on around her. Wow. Didn’t know that I’d gone on that long.</blockquote>

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