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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 1210108" data-attributes="member: 6929">No it doesn't. Well, not for me, and not for the people who've rated it, who seem to rate it somewhere between 5 and 9 stars. Say 75% and you've still got an enjoyable film, right?Anyway, I think most problems have been caused by people accustomed to Hollywood garbage, where everything MUST have a happy ending, where everything MUST be spelt out for the guy in the back whose largest leap of imagination was back before he could talk when he tried to eat playdoh (about 9 or so), where everything MUST be wrapped up neatly and allow people to forget the film so they can see the next one from the studio (and when they're making a film every week or two, that's a lot). If you're not a brainwashed zombie, you'll be more satisfied with the film.No offense to brainwashed zombies, of course. You're a vital cog in the corporate machine that makes movies possible.Anyway, I really did enjoy it, and if you're ready for it, I suspect you will too.[spoiler]And to state something fairly obvious: Neo has psychic powers, and the machines are powered by the human soul. I mean, he can see the future (like when he was in the Trainman's realm), he can see without sight (but he can't see things without souls, like giant iron girders), he can project his soul out of his body (albeit not reliably). The Source is a machine soul thing. Fairly simple, really. The Oracle is a machine, true, but she's a machine with soul. Which opens the possibility of her having psychic ability too.As for the little girl: I got the impression that her parents were not Matrix inhabitants, they were inhabitants of the Machine City. Someplace you never see from virtual. Machines need power and creativity too, you know. Anyway, she's a program without purpose, so they're taking her into the Matrix, where things are considerably less policed. I imagine she'd look a lot different in the Machine City. The Trainman ran a conduit between machine virtuality and human virtuality, a hyperlink that's not an exclusive hyperlink. (Frex, the Source isn't part of the Matrix, but they're still linked.)[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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