Agent Smith is the nemesis of the film. He and the other agents of law enforcement represent “the system” or “the establishment.” They are highly trained and heavily equipped fighting machines that keep the matrix operating smoothly and free from the liberators.
At least six focal events provide substance and movement for this text. First, Neo receives his “calling” from Morpheus and is given a choice between freedom from the matrix, or forgetting his meeting with Morpheus ever happened. Second, after Neo chooses freedom, and the price that accompanies it, he can no longer simply exist in the matrix; he is now a freedom fighter who ultimately discovers that he is “The One” who has been chosen to defeat the machines and free his fellow humans. Third, through a near-fatal experience, Neo is physically set free from the pod and the deception of the matrix. Fourth, Neo’s training as a freedom fighter, and his victory over Morpheus during a training exercise, reveals there is something different about him, which begins the verification that he is “The One” for which they have been waiting. Fifth, together with Trinity, Neo and Morpheus fight against the machines’ enslavement of humanity. Simultaneously Neo begins to believe and accept his role as “The One.” Finally, the film climaxes with a decisive showdown between Agent Smith and Neo. Though two …show more content…
Local truth is rooted in language and culture, while arbitrary truth finds its identity within personal experience. Since languages and cultures differ, truths and understandings born out of those truths differ as well. With no way to concretely discern truth, we therefore have no means by which to bridge the gap between our perception of reality and authentic reality.5 In Post-Modern Pilgrims, Leonard Sweet distills the core of postmodernism into an efficient acrostic, using the word “EPIC”: Experiential, Participatory, Image-driven, and
At least six focal events provide substance and movement for this text. First, Neo receives his “calling” from Morpheus and is given a choice between freedom from the matrix, or forgetting his meeting with Morpheus ever happened. Second, after Neo chooses freedom, and the price that accompanies it, he can no longer simply exist in the matrix; he is now a freedom fighter who ultimately discovers that he is “The One” who has been chosen to defeat the machines and free his fellow humans. Third, through a near-fatal experience, Neo is physically set free from the pod and the deception of the matrix. Fourth, Neo’s training as a freedom fighter, and his victory over Morpheus during a training exercise, reveals there is something different about him, which begins the verification that he is “The One” for which they have been waiting. Fifth, together with Trinity, Neo and Morpheus fight against the machines’ enslavement of humanity. Simultaneously Neo begins to believe and accept his role as “The One.” Finally, the film climaxes with a decisive showdown between Agent Smith and Neo. Though two …show more content…
Local truth is rooted in language and culture, while arbitrary truth finds its identity within personal experience. Since languages and cultures differ, truths and understandings born out of those truths differ as well. With no way to concretely discern truth, we therefore have no means by which to bridge the gap between our perception of reality and authentic reality.5 In Post-Modern Pilgrims, Leonard Sweet distills the core of postmodernism into an efficient acrostic, using the word “EPIC”: Experiential, Participatory, Image-driven, and