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sakecat t1_je9ak0z wrote

Reply to comment by The_Wise_Sultan in The Matrix (1999) - Reflection "Pills Swap" by The_Wise_Sultan

By your logic, the whole choice is an illusion. Because if he is fated to be the one without any real free will than there was actually no choice. Using that logic sort of unravels the whole point imo

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The_Wise_Sultan OP t1_je9b2ap wrote

I believe the movies follow a sequence: the first he believes (erronously) that he have a choice. In the second, he finds out he never had one. And in the third, he makes one.

I believe the movie makes a good point about the difference between choice and control. At the end of the movies he have no control. But he makes the choice to save Trinity. Choice, withouth control. "What will really break your mind, is what would have happened if I had'nt said anything".

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Tacosaurusman t1_je9u8rp wrote

Isn't the only one actually making a difference in the movies Agent Smith, by glitching up the Matrix like a virus? The whole story about Neo being the One is already calculated in by the machines.

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The_Wise_Sultan OP t1_jebwh9y wrote

In a sense yes, but Neo also went off the path and chose Trinity over Zion, which never happened before.

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