Neo Versus the Architect in “The Matrix – Reloaded”

Each and every scene in The Matrix trilogy is breathtaking, but this particular scene at the end of the second movie says a whole lot about us as individual beings and the variety of emotions we’re capable of. Recall that Neo has a rendezvous with The Architect of the Matrix; a seemingly futile interlude, in which the hope of the world is about to be destroyed, if we believe the Architect.

Examine on as the scene plays itself out in the studio of The Architect:
The Architect: You are here since Zion is about to be destroyed. Its each and every living inhabitant terminated, its total existence eradicated.
Neo: Bulls..t. (The monitors [portraying all Neo's probable responses] reply the same.)
The Architect: Denial is the most predictable of all individual responses. But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have turn out to be exceedingly effective at it. [1]

The thing I discovered most exciting about this scene is all the hundred or so monitors showing the momentary flurry of perplexed emotion in Neo. It recognises that we’re all like this at any offered moment, and specifically when we’re underneath stress. Who can inform how we’ll react to provided circumstances?

And over our lifetimes we’ll have responded in a vast variety of methods to an infinitely as well-tough-to-grasp sum of circumstances.

How can we start to attempt to fathom the depth of the human psyche; mentally, emotionally, and spiritually? But, the point is we have to. We have a large fascination for these points of philosophy, psychology, theology and spirituality in the context of one particular single individual becoming. Yet, it’s a mystery that will certainly not be solved.

And The Architect, in his very own clinical anti-individual way, hits the nail on the head, last but not least. One of the commonest responses to the stimuli we face is rampant, unchallenged denial. It’s the root trigger of several psychological and spiritual ailments.

How several of the myriad of responses we’re capable of, I wonder, are hampered by and defaulted to the response of denial? How significantly would we hence miss out on in the sphere of life, emotion and explanation?

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