straight away look at neo's face here he's not necessarily looking at smith
remember neo can see the green code so neo's concerned confused face here is
not saying oh look it's agent smith it's
hugo weaving with the sunglasses on in the suit no it's saying i'm reading some
code i'm reading some green code that i shouldn't be reading this green code
that i'm looking at right now is not the same code i saw in that hallway that's
why neo looks so confused [Music]
straight away what does smith call him mr anderson that's because to smith neo
is not neo smith does not acknowledge neo status as the one he does not
acknowledge neo status as a savior he is just dirty human that's what neo is to
smith did you get my package refers to that earpiece that smith sent neo
because earlier on in this film nia received a little envelope opened it up
it's the earpiece that smith had in his ear throughout the entire first film
notice how he doesn't have it now we'll get into why in a second this is classic
neo neo doesn't say wait a minute what are you doing who are you where'd you
get here how did you get here blah blah
like no neo just straight up accepts what he sees in front of him he says
yeah yeah i did receive your package that is what neo is he accepts what his
eyes see morpheus looks at the screens and says
smith but he's just looking at green code now how can he see that it's smith
it's because them being experts in the code them being experts in the matrix
and being humans who have lived amongst the code for so long they can read the
code remember how cipher says i don't even see the code all i see is blonde
brunette redhead this is what's happening here link says whatever it is
he's not reading like an agent that is because as we're about to find out smith
kind of died at the end of the matrix one and he became an exile he's no
longer an agent of the system he is something else
this is smith kind of enjoying being the guy who survived you know just like neo
survived now smith is the one who survives just a classic bad e-phrase
then you're aware of our connection is what smith asks neo this connection is
the key thing that happened at the end of the matrix one smith is no longer an
agent he's no longer plugged in to the machine city he is effectively an exile
now that's why he thinks he's connected to the one because to smith neo is this
kind of this human who broke his chains he's a human who broke the rules and now
he's free he can do whatever he wants smith is saying he's exactly the same
smith is a program who broke his chains smith is a program who can now do
whatever the hell he wants so in his mind he's kind of like the one smith
says he doesn't quite understand how it happens and yeah i mean it's true no one
understands how it happens apart from the oracle smith then explains how it
might be some part of you overwritten or copied onto me firstly hearing that you
remember they are computer files that's exactly it is the computer file became
corrupted the computer file from neo kind of duplicated onto smith this line
is very important smith says it is at this point irrelevant that is smith's
entire existence in one line all he cares about is his determinism all he
cares about is destroying the one nothing else he doesn't care why he only
cares about what remember how the oracle says to neo you've already made the
choice what's important is understanding why you made it that's what separates
the humans from the machines humans need to understand why the machines smith
don't need to understand why they only need to understand the what what's going
to happen what am i going to do what am i here to do and that is smith
what matters is whatever happened happened for a reason that's it he
believes in determinism he has his own path to follow that's it
smith says i killed you mr anderson i watched you die with a certain
satisfaction i might add you go wait a minute how the hell can a machine how
can a robot feel satisfaction well then let's take a step back and
think to ramacandra in the matrix revolutions he talks about love and how
he says the word love is not important what's important is the connection the
word implies we sing the same thing here smith isn't feeling anything because
he's a robot you know he's just a program what he is feeling in his mind
is the electrical signal that the word satisfaction means so to him to a
program satisfaction could just mean completing a mathematical formula i mean
that's what all he is right he's just code he's just numbers and letters
that's all he is so this satisfaction of killing neo is just completing his job
completing his task of being an agent of the system so smith says something
happened something that i knew was impossible but it happened anyway here
he is referring to himself being killed by neo
so smith is convinced that this was impossible because he was always told by
the architect and the entire machine mainframe that he can't die he's an
agent of the system he's just there to kind of hunt red pills and that's it if
you want to find out more about how agents are basically puppets of the
machines then please click in the top right corner right now here's another
key sentence afterwards i knew the rules i knew what i was supposed to do but i
didn't here he is referring to the machine mainframe giving smith the
choice to either be deleted or face exile this echoes what near was just
discussing with the oracle five minutes before in the park the oracle says that
exiles are programs who are given the choice to either be deleted or exile
this is what smith is he was given the choice to either be deleted because you
know he was just destroyed by neo or he could choose exile he chose exile
by that he means that he was fully aware that nia was still alive so therefore
his job wasn't done he was compelled to destroy neo because nia was still
walking around so smith chose exile instead of deletion this is quite
interesting because it does basically mirror what neo is nier was the guy who
disobeyed nia was the guy who hates authority that's what smith is doing
this is why smith is saying he's now connected to neo in his mind because
they're both guys who disobey authority smith points to his ear and says
unplugged remember he's referring to that earpiece that he wore in the first
film we already saw in the first matrix film that smith didn't really like the
earpiece in the first place remember he took it out to tell morpheus his secret
plan so therefore he always was a reasonably kind of rebellious kind of
program he says i'm a new man so to speak this is referring to him having a
kind of a rebirth just like neo did really neo was killed and then became
someone else he became the one that's what smith has done he's become a new
man now he's got new powers so that word apparently is another key kind of sign
of smith's whole character and that is he still doesn't believe that humans
should be free at all he uses the word apparently because he doesn't believe
that neo is free he doesn't believe that humans should be free he believes humans
should just be killed completely and machines inherit the entire earth so
it's just more slight disdain from smith that word apparently
here is a little bit of arrogance from i suppose both of them really neo has this
arrogant congratulations line because neo just generally hates authority and
he hates people who may seek to keep him down and then smith says thank you in a
smug way because again he is kind of like neo they're both slightly arrogant
rebels but that's why we love neo smith says this brings me back to the reason
why we're here again it's that focus on determinism for smith he always has a
reason he always says i'm here for a reason you're here for a reason i must
destroy you because that's inevitable he says we're not here because we're free
we're here because we're not free so again it slaps near in the face with his
whole outlook on life like neo thinks he's free because he's broken free of
the matrix smith saying no not really bro you're still inside the matrix
you're still in locked in this little cage you still got that head plug going
into the back of your neck i'm still pieces of code just floating around the
machine mainframe server so no we're not really free
there is no escaping reason no denying purpose there we go those lines mean
that smith in a nutshell determinism i'm only here for one reason and that's the
destruction of neo
now this stage that is exactly the opposite of what neo feels neo's like no
no no no humans don't have a reason to exist we just exist i'm a guy who was
told to stay in my pod and behave well and don't kick up a fuss and i said no
i'm denying that reason i am here because i'm free whereas smith is saying
purpose is the whole reason that we're here but the reason he thinks that is
because he is a program that is literally true in smith's case he was
only created to serve a purpose the architect said okay we need some people
to kind of keep an eye on all these human minds flying around the matrix so
let's invent agents so then they invented smith they invented all the
others so smith is correct but only in terms of programs now interestingly at
the very end of neo's character arc just before he dies at the end of the matrix
revolutions he learns that he kind of does have a purpose to sacrifice himself
for the good of humanity and that's the great awakening for neo he kind of goes
you were right all along smith i'm here for a reason and then he sacrifices
himself and deus ex machina sends the deletion code down through him to
destroy smith but of course that's another issue the point is in this scene
neo still believes no no i don't have a purpose because i'm a human and smith
goes no no no we do have a purpose because i'm a program
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