The Matrix: Unknown Ending

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Now I finally found the answers to those stupid plot holes that plagued me in the first movie. It's … It's just brilliant. Many film critics point out that after the conceptual "Matrix Number One", its sequels were too strongly given by the desire to make as much money as possible from the success of the previous film to be considered worthy of the predecessor film. Perhaps everything could have looked completely different …

Many believe that the brothers (then) Wachowski, in fact, created a single film, on the glory of which they built their entire subsequent careers. The first "Matrix" is brilliant. The second and third parts of the trilogy have gone far in the direction of pure commerce, and this slightly spoiled the aftertaste, but the fact that the original picture turned out to be above all and all praise is for sure.

Unfortunately, having overwhelmed with stunning special effects of the sequel, having hammered them to the eyeballs with characters and secondary events, the authors of "The Matrix" have lost the searing simplicity of the original, which a kind of happy ending with the rising of the sun also did not contribute.

But what do you say if you find out what the original idea of Wachowski was? Had it been properly embodied on the screen, the effect of The Matrix would have been amplified three times, because the film would have surpassed even Fight Club in the cruelty of the final turn of events!

The Matrix was written by Wachowski for over five years. Years of continuous work gave rise to a whole illusory world, densely permeated with several storylines at once, from time to time intricately intertwined with each other. Adapting their colossal work for the film adaptation, the Wachowskis changed so much that, by their own admission, the embodiment of their ideas turned out to be just a "fantasy based on" the story that was invented at the very beginning. Although, of course, the basic idea has always remained the same.

The most interesting thing is this: at a certain stage, an extremely entertaining component was ultimately removed from the script - a harsh final twist. The fact is that from the very beginning, the Wachowskis conceived their trilogy as a film with perhaps the saddest and most hopeless ending that one can imagine. Judging by the extensive fragment of the script, which was completely rejected at the stage of coordinating the production of the film with producer Joel Silver, we have lost an unusually stunning ending, which certainly would have looked better than the “happy ending” that eventually hit the screens.

First of all, it is worth mentioning that the script sketches and different versions of the same film, being rejected, were not further refined, therefore, much remained unrelated to a coherent system. So, in the "sad" version of the trilogy, the events of the second and third parts are pretty much curtailed. At the same time, in the third, final part, the deployment of such a harsh intrigue begins that it practically turns upside down all the events that took place earlier in the plot. Likewise, the ending of Shyamalan's Sixth Sense completely shakes up all the events of the film from the very beginning. Only in "The Matrix" the viewer had to look with new eyes at almost the entire trilogy. And it's a pity that Joel Silver insisted on the implemented version - this one is clearly better.

So, the original script of the story:

Six months have passed since the end of the events of the first film. Neo, being in the real world, discovers in himself an incredible ability to influence the environment: first he raises and bends a spoon lying on the table in the air, then he determines the position of the Hunter machines outside Zion, then, in a battle with Octopus, destroys one of them with the power of his mind before the eyes of the shocked crew of the ship.

Neo and everyone around him cannot find an explanation for this phenomenon. Neo is sure that there is a good reason for this, and that his gift is somehow connected with the war against machines, and is capable of having a decisive impact on the fate of people (it is interesting to note that this ability is also present in the film, but it is not explained at all, and they don't even focus on it - maybe that's all. Although, on common thought, the ability of Neo to do miracles in the real world has absolutely no meaning in the light of the whole concept of the "Matrix", and looks just strange).

So, Neo goes to the Pythia to get an answer to his question and find out what to do next. The Oracle replies to Neo that she does not know why he has superpowers in the real world, and how they are related to Neo's Destiny. She says that the secret of the Destiny of our hero can only be revealed by the Architect - the supreme program that created the Matrix. Neo is looking for a way to meet the Architect, going through incredible difficulties (the Master of Keys already known to us in captivity at the Merovingen, the highway chase, etc.).

'And now Neo meets with the Architect. He reveals to him that the human city of Zion has already been destroyed five times, and that the unique Neo was deliberately created by machines in order to personify the hope of liberation for people, and thus keep calm in the Matrix and serve its stability. But when Neo asks the Architect what role his superpowers, manifested in the real world, play in all this, the Architect says that the answer to this question can never be given, for it will lead to knowledge that will destroy everything that Neo's friends fought for. and he himself.

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After talking with the Architect, Neo realizes that some kind of secret is hidden here, the solution to which could bring the long-awaited end of the war between humans and machines. His abilities are getting stronger. (In the script there are several scenes with impressive battles of Neo with cars in the real world, in which he developed into the ultimate superman, and can almost the same as in the Matrix: fly, stop bullets, etc.) '

In Zion, it becomes known that cars began to move towards the city of people with the aim of killing everyone who left the Matrix, and the entire population of the city sees hope for salvation in Neo alone, who does really grandiose things - in particular, he gets the ability to arrange powerful explosions there where he wants.

Meanwhile, Agent Smith, who has gotten out of the control of the main computer, has become free and has acquired the ability to endlessly copy himself, begins to threaten the Matrix itself. Having settled in Bane, Smith also penetrates into the real world.

Neo seeks a new meeting with the Architect in order to offer him a deal: he destroys Agent Smith by destroying his code, and the Architect reveals to Neo the secret of his superpowers in the real world and stops the movement of cars on Zion. But the room in the skyscraper where Neo met with the Architect is empty: the creator of the Matrix has changed his address, and now no one knows how to find him. Towards the middle of the film, a total collapse occurs: there are more Smith agents in the Matrix than people and the process of their self-copying grows like an avalanche, in the real world, machines penetrate Zion, and in a colossal battle they destroy all people, except for a handful of survivors led by Neo, who, despite its superpowers, cannot stop thousands of cars rushing into the city.

Morpheus and Trinity die alongside Neo, heroically defending Zion. Neo, in terrible despair, increases his strength to a completely incredible scale, breaks through to the only surviving ship (Morpheus's "Nebuchadnezzar"), and leaves Zion, getting out to the surface. He heads to the main computer to destroy it, avenging the deaths of the inhabitants of Zeon, and especially the deaths of Morpheus and Trinity.

Bane-Smith is hiding aboard the Nebuchadnezzar, trying to prevent Neo from destroying the Matrix, as he realizes that he will die in the process. In an epic fight with Neo Bane, he also shows superpowers, burns out Neo's eyes, but eventually dies. This is followed by a completely stunning scene in which the blind, but still seeing everything, Neo breaks through the myriads of enemies to the Center and makes a grandiose explosion there. He literally incinerates not only the Central Computer, but also himself. Millions of capsules with people are turned off, the glow in them disappears, the cars freeze forever and the viewer sees a lost, deserted planet.

Bright light. Neo, completely intact, without wounds and with whole eyes, wakes up sitting in the red armchair of Morpheus from the first part of "The Matrix" in a completely white space. He sees the Architect before him. The architect tells Neo that he is amazed at what a man is capable of in the name of love. He says that he did not take into account the power that instills in a person when he is ready to sacrifice his life for the sake of other people. He says that machines cannot do this, and therefore they can lose, even if it seems unthinkable. He says that Neo is the only one of the Chosen who "was able to get this far."

Neo asks where he is. In the Matrix, the Architect answers. The perfection of the Matrix lies, among other things, in the fact that it does not allow unforeseen events to cause it even the slightest damage. The Architect informs Neo that they are now at "zero point" after the reboot of the Matrix, at the very beginning of its Seventh Version.

Neo doesn't understand anything. He says that he has just destroyed the Central Computer, that the Matrix is no more, as well as the whole of humanity. The architect laughs and tells Neo something that shocks to the depths of his soul not only him, but the entire auditorium.

Zion is part of the Matrix. In order to create an appearance of freedom for people, in order to give them a Choice, without which a person cannot exist, the Architect invented reality within reality. And Zion, and the whole war with the machines, and Agent Smith, and in general everything that happened from the very beginning of the trilogy was planned in advance and is nothing more than a dream. The war was only a distraction, but in fact everyone who died in Zion, fought with machines, and fought inside the Matrix, continue to lie in their capsules in pink syrup, they are alive and waiting for a new reboot of the system to start living in it again”,“Fight”and“liberate”. And in this harmonious system of Neo - after his "rebirth" - the same role will be assigned as in all previous versions of the Matrix: to inspire people to fight, which does not exist.

No human has ever left the Matrix since its inception. No human has ever died except according to the plan of the machines. All people are slaves and that will never change.

The camera shows the heroes of the film, lying in their capsules in different corners of the "nurseries": here is Morpheus, here is Trinity, here is Captain Mifune, who died in Zion the death of the brave, and many, many others. They are all hairless, dystrophic and entangled in hoses. The latter are shown Neo looking exactly the same as in the first film when he was "liberated" by Morpheus. Neo's face is serene.

This is how your superpower is explained in "reality," says the Architect. This also explains the existence of Zion, which people "could never have built the way you saw it" due to lack of resources. And really, laughs the Architect, we would allow people freed from the Matrix to hide in Zion, if we always had the opportunity to either kill them or connect them to the Matrix again? And did we have to wait decades to destroy Zion, even if he existed? Still, you underestimate us, Mr. Anderson, says the Architect.

Neo, looking straight ahead with a dead face, tries to realize what has happened, and throws a last glance at the Architect, who says goodbye to him: "In the Seventh Version of the Matrix, Love will rule the world."

The alarm sounds. Neo wakes up and turns him off. The last frame of the film: Neo in a business suit leaves the house, and briskly heads to work, dissolving into the crowd. The ending credits begin to the heavy music."

Not only does this script look more coherent and understandable, not only does it really brilliantly explain the plot holes that were left without explanation in the film adaptation - it also fits much better into the dark cyberpunk style than the “hopeful” end of what he saw us trilogy. This is not just Dystopia, but Dystopia in its most cruel manifestation: the end of the world is long behind, and nothing can be fixed.

But the producers insisted on a happy ending, albeit not particularly joyful, and their condition was the mandatory inclusion in the picture of the epic confrontation between Neo and his antipode Smith as a kind of biblical analogue of the battle between Good and Evil. As a result, the rather sophisticated philosophical parable of the first part annoyingly degenerated into a set of virtuoso special effects without a particularly deep afterthought.

It will never be removed. It remains only to imagine how it could be. And it could be really, really cool.