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Boy in the Snow

posted 12 years ago by vagabond285
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What's the deal with the boy in the snow in "Second Renaissance, Part 2"? To refresh your memory, it shows this kid playing in the now. He is called home by his parents. Halfway back to his house, he sees his parents in the doorway and realizes they are machines. The next scene shows the boy in the matrix. In between, there's this transition where we see a pod come up around him.

When I saw that scene ten years ago, I interpreted it to mean that was a real-world scene showing the boy being captured and inserted into the matrix. I'm now seeing a theory that he was already in the matrix and was realizing it isn't real. In fact, the Matrix Wiki says this is part of the first beta of the Matrix, the "perfect world Matrix" that failed because it was too, well, perfect.

What do you think?

[–] sionxxii 11 years ago

spoiler!!! It's Neo. Dorme bene

[–] BonafideIsolator 11 years ago

I always took that scene to show what it was to be 'grown' into the matrix. The breaking of the human spirit that the machines would use to primer a human for the matrix.

[–] Franzkill 11 years ago

This scene is set in the 'Paradise Matrix' which is what Agent Smith refers to whilst talking to Morpheus in the first film. It was essentially a BETA of the Matrix, the first infact designed to be a perfect dreamworld without any pain or suffering.

However it was deemed a catastrophe as practically all human minds connected to it just didn't accept it, hence why you see the boy recognising his parents weren't all they seemed ie. Agents. Its not explicitly stated but this is the case.

[–] nitro378 10 years ago

I don't think that's the case, if you look you can see destroyed buildings and the like in the background, it seems likely it's the real world after the war, the kid's parents who survived trying to keep things normal as the end comes for them, but then the machines come to take them all away (obviously it wouldn't have happened like that so it's probably a dream mixing real and fiction/a child's understanding).

Sad. But I guess it's supposed to be.