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Matrix Pothole
August 25, 2006  Posted by Al Castle

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TuxI bring this up because it’s been annoying me for the better part of a week. Recently someone claimed that the window between one world and another in the 1999 movie The Matrix, as it relates to Thomas Anderson/Neo, is when he is taken into the Nebuchadnezzar, after being awakened and flushed from his vat. It is possible that I have misunderstood what was being communicated, however I don’t think that was the case.

It is a well known that the point where Thomas Anderson/Neo actually enters the “real world” in his vat of jello is this scene from the script.

Neo’s body arches in agony and we are pulled like we were pulled into the holes of the phone Sucked into his SCREAM and swallowed by darkness.

It is here where the camera follows the liquid mirror down his throat, this dark passageway. Next we see Neo awaken in his vat. Another website has a similar statement.

Neo finds the mirror encroaching upon him: covering his body, creeping up it, and pouring down his throat. Neo has not gone through the looking glass, the looking glass has gone through him.

Call it whatever you want - the passageway, the doorway, the window, the porthole, cat door, et al. It is there and not elsewhere that the viewer and Neo go into the real world. QED.

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1. Al Castle - August 25, 2006

btw: I use the term jello in jest. So don’t get nit-picky with me.


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