Forum Overview :: Rants :: Re: Please elaborate on "The Architect's intentionally impenetrable dialogue"

[quote name="Mischief Maker"]Here's a snippet: [quote name="The Architect"]I am the Architect. I created the matrix. I've been waiting for you. You have many questions, and although the process has altered your consciousness, you remain irrevocably human. <B>Ergo, some of my answers you will understand, and some of them you will not.</B> Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also irrelevant.[/quote] (emphasis added) He's telling Neo, the audience surrogate, that we aren't smart enough to understand his monologue completely. He's spitting out this speech in a barely-inflected fast-paced monotone that's difficult to follow. He's using unnecessarily challenging language to make his speech seem smarter. "Concordantly" instead of "also." "Ergo" instead of "so." Etcetera. All this is covering up the fact that the Architect's plan is as flawed as Palpatine and the Trade Federation's. Neo is causing the Matrix to break down and it needs to be reset with fresh humans. The Architect wants Neo to enter the source and pick out 23 people to repopulate the new matrix. The only reason the film gives for Neo not to comply is the fact that an Agent is killing Trinity. Neo refuses, thwarting the Architect's plan and dooming humanity, to save her life. Despite the informed attribute of being really smart, the Architect could have prevented this in several obvious ways: 1. Don't show Neo on the monitors that Trinity is being killed. Just show him pictures of crying babies who would die if he doesn't go to the source. 2. Call off the agent. We've already seen in the original movie that agents can relay orders to sentinels in the sewers, you're telling me that the damn architect can't relay a command to an agent? 3. Allow Neo to pick Trinity as one of the 23. The fact that Cypher believed it was possible to get back into a power plant in the original movie means this is a viable option. 4. Don't send sentinels to blow up the people helping Neo get to the source, which necessitated Trinity entering the matrix in the first place. This attack was fucking up his own plan, and once again the sentinels are in contact with the programs in the matrix. So what we're left with is a scene bereft of action where the boringest character in the trilogy blathers at a blank-faced Keanu Reeves in a Cassock, telling him and us that the only reason his plan (and the script) <I>seems</I> flawed is because the audience is too stupid to understand it. That's not just bad moviemaking, that's insulting![/quote]