![]() (In his left hand, Morpheus shows a blue pill.) (long pause, sighs) Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. You can feel it when you go to work, or when go to church or when you pay your taxes. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television. Morpheus: The Matrix is everywhere, it is all around us. ![]() ![]() Morpheus: Do you want to know what it is? It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Like a splinter in your mind - driving you mad. You don't know what it is, but it's there. That there's something wrong with the world. Neo: 'Cause I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life. Ironically, this is not far from the truth. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he's expecting to wake up. Morpheus: I imagine that right now you're feeling a bit like Alice. Since Zion's perception of time is drastically skewed, however, both possibilities remain open.Written by Andy Wachowski & Larry Wachowski The latter possibility is perhaps more likely, as Morpheus' age suggests he wasn't among the original Zionites. But if Morpheus was using the royal "us" during his aforementioned speech to Neo in The Matrix, he must've been freed by a character the audience never see, some time after the simulation's latest reset. If he really was part of Zion's original population, the 23 survivors must've been brainwashed into believing they were freed from the Matrix by The One. The Architect's explanation leaves two options for how Morpheus was unplugged. It's not clear whether the 23 retain their knowledge of Zion's secret, or whether recollections of the old Zion are wiped from their memories. It's easy to see how the Architect's account might evolve into the tale being peddled by Morpheus, but the most crucial difference is that early settlers weren't freed from the Matrix - they were already unplugged. Despite what Morpheus said, each reincarnation of The One oversees the destruction of Zion and leads a small group of 23 survivors to rebuild the subterranean city. After Neo finally encounters the Matrix's creator and his immaculately trimmed beard, he's told that the myth of The One is a lie. Morpheus' story clashes with later revelations that come courtesy of the Architect in The Matrix Reloaded. But the phrasing might also suggest that Morpheus himself was one of these early humans freed by Neo's predecessor. When describing the nature of The One to Neo, Morpheus says that a man was born in the ancient past who could reshape the Matrix to his will, and claims " it was this man that freed the first of us." In this line, Morpheus' use of "us" could be a generalized term referring to the people of Zion as a whole. Morpheus alludes towards his liberator in the original 1999 The Matrix movie. Related: How The Matrix's Bullet Time Special Effects Were Done In addition to Neo, Morpheus also freed Trinity and many other minds from the Matrix, but who was responsible for unplugging him? Their ongoing mission is simply to free as many people as possible from enslavement, but usually only the young are targeted, as adult minds become too indoctrinated to release safely. The likes of Morpheus lead teams to Earth's surface, risking their lives to liberate humans whose consciousness begins questioning the nature of the Matrix. As Neo receives the mother of all info-dumps on the way to Zion, he learns that almost every person living in the underground settlement experienced the same rough ejection process.
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