Film Theory: The Matrix NEVER Existed! (Matrix 4 Trailer)

The original Matrix trilogy was a well of theory potential. Yet, I haven't covered it in YEARS! So when the new trailer for The Matrix 4: Resurrections came out, I felt the need to try and cover ALL of the theories and predictions possible. All at once. Yes, today we are answering every question posed in the Matrix 4 trailer, what I think the plot and ending of the movies will be, and what that means for us the viewer. Get ready to PLUG IN!

Thanks to Raz Mille for voicing the South Park kid for the intro!

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Credits:
Writer: Matthew Patrick and Forrest Lee
Researcher: Bob Chipman
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[youdontgettoknowmyrealname]

Got to be honest I was not looking forward to this movie until I saw this video, who knows it might even be good

[LadyOnikara]

Neo: I want to be reinserted into the Matrix. Maybe as someone older. How about a skilled assassin with a sweet Mustang and dog? Morpheus can be some weird pigeon guy who hangs out on rooftops.

[jakubchalupa]

It's ironic how the architect scene was almost universally hated when the movie came out, but it's so goddamn lore important and interesting.

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

"What do you need?"

Neo and John Wick: "Guns. Lots of guns"

MatPat: "Puns. Lots of puns."

[AllisonMuddyOrbs]

replace “video game” with “movie series” and suddenly this video went from being a theory to a whole prediction. i spent the first half of the movie screaming in my head “holy smokes MatPat was right”

[MatrixExplained]

Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without. -M

[Ningnomaningnong]

How cunning would it be to manipulate Neo into thinking his past memories were just creative script fodder? Is it to keep him under control so he doesn't use his abilities, willingly hand over whatever control he has to the machines, or to get him to do something in particular for them?

[jiayojames]

It makes a lot of sense to have the matrix movies embedded into the culture of the new matrix, both within the narrative context of the universe, and because the matrix actually IS iconic within our culture.

[probrosau]

It's crazy how accurate MatPat was with this theory. Almost everything he said was true except for the one difference of it being a video game rather than a film series. I swear, this man either predicts an entire movie or just makes it fucking better

[paulcurran]

Theory: There are three different theorists behind the channels: MatPat, PatMat, and TamTap. They are identical triplets, and one of them controls each channel: MatPat for Game Theorists, PatMat for Film Theorists, and TamTap for Food Theorists. This explains how the three channels can each put out one video a week, and *still* have them be very in-depth, high-quality videos.

[notproductiveproductions]

Other theorists: there’s an outer layer of the Matrix
MatPat: the Matrix never existed

[BennyLlama]

Plot twist: The Matrix and John Wick share a cinema-verse. Anderson/Neo is still in the Matrix, dreaming that he's actor Keanu Reeves playing John Wick. I mean, didn't he say, "Guns. Lots of guns." in both franchises? : )

[SC]

My theory:

The entire trilogy was a daydream that Neo had while helping his landlady carry out her garbage.

[victorribeiro]

With the whole "needing humans as batteries" situation, it makes sense the whole cloning route, after all, it's not like the people in the matrix are getting busy in the real world to produce more batteries. Plus reencarnacion is canon in the very first movie, so cloning would be a way to "control" and "limit" the potential of the people who pose as a threat to the machines.

[AlexandroneF]

Matrix actually really resembles a book called “Labyrinth of reflections” published in 1997. It’s themes are quite similar, sometimes even identical, especially the ending. Props to the writer, he created a great book about VR-chat back in 1991.

[TheMalkavianmadman]

I always liked the idea that the 'real world' is a second level of the matrix for those that won't accept the base level matrix.

[pablinsky]

I’m surprised about this, you almost got everything right about the story, the meta, self awareness, the commentary about rebooting franchises. Great video!

[stickman]

See my theory is that it’s not a story about a new matrix, but instead PTSD. The idea being that he’s taking the blue pill to forget the events of the first trilogy. He’s hallucinating the events as if they’re happening again and the plot is him coming to grips with the idea that the world is free again.

[FilmFightFanatic]

I've heard of this whole theory about Neo being an actor from The Matrix film series which happens to exist within the larger universe of The Matrix but thought it was a little silly and kind of meta just for the sake of being meta. But I can see how it can be used to provide a more meaningful meta-statement on the film industry. A lot of movies attempt to be "enlightened" by injecting some sociopolitical/philosophical commentary when in fact that same commentary is simply a way for the film industry to sell more tickets to audiences that consider themselves to be more "enlightened". The audience feels more intelligent and socially engaged by watching these supposedly more sophisticated films but a lot of them don't take the commentary to heart and simply experience it for the sake of entertainment rather than to actually change the world. A philosophically deep cinematic trilogy like The Matrix can be utilized to simply market towards more intellectually minded cinephiles who are in the end still trapped in their own Matrix, a system managed partly by the film industry that pacifies us by showing that they're aware of the injustices of the world so that we feel satisfied and don't truly attempt to change the system in the first that I necessarily believe in this meta-statement to begin with but it could be one aspect of the meta-narrative of the upcoming installment.

[leonmarkal]

Theory: the machines manipulated Neos memory and let him think that the Matrix was just a movie he created, when in fact it is reality