Saturday 25 May 2013

The Book Of Eli takes place in The Matrix


 

So what happens when a war ends, Zion is destroyed, The One takes his 27 humans to build a new Zion and the Matrix has to be rebuilt?

Did The Architect build The Matrix in 7 days?

Building a new Matrix takes time so what happens to all the humans inside, where do they all go and how do they live?

You know when you have an “apocalypse” story, a nuclear war, plague, or whatever, and the cities are destroyed, and man goes back to a more primitive time? That’s a Matrix reboot.

So we have Eli, who is The One, spending 30 years walking through the desert, carrying his book. What he is doing is taking the code back to The Source so the Matrix can reboot, just as Neo did at the end of Revolutions. Eli is blind and sees with “the Force”, just as Neo did.

There are towns cropping up, small communities where surviving humans gather and new ones are born (assigned by the machines when the crops are transferred to the pods and plugged in) as the Matrix codes build new communities that will eventually become huge cities (or one huge city) again.

When the bad guy gets the book, which is useless to him, Eli carries on and ends up reading the book contents out to the man he meets at the other end. It is The One that carries the code in him, not on him, the book itself is meaningless.

The One carries the code back to The Source, where his path ends, and dies. “It is done”.

Solara is Trinity.