On review, you are correct. It happens in both films in different ways. In the second film it is Neo kissing Trinity that saves her rather than the other way 'round.

I agree. I too felt that to be a bizarre and disappointing direction for the Trinity character. Also, IIRC, the kiss happened in the second film at the end, not the first, which is why the first film is still good. 

I think the monologue made sense, it was just unnecessarily expository. I think the scene could have been set up much more simply and delivered a more powerful impact. I mean, if you need a powerful creator being to spell shit out for you to achieve enlightenment, what hope do the rest of us have?

@Roc Kit , you misread Neo as Buddhist (understandable given the first film, it was my initial reading too) when he was actually a character on a Gnostic journey. In Gnosticism, the world is real, but it is a lesser, evil reality created by the Demiurge that hides us from true knowledge. The world is more accurately a…

Agent Smith was a stand in for
the Yaldabaoth, or Satan or whatever you want to call the rebellious Archon (on this point the philosophy is confused, because the Architect also seems to be a Demiurge, but I digress). Agent Smith has conquered the base material world (the virtual world in this case) by destroying free…

The problem with the films was that they were a strangely packaged philosophical tale about Gnosticism (something Noel's wife apparently picked up on) that was fairly inconsistent in how it delivered its core premise. As evidence to that fact, you, as with most people, saw the "hokey spiritualism" as a distraction…

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I don't know why they haven't hired you yet to do their video portion of the website. You have a better track record than Great Job and Videocracy combined.