An Anomaly in the Matrix——An Analysis of The Matrix from the Perspective of Love

The article first explains what the Matrix is and its history. The Matrix is a computer-manipulated dream world opposite to the real world. Its purpose is to control humans and provide energy for the machine world. In the eponymous film, the Matrix had gone through seven generations in total, and was constantly renewed by the One (the promised, or prophesied Savior). The ultimate controller of the Matrix was the Architect. Starting from the third generation onward, the Oracle appeared again. The Architect and the Oracle played the roles of the father and the mother in the Matrix, representing rational principles and emotional principles respectively. By the time the sixth Savior Neo arrived, the Oracle specially assigned the element of “love” to Neo. This decision led Neo and Trinity, who followed the principle of love, to overturn the fixed structure set up by the Architect and make a completely different choice from the previous five Saviors, embarking on a new path to save humanity and achieve peaceful coexistence between the machine world and the human world. In the seventh-generation Matrix,the Analyst, the ultimate controller of the Matrix, assumed an integrated role of the Architect and the Oracle. In order to provide energy for the machine world, the Analyst resurrected Neo and Trinity who had sacrificed themselves in the sixth-generation Matrix and controlled them with human emotions separately. Neo and Trinity, who had been immersed in the Matrix for years, were inspired by the memories of love in their past lives. After a difficult struggle, they finally defeated the Analyst and returned to the real world. The article ends with the character Sati, exploring open-ended topics triggered by love between programs, and the importance of emotions for humans with the development of artificial intelligence and the advent of “humanmachine society”.