So Neo is just a program (probably created by the Oracle as you said) with the goal to control the Matrix and the Machines while Smith is a program to destroy it and everything connected.

Cypher justifying his decision to betray his friends and re-enter the Matrix. Cypher (born Reagan) was a redpill assigned to the Zion hovercraft Nebuchadnezzar under the command of Morpheus.

After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.” He’s the Judas in the Wachowskis’ sci-fi fable, The Matrix: a traitor willing to betray and kill his friends in the hope of returning to a cozy, simulated reality.

MORPHEUS: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage. Born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind.

Reloaded Weapons: The 20 Most Powerful Characters In The Matrix, Officially Ranked

• 8 WEREWOLVES.
• 7 AGENT JOHNSON / AGENT JACKSON / AGENT THOMPSON.
• 6 THE KEYMAKER.
• 5 SERAPH.
• 4 THE ARCHITECT.
• 3 AGENT SMITH.
• 2 THE ORACLE.
• 1 NEO.

Agent Smith

In The Matrix Revolutions, Neo and Trinity flew to the Machine City to convince the robots to halt their attack on Zion. Trinity was killed in the crash-landing, impaled by rebar. When we last saw Neo, his body was being carried away by the machines. But hope for Neo’s survival remains at the end of the trilogy.

Zion is the place of salvation where Morpheus and his pals bring the newly-unplugged in The Matrix. Every freed human on Earth lives within this labyrinthine city, which is understandably primitive while still offering access to machine guns, mech suits, hovercrafts and computers.

Morpheus’s ship, Nebuchadnezzar or “Neb” for short, is named for Nebuchadnezzar II, the ancient Babylonian king who was said to have troubling dreams he couldn’t remember. In Matrix Reloaded, Morpheus quotes the Bible as the Neb is destroyed: “I have dreamed a dream; but now that dream is gone from me.”

Neo, Morpheus, Trinity, and the others in Zion, of course, value free will and reality no matter how unpleasant they may be. The Matrix trilogy suggests that everyone has the individual responsibility to make the choice between the real world and an artificial world.

The Zion in the Matrix trilogy contrasts with the illusory program of the Matrix. The Matrix represents a system of control that operates completely in the mind. As a complex, machine-driven program, it appropriates any personal, political, or ideological leanings and renders them wholly false.

“The Matrix stuff was all about the desire for transformation, but it was all coming from a closeted point of view,” Lily said. “We had the character of Switch, who would be a man in the real world and then a woman in the Matrix, and that’s where our head spaces were.”

The Matrix is the true hero’s journey that shines light onto why we should stay true to ourselves. It’s about being better than we were yesterday, not competing with others. When we get so stuck in self it gets overwhelming, even depressing.

In the Matrix, the main character, Neo, is trapped in a false reality created by a computer program. The program was created by machines that took over the planet. While in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, a prisoner is able to comprehend the reality of the cave and the real one outside the cave.

Neuromancer

Matrix Vs Allegory of Cave • “The Matrix”, a 1999 film by the Wachowski brothers, adapts a number of new and ancient philosophies about the truth behind reality, but the most central to the overarching framework of the film is adapted from Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.

Morpheus: Morpheus: If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then ‘real’ is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.

The Matrix – Neo had a virus that prevented him from being the One, initially. But if he was a computer program all along, or had altered code, he should be able to just do the things the One can do. However, Neo had self doubt and that got in the way of his Oneness.

A few interesting things about this meme. The first: What if I told you… that Morpheus never once in the movie says “what if I told you.”? It’s true… he doesn’t. However, if you’ve seen the movies I bet you read the above text in his voice.

How do you define “real”? If you’re talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, taste and see, then “real” is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain. [picks up a TV remote and turns on the TV to show images of the world as Neo saw it] This is the world that you know.