Here ’s how Neo knew about Morpheus and Trinity before meeting them inThe intercellular substance . When Neo is first take away from theartificial reality   ofThe Matrix , he is recognise by an unfamiliar sci - fi dystopia , but he was already familiar with his would - be rescuers beforehand . write and channelise by the Wachowski sib , The Matrixwas released in 1999 , the first of a trilogy that explored a future state of war between contrived intelligence   and the imprisoned humans that it uses as a major power source . Neo is the prophesy One , who some think is destine to   release the humankind from their simulated prison house and lead   an rising against the Machines .

While those who are mindful of its nature as a computer simulation are able to tap it in various ways , the existence inside the Matrix is , for the rest of its denizen , a functional recreation of the real world .   Despite the fact that reality is by that time nearing the year 3000,the Matrix , after its legion reboots , continues to be place in a facsimile of the nineties . This populace is all that Neo - then called Thomas Anderson - lie with before his escape , but his connexion to the proto - digital aspect of that order gave him glimpses of figures from the outside world before he was fully aware of its existence .

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Like many of the denizen of Zion , both Morpheus and Trinity are " redpills , "   human race who had been live in the Matrix , but were awoken to its on-key nature and freed by the rebels . Trinity , in her original life and under her original name , was an infamous hacker whose title to renown was infiltrate the systems of the IRS . Unknown to the ordinary person , Anderson ’s connective to the underground computer hacking culture exposed him to some veneration of her legacy . Morpheus , on the other hand , was younger when he was extracted and so did not have time to build a reputation then . Instead , his notoriety comes from the reputation as a grave terrorist that he acquired later as he returned to the Matrix .

These origin are n’t given much time in the films , but they provide an interesting position on Neo ’s closest allies . It is mentioned thatZionis reluctant to free people above a sealed old age from the Matrix , for fear of the shock that it would cause them . Even though an exclusion was made for Neo , this intend that Trinity was potential very unseasoned when she was taken . As such , the celebrity her chop effort bring in her at such an other age would have made her something of a minor presage , a character that the films break to refer but which increases   the profoundness of her character   even while being left inexplicit .

The first description of Morpheus that Neo hear are less flattering . Although the Machines likely activate the depiction of Morpheus as a terrorist to undermine his attempts at gain redpill follower , his actions and those of his cohorts as they attempt to rescue him fromAgent Smithcould very reasonably be enjoin to fit that description . Even if the violence is justified within the overall logic of the film , it rarify how the audience catch his unflinching commitment to his nonpareil .

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As the later moving picture shifted their direction to the humanity outdoors of the Matrix and toZion ’s stand against the Machines , some of the thematic stress on transcending reality was lose . But the complex roots that the agonist left behind in the artificial earth serve as a admonisher that , despite the greater globose stake ,   for intimately all of human race , the simulated human beings ofThe Matrixis all that they know , and what happens within it is exceedingly important to them .

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Neo and Trinity look at a comatose Morpheus in The Matrix.

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