The only way in or out ofThe Matrixis through a telephone line . Throughout the Wachowskis ' eminent - concept sci - fi trilogy , characters such as Neo , Trinity , and Morpheus rely on punishing line phones to figure or exit theartificial reality of the Matrix . The dystopian time to come go steady inThe Matrixcontains   cubicle phones that can operate between the real world and the pretense , not to mention body politic - of - the - art weapon and ripe unreal word in the   veridical world , so the freedom fighter ' reliance on   phone job technology is an oddness . But a closer feeling at the use   of these backbreaking phone agate line to enter and exit the Matrix could   reveal secret   about   the bass   origins of the Matrix inThe Matrixtrilogy .

relinquish in 1999,The Matrixremains   one of the most nous - bending and influential sci - fi movies of all time .   The pic follows Neo ( Keanu Reeves ) and a modest band of rebels as they attempt to overthrow a   computer pretense , bang as the Matrix , in which mankind are unknowingly held captive . The cardinal objects linking the Matrix and the real world are hacked heavy line sound found within the simulation at specific locations .   Neo and other insurgents   must answer   these phones , operated by rebels in the material earthly concern ( fittingly known as Operators ) , to sail   between the Matrix and realism ,   with the ultimate destination of freeing   humanity .

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The Wachowskis explain part of their principle for using hard line earphone in fan Q&A in 2002 ( viaMatrix Fans):“We felt that the amount of information that was being sent into the Matrix want a significant portal . Those portal , we feel , were better described with the laborious lines rather than cell lines . We also feel that the rebels tried to be invisible when they cut , that ’s why all the incoming and exit were sort of through decrepit and grim traffic areas of the Matrix . “This illuminates   the rationality the freedom fighter chose phone lines over   themore   modern engineering science seen inThe Matrix ,   but it does n’t excuse   the universe of the speech sound descent that bridge over the model and reality in the first place . So why are they so crucial ?

The most sensitive explanation for   why hardline phone serve as entry and exit to the Matrix is that , instead of design a virtual telephone web , the Matrix   used the physical web it was already built on . In other words , the telephone lines subsist in the simulation because they existed in the real world when the Matrix first came into being .   Much like a piece of legacy code , these phone booths are remnant from the real humanity and constitute a bygone configuration of the Matrix .

This insight could suggest that thefirst Matrixmay have arisen earlier   in the timeline   than previously thought .   InThe Animatrix , an animate   prequel   toThe Matrix , it ’s read that the first   concrete automobile   underground occur sometime around 2090 . However , it ’s improbable that earpiece booths and tough phone air   were still plenteous in 2090 or beyond . One possible takeaway is that the original computer simulation   occurredbefore2090 and before phone Booth disappeared from the landscape . Another   conclusion could be that the   simulation seen inThe Matrixtrilogy   might be inside another , large   feigning with a completely unlike " real " timeline .

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With Neo   set to return inThe Matrix 4despite his apparent   last at the last ofThe intercellular substance : Revolutions ,   there   will probably be some changes to theexisting Matrix timeline , including suggestions of time travel . in the end , whether these theories bear upon succeeding product , it ’s sure enough unlikely that the enfranchisement will drop the   quiver of racing for a ringing operose line phone fromThe Matrixtrilogy for succeeding enfranchisement chapter .

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