"If you are not one of us, you are one of them!"

MORPHEUS: The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.

MORPHEUS: Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?

NEO: I was...

MORPHEUS: Look again!

MORPHEUS: Freeze it!

NEO: This... this isn't the Matrix?

MORPHEUS: No. It is another training program designed to teach you one thing: if you are not one of us, you are one of them!

Category:

Education

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• On changing the system
• The Matrix
• Morpheus
• Neo

[Stolemyusename]

Pause at 0:15, look at the old lady next to Neo, remember her, then Pause at 0:37, Look who's behind the woman in red, she appeared again!

[jrvillela]

@Stolemyusename haha, dejavu! Nice observation, Stolemyusename!

[1337soldiahs]

@Fizziwig2006 Cracked says hello.

[Orthodoxcrusader]

@zorrob

Kinda, yet not exactly.

They indeed were intentionally casting identical twins for the movie. However, the purpose wasn't to allude onto a "lazy programmer" but to simulate a feel of repetitiousness in within a computer program, procedural generating, looping or such. It does appear rather artificial when you're aware of the repeating characters, doesn't it?

It also might have been done to diversify it from the Matrix, in which every "living" element is a separate entity.

[JackyVSO]

@zorrobomber

That is a beautiful meta-copy/paste right there!

[patu8010]

@zorrobomber Nice copy-paste ;D

[Grupo02]

@jrvillela A lot of extras in this scene were identical twins... there's a quick example with the girls in white at 0:14

[casketsfortoddlers]

If only more people understood the message of the film... if only more people were willing to escape.

[zorrobomber]

@jrvillela Actually, several people in this scene have doppelgangers. The Wachowskis spent two whole days in Sydney trying to hunt down and cast real identical twins just for this scene. The idea was to show the viewer that Mouse, who created the code, was a lazy programmer and copy/pasted a bunch of characters instead of designing unique people. Check the two sailors at 0:20, or the bald guys at 0:48 for example.

[JameTerrigt112]

ehm kommt jemand aus berlin

[TheIffy316]

@fernanj003 Thank you

[fernanj003]

@TheIffy316 Clubbed to Death