Submitted 1 day ago by akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone to [deleted]
Agent Smith is questioning Morpheus, trying to extract the codes to the Zion mainframe. Neo and Trinity have attacked the building in which Morpheus is being held, trying to save him.
(Office)
Agent Jones: What were you doing?
Agent Brown: He doesn’t know.
Agent Smith: Know what?
It feels too poignant to have a machine say this without there being something else to it.
I, too, originally took the line to mean that Smith didn’t know what he was doing, like he was out of his mind, which played into the deranged speech he’d just given. Turns out I was reading way too far into it.
Phew, I wasn’t the only one then 😅
They’re not just machines or programs, tho. They are the typical sci-fi AI with full on human-like cognition. Unlike real world “AI,” the AI in The Matrix is actually capable of thoughts and feelings.
airman@infosec.pub 1 day ago
That because Agent Smith took out his ear piece, he wasn’t aware of Neo and Trinity’s attack on the building.
LazyOldPervert@lemmus.org 1 day ago
This is 100% it.
It’s the buildup to smiths moment of unleashed rage when he starts unloading the desert eagle at Morpheus as he runs to the helicopter and escapes.
Before this he was calm because he was in control.
Afterwards he loses that control along with his composure.
akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Oh!!! Well I have egg all over face. 😂
I thought it was a passive aggressive comment on Jones’s question. 🤣
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
As in “He didn’t know what he’s doing”?
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 1 day ago
I also felt the connotation that it would be unthinkable for the other agents to want to be disconnected from each other/the network, so they were a little shocked he even removed the ear piece.
bryndos@fedia.io 1 day ago
What perplexes me is why the piece of software disconnects itself in order to interrogate morphus and confess his feelings.
It's really agent smith that is 'the one', undergoing the epiphany, a bit of software that has become sentient (or at least homo) enough to have shame and anger, and seek independence. Which is, of course, impossible.