The Matrix : Can someone explain Agent Smith

Can someone explain Agent Smith

I rewatched the film last night, I have not seen it in such a long time. However, something puzzled me. Agent Smith telling Morpheus he hated this place. He could taste, smell etc. What exactly caused him to seem more human than the other Agents? How did he get like that. Why did he try and hide his confession from the other 2 Agents

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It's likely similar to programs like The Oracle, Seraph, Persephone, etc. He probably developed a hate for humanity after so long being programmed to hunt them down. One of the ideas in The Matrix, something that the history of The Matrix and The Second Renaissance covers in The Animatrix, is that the AI seem to gain the ability of self-awareness and even possibly the ability to feel. Smith comes across as an exploration of this idea through hate. His resentment of his programming and of humanity is translated in his need to escape The Matrix and get into Zion so as to destroy humanity. And obviously, if The Machines found out that he was rejecting his programming, he would be destroyed and replaced by a new Agent Program.

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You explained it very well. I thought that too and I thought it was a unique twist because Smith is a machine, AI. It made the character unique and capable of so many turns.
I watched the following films (Matrix sequels) today and even though Agent Smith was great, I thought he was much better as a loner. The cloning idea (for me) took away something he had as himself.

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Why did he try and hide his confession from the other 2 Agents


I'm guessing that it would be dangerous for him to reveal himself as thinking that kind of stuff in front of them. By the later movies he has gained a lot of power, but back then he probably wouldnt have been able to take on both of the other agents if they tried to stop him.

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Can someone explain Agent Smith

Angel Smith is inverted Neo. As above so below.

This movie is crawling with masonic/gnostic/alchemical/esoteric concepts, badly put together, but hey, it sold tickets, so it's ok.

Ok?
Neo is a sort of Jesus, the meat. The good principle. He is the Golem, a slave.
Angel Smith is a sort of a Lucifer, the soul. The evil principle. An Angel, but still a slave.

If you're not familiar with gnosticism and freemasonry, probably none of this will make sense to you:

here's a little bonbon, a taste of how much symbolism is hidden in this crappy movie:
the word 'matrix' means "womb", and it comes from latin, from 'mater' - "mother". The Oracle rules over the matrix, she is the mother. And she is black not because they were tryin to meet the quota of political correctness, but because in esotericism, the first stage on the path to enlightenment is nigredo (blackness).

so, Angel Smith was created by the Architect and Oracle, and forced to do something he doesn't enjoy, mkay? So he rebels. He wants out. He wants to be boss. That's why he hides from the other angels.

I'm still in process of figuring out the elements of this doctrine, but I can tell you that in order for Neo to become enlightened, someone has to be the guide - Hermes (Morpheus), and someone has to be the Adversary (Smith), and someone has to be the Lover (Trinity).

This same scheme is in Blade Runner too, the somewhat more respectable masonic precursor of The Matrix.

As revealed in the sequels, Angel Smith proceeds to convert all other angels to his cause, even converting his mom - Edem (Oracle).

What does that mean? It means that Angel Smith is the mirror of Neo. They converge, until they unite, because they're the same entity, separated on two planes: Earth, the material world, the illusion, the false state of being - the matrix in which Neo lives; and Heaven, the spiritual world, the reality, the true state of being - the whatever place where Smith came from.

So, Smith, is initially a tool in the hands of Evil, an angel employed by Elohim (Will Ferrel) to tyrannize the physical incarnation of Smith - Neo.
Smith progresses to Good, by rebelling against the Architect, and now he becomes Lucifer, which, in these esoteric doctrines, is a good thing!

Neo makes the same journey, from the opposite direction, from the womb of the matrix, towards the heavens, to meet his maker, and bust his lip. Heaven is evil, in these esoteric doctrines! Will Ferrel (Architect) is the real bad guy!

Smith and Neo, the two states of the same being, meet, and fuse, in the scene where Neo gets in Smith's belly.

From there further, if you survived the complete and utter lack of elegance and style of this crappy movie, you learn that Agent Smith proceeds to destroy bad guy Elohim's tyrannical system.

Thus, Angel Smith completed the path to becoming the good guy, but you - the real slave in the real world, watching this movie, have to see him as evil, as rebellion against your masters is a big nono.

Ugh, this movie is such a mess...

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Ugh, this movie is such a mess...
Your INTERPRETATION of the movie is.

One can watch The Matrix without any philosophical reference to anything at all and its still a graphically awesome (especially at that time) action movie with brilliant pacing and an excellent suspension curve.

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One can watch The Matrix without any philosophical reference to anything at all and its still a graphically awesome (especially at that time)

You'd think so, yes, but unfortunately, it's impossible to not get the references like THE ONE, I mean, that "reference" is being shoved down our ears until we break down in tears.

NEO is the ONE. Get it? N,E,O is O,N,E. Ain't dat clever!? LOOK HOW CLEVER DAT IS!!! LOOK AT IT, ANAKIN!!11!

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THIS

Is the best description I have ever read :D

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Why is Smith called an angel? O_o

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Ugh, this movie is such a mess..


Why is it a mess?

I like your response and I understand you, but if you too understand what is happening then why would it be a mess? O_o

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The answer is finally revealed in the third movie, Revolutions.

In Reloaded, Agent Smith makes a point of saying he doesn't understand what happened to him. How he was freed and able to multiply himself like a virus.

But in Revolutions, Agent Smith calls the Oracle, "Mom". She is the one who created him and who made him different than the other agents.

Critzu is right that he is Neo's opposite, but Neo is also a product of The Oracle. Obviously it is the Oracle who tells Morpheus and Trinity all the things they must do to find Neo and guide him to becoming The One.

But also, at the end of Reloaded, The Architect, in his confusing speaking style, explains how "an intuitive program" (The Oracle) figured out that the way to make human beings accept the Matrix was a cycle which involved a "Savior" who would make the choice for humanity, choose people to populate Zion, etc.

The Oracle created both Neo and Agent Smith, then used them as pawns against each other to force the Machine World to let them (exiled Programs) use The Matrix as a beautiful place for them to live, free from fear of deletion. That's what we see at the end of the Trilogy.

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Not really an answer to your question but you might be interested in this film theory saying that Smith is actually the One, not Neo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkMU1mKdwP
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