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* Neo's first entry into the real world. And then the explanation of how it works… [[ImAHumanitarian and how humans are fed]]… and how people jack in to the Matrix… [[ParanoiaFuel and how mention that our bodies could be taken over by evil unstoppable programs at any second.]]

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* Neo's first entry into the real world. And then the explanation of how it works… [[ImAHumanitarian [[TheSecretOfLongPorkPies and how humans are fed]]… and how people jack in to the Matrix… [[ParanoiaFuel and how mention that our bodies could be taken over by evil unstoppable programs at any second.]]
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* Neo's first entry into the real world. And then the explanation of how it works...[[ImAHumanitarian and how humans are fed]]… and how people jack in to the Matrix… [[ParanoiaFuel and how mention that our bodies could be taken over by evil unstoppable programs at any second.]]

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* Neo's first entry into the real world. And then the explanation of how it works...works… [[ImAHumanitarian and how humans are fed]]… and how people jack in to the Matrix… [[ParanoiaFuel and how mention that our bodies could be taken over by evil unstoppable programs at any second.]]
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-->'''Agent Smith:''' Tell me, Mister Anderson...what good is a phone call when you are unable to speak?

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-->'''Agent Smith:''' Tell me, Mister Anderson...Anderson… what good is a phone call when you are unable to speak?



* Neo's first entry into the real world. And then the explanation of how it works...[[ImAHumanitarian and how humans are fed]]...and how people jack in to the Matrix...[[ParanoiaFuel and how mention that our bodies could be taken over by evil unstoppable programs at any second.]]

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* Neo's first entry into the real world. And then the explanation of how it works...[[ImAHumanitarian and how humans are fed]]...fed]]… and how people jack in to the Matrix...Matrix… [[ParanoiaFuel and how mention that our bodies could be taken over by evil unstoppable programs at any second.]]



** The [[invoked]]FridgeHorror that people before Neo might've awakened from the Matrix to have the same thing happen to them[[AndIMustScream ...only no one was there to help them]].

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** The [[invoked]]FridgeHorror that people before Neo might've awakened from the Matrix to have the same thing happen to them[[AndIMustScream ...them… [[AndIMustScream only no one was there to help them]].



* The Sentinels. They're giant mechanical monsters whose only purpose is to hunt and kill humans. They can't be reasoned with, their attacks can't be stopped, and they are very hard to destroy. It's even worse in ''Reloaded''

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* The Sentinels. They're giant mechanical monsters whose only purpose is to hunt and kill humans. They can't be reasoned with, their attacks can't be stopped, and they are very hard to destroy. It's even worse in ''Reloaded'' ''Reloaded''.
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-->'''Agent Smith''': Tell me, Mister Anderson...what good is a phone call when you are unable to speak?

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-->'''Agent Smith''': Smith:''' Tell me, Mister Anderson...what good is a phone call when you are unable to speak?



** Then there's the [[https://youtu.be/gCZBY7a8kqE?t=141 incomprehensibly surreal and traumatic horror]] Neo experiences immediately after. Just imagine, from his perspective, what he's witnessing: First he comes to in a daze, emerging from a viscous red-pink slime with all kinds of cables plugged into his nude body. Then he discovers the billions of other people still asleep in their pods attached to seemingly bottomless, cylindrical skyscrapers with large electric bolts firing between them in a presumably freezing, dark landscape. Suddenly, a huge, menacing ''spider''-like machine hovers directly in front of him and starts '''choking''' him as those cables he's attached to painfully snap off. Then, out of nowhere, his pod opens from behind causing him to slide down a "water park chute from {{Hell}}" into to a sea of what is possibly a mixture of ''[[{{Squick}} liquid human remains and sewage]]'' as he helplessly flails to stay afloat.[[note]]Neo's muscles had atrophied since this is the first time he's actually using them.[[/note]] Finally, a blinding light shines from above with a strange mechanical claw of some kind lifting him up to safety aboard to where his new cohorts are. Neo's first awakening into real world was essentially a (thankfully) brief, hellish fever dream the likes of which no one could've ever had. Don Davis' haunting score throughout the scene just intensifies every second of it.

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** Then there's the [[https://youtu.be/gCZBY7a8kqE?t=141 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCZBY7a8kqE&t=141s incomprehensibly surreal and traumatic horror]] Neo experiences immediately after. Just imagine, from his perspective, what he's witnessing: First he comes to in a daze, emerging from a viscous red-pink slime with all kinds of cables plugged into his nude body. Then he discovers the billions of other people still asleep in their pods attached to seemingly bottomless, cylindrical skyscrapers with large electric bolts firing between them in a presumably freezing, dark landscape. Suddenly, a huge, menacing ''spider''-like machine hovers directly in front of him and starts '''choking''' him as those cables he's attached to painfully snap off. Then, out of nowhere, his pod opens from behind causing him to slide down a "water park chute from {{Hell}}" into to a sea of what is possibly a mixture of ''[[{{Squick}} liquid human remains and sewage]]'' as he helplessly flails to stay afloat.[[note]]Neo's muscles had atrophied since this is the first time he's actually using them.[[/note]] Finally, a blinding light shines from above with a strange mechanical claw of some kind lifting him up to safety aboard to where his new cohorts are. Neo's first awakening into real world was essentially a (thankfully) brief, hellish fever dream the likes of which no one could've ever had. Don Davis' haunting score throughout the scene just intensifies every second of it.
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* When Morpheus and Trinity are forced to flee onto the freeway at the end of the second act, the characters briefly discuss that the freeway is extremely dangerous and even Morpheus had told Trinity that it was tantamount to suicide. It quickly becomes apparent why: hundreds and hundreds of cars traveling at high speeds, full of drivers who could at any moment turn into an Agent and shoot you or try to ram you with their vehicle. Semi-trailer trucks and other heavy vehicles that Agents can commandeer to simply smash their way through other cars to get at you. ''And'' the highway is a long stretch with intermittent exits, so once you're on it, you're stuck on it until you can find a way off, which you'll want to do quickly because there's no phones on the freeway to provide an exit. Within the Matrix and under the authority of Agents, freeways are death traps for Zion operatives just by their nature and there's any number of ways you could die in a split second.
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* Moments before escaping the Matrix for a second time, Neo reaches through a mirror and into... his therapist's living room. The Analyst stops as he sees him, appearing genuinely shocked and concerned, and tries to talk him back into "reality." Neo is confronted with one more awful lie telling him that this is AllJustADream, but put yourself in Thomas Anderson's shoes in that moment. Is this really happening, are all my suspicions, my dreams, my desires being confirmed, are they coming true? Or am I standing in my therapist's living room at 2:00 a.m. in my underwear, completely lost in a power fantasy, about to do something I will really, ''really'' regret? Is this the end of the first act of The Matrix, or is this the first five minutes of [[Film/TheSixthSense The Sixth Sense]]?

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* Moments before escaping the Matrix for a second time, Neo reaches through a mirror and into... his therapist's living room. The Analyst stops as he sees him, appearing genuinely shocked and concerned, and tries to talk him back into "reality." Neo is confronted with one more awful lie telling him that this is AllJustADream, but put yourself in Thomas Anderson's shoes in that moment. Is this really happening, are all my suspicions, my dreams, my desires being confirmed, are they coming true? Or am I standing in my therapist's living room at 2:00 a.m. in my underwear, completely lost in a power fantasy, about to do something that I will really, ''really'' regret? Is this the end of the first act of The Matrix, or is this the first five minutes of [[Film/TheSixthSense The Sixth Sense]]?
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* Moments before escaping the Matrix for a second time, Neo reaches through a mirror and into... his therapist's living room. The Analyst stops as he sees him, appearing genuinely shocked and concerned, and tries to talk him back into "reality." Neo is confronted with one more awful lie telling him that this is AllJustADream, but put yourself in Thomas Anderson's shoes in that moment. Is this really happening, are all my suspicions, my dreams, my desires being confirmed, are they coming true? Or am I standing in my therapist's living room at 2:00 a.m. in my underwear, completely lost in a power fantasy, about to do something I will ''really, really'' regret? Is this the end of the first act of The Matrix, or is this the first five minutes of [[Film/TheSixthSense The Sixth Sense]]?

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* Moments before escaping the Matrix for a second time, Neo reaches through a mirror and into... his therapist's living room. The Analyst stops as he sees him, appearing genuinely shocked and concerned, and tries to talk him back into "reality." Neo is confronted with one more awful lie telling him that this is AllJustADream, but put yourself in Thomas Anderson's shoes in that moment. Is this really happening, are all my suspicions, my dreams, my desires being confirmed, are they coming true? Or am I standing in my therapist's living room at 2:00 a.m. in my underwear, completely lost in a power fantasy, about to do something I will ''really, really'' really, ''really'' regret? Is this the end of the first act of The Matrix, or is this the first five minutes of [[Film/TheSixthSense The Sixth Sense]]?
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* Moments before escaping the Matrix for a second time, Neo reaches through a mirror and into... his therapist's living room. The Analyst stops as he sees him, appearing genuinely shocked and concerned, and tries to talk him back into "reality." Many people who have struggled with mental health issues can sympathize with the sudden and intense anxiety provoked in this moment. Is this really happening, are all my suspicions, my dreams, my desires being confirmed, are they coming true? Or am I standing in my therapist's living room at 2:00 a.m. in my underwear, completely lost in a power fantasy, about to do something I will ''really, really'' regret? Is this the end of the first act of The Matrix, or is this the first five minutes of [[Film/TheSixthSense The Sixth Sense]]?

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* Moments before escaping the Matrix for a second time, Neo reaches through a mirror and into... his therapist's living room. The Analyst stops as he sees him, appearing genuinely shocked and concerned, and tries to talk him back into "reality." Many people who have struggled Neo is confronted with mental health issues can sympathize with the sudden and intense anxiety provoked in one more awful lie telling him that this is AllJustADream, but put yourself in Thomas Anderson's shoes in that moment. Is this really happening, are all my suspicions, my dreams, my desires being confirmed, are they coming true? Or am I standing in my therapist's living room at 2:00 a.m. in my underwear, completely lost in a power fantasy, about to do something I will ''really, really'' regret? Is this the end of the first act of The Matrix, or is this the first five minutes of [[Film/TheSixthSense The Sixth Sense]]?
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* Moments before escaping the Matrix for a second time, Neo reaches through a mirror and into... his therapist's living room. The Analyst stops as he sees him, appearing genuinely shocked and concerned, and tries to talk him back into "reality." Many people who have struggled with mental health issues can sympathize with the sudden and intense anxiety provoked in this moment. Is this really happening, are all my suspicions, my dreams, my desires being confirmed, are they coming true? Or am I standing in my therapist's living room at 2:00 a.m. in my underwear, about to do something I will ''really, really'' regret? Is this the end of the first act of The Matrix, or is this the first five minutes of [[Film/TheSixthSense The Sixth Sense]]?

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* Moments before escaping the Matrix for a second time, Neo reaches through a mirror and into... his therapist's living room. The Analyst stops as he sees him, appearing genuinely shocked and concerned, and tries to talk him back into "reality." Many people who have struggled with mental health issues can sympathize with the sudden and intense anxiety provoked in this moment. Is this really happening, are all my suspicions, my dreams, my desires being confirmed, are they coming true? Or am I standing in my therapist's living room at 2:00 a.m. in my underwear, completely lost in a power fantasy, about to do something I will ''really, really'' regret? Is this the end of the first act of The Matrix, or is this the first five minutes of [[Film/TheSixthSense The Sixth Sense]]?
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* Moments before escaping the Matrix for a second time, Neo reaches through a mirror and into... his therapist's living room. The Analyst stops as he sees him, appearing genuinely shocked and concerned, and tries to talk him back into "reality." Many people who have struggled with mental health issues can sympathize with the sudden and intense anxiety provoked in this moment. Is this really happening, are all my suspicions, my dreams, my desires being confirmed, are they coming true? Or am I standing in my therapist's living room at 2:00 a.m. in my underwear, about to do something I will 'reall, really' regret? Is this the end of the first act of The Matrix, or is this the first five minutes of [[Film/TheSixthSense The Sixth Sense]]?

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* Moments before escaping the Matrix for a second time, Neo reaches through a mirror and into... his therapist's living room. The Analyst stops as he sees him, appearing genuinely shocked and concerned, and tries to talk him back into "reality." Many people who have struggled with mental health issues can sympathize with the sudden and intense anxiety provoked in this moment. Is this really happening, are all my suspicions, my dreams, my desires being confirmed, are they coming true? Or am I standing in my therapist's living room at 2:00 a.m. in my underwear, about to do something I will 'reall, really' ''really, really'' regret? Is this the end of the first act of The Matrix, or is this the first five minutes of [[Film/TheSixthSense The Sixth Sense]]?
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* Moments before escaping the Matrix for a second time, Neo reaches through a mirror and into... his therapist's living room. The Analyst stops as he sees him, appearing genuinely shocked and concerned, and tries to talk him back into "reality." Many people who have struggled with mental health issues can sympathize with the sudden and intense anxiety provoked in this moment. Is this really happening, are all my suspicions, my dreams, my desires being confirmed, are they coming true? Or am I standing in my therapist's living room at 2:00 a.m. in my underwear? Is this the end of the first act of The Matrix, or is this the first five minutes of [[Film/TheSixthSense The Sixth Sense]]?

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* Moments before escaping the Matrix for a second time, Neo reaches through a mirror and into... his therapist's living room. The Analyst stops as he sees him, appearing genuinely shocked and concerned, and tries to talk him back into "reality." Many people who have struggled with mental health issues can sympathize with the sudden and intense anxiety provoked in this moment. Is this really happening, are all my suspicions, my dreams, my desires being confirmed, are they coming true? Or am I standing in my therapist's living room at 2:00 a.m. in my underwear? underwear, about to do something I will 'reall, really' regret? Is this the end of the first act of The Matrix, or is this the first five minutes of [[Film/TheSixthSense The Sixth Sense]]?
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* Moments before escaping the Matrix for a second time, Neo reaches through a mirror and into... his therapist's living room. The Analyst stops as he sees him, appearing genuinely shocked and concerned, and tries to talk him back into "reality." Many people who have struggled with mental health issues can sympathize with the sudden and intense anxiety provoked in this moment. Is this really happening, are all my suspicions, my dreams, my desires being confirmed, are they coming true? Or am I standing in my therapist's living room at 2:00 a.m. in my underwear? Is this the end of the first act of The Matrix, or is this the first five minutes of TheSixthSense?

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* Moments before escaping the Matrix for a second time, Neo reaches through a mirror and into... his therapist's living room. The Analyst stops as he sees him, appearing genuinely shocked and concerned, and tries to talk him back into "reality." Many people who have struggled with mental health issues can sympathize with the sudden and intense anxiety provoked in this moment. Is this really happening, are all my suspicions, my dreams, my desires being confirmed, are they coming true? Or am I standing in my therapist's living room at 2:00 a.m. in my underwear? Is this the end of the first act of The Matrix, or is this the first five minutes of TheSixthSense?[[Film/TheSixthSense The Sixth Sense]]?

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