Resurrections makes it clear that in this new rebooted Matrix, the events of the trilogy were written to just be video games designed by Neo. The film in its climax with the utilisation of the Swarm starts to more clearly resemble a video game, with waves of people made to mindlessly charge and fight the humans. Not to mention, the games were based on the trilogy and the climax has a green tint to it, perfect for Trinity's full acceptance of her original self.
Thomas Anderson's frustration with making the Matrix 4 is full of reality subtext, but one of the scenes is particularly hard-hitting as he has numerous game designers talking about what makes the Matrix so special: trans allegory, crypto-anarchism, cyberpunk dystopia, and bullet-time. Except, they're explaining these things to the game's developer. Hopefully, Lana didn't have similar dealings with her co-creators.
Unfortunately, Jonathan Groff said in interviews that Lana has actually had meetings like that.
Trinity's horror at being named Tiffany takes on extra meaning with deadnaming.
Continuing with the trans interpretation, Thomas Anderson is coding a new game called Binary. The film returns to this concept of binaries, noting how some things that seem like dualities really aren’t. The offer of the red pill and blue pill isn’t really a choice because Neo already knows which he must choose, humans and synthients have progressed from an “us versus them” mentality by building a city together, and Smith compares himself and Neo to two opposite sides of a binary sworn to fight forever but then helps Neo in the climax, breaking the cycle. This notion of illusory binaries could be considered a reference to how trans theory holds that there isn’t really a gender binary, but a gender spectrum full of possibilities, and how coming out is often described not as choosing one’s gender but accepting the gender one already knew they were.
In the Matrix Morpheus described "there was a man born inside who had the ability to change whatever he wanted, to remake the Matrix as he saw fit." While Neo could fly and fight agents, he wasn't really changing the Matrix anymore than the other runners really. Not even to the level Smith was able to do. Now with Trinity, both are finally utilizing the real power of the One as she was able to manipulate the Analyst digital form easily. Showing the One this go around is two people together as One.
During one of their conversations at the coffee shop, "Tiffany" tells "Thomas" that her husband laughed at her when she compared herself to Trinity, making her want to kick him "just hard enough to break his jaw off." At the very end of the film, Trinity, having realized her full identity, kicks the Analyst with perfect precision to break his jaw off for naming her "Tiff" as a joke.
While Trinity and Neo still see each other as themselves, to everyone else they look very different. So the reaction from Tiffany's husband is not him being cruel but him genuinely not seeing any similarities.
Tiffany's husband being named "Chad" not only happens to be a case of The Danza (his actor is Chad Stahelski, Keanu's former Matrix stunt double and now director of the John Wick series) but also works as a reference to Internet slang used by the same quarters who co-opted the Matrix's "Red Pill" and "Blue Pill" terms and imagery.
The idea of a human character named after a Looney Tune makes sense when you consider that the Looney Tunes do a bunch of crazy reality-defying stunts, and that Bugs is their defacto king.
The film introduces the idea of dualism as an upgrade to having the One be around. This can be seen with Neo and Trinity being manipulated to stay together without actually being together, the yin and yang together but not united.
The Matrix features not just green, but blue and yellow colors too.
After Jude refers to Tiffany as a "total f-ing MILF" in the coffee shop, he makes an excuse to Thomas, saying "I'm a geek. I was raised by machines." As we find out later, he actually was raised by machines, having been created as the Analyst's handler for Neo.
The film places significant prominence on Neo and Trinity having Meet Cutes under new lives while in a coffee shop, even setting the climax there, making the movie arguably a $190 million Coffee Shop AU Fic.
Why does Merv hate Neo? Neo is the one responsible for necessitating the current Matrix and indirectly responsible for giving Exiles the option to migrate to I/O, thus cutting off Merv's main source of power, the monopoly on smuggling Exiles out of Zero One (the machine city). Oh and apparently Merv hates 2020's internet and media culture and loathes the Matrix has been moved up to that time period.
While he's being driven to see the Oracle in the original movie, Neo points out a place he used to eat at to Trinity with "really good noodles." Three movies later and plugged back in, Neo and Trinity are both shown repeatedly eating or picking up food from a noodle place during the Jefferson Airplane montage. Sati keeps an eye on both of them while working there as a cashier.
How is it possible that Trinity was able to get the powers of The One when that mantle already belongs to Neo? Simple: Neo was The One of the seventh iteration of the Matrix, while the 4th movie takes place in the eighth iteration, which would naturally need a new One. It's just that this time around, the old One hadn't retired yet, so when Trinity unlocked her powers, Neo needed noting more than a quick "jump-start" to regain his powers, leading to the first instance of two "Ones" existing simultaneously.
The stinger scene is more than just a joke. It shows that Thomas Anderson was the only competent person in that software house. With him gone, all that remains is idiot marketroids.
New Morpheus says he was programmed by Neo as a combination of both Morpheus and Agent Smith, but it turns out that there's the actual Agent Smith in the new Matrix already. But of course this new version would have two characters claiming to be Smith — being in more than one place was kind of his thing.
Are Tiffany's children Trinity's actual biological children (presumably made by the Matrix), programs, or children reprogrammed to believe they're hers? Is her husband an Agent and how much of their relationship was real or just Bed Trick?
Chad was a Bot all along. For control, one figures they'd put in a bot for the kids just in case. The Analyst even says that they basically saturated the places around her with bots, so this one is pretty much a given.
One has to wonder how Neo and Trinity are going to adapt after being pulled out of the Matrix. Not to mention learning almost everyone they knew are gone. At the very least they have no shortage of new friends and allies.
They already did it before, the first time they left Matrix. And that time they were all alone. Now they have each other, they have an entire city that treat them as their messiah, and they are about to bring real change to the world. (And also, most of their friends would still be there, they would be really old, but still there)
In Reloaded, the Architect threatened to crash the entire Matrix if Neo didn’t comply, which would kill every human in it and weaken the machines’ means of energy, saying “there are levels of survival we are prepared to accept.” In this film, it turns out that there was a war between the machines as resources dipped due to humans leaving the Matrix. So was the Architect’s threat to Neo just a bluff, or was he out of touch with his own machines and would’ve likewise caused a civil war over what little scraps of energy would be left without the Matrix?
Probably unintentional optimism on his part. In Revolutions, the Oracle comments on how limited the Architect's perspective could be because of his assumptions based on logic. It's likely he considered the threat of limited power a problem to be faced with cold logic. But, the machines in the city were A.I.s with the attachments and hang-ups that come with sentience.
Sati probably witnessed the deaths of her parents, the Oracle, and who knows how many other Exile programs.
It makes sense the New Power group would emerge, as one particular truce isn't enough to forgive and forget centuries of conflict.
How many times Did Neo and Trinity try to escape, only to have the Analyst stop them?
The scene where a woman looks on in horror as her significant other greenscreens then dives out a window because the Analyst wants to slow down Neo and Trinity. Bot or not, that man had a life. A partner. Probably a job, family, other things needed to integrate him into society. Might have even been truly sentient for all we know. And everyone left behind has to try to comprehend why he and dozens of others just jumped to their deaths on a whim.
Part of the Anomolarium Infiltration plan involves "shutting down the macerators" and we indeed see this being done. Is it only the exit tubes on those pods that have big crushers, or are these universal on the power plants? In either case, is the function just to aid waste processing, or is it another machine way of stopping people being unplugged (with the side question of, if so, how long did it take the redpills to find out that anyone dropped out of the pods would now be shredded quite gruesomely.)
