Why Did the Oracle Give Neo a Cookie? | MATRIX EXPLAINED

[@MatrixExplained]

mr anderson.... woahh wake uppp

[@levithorstone2876]

Has smith ever came across merovingian? And you missed the connection with the cookie she said after eating it you will feel right as rain and you said earlier the rain was a reference to code

[@jaimeduncan6167]

This is intriging, the parallel between the conversation of the architect/neo and Neo/Merovingian is so striking that can't be easily dismissed. Very good video and finding.

[@obiedashinobi1322]

Nice

[@Thurgosh_OG]

@@RaphaelsKnicksPodcast The Oracle probably knew Smith would be coming for her and altered her own code, hence the maniacal laughter.

[@itsme66112]

MR. HACKALICIOUS!! I see you go through your comment section thoroughly.

[@taotaostrong]

When Neo uses the restroom he is clearing his cache.

[@adamgray1753]

That CCleaner program sure is useful!

[@chj2]

😂😂🤣🤣

[@sweiland75]

He's taking a memory dump.

[@flarewolfxrp4371]

😅🤣😂😂

[@adlan_kacak]

lolololol

[@src6339]

By accepting cookies from the Oracle, neo is allowing the oracle to track information about him such as his browsing activity and history whithin the matrix. This may be required for the Oracle to function properly so that he may experience relevent content during his visit. However, due to new gdpr regulation, neo will have to sign an acceptance form before acepting any new cookies in the matrix part 4

[@AgusAndRaven]

Lol!! Nice one

[@bigguy2128]

😂😂😂😂

[@ljgarrison6910]

Lmao! Nice

[@iceman00behave]

We use cookies... The 5th One: accept and continue. Neo: opt out, give you the finger, and corrupt tracking data.

[@jonathancrawford21]

Maybe him eating the cookie is the same as him signing the form

[@conanhighwoods4304]

Cookie is also a computer term, so there is that.

[@SkywalkerSamadhi]

Was it a computer term in 1999 when it was made?

[@-Siculus-Hort-]

@@SkywalkerSamadhi yes

[@imblacksoimslow5731]

Everybody loves cookies the real question is simple!....was the cookie his favourite???

[@manayard82]

Spot on

[@lifewitmarkp6011]

What is a cookie?

[@arcadealchemist]

she offered him a cookie and he accepted, now she has access to all his personal data so she can sell him products he might want. That's why

[@trueheartintent]

Ah, you beat me to it! Lmfao

[@eponymous_graphics]

that's probably what it was ! thumbs up #76

[@falcon048]

YEah, I am loathe to point out that Oracle is a communications product for storing, sending and receiving data. ;)

[@eponymous_graphics]

@@falcon048 uh, doesn't that apply to all human beings AND demonic entities ? especially those demons with a psychological influence on humans ?? "now... how can i use that knowledge .... to work ... for me ? " [In Living Color, Homeboy Shopping Network].

[@falcon048]

@@eponymous_graphics Well....I am not sure you understood my post, I might be aging myself. But there is a product called Oracle that is used by every major corporation to send/receive/store data online. The OP was making a reference to cookies from an online perspective and I find it amusing that the Oracle gave him the cookies and Oracle is also an online cloud-based system. Not really sure how demons or the show In Living Color comes into play.

[@Rockall__]

She tells us what she put in the cookie, love. And the architect said the one difference this time was love.

[@smeggyhead1]

The Oracle convinced Morpheus he would find the one. The Oracle convinced Trinity she would fall in love with the one. The Oracle has been baking a lot of cookies!!

[@DD-nk4fb]

The Oracle taught Sati how to bake cookie !

[@GreenProd007]

smeggyhead1 🤣

[@skelletorjo3227]

@@DD-nk4fb Cookies need love, like everything does.

[@skilz8098]

If you remember what Morpheus said, she's been with us since the beginning, she helped to free the first of us. How do you think she freed them? Taking them in as Orphans or potential Exiles to be deleted and offered them shelter and a cookie, otherwise, they had 3 other choices; be deleted, go into exile, or serve the Merovingian. Many of them choose her, what young child do you know is going to refuse a sweet-smelling freshly baked chocolate chip cookie?

[@MegaYounglover]

Yeah.! Sounds like the Oracle (religion) and the arquitect (government) its a conspiracy.🤔🤔🤔

[@gamer1d244]

Best line: "Choice is an illusion created by those in power to those without."

[@Theodore_Twombly]

GEORGE CARLIN.

[@bangscutter]

You know a movie (trilogy) is a masterpiece of art when years later, people are still discussing and unpacking it.

[@saudinc6267]

Amin!

[@BobDarlington]

There were three?

[@ls1ws6tata84]

@@BobDarlington are you serious, you don't know

[@scratchcarddaddy2824]

Sounds a lot like my misses it's been a trilogy and I still trying to figure out how to please her 😂

[@willlauzon3744]

@@BobDarlington I know right? There was only one!

[@hydewhyte4364]

Before he eats the cookie, she flat out tells him he's not the one. You got the gift ... but it looks like your waiting for something. .. your next life maybe. She never lies to him ... he just doesn't understand what she said. Then she gives him the cookie. From that moment forward ... he's still not 'the one'. He still only has 'the gift' ... the same power as all the kids in the other room. When he fights the agents ... that's all he's fighting them with. He doesn't become 'the one' until 'his next life'. Just like when you add software to a computer. Some programs work right off ... major upgrades require a reboot.

[@ramrod924]

I always assumed that he didn't become the one until Trinity admitted that she loved him. He came back after she confessed

[@SiaFulani]

She (the Oracle) doesn’t “flat out” tell him that he isn’t The One. Neo said it. Her response was “Sorry Kid. You got the Gift, but it looks like you’re waiting for something.” So, in essence, she actually confirms that he is The One by telling him that he had the “gift” of The One. He just didn’t pick up on that. She wanted him to say/realize it for himself. What she was “sorry” about was that he still didn’t see it. Watch the scene again.

[@droe2570]

@@SiaFulani Like Morpheus says: Being the One is not the same as believing it. This is actually, perhaps accidentally, a reference to Heidegger's concept of "being in the world", where Heidegger treats "being" as an active verb.

[@skilz8098]

@@ramrod924 More than that, it wasn't just her confessing, She kissed him! Just as Persephone, the Merovingian's wife asked him for a simple kiss too. It's not just the food that can change code, but what we call physical intimate contact changes code too. You have to ask yourself why she truly wanted a kiss from neo... when you start to figure out the answer to that question, it'll make a lot more sense.

[@madkilla707]

@@ramrod924 and That's what they Are Doing Right Now The Matrix 4

[@robbay8610]

Arnold: PUT DA COOKIE DOVVN

[@razorbackstudiosartchannel2941]

Cookies are for closers.

[@robgoodsight6216]

HAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH....NOW!!!!!

[@marquisford9583]

Jingle All the way🤣🤣🤣

[@SunnyDarkoShow]

LOOOOL

[@marcosgreg9983]

Morpheus! Get to the choppah!

[@BLUTSERV]

I can’t say any other movie/s I’ve ever seen has had me still learning new concepts in the lore and continues to blow my mind, even a decade later.

[@IbadassI]

Same here

[@dk229910]

Yup them trilogy is something amazing

[@shiningdawn8578]

And I went into this video thinking that someone was digging for something that wasn't there. Nope... this is very fascinating stuff.

[@shiningdawn8578]

@@dk229910 I just wished I liked the 2nd and 3rd movies better. I saw Reloaded at the theater and hated it. I also wasn't ready for the story. I watched it, for the second time, this past September. Got more from the story, but still just hate the movie. LOL

[@JoSantino147]

I'm actually impressed. I've watched all 3 movies countless of times and I must say this video/theory to be made required a lot... A lot time spend watching the movies and formulating this thought process. Kudos. Although you missed one tiny bit of information which corroborates Merovingian's fight with the Oracle: at the beginning of the meeting he offers them "anything to eat? Drink?". And that might've been his attempt of offering a line of program to counteract the oracle's cookie.

[@Sonicgott]

The more I watch this movie, the more I like the Merovingian as a character. He understood things beyond what anyone else did. He saw right through the Oracle.

[@Woodkin007]

Yep. Hes probably been around for thousands of years and is bored as fuck. I love the idea that he was probably the one at some point but decided to bang Monicca Bellucici and be a king. Was probably pretty cool for about a century.

[@jahjohnson31]

@@Woodkin007 nah the matrix is only a few hundred years old

[@confusedzentradi]

600 years plus the time it took the first two or three to fail.

[@zorrozalai]

Cookies are used for tracking.

[@nichsulol4844]

code candy are main function keeping discovered the truth never tired

[@brianguayartist]

Tracking and recovery. 🙂 Sati and Seraph are recovered by the Oracle. The red candy allows the Oracle to 'recover' herself.

[@mike44njdevils1]

"Cookies need love too" I'm shocked you didn't include that little tidbit.

[@rubenashleywesterhoff2664]

like everything dus

[@bigguy2128]

Good one

[@JDWonders]

I know, right? I was waiting for that reference and it never came. Also: If she manipulated Neo and Smith in the 6th iteration of the Matrix, and then she tells Sati "cookies need love like everything does", and Sati has the ability to change Matrix code too, does that mean the Oracle is *already* setting up Sati to be one of the players in the 7th iteration?

[@docrichtof496]

She also gave Morpheus a cookie right before he was killed in the matrix online pc game cutscene

[@jasbjor6724]

"wipe". Sicko l.ol

[@Viii_Glasseye]

The whole trilogy has definitely taught me more about computer security through visual metaphors. For example the cookie scene. Neo(client) went to visit the Oracle(host) in her apartment(server). By entering into her domain she has complete control over his cookies and they can be poisoned or manipulated. Using his data from the server visit she fingerprints his browser and OS to later on craft malware(the red candy) used to infect and influence him. Essentially anyone who has visited the oracle or taken a gift from her could be part of her botnet. Hence why she is able to pass the red candy to Neo in the park. That entire complex may be her domain or she has infected and taken over the host of the apartment complex.

[@matthewgarcia7513]

I swear the Merovingian makes me anxious as hell

[@BPFACTS88]

he makes the hair on my back stand up, and his wife makes something else of mine stand up... hard

[@morningnapalm9963]

Neo: *breaths Matrix Explained: "What does this mean?!"

[@brwnmstrdinc.580]

I hate that laughed so hard at this comment

[@millyv8787]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@npraneeth35]

I would say context switch to the daemon processes-shell plane and back to action, as in user-plane...

[@scorpzgca]

😅😅😅😂😂🤣🤣

[@yerwotm8]

You think that's air you're breathing?

[@jonnyc212121]

I love how they portrayed the Oracle as this homely grandmother type baking cookies and eating candy as if her death toll isn't the entire Matrix

[@Jason-sk4zc]

Homely?

[@Theodore_Twombly]

​@@Jason-sk4zcUnintentional insult arising from limited vocabulary.

[@Jason-sk4zc]

@@Theodore_Twombly ah. Makes sense

[@Deffected]

​@@Theodore_Twombly "If you describe someone, especially a woman, as homely, you mean that they have a warm, comforting manner and look like someone who would enjoy being at home and having a family."

[@bigwilly43729]

Damn, that's a good explanation of the Neo/Trinity love story. I never thought it made a ton of sense, but just wrote it off as movies being movies. But if Trinity ate the cookie (or whatever food she was offered), she could have been manipulated the same way. Same for all the others that went to see the Oracle. This also explains why those that believe in her, believe in her so strongly. Also also, this might be why Smith doesn't take the cookie when she puts it on the table & goes on that seemingly weird rant about it. Since he's assimilated Sarif already, he knows what the cookies do. Holy shit this movie was stupid deep for it's time.

[@denasharpe2393]

And today!!

[@cassusbr3672]

You're absolutely right about "The Matrix," but let's be realistic, any movie from the '90s is deeper than movies produced today with all the "diversity", "equity", and "inclusion" policies that Hollywood imposes upon us nowadays.

[@GuardianAngel..]

This proves that emotions might be humanity’s greatest weapon to defeating the machines because it is the one thing no matter how hard they try they can’t process.

[@macmacgkc1st]

No it’s our greatest weakness disguised as a strength think about because of our emotions we are predictable you must simply control the variables and Wala path determined

[@kimulvik4184]

Both emotions and rationality is totally predictable. The problem starts when people choose between one or the other.

[@MrBrianpdj]

@@kimulvik4184The PROBLEM is CHOICE!!!

[@healthbar8439]

​​​@@MrBrianpdjthe illusion of choice is the problem. Once you realize that most of the movie Neo had no choice but an illusion of choice is the whole point of the matrix. The illusion of choice began at the offering of the red pill or the blue pill. It's either one or the other. It's one extreme to a whole different extreme and when both are actually analyzed they both seemingly seem to be apart of the same coin. In other words, both choices leads to the same coin thus there is no real choice. Hey choose a lessor evil? This evil or that evil? That is not a real choice and that is the whole point of the matrix. It's an illusionary world full of manipulation.

[@headphone307]

Great catch about the cookie! Something to think about... The Oracle could represent belief. After Neo eats the cookie, he "believes" he can and needs to save Morpheus. At the end of Revolutions Sati asks the Oracle if she always knew what would happen and the Oracle replies "oh no.. but I believed, I believed."

[@aubreypwd]

The cookie is the code that needs to make it to the source. It is no accident they used a cookie, as a cookie in browsers expires after some time. Hence why the Merovingian said her time was almost up. The Oracle's job is to find a carrier (the one), and to give them the code, and lead them to the source before time runs out. Machines are deterministic, cause and effect is all, they can both see why they there, and what will happen next. Humans, though, are not. We can't see beyond our own choices, and we like it that way. It's why the first Matrix failed. In the first Matrix we had no choice, all was perfectly decided for us in perfect harmony. But, without choice, we know something is up, and we wake up! The machines just want to keep us asleep. The only thing they can do to control us (iconified by the one) is to abuse our emotions, vis-à-vis love. The Oracle abuses every anomaly (the one's) with emotion to ensure they will make it to the source, this time around, she chose love. The cookie was just the code. The machines are perfecting the ability to give humans a choice while at the same time fully controlling them. Every time the one makes it to the source the algorithm is perfected.

[@aubreypwd]

Think about it, if they could get Neo to choose Trinity over Zion (the logical choice), they could finally be rid of Zion and stop humans from waking up ever again!

[@icecubes_for_the_boiling_frogs]

I agree entirely about the cookie being the actual code of the one and that it's a timed code. She offers the cookies to every unplugged human she meets, hence why she's in the kitchen. This means technically, every unplugged person could be the one. However, either the code turns out to be incompatible with the code of the person, or they fail on their journey in one way or another. It's also possible that the problem is that the resistance is like the Jedi in that they only target younger people and the Oracle knows they are too young and weak of mind to complete the grueling task of the one, so she gives them different roles for when someone actually old enough to complete the task is found and unplugged. He was tested constantly by other old programs to further ensure he would deliver a worthy code, possibly even modifying it as he completed tasks along the way as a sort of data collection and reconfiguration. It's even possible the cookies contain the code as it was last uploaded by the previous one. But the way neo destroyed Smith corrupted the code in a way the machines hadn't predicted, making it impossible for neo to upload the code of the one in the traditional way with the architect. He had to mend the code by reconnecting with the Smith program in order to fully upload his updated version of the code

[@monad_tcp]

warning: this is a massive tangential. IRL machines are not deterministic, its damn hard making them act like they are, but that's the biggest illusion we, the computing scientists have created. only single-core non-networked machines are actually deterministic. In a multi-core machine, not all is cause-effect, because there's minuscule aspects of the physics bleeding in, from the point of view of the software you actually have some effect without cause, because the cause is synchronicity in the real world (or the lack thereoff), time is actually relative. Of course there are mechanisms of control, aka, barriers and locks (yes, we call them locks, they're not physical locks, they're only electric signal acting as locks) To the other way, the universe is probably deterministic, so humans are deterministic, they just don't accept it, they pretend emotions are non-deterministic, when in fact, if you act on emotion instead of acting on reason you are 100% deterministic, only you don't understand it, because the illusion of the rational mind is rationalizing emotions, you lie to yourself. Free will is an illusion, an elaborated illusion created by biology so you complete you actual programming, as a human, you do have a code, its your DNA, and your programming is to make more children and propagate the species, everything is just to make this task, and humans kind of perfected it over millennia, as humans even got control of the climate on the planet (although that was by mistake, and humans pretend they don't have any control over it, so they don't have responsibility over the results, again, emotion over reason, of course that will lead the climate getting out of control and the fatal end of the civilization, but even them that's not the end of the species as this event probably happened before and will happen again, you only need 100k humans surviving for the next epoch, just to pass the code forward) This goes so deep in a human psyche that there's non-deterministic interpretations of the physics equations describing the experiments done on the universe, of course the copenhagem interpretation is wrong, the many-worlds is the correct one, there's multiple worlds intertwined, one affect the other on what looks like probabilities, but its all deterministic, it only looks no-deterministic because you only have partial data, just like human feelings look non-deterministic because they don't know their chemical state, the same way a multi-core program look non-deterministic, because I don't know the actual electrical state of the machine, if I knew every electrical signal, I would predict entirely how the machine works. So in a way, non-determinism doesn't exist, free-will is a lie. But in another way to completely predict anything you need complete data and that's impossible in a single universe because of quantum non-determinism, you have to have access to external data, you need an oracle that can see data.

[@PatThePerson]

It's a tracking cookie Jokes on the oracle I have her open in a private tab

[@IvaikinInsights]

Joke on you, they track you anyway

[@StratMatt777]

@@IvaikinInsights Jokes on everyone because, all this time, you could have stopped all tracking by downloading Mozilla Firefox for free and adding their free add-ons like Privacy Badger, Adblock and facebook container.

[@rf-cattleprod6207]

The food aspect is something I never picked up on. You got me.

[@morgankerr1628]

The Merovingian is not the Anti-Matrix; he is the exact opposite. He wants to perpetuate the status quo for as long as possible. How do we know this? He existed, persisted, from a previous iteration of The Matrix. In the end, he doesn't want anything more than to continue his existence. He wants to persist, to endure and to continue. Which sets up the situation between The Merovingian and Persephone. The emotionless continuity vs. a life of emotion and experience. And that's why The Merovingian opposes The Oracle. The Oracle wants change; The Merovingian is happy where he is.

[@natenatenate10]

hence why he is trying to warn Neo via the coded-cake story

[@dan.d]

This is the correct answer. The Oracle played a dirty trick by using that cookie to rewrite the ending. The Oracle truly does want a different outcome. The end of the war and the Merovingian knows this. The thing that really bakes my noodle is, why does the Merovingian think he has any chance after the cookie was already eaten by Neo to stop what is coming? Killing the Oracle at that point is moot. The real question is, did he know his wife would turn on him for cheating? He looked very surprised when confronted with it so, no he did not know that his "desert" would backfire. This "backfire" is proof yet again that there is an anomaly no one is talking about here. God is involved and is using miracles to help Humanity end the war.

[@Wholisticandy]

Also the Merovingian’s looked like he was a higher classed individual compared the average person lifestyle the Oracle lived in. The Oracle represents the masses want change and the Merovingian the 1% class wants to keep it the way it is. Great analysis 👏🏻

[@twilliams9362]

A life of emotionless continuity vs a life of emotion and experience sounds like Adam and Eve.

[@joselase6894]

Neo... neologism.

[@jonathancrawford21]

There's an old saying "a way to a man's heart is through his stomach". I guess that's what she did with Neo.

[@NYR14477]

Wow this blew my mind I never thought that the cookie and candy was so important and had him do things he wouldn’t or should of. Great vid!!!!!!!

[@Demetrius4278ddfgg8]

Lawrence Fishburne: eats Mexican food before a take... Matrix explained: why did Morpheus fart on set???

[@adamgray1753]

"Don't go over to that corner, @Xeanoz. It smells so much worse than a cesspool that part of the Matrix. It is just one of those explainable Matrix things, Neo."

[@GaBoiGregG]

Lactose intolerance from the cookie baked with milk?

[@5minutes106]

It was inevitable. (In my agent smith voice)

[@abelmontoya5]

Morpheos had too many tacos

[@kendtchileninjah5905]

PURNNNNNNN.. You think that’s air you’re breathing?

[@pyr8878]

Bare with me, and Id love feedback on this: I always believed the reason and insistence of the Persephone 'kiss' was to 'copy' Neo's code, to act as a save point from which Neo could respawn in the case of a unfortunate fate, like the one that happened. I even carried this thought out to the possible 4th Matrix, which in keeping with the theme (Reloaded/Revolution) I subtitled Resurrection, all possible and thanks to that single kiss...dx_ob

[@hypnometal]

Here’s the other fascinating thing about this, though - in Revolutions, The Oracle again offers him candy, but this time, he declines. And she’s totally cool with that. Do we think he’s figured it out by then?

[@asingletear624]

he doesn't decline in revolutions

[@Magi_Nation7]

Yes. This is why the scene immediately prior to Neo meeting the Oracle is with the spoon child or in my eyes, the one soon to come. He reminds Neo that nothing in the matrix is real, esp when giving Neo the wisdom about the spoon and how it is only oneself that is bending.

[@Steppin2theAM]

I swear, since opening day out of the countless hours I’ve been in wonder of this franchise and the philosophy behind it, This channel still says something that make me go “Hmmm”. That’s a good thing.

[@MichaelBengel]

That's interesting. It kinda does make sense. As the Conversation with the oracle and the architect at the end of the trilogy, he say's " you played a dangerous game! " . Meaning she manipulated the whole story to hide Agent Smith being the ONE. That's why neo couldn't choose the door to reset the matrix because he really wasn't the one and the oracle knew it but had to hide it.

[@pilopicasso2133]

Cookies used for tracking and can be used to backdoor so in a way the oracle kept planting seeds aka inception ;) also 🍪 can be a placebo like a pill would and as been for most cases

[@tonycockerham6971]

You definitely have to listen to all of the conversations about food in the matrix movies. Just as when Mouse was talking to Neo about how the machines couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like. I'm sure there was a lot more to that conversation than what we got on the surface.

[@Shanethefilmmaker]

I believe she merely used the cookie to boost his confidence. Not so much changing him, but taking any edge off the rational part of his mind that would talk him out of doing stupid or dangerous things. Which in turn made him more in tune with his abilities. The look on Morpheus' face when he sees Neo with the cookie shows that he's both been where Neo's been and seen others go through a similar reading regarding their own lives. In the case of Morpheus, he was told that he would find The One. Needless to say much like Neo he was given a cookie and that would explain why his belief was never shaken until he found out the Prophecy was a bullshit power move by the machines. As with Trinity who was told that she would fall in love with The One. She probably had a love code or something in that cookie that enhanced infatuation with him. When Neo started out, he didn't have any confidence in his abilities, nor did he even believe he's The One. Hence why he kept screwing up during training despite his adaptability to the programming. As for Cypher? While it can be argued that the food and drink has codes the Architect, The Agents and other subordinates, exiles and even undercover Redpills tampered with (Especially Narcotics since Neo's buyer recommended him Mescaline.), most of the coding seemed to be derived from the usual things. Mimicking taste, smell, sight and texture as well as slightly enhanced versions of the effects that food does to us in real life? Such as Turkey making one sleepy. So odds are it's just an ordinary steak program. On the other hand. If there were certain people in the Matrix of extreme interest they probably altered the code so that it'd make them more subservient to the machines. So Cypher could have been under the Machine's influence by eating that steak and drinking that wine and even smoking those cigars. However there is two holes in that theory. The first is that Cypher's actions in the beginning of the movie prior to meeting Smith. He already had Trinity traced and already expressed infatuations with her even if it was the form of jokes. And while it could be easy for Smith to manipulate his code and enhance those infatuations to get him to cooperate more out of envy, I don't see Smith doing that. Mainly because while he knows what love is, he fails to understand it as anything more than an illusion and ergo a waste of his time.

[@ricya1982]

nice observation

[@Shanethefilmmaker]

@@ricya1982 Thank you. Here's a bonus observation. Since the Watchowskis are avid gamers by trade, each code enhanced food, drink and drug are the movie's equivalent to power ups in a video game. Which is why aside from the Merovingian's laced cake (Which could easily be a stand in for the Mario Poison Mushroom or the Yoshi Island Fuzzies.), the other stuff didn't seem to do anything harmful.

[@ricya1982]

@@Shanethefilmmaker hehe right! :) Food is like in vidya games, for health or buffs, or get to the next level, same as items. Makes sense.

[@Shanethefilmmaker]

@Video Blend stop putting words in my mouth. I never said the code wasn't changed. I just said that she did something more simpler and what was described here.

[@sstsaldana24]

Love your channel vato!! Just subscribed! You deserve way mkre likes and subscribers! Your content and commentary is first rate!!

[@kingginger3335]

When Neo takes the candy from the Oracle, he never actually eats it. He just holds it in his hand. We never see him with it in his mouth, either. I think the cookie was probably a modification to his code to help encourage him to fight for Morpheous. The Oracle eludes to the idea that he's waiting on another life because that's how these things go. She had to encourage him to fight Agent Smith because she knew that he would ultimately die. I mean, she actually says one of them will die and tells him that the war is basically lost without Morpheous. So, with this new information of Neo not being the One and Morpheous needing to live, the cookie made Neo feel better about sacrificing his life to save Morpheous and the human race at the same time. That act alone caused the code of the One to become activated within him because now he was ready to do whatever it took to save humanity.

[@yepyep9113]

I've watched a bunch of your videos at this point -- and this is by far the best. Superb analysis of "cookie" as "code." Not unlike a cookie deposited in our browser for the purposes of tracking, data collection, and subsequent influencing of our behaviors, as others have pointed out. Great, great work. It made me subscribe.

[@falcon048]

"Why did the Oracle give Neo a cookie?" oOOOOOOoooooh, what's gonna bake your noodle later on is, why did Neo eat the cookie. ;)

[@Jerzey97]

He was hungry?

[@nichsulol4844]

@@Jerzey97 nope i'm thinking he just downloading data thing

[@BeybladeDad]

Wow! Yes! I believe you. This is really awesome insights in every video!💬

[@briandaleske5139]

I really like this theory about the Cookie, I think it is interesting, and I find it fascinating as well. Now it makes me wonder about certain events that had happened after NEO ate the Cookie, and I wonder if at some point NEO finally realized the change that had happened to his coded self?

[@dawidblachowski]

I love that channel. There's always something mindblowing about the movie you know so well, yet so little!

[@lordbongkage8509]

Sati was taught to bake cookies 🍪 she will replace the Oracle when she’s dead. I’m calling it now

[@noelienoelie8425]

She can't die. She is one half of the matrix.

[@lordbongkage8509]

Sati will replace her

[@JDWonders]

Or Sati is being setup to become the next Neo or Smith in the 7th Matrix version.

[@djedeye2665]

Satia Yuga comes after Kali Yuga ( age )

[@chuyramirez3731]

Neo didn't changed the matrix, Smith did.. He's the one. That the Oracle was really protecting.

[@macmacgkc1st]

No

[@taunggoy]

Neo was the One. Smith was the Many.

[@foxkenji]

Neo is One backwards.

[@dan.d]

God was with Neo all along.

[@dakotawatts3259]

@@foxkenji no it's not. One backwards is eno.

[@sstsaldana24]

Always loved the merovengion!! The actor played the part perfect u love to hate him!! He seems like the real power of the matrix

[@ActualLiteralKyle]

I think your understanding of Neo’s choice is misguided - his choice wasnt “save Humanity” or “save Trinity” it was “continue the cycle of CONTROL, pain and destruction and keep the matrix as-is” or “break the cycle and forge a new path” So his choice to save Trinity was rooted both in his love for her and his desire to break free of the code the architect put in him and stop the cycle of control and take humanity to the next step in the world.

[@atomic_flame__9181]

I hope the Oracle comes back alongside the architect in matrix 4

[@godpilled9077]

Sadly, she passed away.

[@atomic_flame__9181]

@@godpilled9077 Oh damn i didn’t realize that R.I.P

[@lifewitmarkp6011]

That was a good observation!

[@reina4969]

I like this theory. The Wachowskis might even adopt it if they are comfortable with the malevolent oracle narrative. But there is one thing about the cookie scene that has ALWAYS bothered me, which makes this theory narrative more plausable: THE COOKIE IS HARD AS A ROCK.I have never EVER had a cookie straight from the oven that I could hold without falling apart much less was crunchy, or snapped when I bit into. That might sound nitpicky, but look at the scene again! I don't think the Wachowskis meant to give him a rock hard old cookie. I don't think they meant for the cookie to change Neo's code, however, who you look at it again you can see how awful that cookie was cast. lol

[@danielfreeman649]

Maybe they wanted us to hear the crunch, for sound?

[@reina4969]

@Enzo 1965 No, Cast. Like they cast the cookie actor.

[@whollenbeck8]

EXACTLY. Why has this gone by so many?

[@reina4969]

@@whollenbeck8 It takes a keen mind to be so perceptive. ;)

[@jonnylawless6797]

"Free will is an illusion, Dean. That's why you're going to say yes." One of the best lines in Supernatural explains the Matrix perfectly.

[@swanclipper]

Dean Winchester Dies unceromoniously at the end. there is no reunion and no further interaction in "heaven" only the inference that "mary and john, live over there, rufus in that direction, and everybody else along with ellen, joe and ash in thier heavenly roadhouse".... yeah great. no gathering. just bobby saying stuff. and then sam dies an old man. that show was such a dissapointment as an ending. even the fight with chuck was underwhelming. also... dean said yes, not through desire but emotional blackmail. sam said yes as an attempt to decieve the devil and Adam said yes out of dispair and a promise of seeing his mother. dean never truly said yes, he mainly accepted out of exhaustion and trickery played on him. don't bring supernatural into this. free will is not an illusion. if anything, we have no choice but to have free will.

[@benjibenji399]

@@swanclipper woah there

[@blaze556922]

I really like the idea of the foods changing the code of those within the matrix. On the first viewing I just looked at it as though they were trying to make her a sweet grandmother type to be trusted. Which is also the case.

[@jmay-v]

I love this analysis. Brilliant!

[@shadowhenge7118]

All i know is i want a bite of that desert.

[@dan.d]

You want to blow the Merovingian in the bathroom? Sick man. But, hey whatever floats your boat bro.

[@jonathancrawford21]

Merv is more of a freedom fighter than the rebels. It would be cool if Neo realized it and teamed up with him against Mom and Pop.

[@joeytunez]

The evil oracle pics crack me up

[@skelletorjo3227]

This video is so good. Thank you.

[@ricogoldstar]

What if I told you, Morpheus ( in this reality) never asked "What if I told you"? Another example of the 'Mandela Effect'.

[@wcunningham11]

Wow! I’ve seen these movies so many times but never connected this stuff! Your doing a wonderful job! Thanks!

[@bradl9664]

I’m glad you made a video about this. It has always been my belief that the cookie was the catalyst that caused Neo to fall in love with Trinity, followed, of course, by the Oracle’s suggestion that Trinity already had feelings for him.

[@williamcraig6377]

Moral of the story, do not accept cookies from a program you don't know.

[@propknot]

I always suspected that the cookie and the piece of candy the Oracle gave Neo modified his code.

[@lloydtucker5647]

I didn't notice that before, but she did give Neo those food items to consume. A lot like the pills Morpheus offered him.🤔

[@jeffschneider403]

I have taken an interest in your channel. I have seen a few of your posts and find myself fascinated with the explanations. Is there a recommended order to watch these in?

[@jt0l3r]

She Javascripted Neo... Agents became pop ups😂

[@etang5]

man, this channel has got me so excited for the maxtrix movies :P

[@husky1903]

Perhaps the cookie was the key program to activate the special code within the one. Because until that moment Neo couldn't really perform any special thing and the Oracle said the truth, he's not the one, yet. And he eats the cookie.. boom, now you are free to go son.

[@TrailBlazer5280]

Great videos keep them up!

[@IftiAlam1999]

Correct me if I'm wrong. So according to this, the food is what encouraged or forced Neo to love Trinity. So when the time came for Neo to choose one of the doors for either Freedom of Zion or Save Trinity, the Architect tricked Neo into choosing the 'Save Trinity' door so that the Matrix is rebooted later. It was an elaborate plan of Architect and the Oracle. Also, the Architect may have lied to Neo regarding the previous chosen ones when he said that they all chose the door to Zion's freedom but failed, eventually tricking Neo into choosing the 'save Trinity' door. Oracle will modify Neo's programming into following orders and the Architect will back that up by lying about the previous chosen ones failure and tricking Neo into rebooting the Matrix. Please let me know if I got this right.

[@adamgray1753]

The Architect says...

[@shinhermit]

I don't think they lied, seems like the machine/programs don't lie. The Architect even tells Neo he sees what choice he is going to make. I think the oracle and the architect had to change the plan this time because of Smith (which turmed into a virus).

[@philproffitt8363]

@@shinhermit I'm wondering if it was only the Oracle who realised they needed Neo to defeat Smith...was the red candy a deliberate 'assist' to Neo when Smith tried to assimilate him a few minutes later? (She knew Smith was coming) Neo was already having dreams about Trinity dying...was that from the original cookie? The Oracle said something like "I'm interested in the future...and the only way to get there is together" so I think it was her plan, and not the Architect, for Neo to NOT follow the previous path of the One. I'm going mad thinking about it now!! :-))

[@shinhermit]

@@philproffitt8363 I think the Architect and the Oracle need to work together, and this is because of the computers sciences references of character names in Matrix. I guess Oracle may refer to a "test oracle" (juste google it), a computer science mechanism for determining whether a test has passed or failed. A software architect is an expert who makes high-level design choices. So, the architect designs the matrix, the oracle assesses the design (predicts the outcome), then they loop with a better design...

[@philproffitt8363]

@@shinhermit That makes sense with the computer science knowledge. Do you believe the Oracle had any real interest in peace between machines and humans...or purely using Neo to solve the machine's Smith problem?

[@michaelmatos4059]

I loved these movies, I’m so glad I just found this channel.

[@willamcombs1106]

Why did the Oracle give Neo a Cookie? Because 'Let them eat cake' turned out really bad in another version of 'The Matrix'.

[@shdwbnndbyyt]

Historical note: There are two types of flour, bread flour and cake flour(summer vs winter wheat). In France in 1789, bread flour (eaten by the poor) was in short supply even though the actrual harvests had been bountiful that year. But cake flour (eaten by the rich) was plentiful and fairly low priced. Marie Antoinette was actually telling the minister who told her of the problem (her husband not being present) to allow the lower classes to buy and use the upper class's food. However the actual quote has been selectively edited and interpreted to vilify her. Much like how our current media edited out the President's utter condemnation of neo-nazis and white supremecists during his speech about the Charlottesville protests, leaving only his comment about "very fine people on both sides of the issue", to villify him.

[@el-sig2249]

@@shdwbnndbyyt While this explanation is true (repested ad nauseum) the fact remains that the people didn't even have the money to buy what could have been made available. The real problems were poverty and injustice, which worsened despite her best intentions.

[@monad_tcp]

Because obviously the cake is a lie.

[@monad_tcp]

@@shdwbnndbyyt the French revolution was the worst act ever, we are going to be forever fighting its results, aren't we?

[@foxkenji]

@@monad_tcp GladOS does not want you to know that.

[@chuckg1177]

Wow! Well done. I totally miss those clues. Well done!

[@tylerhill40]

We're so far down the rabbit hole, Idk what to believe anymore 😂

[@danielfreeman649]

Excellent video this makes up for the Descartes pronunciation thing

[@eddiejames4589]

A cookie is a way for your computer to get back to a website so that cookie was so neo could always get back to her easily..

[@leelasmoochie]

I love these videos 💖💖💖

[@vasilirikardsson]

Accepting food from a person you never met before is a hard choice if you're in a tricky situation like Neo. . The oracle is giving Neo the same 50/50 pill like Morpheus.

[@mogwaltz9617]

This makes sense. The Red Pill from the very beginning had programming in it for Neo's release.

[@ColeVickSheepShearer]

Merovingian was pretty specific. He survived neos predecessors and he survived him.

[@ELFLOWTECH]

great video man!

[@nightfallalicorn4246]

I didn't think the food effects went that far back in the movies.

[@orbitalpunch4711]

Mate you’re a genius how you break down the matrix. Thanks for the “food for thought”

[@stanshatter3875]

Does anyone have a clue why Smith muttered some words durring the final battle and claimed that they've done this before. THEN WHEN neo met the Oracle the second time she told him to have a set this time, making it sound like Neo has done this "THE ONE" business before.

[@charisma-hornum-fries]

I imagine that it’s part of the bigger storyline the architect talked about. Neo is the sixth version of The One and there is a lot of repetitive actions from one One and the following Ones. I take it like Smith knows this by fetching the data on it from a server somewhere and connecting that to the present fight.

[@noelienoelie8425]

The first time they meet she says sit down and Neo says no.

[@joettabush8829]

@@charisma-hornum-fries/ 444r4r4r4r⁴==

[@PacesIII]

When Neo walked in to the Oracle's kitchen and she said he was not the one she was not lying. She controls who the one is and she decided to give him the cookie which made him The One. So he was not The One until he ate the cookie which was a choice. That choice was also an illusion because if someone gives you a cookie under general rules of being polite, you're just going to eat it.

[@Yas_Sin]

The Merovingian is actually one of the smartest if not THE smartest characters in the matrix universe

[@TheLongasen]

But he's got such a punchable face and persona 👊😭

[@ardenaudreyarji]

Yeah Neo should’ve kicked his ass Lol. Survived my predecessor my ass 😂

[@jytte-hilden]

He was also obviously wrong. A system without choice would never end up in an incarnation that had that many layers of control to ensure certain choices were made. As the Warchowski brothers so elegantly infer during the trilogy, free will requires that you are capable of looking beyond your own choices. The entire Matrix, and every system of control in it, was set up to prevent that from happening.

[@devaughnsalter7379]

@Enzo 1965 It is should've...as in should have...never should *of.

[@BigDaddyJinx]

He is the smartest because he was designed to be. That is his purpose.

[@incidentalist]

Man, remember seeing it when it first came out!! The EFFECTS were amazing at the time!!

[@Ilovewatchingsupernaturalparan]

Voice of REASON...The affects are still amazing today.

[@IntegralSystemicAnomaly]

hi the ME, I have questions that could be interresting for your next videos : 01 : why Neo's passeport expire on 9/11/01 ? 02 : why the Wachowskis choosed to put the movie "night of the lepus" on screen at the oracle's appartement during the spoon-boy scene ? 03 : why Morpheus is doing the symbol "as above so below" as we can see in the first seconds of that video ? 04 : why can we see "Kadosh", the two headed eagle, in the Oracles's kitchen behind Neo where it is written "nosce te ipsum" ? Thanks

[@Zero11s]

01-04: the matrix put it there to manipulate you

[@campkira]

she is a forcast program so a cookie would be the same as webbrower cookie... that why she also know when he stuck somewhere that noway other people would know...

[@MrGreenAKAguci00]

Neo needs VPN, proxy, and proper ad blockers that clean cookies fast, he should be good then.

[@Search4Knowledge]

I really like this theory, the Merovengian warning Neo with the hint and Neo being manipulated. But I'm not so sure what the objective of the Merovengian is. Why would he be the anti-Matrix? It seems to me that he needs to uphold the status quo. The cycle of resetting the Matrix works out fine for him, he knows the pattern and is able to handle himself in this necessary game. Or is this program eventually getting too gready and wants more power? hence his demand for the eyes of the Oracle.

[@WrynnCZ]

He is greedy ant thats why he is Exiled program in the first place. He wants his power back.

[@antdono95]

The thing about this whole channel is, I don't doubt the Wachowskis were smart, and put a lot of thought into this film, but the way you're looking into every minute detail I doubt they ever had the time to think about it as deeply as you are.

[@johnbeebe4626]

Welcome to the desert of the real.....

[@JohnDoe-tm9wz]

Even tough guys and chosen people need a cookie sometimes

[@IftiAlam1999]

I really hope that whatever they're planning for the sequel, they wouldn't just depend on nostalgia rather than a good followup and cohesive storyline cuz the Matrix lore is just deep and crazy scary. There are so many things to explore.

[@sinseers]

Might as well mentally prepare yourself right now for M4 to be nostalgia laced. Just accept it and hope that we get a nice helping of a decent story arc to go with it.

[@IftiAlam1999]

@@sinseers Nostalgia is fine but I'm talking about being solely dependent on that like the new Star Wars movies.

[@sinseers]

@@IftiAlam1999 Guess we'll have to peep it to see just how much it will be used as a crutch to move the story along.

[@DarknessIsThePath]

It will succeed in the income department, but the audience reviews will be mediocre at best.

[@rashodhustle9718]

That's why agent Smith like get those damn cookies outta here

[@WallKenshiro]

When Neo was freed from the Matrix by Morpheus and his crew his cookies and browser history were wiped, so she needed to give him a new tracking cookie. So no, he wouldn't have knocked that vase over if she didn't say anything. But everything he says and does after eating that cookie is down to The Oracles targeted advertising algorithm offering him "choices".

[@eanayac]

Love your videos!!!

[@locussolus9646]

Dude I been wondering when someone was gonna bring this up.

[@maxcovfefe]

Oracle be tracking those cookies!

[@Akuroxradio]

6:06 wow what an actor: Lambert Wilson... look at him. He didnt know how the scene would look like at the end... but nevertheless he seems to "feel" what is hapening!

[@Ilovewatchingsupernaturalparan]

Steph Akurox...Lambert Wilson will be in Matrix 4.

[@Akuroxradio]

@@Ilovewatchingsupernaturalparan OMG OMG OMG!!!!