[SPOILERS]

It is all about the Oracle, not Neo…. Hear me out :)

This is how the story goes:

• Man creates AI (Artificial Intelligence)

• AI rebels and a war for survival between Man and AI begins.

• Man pollutes the skies to block sunshine, aka energy for the AI.

• AI then learns how to harvest energy from Man.

• AI wins the war. Man is defeated.

• To harvest the energy, the AI creates a Matrix. A type virtual reality in which we all lay connected “living” our lives while feeding energy to their systems.

• AI learn that for the Matrix to work, it cannot be a blissful paradise. Humans apparently need a bit of conflict etc. to accept a virtual reality in the long run.

• AI also learn that the deep request for freedom lies within us all and cannot be deprogrammed or held down, which is why they accept certain humans to disconnect and escape the system. This design “flaw”, or backdoor escape possibility is pivotal for the Matrix to remain stable. Even if this is mostly just a subconscious possibility for the majority of the connected humans, this “flaw”, was proved vital for the system to continue to work

• The Matrix in its optimal form must be an imperfect world, like ours is, and a system that allows for a certain percentage of the connected to rebel.

• To control this rebel tendency, the AI creates a city (aka Zion) deep underground to house those escaping, and it also creates a chosen one that will help the first to get free and to establish themselves in Zion and help to fight “their” cause.

• The movement of resistance is allowed to grow to a degree… to a critical point that is reached every 70 years or so. After which the AI will annihilate all those who are free, clean out Zion and reload the Matrix for another 70 years etc etc.

• Neo is this chosen one, a part of this fail-safe program (unbeknownst to him until the last moment where they tell him how to setup a “new” Zion etc.).

• The Oracle is specifically tasked to guide the humans and the rebels and the chosen one towards this final solution each and every time.

• Meaning, the Oracle is not an oracle. She cannot see the future. This is not a world of magic. She is a wellcrafted program indeed, and has experienced each cycle form the beginning which gives us the illusion that she can foresee stuff, when in fact she has just relived it again and again.

• Everything goes as planned, according to what the AI want. Until Neo’s meeting with the Architect; all that we have witnessed is part of a great big scheme. All humans, free or not, live a lie created and controlled by AI.

• The Oracle knows this evil plan. She made this evil plan.

• Smith does not, he is just a foot soldier program doing his part.

• The Chosen one (Neo) does not, he is just a foot solider “program” doing his part.

• The Matrix has been reset 5 times like this, and we are in the 6th.

• Our Neo has fallen in love in a deeper way than his previous 5 copies and, so he chooses not to go through the Architect door that will reload the Matrix once again, and that will clean out Zion. Our Neo chooses to save Trinity and in doing this the AI must then simply continue as planned, except without the help of Neo this time and so a much more violent approach (like completely destroying Zion, instead of "just" cleaning it).

• Of the 6 runs, this is the first that failed a bit in the end.

• Beside Neo, Smith is also different in this iteration of the Matrix, as Smith has become a disconnected or free virus within the system.

• AI does not like what Smith has become, but does also not know how to delete him.

• Neo then makes a deal with AI to defeat Smith, under the condition that present Zion is not destroyed and future humans who want to disconnect from the Matrix are accepted to disconnect.

• Neo deletes Smith.

• There is once again peace between Man and AI.

• AI accept Man, and Man accepts AI.

• The End

However,…..

The Oracle is the instigator or this whole plan and final revolution also. In the 5 previous versions of the Matrix she was playing and manipulation humans to go directly in the direction she and the AI wanted. However, in this cycle of life she had come to the realization that the different programs were just as much prisoners as the humans. After 5 cycles, she wanted change. She wanted a world, where all are free. Programs and Man, but mostly programs, I suspect. And so she started playing Our Neo differently, so he perhaps could be the one to fight her battles. Her giving him cookies and candy on each encounter for example is her adding code to him granting him powers his previous did not have. Powers to imprint on Smith and setting this virus free, power to connect in the real world as well etc. And she purposefully manipulates Trinity to fall in love with Neo before she even meets him, as another example. Everything we see unfold was her playing the humans and machines towards the final revolution that set everyone free.

Her plan is roughly to ensure three things:

1) Make Neo chose the other door (meaning: collapsing of the fail-safe system)

• makes him an Trinity fall in love; love conquers all

• talks with Neo about him understanding and owning his own choices (as she knows he will eventually stand in front of two doors and needs to follow his heart then and there..)

2) Make Smith go berserk (make him a program for deletion, and a program threat out of AI’s control)

• she gives coded candy to Neo, so when he fights Smith he will infect him with a code setting Smith free or rather go rogue

• she lies to Neo about how important he is, and essentially tells him Morpheus is more important (read: save Morpheus at all cost, will effect in Smith standoff)

3) Let Neo to negotiate with AI HQ (to delete Smith and work for a common good)

• she gives coded candy to Neo, so when he is outside of the Matrix he and his powers are still somewhat connected to the machine world.
• tell Neo that he must go to the mainframe and negotiate … she essentially tells him to do exactly what she wants. Rather directly and not so indirectly as in her previous meetings.

Of course, it was risky of her to go outside the recipe she herself had been part of for so long. But as the Architect says to her in the end: “You play a dangerous game”, and she replies; “change always is…”

It truth, Neo was a tool. She was the One.