There are as many interpretations as there are clones of Smith.
Here are just a few.
“I think the studio wasn’t ready for that version.”

Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity in ‘The Matrix Resurrections’.Warner Bros. Pictures
Meanwhile, conservatives co-opted the iconic red-pill-vs.-blue-pill scene as a metaphor for political truth.
Still others dove into the film as an existential treatise on selfhood and over-reliance on technology.
“I tried to make light of these experiences in an early sequence in [Resurrections].

Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss headline EW’s ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ cover.Dan Winters for EW
ForResurrectionsactressJessica Henwick, it’s always been about choice.
You are actively making a choice when you go to that site.
Nothing is impartial anymore.”
what are the forces that are acting on us?
and where is love?
what do we hold dear?
What’s important to us?"
The actor behind Neo adds thatResurrectionsis “up to date” in that regard.
Moss says her experience onThe Matrixmade her examine the very concept of reality.
“I love peeling back the layers.
As Neo would say: “Whoa.”
The Matrix Resurrectionsopens in theaters and on HBO Max Dec. 22.
Watch Reeves and Moss explore the question of “what is the Matrix?”
in the video above.
For more onThe Matrix Resurrections,order the January issueofEntertainment Weeklyor find it on newsstands beginning Dec. 17.