I just watched it yesterday, (!!!!) and like; I'm a little confuzzled. When the machine plugs itself and the chick into the construct, she screams and fades away. Was the machine "coverted"? Or was he trying to kill her? It lost me.
I felt it raised a LOT of interesting questions regarding free will, possibly one of my faves, but i adooore Kid's Story :)
Thank you, Jonathan Larson.
It was converted (green eyes instead of red).
She just freaked out because it was freaky and she was dying.
Or perhaps some other reason ;-}
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LOL, thanks dude.
Thank you, Jonathan Larson.
She freaked out because the machine had just plugged her and itself into the Simulator Program and apparently wanted to play. She realised she would never ever get out from there. So in the end the machine got her.
You... are... my... lucky lucky lucky star...
I feel the machine had come over to the human's side, but he was kind of stupid when it came to emotions and human interactions. He just wanted to play with the woman, and when she realized what he had done (that she was in his simulated world) it drove her mad. He reminded me of Frankenstein with the little girl by the pond or King Kong accidentally sqashing the beautiful woman.
No good deed goes unpunished
I think the woman didn't 'freak out' at all. I think what the robot picked up was the last of her mental energy as she died. Perhaps picking up the final shreds of pain from when she was killed, activated by the machine. But I do think the robot was now 'converted.'
"When God gives you lemons, you FIND A NEW GOD!!!"
I thought that the idea was the humans had found a way to lure machines onto their side. In the simulation programme the machine's first instinct was to attack the humans, but by behaving like innocent, mischevious beings the humans eventually convinced the no-doubt gullible machine that they were harmless.
The machine identified the most with the woman, whom it found very different and beautiful compared to itself-through her, it saw the beauty of humanity. When the woman screamed it was almost a symbol of how the machines and the humans can never be at one with each other. I almost felt that the machine fell in love with the woman for a while.
"Always be a poet..."-Charles Baudelaire
The Matrix 1, 2, and 3 show how the machines enslaved humanity. One of the main points of the Animatrix is to show how the humans enslaved the machines. If you recall earlier in the segment, the operator talks about how the machines are given a choice of whether they want to convert, although really there is no choice because the machine must either convert or (presumably) killed by the humans.
Now, the important part: the girl responds to the operator by saying that now that she knew that her old life was a lie, she had no choice of going back. The point of the ending is that she would rather die than live a lie in the matrix, which is why she fades away and presumably dies after being plugged in by the runner.
What this is all supposed to represent is that by using a simulation to make the machine convert, they are doing exactly what the machines did the humans. They are lying to the machine so they can use it as a soldier, exactly like the machines lie to the humans with the matrix to use them for energy.
Matriculation is supposed to represent the endless cycle of enslavement. Keep in mind that a runner is killed earlier in the segment and no one bats an eye-lash. Also recall how the two humans are having sex in the simulation, which mirrors the decadence of humans during the first Renaissance segment while the machines toiled away. The point is that they are using the machines as slaves again, and the girl would rather die than be subjected to that slavery.