For example, in the Matrix universe, what functional reason would the machines have for plugging humans into a simulation (besides the obvious of being a plot device)?
Maybe the machines, who presumably were once "enslaved" by humanity, are now obsessed with enslaving humanity in return.
I've seen some of the other comments challenging the writing of the movies. As science fiction, The Matrix and sequel(s) certainly have problems. But as a reading of the Merovingian Heresy and as a Gnostic philosophy parable, The Matrix and Matrix: Reloaded really hang together quite nicely. The philosophical stuff that is spouted in great gouts in the second movie by General Exposition (or "The Merovingian") is not filler, it is in fact the heart of the movie, at least as far as the philosophy-obsessed Wachowski brothers are concerned.
Reggie Bautista
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