His name was Zhuang Zhou (also known as Zhuangzi) and his poem "Butterfly Dream" goes like this: The scene is a reference to a poem written by a Chinese philosopher who lived during the 4th century BC. (Google is handy for extracting meaning from cryptic movie scenes you can’t decipher on your own.) When I first watched this scene 20 years ago, I had no idea what Spoon Boy was talking about.īut at some point between now and then I learned. Spoon Boy : Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself. Spoon Boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. After doing the impossible, the bald-headed child hands the spoon to Neo and tells him something. While there, he encounters a gifted child who bends a spoon with his mind. There is a famous scene in The Matrix where Neo (Keanu Reeves) visits the Oracle, a wise, mysterious, and powerful figure who can see the future.
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