Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The line is a pleasure in its own bluntness: Neo has just had a martial art loaded straight into his brain, and he announces it like a man discovering he can swim. It sells the film's big idea, that skill is data, in three words. Fans throw it out whenever someone learns something instantly, and it is the quote people think of before the bullet-time shots. The wire-work fights came from the choreographer Yuen Woo-ping, who trained the cast for months.
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In context
Spoilers for The MatrixShow the scene
Aboard the Nebuchadnezzar, Tank skips the boring operations programs and loads combat training straight into Neo's head instead, starting with jujitsu. After ten hours of uploads, Morpheus leans over to check on him, and Neo tells him this. "Show me," says Morpheus, and takes him into the sparring program.
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- Wikiquote: The Matrix (film)Dialogue section, training uploadsReference checked
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