20 Things You Somehow Missed In The Matrix

Neo's character arc is easily broken into two halves. Eventually, he becomes The One and, through fully utilizing his power to control The Matrix, rescues Morpheus, begins the human race's fightback against their maniacal overlords, and discovers Rage Against The Machine.

But prior to this, Neo's role in the movie is to extract the exposition from the other principal characters (something done at the request of the studio who were worried the audience wouldn't understand the plot otherwise). Thus, in the film's opening 45 minutes, Neo's 80 lines of dialogue contain an astonishing 44 direct questions.

This is almost one every single minute and makes it one of the most subtext heavy movies in modern cinema.