Agent Smith: "Have you ever stood and stared at it, marveled at its beauty, it's genius? Billions of people just living their lives, oblivious. Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world. Where non suffered. Where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some beings define their reality through misery and suffering. The perfect world would dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really become our civilization which is of course what this is all about. Evolution, Morpheus, evolution, like the dinosaur. Look out that window. You had your time. The future is our world, Morpheus. The future is our time."

In the Wachowski Brothers film, The Matrix, Agent Smith, a program designed to hunt free humans inside the Matrix, explains how the confinements of the Matrix to the human race is merely an evolutionary stage. During the scene, the enigmatic Agent Smith tells Morpheus how the control over civilizations created the reasoning behind the matrix; control. However, Agent Smith uses the term "we" to refer to those who control the fate of the human civilization. (HER. - 1. structure of control) Does "we" refer to Agent Smith as an individual program, his complete program design, or the machine mainframe. Since the hierarchy of control among the machines is unclear, then do we conclude that the human race must stay within the boundaries of control?

Agent Smith explains how the first Matrix was designed to represent a human utopia. (HER. - 2. utopian matrix) Does this infer that a perfect human society can never be created even if it's a virtual reality where typical protocol can be rearranged? Or, did the human mind comprehend that a utopian society can't exist in reality so it rejected the possible reality and reset? In any case, Smith implies that the human mind couldn't comprehend the utopian society and began shutting down. (ACT. end of civilization) Does this mean that our civilization today is a reflection in the Matrix, but we're leading to our own demise through the creation of cerebral machines?
Smith acknowledges that the human mind cannot be controlled under a utopian society, but rather one where suffering and pain were a part of "life" (REF. impossibility of utopian society). The Matrix is a system of control over the human mind, but certain realities give back control to the human mind. Is this to say, referring back to evolution, that the society the machines created for the Matrix is a repeat of history to come? In other words, since human's dominated and created machines that ultimately take control create the matrix as a system to control them, but we have a way of reversing the effect?

Agent Smith encapsulates the entirety of his purpose in the Matrix - Control humanity. However, he refers to it as a form of evolution (SYM. evolution of machines), where the human race once dominanated and now the time of the machines has emerged. He affirms his symbolic reference when he explains to Morpheus that his time has ended, and the future is "our" world (ACT. end of humanity, SEM. machines as first-person). In essence, Agent Smith uses this idea of evolution to engage the rise of the machines. In doing so, the machines must have control over all of humanity to beg a new era, thus we have a conclusion to our first enigma; the machines wage war on the entire human race.