Saw it last night and I'm in line with your thinking on this, Rara. I can't add too much to your discourse here, except to explain it as a b*st*rdization of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave". There exists the Matrix, then there exists a similar construct, which is known to those "outside" of the Matrix as the "real world". Both are programmed realities that balance each other out after a fashion. How else could Neo and ex-Agent Smith affect things in both constructs otherwise, if one was the REAL "real world"...
The re-emergence of the spoon said a LOT to me as well. The phrase "there is no spoon" immediately entered my mind when Neo was presented the gift of the spoon. It flat-out told me that the possibility exists that the "real world" isn't as real as those "outside" the Matrix would like to believe. That one snippet of a scene really caught my attention. Too many things started compounding on top of this, which most have already been discussed.
Although a bit jumbled and awkward in places, I really enjoyed "Reloaded". How often does a movie leave so much open for discussion and how many times can you relate a film to a parable in ancient philosophy?
Cool as hell in my book.
