What kind of changes? Like when did he start "believing" or when he turned from "Doubting Thomas" into "The One"?
When we first meet Neo, he's trying to find someone on the internet... his computer is doing an automated search. Then a visitor comes to him and takes him outside his little box of an apartment where he meets Trinity and gets his first taste of that something more that he's been longing for.
At work, Neo is in a box under glass... literally. He's boxed into his cubicle and the building has
huge glass windows that we now know look out onto a world that isn't even there. But Neo stays boxed in until Morpheus's voice guides him out. Neo's been in these boxes so long, that he'll only follow that advice so far, finally refusing to climb to the rooftop. Doubting Thomas is still king.
Aboard the Nebuchadnezzar, Doubting Thomas still reigns because Neo can't accept the "truth" that Morpheus showed him inside the construct. He has a breakdown and passes out.
Later, when he comes around and Morpheus quietly explains a bit more, Neo
begins to accept it all. And I think he begins to deal with it all by the time Tank talks to him about Zion and those born outside the Matrix. Neo's willing to get plugged in again. He's willing to train. He even begins to like it.
By the time Neo is taken to the Oracle, he believes that the Matrix exists, and that there is a "real world" outside it. He still doubts that he is Morpheus' "one" but he's in a kind of inbetween stage, where he's sure of some of what Morpheus says, but not all. He even tells the Oracle, "He almost had me convinced [that I'm the one]."
After Morpheus sacrifices himself to make sure that the crew gets Neo back out of the Matrix, Neo believes that he really does have power in there and wants to take it upon himself to rescue Morpheus. Of course, Trinity insists on going, but it's obvious that Neo has a lot of faith in his own abilities inside the Matrix at this point. Tank still thinks it's a "loco" idea and that even Neo will need a miracle to succeed, but he helps as much as he can. Doubting Thomas is disappearing, but the One still has not emerged.
When Neo does things that no one else inside the Matrix has done, he does them automatically. Taking on a military building with only the guns he could carry and one bomb and one aide; jumping out of the helicopter to grab Morpheus; hanging on to the line attached to said helicopter, hoping to save Trinity; these are things that only someone special could do, even inside the Matrix. But he's still not quite convinced.
When they get Morpheus out, and Trinity follows, Neo doesn't run from Agent Smith. Why? Nothing else has happened since the roof rescues, so why would Neo suddenly decide that Morpheus might be right and he might be the One? My guess is that in the dash to the exit (the subway) Neo actually thought about what he'd done and what Morpheus said about it. In spite of what the Oracle said, maybe he really was the One. Maybe when she said that he was waiting for something, it was just time, and now he
was the One. In any case, he fought Smith... and won... even if temporarily... and did believe that he might be "The One" after all.
Why else would he still be hanging on when Trinity told him to live and to get up again. He was shot. His heart stopped. How else could he "live"? He
had to believe that he was the One, by now. There was no other way to continue living and return to Trinity.
Man! Why do you ask questions like this? Jeez, I'm long winded! Good thing we weren't actually
talking about this, or we'd still be going. You'd be throwing in your two cents, finding new examples, and we'd never shut up.
Come on, do it again!
:wave:
