". . . the indefinite time of the event, the floating line that knows only speed and continually divides that which transpires into an already – there that is at the same time not-yet--here, a simultaneous two-late and too-early, a something that is both going to happen and has just happened . . ."
~ ~ Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari [4]

Neo escapes the Matrix onto the plane of consistency, where time is "Aeon." He stops conceiving himself as a transcendent subject moving through time and space on the plane of organisation, where time is "Chronos", and begins to understand that he exists immanently - a haeccity. The plane of consistency, the location reflexively opposite to the Matrix, is "the absolute state of movement as well as rest from which all relative speeds and slowness spring… a kind of molecular [sea swell] . . ." [5]

The Matrix construct is the plane of organisation, a teleological plane it always concerns the development of forms and the formation of subjects. It is a hidden structure necessary for forms, a secret signifier necessary for subjects, a hidden principle which makes visible what is seen and audible what is heard, which at every instant causes the given to be given, in this or that state, at this or that moment. This plane is concerned with "Telos", with the transcendent and therefore supports the development of stable judgement and identity.

The plane of consistency, the zone opposite the Matrix is different.

"Here, there are no longer any forms or developments of forms; nor are there subjects or the formation of subjects. There is no structure, any more than there is genesis ... There are only haecceities, affects, subjectless individuation’s that constitute collective assemblages." [6]

The existence of this plane requires interpretation/perception in opposition to a system of judgement – the description of existence on this plane by Deleuze and Guattari as for Neo and cyber-rebels constitutes a synthesizing project.

The relationship between the two planes is complex, both planes "exist", they are in opposition, but this opposition is also in oscillation:

". . . one continually passes from one to the other, by unnoticeable degrees and without being aware of it, or one becomes aware of it only afterward. Because one continually reconstitutes one plane atop another, or extricates one from the other." [7]

However, there is no possibility of conciliation between the two planes. The plane of organisation allows the constitution of oppressive power: "pouvoir" ("power over") which might be opposed through the acceptance of the existence of the plane of consistency, which allows the constitution of power to act "puissance" ("power to"). This process is active; it is a matter of decision/resistance:

"We must avoid an oversimplified conciliation, as though there were on the one hand formed subjects, of the thing or person type, and on the other hand spatiotemporal co-ordinates of the haecceity type. For you will yield nothing to haecceities unless you realize that that is what you are, and that you are nothing but that . . . You are longitude and latitude, a set of speeds and slownesses between informed particles, a set of non-subjectified affects. You have the individuality of a day, a season, a year, and a life (regardless of its duration). [8]

Neo – as the One – is expected to turn the tide in favour of a human rebellion, an "Awakening", by shifting the balance, by making a leap, literally and metaphorically, from game player to game master.

Morpheus: When the Matrix was first built there was a man born inside that had the ability to change what he wanted, to remake the Matrix as he saw fit. It was this man that freed the first of us and taught us the secret of the war; control the Matrix and you control the future.

He pauses.

Morpheus: When he died, the Oracle at the temple of Zion prophesied his return and envisioned an end to the war and freedom for our people. That is why there are those of us that have spent our entire lives searching the Matrix looking for him.

This in the course of the film is accomplished. As Neo attains a level of "Realization" he is able to stop bullets with his mind - since they are virtual – and project himself into the holographic image/body of the Enemy and explode it from "within."

One of the main narrative strands traces Anderson's spiritual rebirth – his coming to consciousness. Neo is "the One" by virtue of some unspecified capacity of the mind. In the course of film Neo must die to be reborn. In a climatic sequence Neo is trapped within the Matrix and is overcome by Enemy Agents, shot at point blank range. In this instant he initially fails to realize that he is "in" a body, that this is virtual.

The onslaught continues and overwhelmed Neo succumbs to doubt and "dies." However, Trinity becomes his "saviour."

Finally persuaded that he is the One by her own feelings for him (the Oracle prophesised that one day she would fall in love, and it would be with the One), she whispers in his ear, "You must be the One because I love you." The "truth" in this event/scene is represented by a kiss – a poetic image, the world saved by a kiss – that resurrects Neo to his new life. He is set free - "reborn."

The Agents resume their attack, but now Neo appears invulnerable – he posses confident interactivity, a holographic wraith in a holographic construct, one who is everything because he is nothing. He becomes "The One" in the sense of the first to realize a "true" nature and so becomes a dextrous "reality – molder." He has arrived at a totality of subjectivity – a "whole" - a hyper-real entity, more real than real.

The fact that his moment of death/rebirth also entails a union within a pre-destined soul-mate (Trinity) makes perfect sense. A "divine" androgen emerges. Following his resurrection, Neo achieves his fully recognised image as the One (a One-ness of male and female, mind and body, virtual and actual).

The embodiment of the subject is a Deleuzo-Guattarian form of bodily materiality, the body as a complex interplay of highly constructed forces. It is a play of forces, a surface of intensities; pure simulacra without originals. The embodied subject is a term in a process of intersecting forces/affects, spatiotemporal variables that are characterized by their mobility/changeability/transistory nature.

The Deleuzo-Guattarian notion of the body is relevant for the re-conceptualization of bodies outside of binary polarizations imposed by mind/body, nature/culture, subject/object, and interior/exterior oppositions. They provide a different understanding of the body linking organs and biological processes to material objects and social practices while refusing to subordinate the body to a unity and homogeneity provided by either the body's subordination to consciousness or to organic organization.