Neo responds verbally: “ What? What the hell?” It is a queue not for the computer (the supposed object of his disbelief, and the other entity in dialogue), but more likely for the audience. It’s symbolic status asks the audience to suspend their perhaps instinctive disbelief.
Although it is may be unlikely that such slight noise would wake up the protagonist, the text (and its accompanying sound effects) is posed, not merely as such, but also as the closest thing to having a conversation on screen. It is the computer ‘typing’Īnd perhaps specifically the slight clicking sound produced as text appears on the monitor, that causes Neo to rouse from his sleep. The screen, in this case, becomes a physical barrier that requires mediation between the human and the programmed. While the computer communicates with Neo through text, Neo reacts verbally and through a series of keyboard shortcuts. The interactions between the computer (which, in this scene, reveals the existence of the Matrix) and Neo apply a series of codes that could only be combined in conversation through the cinematic medium.
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