Also congratulations to the Wachowskis for 1) Picking the last possible moment in time when payphones were everywhere 2) Getting Rage Against the Machine to play over the credits of their movie about raging against the machine
Also: I think the first thing we see when the movie starts is a terminal displaying a short command containing the word "trans". And we see the same text when the movie closes. Subtle!
This movie could have had a scene where Morpheus just explains every metaphor, and it practically does, but you'd still have people insisting it's about...the exact opposite.
The Matrix is such a subtle movie in its messaging that it contains a scene where a black man breaks the chains he has been bound in, after being cuffed and tortured by a white man in a suit.