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Jesus and the Matrix
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In case you need another excuse to watch the Matrix again here are some clues to see the film as a cyber-punk spiritual parable. The sinister, karate-filled, action-packed world of the Matrix may seem an unlikely place to find spiritual insight but beneath the film's leather exterior lie some important questions. The basic plotline of the film is that machines develop artificial intelligence and decide to turn on their human masters. The machines imprison human beings and using neural implants keep humanity's minds distracted in a simulation of the 1990s (the Matrix), while in the real world their bodies are being used as the batteries that power the machines. Spot the connections to our own world. Through constant advertising we are sold a view of success in life that revolves around designer labels, fast cars and large houses. (Ironically the Matrix films pander to this through rife product placement.) We work ourselves to death in order to buy the things we are being programmed to want. We have stopped being consumers and have started being consumed; the media keeps us working hard so that we end up batteries for the system.In a 1999 Time Magazine interview the Wachowskis said that they were interested in "all the ways that human beings try to answer… The Big Question." They admitted that they had drawn much of their material from the Bible as it is "seeks to answer a lot of relevant questions for man." As a teacher and student of the Christian faith this is where my ears pricked up.
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