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The Matrix and Terminator Connection

Connections and contrasts exist between both The Matrix and The Terminator. These texts deal with themes of conspiracy, paranoia, the loss of privacy and the dissolution of human society in favour of a technology that has become supreme in its own right. Characters, settings, conflicts, and allusions are used extensively throughout both The Terminator and The Matrix to shape meaning about one possible dysotopic future. By imagining a dysotopic future we are alerted to the ethical and moral implications that are constantly changing social structures, always under continual sway by developments in technology. Both The Terminator and The Matrix maintain a similar theme, humans have lost out to artificial intelligence, which, soon after having been invented, has quickly become empowered and has taken control of itself at the expense of human society. The implication seems to be that two different sentient, intelligent types of beings cannot possibly share this world together, one has to go, and it is inevitably the carbon-based humans which end up as the inferior life form in both texts. The two worlds however, are inevitably saved by the power of love, between Kyle and Sarah, and Neo and Trinity.

In the beginning of the third minute that Neo is dead, he is revived by Trinity's love; like Jesus who was crucified on Friday and rose again two days later on the third day, early Sunday morning. (John 2:19-23, Matt. 26:61, 27:40) After Neo's resurrection he opens his eyes to embrace the sight of Trinity. For the first time they interlace in a deep passionate kiss. This moment symbolizes their success of using the key of love to release the fate of man caused by man itself, and thus adds a greater depth of meaning to the text.