This is probably the most obvious religion associated with The Matrix trilogy. All of the characters represent somehow, something else in the bible. Basic events can be connected with certain Bible stories. I will start with the characters and what they mean. The first character is Apoc. He plays a very small role in this movie and quite frankly was inevitibly going to die. Apoc actually doesn't refer to any human in the Bible. He refers to the end of the world or APOCalypse. This is ironic seeing as that towards the end of the film, Apoc dies thus causing Cypher to believe that it is the beginning of the end. In the Bible, it is said that Jesus will come back to earth on Judgement Day. On this day, he will judge all of the people and decide who goes into heaven. The ones that make it are taken up to God and the rest is Left Behind: hence the "Left Behind" series. Supposedly this is called the end of the world or Apocalypse.
The next character is Switch. She is another less important character and the story would have done fine without her. The only problem is there then would not be anyone off which to kill. Every story needs someone who doesn't matter so it means something when the important ones survive. Whe
This is the time where we get into the very important characters: the ones that, without them, the story would not be very good. The first of these kind is Cypher. I'll start witht the simple reason this is his name. Cypher's job (even though others could do this too) was basically to watch the code of the Matrix for any glitches. The correct definition of the word "cypher" is "to calculate". Cypher was calculating the Matrix code into something that made sense. As most of you know and some people who may not believe this story has any biblical allusions, Cypher represents Judas in the bible. He was one of Jesus' (Neo's) disciples in the New Testamant. Jesus predicted this would happen: one of his followers (I forgot if he mentioned which one) would betray Jesus and give him to the bad people. These people later killed Jesus because Judas (Cypher) had turned him in. Cypher didn't really turn Neo in but gave the Agents access to Morpheus and ultimately killing Neo anyway. As I have said before, Cypher gives in to the Matrix. He doesn't want to stay "Free. You call this...free?". He wanted to be let back into the Matrix and be given a good, pleasant life that, in fact, he chose. Not many people seem to be getting a choice on their life before they go in to it. But if you read Plato, because of the idea world in which we may all be before we are born, it is possible our soul IS given a choice. But that is besides the point. Cypher didn't agree with Morpheus and he was sorry he took the red pill. He wanted to be let back in. The only way to really do that was to give up Neo and the crew to the Agents. The plan was genius if you watch it played out. The only
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