Would I take the red pill or the blue pill? One of my pet peeves is not knowing the truth. I would definitely take the red pill. Even if it were painful or traumatizing I would still want the truth. When I first saw the Matrix in a movie theater I started questioning everything. It made me doubt a lot of things about my life. That is why I took philosophy class in the first place. I needed answers. I’m similar to Thomas Anderson in a lot of ways. Doubting existence so that we may find the true world. This life can’t be it. There has to be more to it then going through everyday the same. Taking the same road. I see my family doing the same thing day in and day out. I don’t want to live my life so repetitively. There has to be something else to it. If this is the real world then I’m sorry for it. But what is real? What describes real? If it’s only what you can see, hear, taste, or feel then real is simply electrical signals sent to the brain. I would want to con!
tinue to feel like Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole. Search for something beyond my five senses.
The Matrix is not an intentionally a Chris
The film obviously suggests Neo can play a Messiah figure. This uses a fanciful tale to depict Christianity through one man’s conviction, conversion, conflicts, and final conquest. Neo is a confused searcher who is led to the truth, and then acts upon it to be saved from a false world. Neo must then learn to walk in faith as he faces formidable enemies and ultimately triumphs. So when Neo took the red pill he was essentially taking the blood of Christ so his sins would be washed away and he could be saved. He was taking communion or something. Neo was trusting Morpheus and he was ‘reborn’ to the world of the real. To flesh out this allegory, the Agents in the film can represent Satan and his forces, and sometimes sin itself. Trinity and Morpheus could both serve at times not only to represent God, but also Christians in the roles of evangelist and disciple. And the Matrix represents the fallen world system and perhaps sin as well.
tian film; hints from various philosophies and religions are sprinkled throughout. But the flexibility of the film allows people to draw many themes from it, including Christian alle
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