the whole construct and constructor watching over everyone was pretty dead on about religious types.
2007-10-02 20:56:30 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
the story of the matrix is telling people to free their minds from the oppression brought on by beliefs of god as the constructor and we the construct.
2007-10-02 21:15:54 · update #1
in the movie at least.
there is no spoon
2007-10-02 21:17:53 · update #2
i like carey anne moss's be hind!!
2007-10-02 22:30:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, but most people didn't realize there was a construct/constructor, much less worship it/them.
I didn't see any religious connotations in the movie at all (even when I wasn't a Christian). It was just a good movie. Groundbreaking, even. It sort of reminded me of "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, as far as the fact that the people weren't even aware of what had been placed on them.
In religion, a person is VERY much aware of the "construct" they're living in.
2007-10-02 21:04:08 · answer #2 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Christ, Buddha, Krishna, Zoroaster and numerous other spiritual pioneers all said that nothing is as it appears. The point is made even clearer in the 21st century. Believers in corporate religions like American fundamentalism should become aware of how much of their world view was created for them to manipulate them into obedience. The unbeliever is just as fooled because there's more to the universe than the various laws of physics and such. The social dynamic will always be fundamentally flawed so long as people act only to their own benefit. Still the 1980 efforts to raise greed to a virtue in the "greed is good" campaign of Ronald Regan shows that the "love of money" is fully backed by your local Church.
I'd go on but no one here took either the red or blue pill.
((((hugGs))))
2007-10-02 21:15:35 · answer #3 · answered by Senile Old Fart 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Matrix is a story about good and evil, as all good stories are. It is also a product of Western thinking, which has been heavily influenced by monotheistic religions.
Religions start out as stories about good and evil. Hence similarities will always be obvious.
2007-10-02 20:59:01 · answer #4 · answered by Dave C 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Matrix does actually sound like a "sci-fi take" on religion.
I mean Neo being the "One" that the oracle "prophesized" about and then his "second coming" after the agents gunned him, sounds like something I read in the good book.
Or it could just be a really cool story with great special effects. :)
2007-10-02 21:02:23 · answer #5 · answered by WaterStrider 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
to many possible metaphors to even figure out the matrix movie, just ask the director what he meant by it, i have seen some very valid view points of the matrix interpetation
2007-10-02 21:01:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you, but I've heard christians make the same argument that we are the ones still asleep lol
2007-10-02 21:03:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't read too much into the movie. Mostly it's just eye candy.
2007-10-02 21:00:15 · answer #8 · answered by kingdom 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋