The Matrix

The Matrix was a great action movie and I liked all the sequels however I didn’t really notice how it was related how much symbolism was related to the movie more of a Christian symbolism. So I never really watched the movie relating it to Christianity. Dr. Smith told us in class the day we watched the film to notice these things and helped up notice most of them. Some examples of these symbols were the names of the characters like Neo which means new in Greek and if you rearrange the letters in Neo it can spell out One. There are other names that had meaning to them like Trinity which is related to Christian theology and that one can receive eternal life through Trinity related to the Matrix when she revives Neo with a kiss. Morpheus also had some symbolic meaning and in Greek he’s the god of dreams, there are a few lines in The Matrix where Morpheus talks about dreams one of them being “Your living in a dream world, Neo”, Morpheus also has a ship called Nebuchadnezzar which in the bible is a king haunted by bad dreams. The place we see Neo the first time in his apartment #101 which means beginner, kind of related to manuals and courses just like our English 101 class! Following the White rabbit was also mentioned to Neo where he follows it to a dance club where he meets Trinity for the first time and sets him to a new life which is related to Alice in Wonderland, there is also some mirror scene that symbolizes there’s no way back to your old time similar to Alice. There are many more symbolic meanings in the movie and how much it relates to many other things, like Allegory of the Cave that we’ve read. The Matrix is very similar in the case of Allegory of the Cave, like how the Matrix is all a fluke and the people in the Matrix are prisoners and are being brainwashed. Then suddenly one breaks loose of this chains and sees reality which happens in the Allegory and for Neo in the Matrix. Both stories relate how on you must gather knowledge to overcome the ignorance or brainwashing system.