Luis Medina
The movie The
Matrix is connected to many of the ideas of Christianity. The movie The Matrix represents the idea of the
holy trinity which is the father, the son and the Holy Spirit. Neo who is one
of the main characters had a similar journey to the son of the holy trinity
which is Jesus Christ who had to go through a journey in order to save mankind.
The Oracle plays the role of the father in the holy trinity which is through
the powers of the Holy Spirit he leads the son towards the path he has chosen
for him. Trinity which is one of the main characters in the movie The Matrix plays a huge role in the
movie just as the Holy Spirit does in Christianity. Christians believe that the
role of the Holy Spirit is to guide them, teach them and give them strength. In
the movie Neo who plays the role of the messiah was guided, grew stronger and
learned through the help of Trinity.
In the Movie The Matrix the Oracle plays the role of the father of the holy trinity. The Oracle seems not to be a prophet or able to tell the future but if not control it. When Neo knocks down the base she tells him “What's really going to bake your noodle later on is, would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything” (script). Trough Trinity she guides Neo towards the path that she has chosen for Neo which is the path of the chosen one. When Neo dies Trinity starts talking to Neo’s dead body she tells him what the Oracle had told her. “The Oracle told me that I would fall in love, and that man, the man who I loved would be the one… you can't be dead…because I love you” (script). Just as the Oracle had told Trinity everything had gone exactly how the Oracle had said it would.
Neo is a character who has many similarities to
Jesus Christ the messiah from the Bible. Even though Jesus was the messiah he
was always accompanied by his father and the Holy Spirit, while Neo had Trinity,
the Oracle and Morpheus. When Morpheus gets captured by the agents Neo goes out
to rescue him. Even though Tank and Trinity tough he was crazy and that it was
impossible he still decided and believed that he was able to bring back
Morpheus. Even if it would’ve taken a miracle in order to save Morpheus. Tank tells
Neo “this
is loco… those are agents holding him. Three of them but what you're talking
about is suicide” (script).
After he saved Morpheus Trinity and Tank began to believe in him. They even
realized that he was able to overcome even the most dangerous obstacles that
neither of them were able to do.
Just as people didn’t
believe Neo was the chosen one People did not believe Jesus Christ was the messiah.
At the very begging many did not believe Jesus was the savior till he started
to make miracles and show them he was gifted and different than the rest of
them. “The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are
cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up” (Mat 11:5). As Jesus was
able to do things that no other human being had ever done like rise people from
the dead and give the blind their eye sight back people began to worship him
and believed with all their hearts that he was going to free them from the sins
of mankind.
In an article I read called Neo-Christ:
Jesus, The Matrix, and Secondary Allegory as a
Rhetorical Form, many of the Christian audience who had seen the film felt as
if the story of the matrix had a connection to the stories of Jesus from the
Bible just as I have shown the connection between the both of them. “Christian
audience centered on the films as religious allegory, finding them to be a
retelling of the gospel of Jesus Christ” (Milford, Mike). They found that the
main characters Neo and the Christian messiah Jesus had gone through a very
similar experience. Both of them where sent on a quest to save and free
humanity. Many of the movies we see now in days always have a hero but in the
matrix “Instead of an action hero, Neo became the image of Jesus” (Milford,
Mike). 
Throughout the movie the matrix Trinity guides Neo who is trapped in the matrix. He was
not able to figure out that he was trapped in a world that was a complete
illusion if Trinity did not guide him towards Morpheus. At the very begging of
the movie Trinity hacked into Neo’s computer and told him to “Follow the white
rabbit” in order to find her. Once he followed the white rabbit and finds
Trinity she tells him “I brought you here to warn you” (script) Trinity was
sent by Morpheus to look for Neo because Morpheus believed Neo was the chosen
one just as the Oracle had told him he would find the chosen one.
As
Morpheus was able to reach Neo trough Trinity and allowed him to realize the
truth, just as the Holy Spirit is one of the messengers of God to his children.
One of the roles the Holy Spirit plays in Christianity is to guide the children
of God. The followers of Christianity have believed that the Holy Spirit has
always been there to guide them towards the correct path and protect them. Not
only have the followers and believers of Christianity have been guided by the
Holy Spirit but it is said that Jesus himself was guided on his mission by the
Holy Spirit. “And Jesus…was led by the Spirit into the wilderness. Being forty
days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing” (Luk 4:1 and
Luk 4:2). Even after 40 days without any food and being tempted by the devil
Jesus was able to overcome his hunger and the devils temptations. He was guided
and led towards his mission by the Holy Spirit. In the movie Neo had been guided
the whole time by Trinity throughout his mission in order to allow him to gain
confidence and become stronger just as the Holy Spirit also guided Jesus
towards his mission.
Morpheus is the one who gives Neo the red
pill in order for him to be reborn and see what the real world really looks
like. Even though he is the one who
shows Neo the truth and tells him that he is the chosen one it was trough
Trinity that Neo learns and develops the confidence that he is the one destined
to save mankind from the machines. In the movie Neo was born again after he had
taken the red pill just as it is said in Christianity that Christians are born
again as a new being after baptism. “You take the red pill, you stay in
Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.... Remember, all I'm
offering is the truth, nothing more” (script). Once Neo took the choice to take
the red pill that was given to him by Morpheus it was as if he was being
baptized and willing to accept and see the truth. He was becoming a
believer. Even after he had already
accepted to see the truth he was still lacking the fact that he did not fully
believed in himself yet, Which he learned how to trough the help of Trinity.
When he goes visit the Oracle she tells Neo “know thyself… Being the one is
just like being in love. No one can tell you your in love, you just know it…You
got the gift, but it looks like you're waiting for something” (script). When
Neo goes with Trinity to rescue Morpheus from the agents after they got
Morpheus back the helicopter that Trinity was in was going to crash along with
Trinity in it. Neo makes his best effort to do the impossible and save Trinity
right before the helicopter crashes, something he would not have the courage to
do back then. He did not only save Morpheus from three agents but he was also
able to save Trinity as well. Thanks to Trinity being with him he was able to
help Morpheus which he would’ve not been able to do on his own or would’ve not
had fully believed in himself if he didn’t have at least the help of Trinity.
This allowed him to learn that he was able to do things that he would’ve never
expected because he believed in himself just as his allies believed in him when
he try to save them.
After Neo
and Trinity had rescued Morpheus he was separated from Trinity as they were
about to head back to the ship As he was fighting agent Smith, the agent keeps
making fun of him and calling him “Mr. Anderson”(script). while Jesus was being
crucified many of the soldiers and Jews would also make fun of him and tell him
if you are the so called son of God why you don’t save yourself. When Neo was about to face agent smith on his
own Trinity seemed very worried about
him and Morpheus tells her “He's beginning to believe” (script). Agent Smith
ends up killing Neo in battle and even as he died Trinity still believed that
he was the one who was going to lead them into salvation and free them from the
matrix. “You can't be dead. You can't be, because I love you. You hear me...Now
get up”(script). Trinity commanded Neo to get up from the dead as if his life
was in her hands as if she had full control over him. Once Neo was resurrected
by Trinity’s kiss he came back with much more strength then he ever had and he
was able to defeat the agents with no problem.
When Jesus was sent to be crucified on the
cross he was separated from the Holy Spirit and from his father. “And
about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama
sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Mat
27:46). As Jesus was about to accomplish his mission he felt as if he was
abandoned by his father who had always been there with him. He had to die in
order to free mankind from their sins and in order to do that he had to do his
mission on his own without the help of his father and the help of the Holy
Spirit. It was the one and only time that Jesus was separated from his father
and the Holy Spirit who had always been with him since the beginning of
creation. Neo who was also walking in the same footsteps as Jesus was left to
fight the agents and defeat them on his own because he was the chosen one and
that was his mission and no one else’s.
The film
The Matrix expressed many ideas and
symbols of Christianity. Like the fact that Jesus and Neo lived kind of the
same journey. The Oracle playing the role of the father of the holy trinity who
is the creator. Also Trinity who played
a very huge role as the “real hero” of the story and she was the person who
guided Neo just as the Holy Spirit guided Jesus throughout his journey.
(Williams Christopher G.)
