the true life or the false life..which will you take?

Rating: Null/10 (3 December 2002)

To all of you out there who think `The Matrix' is not so ever related to the Bible or perhaps they're just the same characters, let me tell you something. This movie relates in so many ways that it's just insane. I don't know them all, but I know that there is a whole lot more out there then all that I will say, and I hope you'll try to realize that it actually is relating and try and find more parallels between these two. First I think that most people found this, that Neo represents Jesus, in more ways then one of course. But I will agree that he doesn't fully all the way portray Jesus. For one, Jesus didn't grow up and have to believe that He was the one, the savior, He always knew, unlike Neo who had to believe it in himself to actually become the one. As well as Cypher, portraying Judas, in the way that they both betrayed the one that they followed. Morpheus too, as most people know, represented John the Baptist; the agents represented demons in the way that they're both not humans but can take on human form; the matrix is the world in which we live in today; the `real world' is like the truth that Jesus and His disciples were sharing with the world; and the people who were born in the `real world' are sort of like Jesus' disciples.
Although, the characters not only represent and symbolize the Bible, there are many more parallels through them. One I found would be when you have the choice to either take the red pill or the blue pill, in which you can either take the blue pill ( know the truth and suffer ) or the red pill ( know the truth and be saved). That just totally symbolizes on how in Christianity we are given the truth to know, but we have a choice, a choice to either accept the truth or not believe it and live a false life full of lies. I like the quote that Neo gives at the end of the movie: `I'm going to show them a world without you, a world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries, a world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.' That totally ties into the Christianity faith. We indeed are given a choice, the choice to follow a life of truth, or follow the false life we are already living.