Sunday, January 26, 2014

Neo, the New Man, & Trinity

Neo, or new in Latin, is the new man, saved from darkness, blindness, slavery, to walk in a new life. He represents sinful man, saved from slavery to the world of deception of the devil, but he's also the Messiah, the One who will bring others into freedom. Neo speaks to Cipher, the traitor, not knowing he's the traitor, and learns that Cipher wants to go back to Egypt. "Why, oh, why didn't I take the blue pill?" But it's Trinity who knows who Neo is. She knows but cannot say. They work in perfect harmony, like the real Trinity. That's displayed when the helicopter scene occurs, and they act in tandem as if they know what they other's doing. Smith is also a Devil character, seeking to kill Neo. Trinity brings Neo back to life, like the Father bringing the Son back to life. Neo dies and rises again at Room 303, Heart O'the City Hotel. Her faith in what the oracle/prophet is greater than death itself. Trinity is like Abraham who believes that God will bring his son, Isaac, back from the dead. In his resurrection body, he still has the marks of the bullets in his chest, like Christ who still has the scars of the nails in his hands. then, in the last scene of the movie, he tells the machine that he knows it's scared. He tells them the world will be shown what it's like to not have borders and boundaries, like Christ broke down the walls and boundaries between man and God. He then ascends into the heavens, as Christ ascended into heaven. I know there are other ways to interpret the movie, even anti-Christian ways, but that's how I interpret it.

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