Religious Themes in The Matrix

In The Matrix, can I share with you all my religious

observations of it?

Yes, please.

So first, Neo, that's an anagram of-

The One

... the One. So that's the one.

Right.

He's the savior.

Right.

Morpheus-

The Christ

... early in the film, he wakes up and there's someone knocking at the door,

and

apparently he hacked something for them.

Right.

And is-- And so he says, "Wait a minute." He goes back,

rummages through a thing-

Right

... gives him a disk.

Gives him a thing, right.

And the guy says, "Thanks. You're my savior.

You're my regular Jesus"-

Yeah

..."Christ."

Yeah.

That's-

"You're my own personal Jesus Christ."

That's his script line.

That's right there.

Savior man.

My own personal Jesus Christ.

Okay.

Yeah, it's right there.

Let's not stop there.

Mm-hmm.

All right? There's the part where he gets brought

into the Nebuchadnezzar.

Mm-hmm.

And there's Jo Pep-

Joey Pants

... Joe-- Joey Pants.

Yeah, Joey Pants.

Joey pants.

Yeah.

He's just looking and then that character Cypher-

Hmm

... is startled, and he says, "Oh, you scared the

bejesus out of me."

Scared the bejesus out of me.

Yeah, that's two.

Okay, so hang on. Who betrays the group?

Cypher.

Cypher.

Yes.

Who-

He's, he's the Judas

... who? He's Judas.

Yeah, he's the Judas.

Yeah.

He doesn't have Jesus in him.

He doesn't have Jesus in him.

Okay.

No.

Let me keep going.

Keep going.

Okay? Everyone sort of decides that he's the one.

He's the one.

Righ- Right. When he's like pulling Trinity up. He

is the one.

I told you he is the one. Do you believe it now, Trinity?

That was good. Let's fast-forward towards the end.

Mm-hmm.

He gets shot point blank-

Right

... by Smith.

Yes.

Now, and he dies.

Right.

Then he's resurrected.

Resurrected, right there.

It comes back more powerful than ever before.

That's right.

Is that not Jesus?

Jesus all day.

All day.

Yeah. And who's Morpheus?

Uh.

He's the Baptist.

John the Baptist?

He's John the Baptist.

Oh, because John the Baptist knows Jesus

is coming.

Y- yes, he knows who he i-

And-

He's been looking for him

... yeah, he'd been looking for him