Now i know the theme of these movies is rebellion (Aka realizing the truth from the system) so. Not gonna 100% base my morality on these movies or anything. Although they are entertaining ideas for movies.
But specifically. The Machines made this world called Perfect world “The first Matrix”
But it failed? Why? because people wanted to wake up from that dream? And in lots of way is kinda similar to humans rebelling against God with Adam and Eve.
It’s many years since I saw that movie. I thought that the world that people wanted to wake up from was an illusion. If so, I think there might be a parallel with Christianity telling people that the comfort of the sinful world is an illusion. I recall Neo as a messiah figure. Whether it’s about rebellion or rejecting an illusion, I would say that the movie has some parallel with Christianity but not really a Christian worldview.
One of the first movies I ever bought on DVD and I didn’t really care for it after I watched it. It had some neat special effects that have since been parodied many times over, but I’m not really a fan of sci-fi (unless it is not too far off sci-fi—things that can actually happen in my life-time).
Sci-fi Movies that I do like:
The Matrix ‘dissed’ the Church (near the start of the movie) by making it out to be one of those institutional set-ups that are constructed in a preorganised universe to keep everyone where they are.
The directors’ (they’re brothers) philosophies can’t equate with Scripture (as St. Paul says), while not being fully alive until reborn does ring a Church-bell.
There is maybe a providential element to the film, regarding Ai and computers. They took it to extremes, with computers actually ruling their fictional universe while one would sensibly argue that it is the megalomaniacs in charge of the technology who are the problem and who simply use it to control people. The requirement of resistance would be the same, at some point, just as humanity has to fight back against any regime - WWI & II and the Cold War and we went to war in the Middle East where they run theocracies and dictatorships.
The film on the whole is a mix of wavelengths. While clever, is ironically a bit one-dimensional, with the message of freedom a bit culturalised and ‘underground’. I prefer John Wick II (one of my fave movies). That franchise places certain cultures strictly where they need to be and which is on their backs after getting live rounds and die-hard fighting skills handed to them.