THE MATRIX and Divine Truth
Some will want to see this movie because of its high tech computer theme, others because it's an action film. Some may choose to avoid this movie because it contains violence and profane language. Our purpose is not to comment on violence in films. We'll leave that to others, [like those who propose that the Star Wars films are a Satanic plot to brainwash the public into accepting the Anti-Christ and the Beast power of the Bible's Revelation.]
However, truth and violence are not strangers ( "And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force." Mat. 11:12).We found the movie Matrix, filled with divine truths. And we didn't have to squint through a substance-induced haze to recognize them. If you found the concepts in this film to be intriguing, then you ought to read the Book . As Orpheus explains to Neo, "what you see around you isn't the true reality".
We have shown scriptures where they parallel the script. We used # to identify our comments. The complete screenplay was found at:
http://geocities.datacellar.net/Area51/Capsule/8448/Matrix.txt
THE MATRIX
Written by
Larry and Andy WachowskiApril 8, 1996
# The movie opens with numbers flashing on a computer screen. Someone has initiated an electronic trace for a phone call. We overhear the conversation. The discussion includes speculation whether "he" is the "one".
The trace is completed and police move in on a deserted building to capture the caller, a woman called Trinity. Demonstrating superhuman power and speed, Trinity escapes the police but is pursued by Agents Smith and Jones (the bad guys) who also demonstrate superhuman speed and power. The movie has amazing special effects which we will not attempt to describe. We are concerned only with the story's concept of perceived reality versus true reality .--------snipped--------
INT. NEO'S APARTMENT
It is a studio apartment that seems overgrown with technology.
Weed-like cables coil everywhere, duct-taped into thickets that wind up and around the legs of several desks.
Tabletops are filled with cannibalized equipment that lay open like an autopsied corpse.
We turn towards the center of this rat-nest of technology, . . . we find --
NEO, a younger man who knows more about living inside a computer than living outside one.
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He finishes his cereal and is about to disconnect when an anonymous message slices onto the screen.
SCREEN
Do you want to know what the Matrix is, Neo?Neo is frozen when he reads his name.
SCREEN
. . . If you want to know, follow the white rabbit.
NEO
What the hell...SCREEN
. . . Knock, knock, Neo.
A chill runs down his spine and when someone KNOCKS on his door he almost jumps out of his chair.
He looks at the door, then back at the computer but the message is gone.
He shakes his head, not completely sure what happened. Again, someone knocks.
Cautiously, Neo approaches the door.
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# Young people in punk style clothing are outside the door. One is an acquaintance of Neo's, and is there to purchase a computer disk.
A girl invites Neo to a party. He declines, until he notices the girl has a white rabbit tattoo on her shoulder. At the party he meets Trinity .-------------------------------------------------------------
Neo stands against a wall, alone, sipping from a bottle of beer, feeling completely out of place, he is about to leave when he notices a woman staring at him.
The woman is Trinity. She walks straight up to him.
In the nearest room, shadow-like figures grind against each other to the pneumatic beat of INDUSTRIAL MUSIC.
TRINITY
Hello, Neo.NEO
How did you know that --TRINITY
I know a lot about you. I've been wanting to meet you for some time.NEO
Who are you?TRINITY
My name is Trinity.-----------snipped---------------
NEO
Do you want to go somewhere and talk?TRINITY
No. It's safe here and I don't have much time.The MUSIC is so loud they must stand very close, talking directly into each other's ear.
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# Neo is the on-line nickname for the story's hero. Neo's main interest in life is the internet and within that, he is preoccupied with the mystery of the Matrix . Although Neo's world is familiar with computers, only a few computer hackers have heard of the Matrix and no one seems to know anything about it other than a few rumors.
Neo has a nagging desire to find the answers. At the same time, he's not even sure what the questions are.Throughout history, men have sought to answer the question, "What is the meaning of life?", or, "Why are we here?". Unable to answer that, men settled upon "the love or pursuit of wisdom; the study or science of the truths or principles underlying all knowledge; . . . ", which is the definition of "philosophy".
The Greeks (circa 1000 BC to 338 BC) are credited as the fathers of philosophy. The Greeks were absorbed by the growing Roman Empire between 200 BC and 100 BC, but the influences of Greek thought were felt throughout the world ruled by Rome (to 400 AD).
Those influences have continued until now.
Although Jewish Palestine was ruled by Rome in the time of Christ (4 BC--30 AD) the international language was Greek (in the same way that English is understood in most of the countries of the world today).This brings us to Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Jude who presided over the trial of Christ, and who, at the urging of the Pharisees and priests, sentenced him to die. During the interrogation Pilate asks, Are you a king?, to which Christ responds, "To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Everyone that is of the truth hears my voice." (John 18:37).
Pilate responds, in the true Greek fashion, "What is truth?". Here, the word truth is translated from the Greek word aletheia, meaning true, truth, verity [reality] . We can also phrase the question as, What is reality?-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NEO
That was you on the board tonight.
That was your note, wasn't it?TRINITY
I had to gamble that you would see and they wouldn't.NEO
Who wouldn't?TRINITY
I can't explain everything to you. I'm sure that it's all going to seem very strange, but I brought
you here to warn you, Neo. You are in a lot of danger.NEO
What? Why?TRINITY
They're watching you. Something happened and they found out about you. Normally, if our target is exposed we let it go. But this time, we can't do that.NEO
I don't understand --TRINITY
You came here because you wanted to know the answer to a hacker's question.NEO
The Matrix. What is the Matrix?
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TRINITY
Twelve years ago I met a man, a great man, who said that no one could be told the answer to that question. That they had to see it, to believe it.-------------------------------------------------
# "Behold you among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work in your days, which you will not believe, though it be told you." Hab. 1:5 (KJV unless noted)
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Her body is against his; her lips very close to his ear.
TRINITY
He told me that no one should look for the answer unless they have to because once you see it,
everything changes. Your life and the world you live in will never be the same. It's as if you wake up one morning and the sky is falling.-----------------------------------------------------
# "Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads to life, and few there be that find it." Mat. 7:14
"Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able." Lk. 13:24
"And (he) said unto him, No man having put his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." Luke 9:62
". . . These that have turned the world upside down are come here also." Acts 17:6
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There is a hypnotic quality to her voice and Neo feels the words like a drug, seeping into him.
TRINITY
The truth is out there, Neo. It's looking for you and it will find you, if you want it to.---------------------------------------------------------------
# "Does not wisdom cry out, and understanding lift up her voice?
. . . on the top of the heights,
Beside the way, where the paths meet.
She cries out by the gates, At the entry of the city, At the entrance of the doors: . . .
For my mouth will speak truth; . . ." Pro. 8:1-7 NKJV". . . Ask and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that asks, receives; and he that seeks, finds; and to him that knocks, it shall be opened." Luke 11:7-8
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She takes hold of him with her eyes.
TRINITY
That's all I can tell you right now. Good-bye, Neo. And good luck.-------------------------------------------------------
# "I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now." Jn. 16:12
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NEO
Wait. Who was it? Who was the man?She leans close, her lips almost touching his ear as she whispers.
TRINITY
You know who.She turns and he watches her melt into the shifting wall of bodies.
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# Neo is taken into custody by the bad guys and questioned about his knowledge of a terrorist known only as Morpheus . They try to get Neo to cooperate with them, but he refuses. They implant a bug inside Neo's body. He awakens in his own bed and wonders if it was all just a dream. The phone rings.
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MORPHEUS (V.O.).
This line is tapped, so I must be brief.NEO
The agents --MORPHEUS (V.O.)
They got to you first, but they've underestimated how important you are. If they knew what I know, you would probably be dead.Neo feels sick.
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
I don't know what you are thinking right now but I want you to understand that I will not give up on you until you give up on me.---------------------------------------------------
# "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise as some count slackness;
But is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish
But that all should come repentance." 2 Pet. 3:9". . . for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you." Heb. 13:5
". . . and if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him,
he will forsake you." 2 Chr. 15:2----------------------------------------------------
Neo's throat cracks, dry as the Sahara.
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
Do you still want to meet?NEO
... Yes.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Neo follows directions and becomes a hostage of Trinity and some of her associates. They surgically remove the bug before taking him to meet Morpheus.
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She tears off a long strip of black duct-tape and reaches for his face.
NEO
What are you doing?TRINITY
This has to be done for your protection and ours.She seals his eyes shut with the tape.
TRINITY
You can't understand right now, but if you're not one of us, you're one of them.----------------------------------------------------
# "He that is not with me is against me; . . ." Mat. 12:30
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INT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE
Trinity leads Neo from the stairwell down the hall of the thirteenth floor. They stop outside room 1313.
TRINITY
This is it.Neo can hear his own heart pounding.
TRINITY
Let me give one piece of advice. Be honest. He knows more than you can possibly imagine.
INT. ROOM 1313
Across the room, a dark figure stares out the tall windows veiled with decaying lace. He turns and his smile lights up the room.MORPHEUS
At last.He wears a long black coat and his eyes are invisible behind circular mirrored glasses.
He strides to Neo and they shake hands.
MORPHEUS
Welcome, Neo. As you no doubt have guessed, I am Morpheus.NEO
It's an honor.MORPHEUS
Please. Come. Sit.He nods to Trinity.
MORPHEUS
Thank you, Trinity.She bows her head sharply and exits through a door to an adjacent room.
They sit across from one another in cracked, burgundy-leather chairs.
MORPHEUS
I imagine, right now, you must be feeling a bit like Alice, tumbling down the rabbit hole?NEO
You could say that.MORPHEUS
I can see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up.
A smile, razor-thin, curls the corner of his lips.MORPHEUS
Ironically, this is not far from the truth. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Can you tell me, Neo,
why are you here?NEO
You're Morpheus, you're a legend. Most hackers would die to meet you.------------------------------------------------------------
# "I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and
the reason of things, . . .
Behold, this have I found, (only) one (wise) man among a thousand have
I found . . ." Ecc. 7:25-28--------------------------------------------------------------------
MORPHEUS
Yes. Thank you. But I think we both know there's more to it than that. Do you believe in fate, Neo?NEO
No.MORPHEUS
Why not?NEO
Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.---------------------------------------------------------
# ". . . I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your children shall live." Deu. 30:19
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MORPHEUS
I know exactly what you mean.Again, that smile that could cut glass.
MORPHEUS
Let me tell you why you are here. You are here because you have the gift.NEO
What gift?MORPHEUS
I've watched you, Neo. You do not use a computer like a tool. You use it like it was part of
yourself. What you can do inside a computer is not normal. I know. I've seen it. What you do is magic.Neo shrugs.
NEO
It's not magic.MORPHEUS
But it is, Neo. It is. How else would you describe what has been happening to you?He leans forward.
MORPHEUS
We are trained in this world to accept only what is rational and logical. Have you ever wondered why?-----------------------------------------------------
# Adam and Eve demonstrated childlike obedience until the serpent reasoned with Eve, convincing her that the use of human reasoning and logic was preferable to simple childlike obedience.
She convinced Adam, and they were evicted from the Garden of Eden, a type of the kingdom of heaven. Gen. 3:1-7"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools." Rom. 1:22
Re-admittance to the care-free life of paradise requires that we re-learn that child-like obedience.
" . . . Verily I say unto you, Except you become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." Mat.18:3 [also 19:14, Mk. 10:14, Mat. 18:4]
"Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of heaven as a little child shall in no wise enter therein." Lk.18:17--------------------------------------------------------
Neo shakes his head.
MORPHEUS
As children, we do not separate the possible from the impossible which is why the younger a mind is the easier it is to free while a mind like yours can be very difficult.-------------------------------------------------------
# " . . . I say to you, Except you become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." Mat. 18:3
"And you shall know the truth, [reality] and the truth shall make you free." Jn. 8:32
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NEO
Free from what?-----------------------------------------------------
# "But now being made free from sin . . . For the wages of sin is death; . . ." Rom. 6:22-23
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MORPHEUS
From the Matrix.-----------------------------------------------------
# ". . . Come out of her [Babylon], my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues [death]". Rev. 18:4
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Neo looks at his eyes but only sees a reflection of
himself.MORPHEUS
Do you want to know what it is,
Neo?Neo swallows and nods his head.
MORPHEUS
It's that feeling you have had all your life. That feeling that something was wrong with the world. You don't know what it is but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad,
driving you to me. But what is it?-------------------------------------------------------
# "And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: this grievous task God has given to the sons of man, by which they may be exercised.
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun: and indeed, all is vanity and
grasping for the wind." Ecc. 1:13-14----------------------------------------------------------
The LEATHER CREAKS as he leans back.
MORPHEUS
The Matrix is everywhere, it's all around us, here even in this room. You can see it out your window, or on your television.
You feel it when you go to work, or go to church or pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.----------------------------------------------------
# "For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passes away." 1 John 2:16-17
"I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and
vexation of spirit." Ecc. 1:14"For now we see through a glass darkly. . ." 1 Cor. 13:12
"For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, neither has the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what He has prepared for him that waits for Him." Isa. 64:4
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NEO
What truth?MORPHEUS
That you are a slave, Neo. That you, like everyone else, was born into bondage...
... kept inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. A prison for your mind.-----------------------------------------------------------
# "Because the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption . . ."
Rom. 8:21"And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world: . . . " Rev. 12:9
"Therefore I speak to them in parables: because they seeing, see not, and hearing, hear not, neither do they understand." Mat. 13:13
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MORPHEUS
Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.----------------------------------------------------------
# ". . . work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." Phil. 2:12
" . . . many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which you see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which you hear, and have not heard them." Lk. 10:24
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NEO
How?MORPHEUS
Hold out your hands.In Neo's right hand, Morpheus drops a red pill.
MORPHEUS
This is your last chance. After this, there is no going back.-------------------------------------------------------
# "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, . . .and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; . . ." Heb. 6:4-5
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In his left, a blue pill.
MORPHEUS
You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed, and you believe whatever you want to believe.The pills in his open hands are reflected in the glasses.
MORPHEUS
You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how
deep the rabbit-hole goes.------------------------------------------------------------
# " . . . I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your children shall live." Deu. 30:19
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Neo feels the smooth skin of the capsules, with the moisture growing in his palms.
MORPHEUS
Remember that all I am offering is the truth. Nothing more.Neo opens his mouth and swallows the red pill.
MORPHEUS
The Cheshire smile returns.Follow me.
He leads Neo into the other room, which is cramped with high-tech equipment, glowing ash-blue and electric green from the racks of monitors.
MORPHEUS
I imagine you know something about virtual reality.Neo sits and Trinity begins gently fixing white electrode disks to his head, arms, and the back of his neck.
NEO
A little.MORPHEUS
Tell me about it.NEO
Essentially, it's a hardware system that uses an apparatus; headgear, gloves and whatever to
make you feel that you are in a computer program.MORPHEUS
If the virtual reality apparatus, as you called it, was wired to all of your senses and controlled them completely, would you be able to tell the difference between the virtual world and the real world?----------------------------------------------------------
# "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." Col.2:8
If you were deceived, how would you know?
a) Someone tells you? (Never works.)
b) You search for answers which make more sense than what you have heard so far?
(Requires effort and courage, but it works.)c) You assume that God knows more than you do and accept his statements?
"The whole world is deceived" Rev. 12:9
"All men are liars." Psa. 116:11, Rom. 3:4, 1 Jn. 4:20, 1 Jn. 1:8,9, 1 Jn. 2:4
"You must work out your own salvation." Phil. 2:12----------------------------------------------------------
NEO
You might not, no.MORPHEUS
No, you wouldn't.
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MORPHEUS
Welcome to the real world, Neo.Neo passes out.
FADE TO BLACK.
We have no sense of time. We hear VOICES whispering.
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FADE IN:
ANGLE ON NEO
He opens his eyes again, something tingling through him. He focuses and sees his body pierced with dozens of acupuncture-like needles wired to a strange device.
DOZER
He needs a lot of work.MORPHEUS
I know.Dozer and Morpheus are operating on Neo.
NEO
What are you doing?MORPHEUS
Your muscles have atrophied. We're rebuilding them.Fluorescent light sticks burn unnaturally bright.
NEO
Why do my eyes hurt?MORPHEUS
You've never used them before.Morpheus takes his sunglasses off and puts them on Neo.
Neo lays back.----------------------------------------------------
# "We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men." Isa. 59:10
" . . .O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears and hear not: . ." Jer. 5:21---------------------------------------------------
MORPHEUS
Rest, Neo. The answers are coming.--------------------------------------------------------
# "And now, Lord, what wait I for?" Psa. 39:7
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INT. NEO'S ROOM
Neo wakes up from a deep sleep, feeling better.
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NEO
Morpheus, what's happened to me? What is this place?MORPHEUS
More important than what is when?NEO
When?MORPHEUS
You believe the year is 1997 when in fact it is much closer to 2197.
I can't say for certain what year it is because we honestly do not know.-------------------------------------------------------
# ". . .Tell us, when shall these things be? And What shall be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the world?" Mat. 24:3
"But of that day and hour knows no man . . ." Mat. 24:36
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The wind is knocked from Neo's chest.
NEO
That's not possible.MORPHEUS
I promised you the truth, Neo, and the truth is that the world you were living in was a lie.NEO
How?MORPHEUS
I'll show you.-----------------snipped---------------------------------
MORPHEUS
Do you remember when I asked you about an apparatus that could turn a virtual reality into reality?Neo nods.
MORPHEUS
It's right here.He touches Neo's head.
MORPHEUS
And it's accessed here.Neo feels Morpheus guiding a coaxial line into the jack at the back of his neck. The cable has the same kind of cerebellum chip we saw inside the plant.
MORPHEUS
This will feel a little weird.There are several disturbing NOISES as he works the needle in.
We MOVE IN as Neo's shoulders bunch and his face tightens into a grimace until a loud CLICK fires and his ears pop like when you equalize them underwater.
He relaxes, opening his eyes as we pull back to a feeling of weightlessness inside another place --
INT. CONSTRUCT
Neo is standing in an empty, blank-white space.
MORPHEUS
This is the Construct.Startled, Neo whips around and finds Morpheus now in the room with him.
MORPHEUS
It is our loading program. We can load anything from clothes, to weapons, to training simulations.
Anything we need.Morpheus walks past Neo and when Neo turns he sees the two leather chairs from the hotel set up in front of a large-screen television.
MORPHEUS
Sit down.Neo stands at the back of the chair as Morpheus sits.
NEO
Right now, we're inside a computer program?-----------------------------------------------------
# "It shall even be as when an hungry man dreams, and, behold, he eats; But he awakes, and his soul is empty; or as when a thirsty man dreams, and, behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul has appetite: . . ." Isa. 29:8
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MORPHEUS
Wild, isn't it?Neo's hands run over the cracked leather.
NEO
This isn't real?MORPHEUS
What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about your senses, what you feel, taste, smell, or see, then all you're talking about are electrical signals interpreted by your brain.----------------------------------------------------------
# "For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life . . .is of the world.
And the world passes away, and the lust thereof . . ." 1 Jn. 2:16-17"All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again." Ecc. 3:20
" . . .the invisible things . . . are clearly seen, being understood by the things which are made . . . so that (men) are without excuse:" Rom.1:20----------------------------------------------------------------
He picks up a remote control and clicks ON the TELEVISION. We drift through the Windy City circa 1996.
MORPHEUS
This is the Chicago you know. Chicago as it was at the end of the twentieth century. This
Chicago exists only as part of a neural-interactive simulation that we call the Matrix.We GLIDE AT the television as he changes the channel.
MORPHEUS
You have been living inside Baulliaurd's vision, inside the map, not the territory. This is
Chicago as it exists today.The sky is an endless sea of black and green bile. The earth, scorched and split like burnt flesh, spreads out beneath us as we ENTER the television.
MORPHEUS
'The desert of the real.'In the distance, we see the ruins of a future Chicago protruding from the wasteland like the blackened ribs a long-dead corpse.
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# "Because the palaces of shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases:" Isa. 32:14; 33:8
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MORPHEUS
We are, right now, miles below the earth's surface. The only place humans can survive outside the Matrix is underground.----------------------------------------------------
# "And he causes all , both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to
receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." Rev. 13:16-17" . . . the time comes, that whosoever kill you will think that he does God service." Jn. 16:2
"But when they persecute you in this city, flee you into another: . . ." Mat. 10:23-----------------------------------------------------------
Still MOVING, we TURN and find Neo and Morpheus; the chairs now sitting in the middle of the black desert. Dizzy, Neo holds onto the chair.
NEO
What happened?MORPHEUS
It started early in the twenty-first century, with the birth of artificial intelligence, a singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines.In his sunglasses, we see storm clouds gather.
MORPHEUS
At first all they wanted was to be treated as equals, entitled to the same human inalienable rights.
Whatever they were given, it was not enough.In the circular window of the glasses, EXPLOSIONS light up a bloody battle field.
MORPHEUS
We don't know who struck first. Us or them. But sometime at the end of the twenty-first century the battle was joined.We MOVE INTO his glasses and the war surrounds us.
MORPHEUS
The war raged for generations and turned the face of our planet from green and blue to black and red.------------------------------------------------------------
# "Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: . . .
And the kings of the earth . . . shall bewail her, and lament for her when they shall see the smoke of her burning, . . . saying, Alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! . . . And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buys their merchandise any more: . . . (precious metals, manufactured goods, minerals, oil, commodities, food products, armaments,) and slaves and the souls of men." Rev. 18:8-13--------------snipped---------------------------------
MORPHEUS
They discovered a new form of fusion. All that was required to initiate the reaction was a small electric charge. Throughout human history we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.We return to the power plant that Neo escaped from where we see human beings looking almost blissful in their gelatin cocoons.
MORPHEUS
The human body generates more bio-electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 B.T.U.'s of body heat.Outside, spreading all around the power plant, beneath a breathing greenhouse, are the growing fields.
MORPHEUS
We are, as an energy source, easily renewable and completely recyclable, . . .MORPHEUS
All they needed to control this new battery was something to occupy our mind.----------snipped--------------------------------------
MORPHEUS
And so they built a prison out of our past, wired it to our brains and turned us into slaves.---------------------------------------------------------
# "Forasmuch then as the children are (also) flesh and blood . . .who, through fear of death, were all their lifetime subject to bondage." Heb. 2:14-15
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We PULL BACK to find the image is now on the television
and we are again inside the white space of the Construct.NEO
No! I don't believe it! It's not possible!---------------------------------------------------------
# ". . .because they received not the love of the truth,
. . .And for this cause God Shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie." 2 Ths. 2:10-11-----------------------------------------------------------
MORPHEUS
I didn't say that it would be easy, Neo. I just said that it would be the truth.The room without walls begins to spin.
NEO
Stop! Let me out! I want out!--------------------------------------------------------------
# ". . .this is a rebellious people . . .Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:"
Isa. 30:9-10--------------------------------------------------------------
INT. MAIN DECK
His eyes snap open and he thrashes against the chair,
trying to rip the cable from the back of his neck.NEO
Get this thing out of me!TRINITY
Easy, Neo. Easy.Dozer holds him while Trinity unlocks it. Once it's out he tears away from them, falling as he trips free of the harness.
NEO
Don't touch me! Get away from me!On his hands and knees, he reels as the world spins. Sweat pours off him as a pressure builds inside his skull as if his brain had been put into a centrifuge.
CYPHER
He's going to pop!Vomiting violently, Neo pitches forward and blacks out.
INT. NEO'S ROOM
He blinks, regaining consciousness. The room is dark.
Neo is stretched out on his bed.NEO
I can't go back, can I?----------------------------------------------------
# ". . . No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." Lk. 9:62
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Morpheus sitting like a shadow on a chair in the far corner.
MORPHEUS
No. But if you could, would you really want to?Neo isn't sure of that answer.
MORPHEUS
I feel that I owe you an apology. There is a rule that we do not free a mind once it reaches a
certain age. It is dangerous. They have trouble letting go..
Their mind turns against them. I've seen it happen. I broke the rule because I had to.He stares into the darkness, confessing as much to himself as Neo.
MORPHEUS
When the Matrix was first built there was a man born inside that had the ability to change what he wanted, to remake the Matrix as he saw fit. It was this man that freed the first of us and taught us the secret of the war; control the Matrix and you control the future.--------------------------------------------------------------
# ". . . when it, the Spirit of truth is come, it will guide you into all truth:" Jn. 16:13
"And you shall know truth and the truth shall make you free." Jn. 8:32
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He pauses.
MORPHEUS
When he died, the Oracle at the temple of Zion prophesied his return and envisioned an end to the war and freedom for our people. That is why there are those of us that have spent our entire lives searching the Matrix, looking for him.------------------------------------------------------------
# "You have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again to you. . ."
Jn. 14:28"The Lord is great in Zion; . . ." Psa. 99:2
.
" . . . neither shall (the nations) learn war any more." Isa. 2:4, Mic. 4:3" And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and (he) was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel:
. . . and he took. . .the child Jesus . . .up in his arms. . .and said now let me (die) in peace . . .For my eyes have seen thy salvation." Lk. 2:25-30-----------------------------------------------------------------
Neo can feel his eyes on him.
MORPHEUS
I did what I did, because I believe we have been brought here for a reason, Neo. You are here to serve a purpose, just as I am here to serve mine.----------------------------------------------------------------
# "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:"
Ecc. 3:1-----------------------------------------------------
NEO
I told you I don't believe in fate.Morpheus smiles, leaning towards him.
MORPHEUS
But I do, Neo. I do.----------------------------------------------------
# "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."
2 Pet. 3:9-----------------snipped--------------------------------
MORPHEUS
You have to learn to let go of that anger. You must let go of everything.-------snipped---------------------------------------
MORPHEUS
You must empty yourself to free your mind.-------------------------------------------------------
# "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be single, your whole body shall be full of light. But if your eye be evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness.
If therefore the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness! No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. . ." Mat. 6:23-24------snipped--------------------------------------
NEO
Yeah. Free my mind. Right. No problem.--------snipped--------------------------------------
MORPHEUS
Everyone falls the first time.Neo nods quietly.
MORPHEUS
If you never know failure, how can you know success?---------------------------------------------------------
# ". . .I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shall not covet." Rom. 7:7
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CYPHER
Welcome to the real world!
INT. RESTAURANT (MATRIX) - NIGHT
CHAMBER MUSIC and the ambiance of wealth soak the room as we watch a serrated knife saw through a thick, gorgeous steak.
CYPHER
That's what he said to me nine years ago.The meat is so perfect, charred on the outside, oozing red juice from the inside, that it could be a dream.
CYPHER
The real world. Ha, what a joke.We recognize the grating voice, the insidious laugh.
CYPHER
You know what real is? I'll tell you what real is.A fork stabs the cube of meat and we FOLLOW it UP TO the face of Cypher.
CYPHER
Real is just another four-letter word.-------------snipped----------------------------------
# Cypher meets with the bad guys and agrees to betray Morpheus and the others,
because he doesn?t believe in the future. He wants a physical reward now."And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind . . .
(They) being filled with wickedness, covetousness maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, without understanding, . . . without natural affection, unmerciful . . knowing such things are worthy death . . . (and) have pleasure in them that do them." Rom. 1:28-32"And (Judas) said unto them, What will you give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver." Mat. 26:15
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MORPHEUS
Good. I want everyone alerted to 12-hour stand-by. We're going in.
Neo, it's time for you to know why you're here.Morpheus walks away.
NEO
What's he talking about?TANK
He's taking you into the Matrix to see her.NEO
See who?TANK
The Oracle.--------------------snipped--------------------------
Neo is taken to see the Oracle.
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ORACLE
So? What do you think? You think you're the one?NEO
I don't know.She gestures to a wooden plaque, the kind every grandma has, except that the words are in Latin.
ORACLE
You know what that means? It's Latin. Means, 'Know thyself.'----------------------------------------------------
# "But let a man examine himself . ." 1 Cor. 11:28
"Examine yourselves whether you be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know you not your own selves . . .?" 2 Cor. 13:5
"Wherefore let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall." 1 Cor. 10:12
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ORACLE
Well, let's have a look at you.--------snipped-----------------------------------------
ORACLE
Hmmm. You sure got the gift, but it's tricky. I'd say the bad news is, you're not the one. Still got a lot to learn. Maybe next life.NEO
What's the good news?ORACLE
Same as the bad news, you're not the one.NEO
Is that it, then?ORACLE
No. Here.She picks up the tray of cooling cookies.
ORACLE
You better take a cookie. Got a big day ahead of you.He eyes her, then takes a cookie.
ORACLE
Make a believer out of you yet.
INT. ANTECHAMBER (MATRIX) - DAY
Morpheus rises from a bench as the Priestess escorts Neo out. When they are alone, Morpheus puts his hand on Neo's shoulder.
MORPHEUS
You don't have to tell me anything, Neo, because I already know what she said.NEO
You do?MORPHEUS
I brought you so that you could hear it for yourself. I knew it would help.Neo finishes his cookie.
MORPHEUS
No one will ever ask you because it is a gift from her. It is for you and you alone.----------------------------------------------------
# "The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children for ever, that we may do the words of this law."
Deu. 29:29------------------------------snipped----------------------------
Morpheus is captured by the agents of the Matrix. Neo and Trinity escape.
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INT. MAIN DECK
Neo goes to his chair and begins strapping in.
TRINITY
What do you think you're doing?NEO
You need help. I'm coming with you.TRINITY
No. No way. Morpheus sacrificed himself so you could escape.
There's no way you're going back in.NEO
Morpheus did what he did because he believed that I'm something that I'm not.TRINITY
What?NEO
I'm not the One, Trinity. The Oracle told me.Trinity is stunned.
NEO
She said I had a gift but I still had a lot to learn. She told me maybe next life.TRINITY
Did you tell Morpheus?NEO
Why? It wouldn't mean anything. He'd still believe what he wanted to believe. But Morpheus is the one that matters. He's more important than me and we both know it.
He straps in.NEO
I may not be what Morpheus thinks I am, but if I don't try to help him, then I'm not even what I
think I am.TRINITY
What are you?NEO
His friend.----------------------------------------------------------
# "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." Jn.15:13
"By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one to another." Jn. 13:35-------------snipped---------------------------------------------
# The attempt to rescue Morpheus is the climatic portion of this film. We won?t discuss the details here, but there is an easy parallel with the death and resurrection of Christ.
Also, Neo was living a normal life until a certain point in time, at which he became aware of a reality beyond the world he could see. He begins training to function in a different world.
After Christ?s birth and his parents? visit to the temple (Lk. 2:22-40), we hear nothing of his life until he is twelve years old (the age of accountability). At that time he is recognized by a few as being different."And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing and asking them questions. And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man."
Lk. 2:46-47,52.Even after Christ begins preaching publicly, he mostly avoided direct confrontation with the authorities until it was time for him to be taken and crucified (Mat. 21, Mk. 11, Lk. 19, Jn. 12). Even at his arrest, Judas had to kiss him (Eastern style of greeting) to identify him
to the authorities (Mat. 26:47-50). Prior to this, he often returned to Galilee in Samaria, beyond the reach of the Jerusalem rulers.Morpheus prepared the way for Neo.
John the Baptist prepared the way for Christ (Mat. 3:1-3).Neo warns the Matrix (world rulers) that things are going to change.
Christ declares himself to be the Son of God, the fulfillment of the prophecies about the promised King who will subdue all kingdoms.Here we have a major difference. Neo is going to institute change by force beginning immediately.
This is what the Jews were looking for when Christ came, because they didn't properly understand the prophecies. Even the populace, including nearly all of his own followers rejected him when they realized that Christ was not going to immediately assume the throne and overthrow the Roman domination.
". . .they asked of him, saying , Lord, will you at this time restore again the kingdom of Israel?" (Acts1:6). To which he answered, "It's not for you to know the time."
When he explained that entrance to the kingdom involved imitating him, they did not understand and, "From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him." Jn. 6:60.
At his crucifixion, when they realized that he was really going to die, ". . . Then all the disciples forsook him and fled." Mat. 26:56.What is "reality"? In searching for the ultimate building block of life, we have divided atoms into electrons, protons, neutrons, leptons, quarks and neutrinos. Five neutrinos have been described but after 25 years the sixth one is still undefined (1). It is so small that neutrinos from the sun pass all the way through the earth. Scientists have speculated that the ultimate form may not be physical but spirit.
Within the atom, there is more space than mass, so that what we see as a solid object actually contains more space than solid material.
In other words, objects which we would call "real" are composed mostly of nothing but space.We know that our physical world did not always exist. We are told that it will cease to exist at some point in the future (Rev. 21:1). The physical is temporary. The spiritual is eternal.
"And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God abides forever." 1Jn.2:17As Orpheus explained to Neo, "what you see around you isn't the true" reality .
Copyright M.H. and G.H. September, 1999. All rights reserved.
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