Matrix Religious Symbolism
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The Matrix is a story of the original Judeo-Christian worldview of entrapment in a world gone wrong, with no hope of survival or salvation. The movie is a new testament for a new millennium, a religious tale of the second coming of mankind's messiah in an age that needs salvation as desperately as ever.
Neo is contacted first by Trinity. It is she who leads Neo to Morpheus. Trinity is an obvious allusion to the biblical concept of a triune God, consisting of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Because the metaphor to God is so obvious, it is quite humorous when Neo says to Trinity, "I always thought you were a guy."
During Neo's second conversation with Morpheus, just after he wakes up from being interrogated, Morpheus "exposes" his role as John the Baptist by saying, "You may have been looking for me for a few years, but I've been looking for you for my whole life." However, Morpheus also plays the role of God the Father to Neo and the rest of the rebels. He spends a significant part of the film teaching Neo the nature of "reality" as opposed to the world of the Matrix. Once Morpheus is captured by the agents, as his body lays there helpless, Trinity says "No, he's much more important than that...