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<blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 4721084" data-attributes="member: 63706">Ok, since you insist on making this conversation about something that it was not originally about, I will tell you, the Matrix is a savior allegory, Neo is a Christ figure. The idea that it is up to an individual to save all of humanity is not new, and it pops up, over and over. The wachowskis may have tried to co-opt the symbolism to push some sort of communist narrative, but the idea that the individual has primacy over the collective is strictly antithetical to communist dogma. You see, the AI represents the collective that all humans are plugged into under communist ideology. Neo set them free by striking a deal with the architect, which clumsily represents both God and Satan at the same time, to rid the Matrix of agent Smith, who represents death through the loss of identity.The matrix is not an example of totalitarianism, it is a story about the salvation of mankind from collectivism.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zubenelgenubi, post: 4721084, member: 63706"] Ok, since you insist on making this conversation about something that it was not originally about, I will tell you, the Matrix is a savior allegory, Neo is a Christ figure. The idea that it is up to an individual to save all of humanity is not new, and it pops up, over and over. The wachowskis may have tried to co-opt the symbolism to push some sort of communist narrative, but the idea that the individual has primacy over the collective is strictly antithetical to communist dogma. You see, the AI represents the collective that all humans are plugged into under communist ideology. Neo set them free by striking a deal with the architect, which clumsily represents both God and Satan at the same time, to rid the Matrix of agent Smith, who represents death through the loss of identity. The matrix is [I]not[/I] an [I]example[/I] of totalitarianism, it is a [I]story [/I]about the salvation of mankind from collectivism. [/QUOTE]

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