Essay: Symbolism in The Matrix

The movie called the Matrix is about a man being informed that the life he has been living wasn’t reality and that what he will learn what the reality is. The references have a lot to do with religion, specifically Jesus (who is the Savior). For example the character in the movie The Matrix, Neo… is the ‘one’.
Neo is the person who is to save all the humans who are trapped in a world that is considered the ‘dream world’. The humans that walk around in what seems to be the real world are actually in a dream world, while their bodies are plugged into a system called the “Matrix” so that the machines can feed off of them, since they are in control of this world.
Neo was sent to visit a woman, who is referred to as the ‘Oracle’, who knows all. Neo was to find out if he was the ‘One’. A man named Morpheus who is to teach Neo his new abilities assists Neo along the way to the Oracle. Neo entered the house and was shown a group of young children doing supernatural things such as; spoon bending and making blocks float in the air, by using their minds. A female who resides with the Oracle introduces Neo to the children as potentials who may also be the One. When Neo goes to talk to this woman known as the Oracle, he was told that he was not the one. Which was a lie.
In a different part of the movie, Trinity explains what the Oracle had told her, which was that she would fall in love with a dying man who was the One. Morpheus also shares his insight from the Oracle saying that he would find the One.
There is a scene where Trinity and Neo are on the top of the roof and an Agent comes and starts to shoot at Neo, in which he dodges the bullets by falling backward and than springing back up in which Trinity states that she hasn’t seen anyone do that before only the Agents. Representing that he is the one who can battle and possibly win against the Agents.
Another scene where Neo, Morpheus, Trinity, and a few others were leaving the Matrix, they were in a building. They had to hide and leave by going behind the walls of the building. When Cypher made a noise, Morpheus was captured to save Neo from getting caught by the Agents. They all found a way out of the Matrix, but than Neo wanted to go and save Morpheus from the Agents. Along the route of Neo trying to save Morpheus, Neo was shot by the Agents and had a flat line back where his real body was laying.
A following scene, Neo awakens by a kiss from Trinity after flat lining. After awakening he notices Agents are down the hall from him in which they start shooting at him. He is now able to stop the bullets in mid-air, which is another sign that he is different and that he has the capability to be the One.
Therefore the One has to fight against and beat the Agents so that Neo, Morpheus, Trinity and the rest can slowly start showing people the truth. Unlike Neo the others don’t have the abilities he has gained and those abilities he has are the same strengths as the Agents, if not better. With all these different abilities Neo is gaining through out the movie and with the information Morpheus and Trinity share, is proof that he is the One. He will save mankind from being controlled by the machine called the Matrix.