| Penny_Bags |
2003-11-08 07:23 PM |
Matrix Trilogy parallels the Civil war? (THE ENTIRE THREAD HAS SPOILER CONTENT)
I am pretty sure that I thought of this, maybe somebody else came up with it somewhere, but, The Matrix has many parallels to the Civil War (among other things).
I will add more as i think of them
1) The Oracle is a Harriet Tubman figure, and the "architecht" represents the plantation owners (don't lie, he looks like colonel sanders).
- Oracle is trying to unbalance the "equation" of the matrix and the architecht has everything conformed and systematic. This shows the architecht to be a very industrial person, like the plantation owners. He represents a stern kind of people that will punish you for disobeying commands. The Oracle can be seen as a revolutianist because of the way she tries to unbalance the equation.
2) People are the robots' slaves
- They are used for energy and food and don't recieve anything in return, and are dealt with quite less than reasonably
3) The "fields" of bodies
- The endless fields and crops of people are just that, crops. The slaves were forced to harvest the crops and what not, just like the people are used as the source of food. (except for the fact that the people are actually the food in the matrix)
4) There is a friggin train for God sakes
-The Underground railroad can be tied to the train that gets programs in and out of the matrix. While the Underground Railroad wasn't an actual train, neither is the train in the matrix, it is a program
- The "train man" says "DOWN here, I am God!" (make note of the use of the word 'down'. It is a subway, hence it is underground, and it is underground in the way that it is a smuggling system.
5) Nearly everyone in Zion is black
-most of the white people are "unplugged". This could mean that they realize the truth or right way, and are abolitionists, rebels (hackers are much in the same 'rebel' light)
6) Agents
- could be seen as the people that work for the plantation owners that go out looking for the escaped slaves and the abolitionists (unplugged hackers)
7) The whole rebellion concept. Sticking it to the man type of thing.
8) I will add more as I think of stuff.
I think that the entire matrix plot is based on two things. The Neo, messiah-esque, thing is like the bible, and the zion thing is like the civil war. Amazing how history spiffed up with robots and guns can be so damn entertaining.
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