Cultural Artifact #1

For my first cultural artifact, I went and saw the SAO movie the “The Matrix”. This is a science fiction movie that came out back in 1999. The main character in this movie is named Neo who is a software programmer by day and a hacker by night. He has been searching for what the matrix is for the past two years. He is thrown into a situation in which he has to be the one to bring the matrix down.  The movie portrays the human race as blind and not able to do anything. They are living in a fake reality set up by an artificial intelligence. The humans are helpless and do not know the real truth but are just living in lies and illusions. What they think is real is actually not real and they are just looking through the frame and not the frame, which is the Matrix. The humans are blind because they cannot see past the Matrix or look at the Matrix. Neo has been found so that he will be able to stand against the agents who guard the Matrix. The movie reveals something crucial about the kingdom of God. God wants us to see that we are in bondage to sin and we need to see the truth but like the Matrix, some things are distorting our vision. Although the Matrix does not exist literally but figuratively, it does. In our lives and the Empire today, many are blinded and held back from being able to serve and be part of the kingdom of God. For a drug addict, drugs play as the Matrix and hold the addict back from being able to serve God and the kingdom. So there will always be something that can blind us and hold us back, so will we never reach the kingdom of God? In order to see what is holding us back we need to see what is blinding our vision but there are many times that we cannot see what we are doing wrong. Do you think that it is right to ask others to find the fault of one or should this be done individually and through prayer?