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Monday, May 12, 2003 Movies and the Search for Meaning From the State: Sci-fi offerings prey on our fears but offer a sort of religious hope, too. "The 'Terminator' trilogy is a retelling of the annunciation, conception and life of Jesus had he been born in 1984 and the Romans were cyborgs from the future. The 'Matrix' series, with its messianic hero struggling to free himself from the machine-made world of illusion, mixes metaphors of Christianity, Buddhism and techno-liberation." Interesting--I never thought about the Terminator series that way, although the various religions and worldviews that make up The Matrix are easy to spot. Another film mentioned in the article is X2, the new X-Men flick, which plays up Nightcrawler's faith; he quotes Psalm 23 and the Lord's Prayer. Go and see it if you haven't already--surprisingly for an action movie, it has enough thematic material that it's worth analyzing. ^ Top | 7:32 PM | | | 
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