The construction of post-modern Messiah in Matrix

Abstract

Religion as a manifestation of human nature enters into our existence in the fields of art and does not shrink from this rule, and one of its most widespread expressions cinema reflected in its production and consumption expectations and ideas whose explicit religious grounds may emerge or remain implicit in his works. In this sense this article sought to demonstrate through the analysis of The Matrix and the construction of its protagonist the presence of religious aspects in his narrative, the cut favored reading of the traits that enable analogies to the figure of the Christian messiah. The analysis indicated that the persistence of religious feeling in the world today featured a messiah based on Christian archetypes, but also meets the demands of the eschatological experience of our own society Postmodern pleased that, even in the fantasy movie, with the idea savior of someone capable of giving new meaning to a world whose fiction is a striking metaphor of reality.