THE MATRIX RED PILL BLUE PILL MOVIE

THE MATRIX RED PILL BLUE PILL MOVIE

Sound familiar? Valentinus - again, assuming you taught him English, explained guns, and turned off motion-smoothing on his new TV - would no doubt recognize in the movie his own worldview: the false world of the Matrix the godlike Demiurge personified in Agent Smith the enlightened savior Neo, who arrives to rescue humanity. To escape from the falseness of the material world and save your soul, you must achieve gnosis, or knowledge. Gnostics like Valentinus believed that the world we encounter every day is pain and suffering, an evil falsehood created not by God but by a lower deity of God’s creation, a figure called the Demiurge. He wouldn’t just appreciate the masterful production design, the legendary fight choreography, or the way the Wachowskis put Keanu Reeves’s woodenness to work - though he would how could he not? - he’d also love The Matrix’s Gnosticism. But I can be sure of one thing about bringing Valentinus to the 21st century: He’d fucking love The Matrix. You’d have to teach him English, and explain to him modern inventions like computers, and The Masked Singer. He would likely be confused by contemporary Christianity, and frightened of cars. It’s hard to say what, exactly, would happen, if you transported the second-century Christian Gnostic sect leader Valentinus to the 21st century. We are republishing it as The Matrix Resurrections hits theaters and HBO Max.

“Remember - all I am offering is the truth, nothing more.”

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