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Matrix Thoughts

AN ADDENDUM
I would like to clarify my remarks about Matrix Reloaded a bit. I’m not condoning the sex scene of the movie as being good, holy, pure, or above reproach. That scene was written, directed, shot, and starred in by people who I seriously doubt are saved. In that light nothing that they can do is righteous. If I were a Wachiowski brother and I shot that scene, as a Christian, I would have not made it nearly as explicit as it was. My post meant to merely take note of the care in which the directors of the picture took to portray the humanity of Neo and Trinity's relationship. I think that the Wachiowski bros showed us in the first movie that love was necessary to triumph. In the second they were showing that this love needed to be human, full of all those emotions, especially sexual ones, in order to triumph. To all this may concern, I hope you can rest easy.

Well I just watched Matrix Reloaded at the Drive-in. That was very cool. Seeing it for a second time focused a thought. I think the techno-house literally heart-throbbing sex scene may be the most important in the movie.

Before the sex scene the relationship between Trinity and Neo seemed almost platonic. As if there was an intense amount of emotional attachment involved, but without the sex scene the movie becomes a story about people who lower themselves to machine-like emotions in order to beat down on the machines. That's not terribly fulfilling. But with the sex, we see that the whole becoming machine-like is justified in the character's minds by the opportunity to "love" each other.
Another thing, while in the matrix, Neo only took off his glasses once, that was after rescuing Trinity from her self-induced death spiral. If I remember correctly you don't even see him take them off. The sunglasses just come off due to the emotional force called love that is about to carry Trinity through her darkest hour.