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MATRIX SPOILER ALERT!

Hi there, I've just been watching the new Matrix movie. In it, Neo (Keanu Reaves) is faced with the computer creator of The Matrix, a character called The Architect.

The Architect tells Neo that he knows every option because he programmed Neo, he knows the outcomes and decisions that Neo will make and he knows the possible actions that Neo will take based on the way he is programmed. Neo believes he is making free choices but The Architect predicts everything he's going to do. The Architect tells Neo that his messianic qualities are actually part of the system to perpetuate the matrix. The Architect then gives Neo a choice to walk through a door that will either perpetuate the Matrix and save humanity or to go back and save Trinity his lover and see the whole human race destroyed.

He makes his choice, but the question that people who see the movie are left wondering is this: Did Neo freely choose to take the decision he did? The Architect does not show surprise or dismay at the choice he makes but is Neo changing the way things are, or is this going exactly the way the Architect intends.

We'll have to wait until the end of the year for any hope of resolution, but my question is this: How does this theme in The Matrix Reloaded draw parallels and contrast with Open Theology?

regards

makapala
London

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