People throughout the world and through the centuries have experienced the “breaking-in” of transcendent spiritual reality into the physical level of existence. From such simple experiences as de ja vu, to the more complex experiences of Divine encounters, human beings are often unnerved by their own sensations of the world “beyond” this world.

This universal phenomenon is appropriated by the Wachowski brothers as they create a film which gives an alternative explanation to that of the spiritual transcendence. They suggest that these “transcendent” experiences are due to the fact that this world is actually an illusion, a computer program, and the “real world” often reveals itself in glitches in the program which we identify as de ja vu repeats.

But what makes the film even more intriguing from our perspective is the obvious parallel themes between the film and the Christian faith.

Read the full review from Cinema in Focus.