See Through the Facade / Wake Up
I just watched one of my favorite movies - The Matrix - again. (Just the first movie - 2 & 3 missed the mark for me.) There’s a ton of ways you can take the movie. For those who love good kung-fu style martial arts, it’s great. But, for those who want to go deeper, it’s got some interesting messages.
The one that stands out to me is: See through the facade.
After Neo gets shot about 30 times and comes back to life, he can see whats really going on - he can see that the bullets can’t really hurt him, and that everything he has been seeing wasn’t real. The next time the agents shot at him, he just put his hand up and the bullets fell to the ground.
That’s like real life for us…we can go through life seeing only what is painted by society around us, or we can step back and choose to see through enlightened eyes what is really going on around us.
The song played through the ending credits is “Wake Up” by Rage Against the Machine. That pretty much sums it up for me. Wake up.
