在過去的數次觀看中，我都會特別地去留意和探索電影中的“宗教性”信息和元素。無可否認的，導演在這部電影中明顯地注入了許多象徵性的宗教語言和元素，尤其是基督教。因此，觀眾將容易地將電影裡的宗教性象徵與基督教的教義做類比的對照。最顯著的，無疑就是NEO的被預言的救世主身份，象徵了基督教裡的基督為救世主的身份，把罪人從被捆綁的世界中拯救出來。最近再一次觀看了這部電影，它在我腦海中卻引發了一些屬於哲學範疇的思考。這或許是由於自己已開始去接觸和學習哲學，對尤其是西方哲學有一定概括性的認識，因此，這引導我把一些信息關聯於哲學的思考。
最近閱讀了一些關於後現代主義的書籍，對電影中所散發出的後現代主義的信息和思想感興趣和有啟發，特別是觸及到“真理”（Truth）的古老課題。我相信這是傳統基督教非常在意和特別敏感的爭議性課題（好像只有基督教才談論和看重此課題似的）。《駭客帝國》可以簡單的說，從頭到尾都是在談論和講述有關“真理”的問題。相信有看過的朋友應該有如此的影響，並且大致上都會同意我的說法。電影中的對“真實”和“虛假”的精彩刻畫和呈現，重新勾起這個常常被人們忽視和逃避的現實：什麼是“真實”？我們如何能夠確定“真實”的真實性？又或者說，我們所意識到的真實，是否是真正的“真實”？採用後現代的說法，“真理是否存在？”。若真理是存在，那麼真理到底是什麼？後現代主義選擇放棄對“絕對真理“的認知，而接受“相對性的價值”觀點。沒有絕對的客觀性真理，只有相對的主觀性價值。因此，後現代主義主張一種多元性、兼容性、非二元性、開放性、解構性、標新立異的世界觀。這是為什麼基要派基督教特別抗拒後現代主義的其中一個主要原因，這是為何標示為後現代哲學家的德里達、利奧塔尔、福柯等人的思想都難以進入基督教的圈子。反而被視為對基督教的威脅。也許我們需要問自己一個簡單的問題：為何我們害怕後現代主義？
面對後現代主義所倡議的“真理”的問題，基督教會是否有認真去探討，然後負責任的去回應？也許基督教首先需要好好認真地去思考“真理是什麼呢？”這基本問題，也是本丟比拉多問耶穌的一個問題。基督教所談論的“真理”是什麼？基本上，多數的基督徒把“真理”視為一種採自聖經正典的命題式教條或教義，如：“上帝是愛”，“耶穌是救主基督”，“要愛你的仇敵”等等。嚴格來說，這些所謂的教義，最終成為了我們所認知的信仰“概念”，就是我們儲存在我們頭腦中的“聖經教導”。我們似乎認為我們找到了真理，掌握了真理，認識了真理，並且在真理中找到了宗教的“安全感”（我們很難想像和擔心假使我們的所認識的真理不是真的）。我們致力建立和維護聖經的權威性，排斥那些質疑聖經權威的說法，為基督教的聖經找到讓它得以在這世界得到認同和穩固的基礎和根據（如“聖經無誤論”，“教皇無誤論”、“以經解經”等），以至於基督教靠著這些基礎和前提能夠繼續生存下去。諷刺的是，我們反而透露了我們本身的矛盾，在真理或聖經以外尋找一種基礎和前提去支持我們的真理，我們一定要“確定”它是不可被違反的前提（這樣的“確定”動機反而顯露了我們的小信）。
最近開始閱讀和研究巴特的神學，他的神學開啟了我許多的想法。我認為巴特的神學主要不是提倡一種神學的方法論，而是一種信仰態度，對上帝自我啟示的一種信仰態度，而這種態度取決於我們是否認識“不是人尋找上帝，而是上帝尋找人”這個有關“啟示”的問題。“上帝的自我啟示”就是真理的真正意涵。針對上述提到的“認知—命題”的聖經主義的批判，巴特認為，若沒有上帝啟示帶來的揀選和恩典，聖經就只是人手寫的文字，聖經並不是上帝的話。唯有在上帝自由的恩典啟示下，人才可能從聖經文本中認識真理，人所能做的除了信仰和順服，沒有其他的了。真理不是我們的“我認為”的基礎式的教義和教條，基督就是真理本身。認識真理，意味在上帝恩典的啟示中，信仰和順服於真理，“不是我們去找真理，而是真理來找我們”。在真理面前，我們不是像比拉多那樣的問“真理是什麼？”囂張的態度，我們只能存著謙卑和感恩的態度去認信。巴特的啟示神學，更突顯了基督徒信仰的真正意涵“本於信，以至於信”。對於真理，我們所能做的就只有“信仰”。我認為，後現代主義對“絕對真理的客觀性”的批評是值得我們重新思考的，他們未必完全否定真理的存在，他們只是厭煩了人們自以為對真理的絕對化掌控和在真理之上建立自己的所謂人本基礎。後現代主義也許提醒了我們：面對真理，我們根本不能做什麼，更不能把“真理”拿過來我們這裡；相反地，乃是真理本身主動的臨到我們。這是人們對待真理的一種正確的信仰態度。
以下抽選了自己在《駭客帝國》裡感興趣的一些對白，供大家思考：
Computer: "Wake up, Neo."
Neo: “You ever had that feeling where you’re not sure if you’re awake or still dreaming.”
Agent: “What good is a phone call, if you are unable to speak?”
Morpheus: “Do you believe in fate Neo?”
Neo: “No.”
Morpheus: “Why not?”
Neo: “Because I don’t like the idea that I’m not in control of my life.”
Morpheus: “The Matrix is everywhere, it is all around us. Even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you got to work; when you go to church; when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.”
Neo: “What truth?”
Morpheus: “That you are a slave Neo, like everyone else you were born into bondage; born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch, a prison for your mind.”
Morpheus: “Have ever had a dream that you was so sure was real; what if you were unable to wake from that dream. How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?”
Neo: “Why do my eyes hurt?”
Morpheus: “Because you’ve never used them before.”
Neo: “This isn’t real?”
Morpheus: “What is real? How do you define real?
If you’re talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste, and see; then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.”
Morpheus: “Welcome to the desert of the real”
Morpheus: “…At some point, in the early 21st century, all of mankind was united in celebration. We marvelled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to artificial intelligence.”
Morpheus: “What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a computer generated dream world, built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this [a battery].”
Morpheus: “I’m trying to free your mind Neo, but I can only show you the door; you’re the one who has to walk through it.”
Neo: “I thought it wasn’t real?”
Morpheus: “Your mind makes it real.”
Morpheus: “The Matrix is a system Neo, that system is our enemy. When you’re inside you look around and what do you see?
Business men, teachers, lawyers, carpenters; the very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy… Many of them are… so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it… If you are not one of us, you are one of them.”
Cypher: “I know this steak doesn’t exist; I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, do you know what I realised?
Ignorance is bliss.”
Kid: “Do not try and bend the spoon, that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realise the truth.”
Neo: “What truth?”
Kid: “There is no spoon… then you’ll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.”
Trinity: “The Matrix isn’t real.”
Cypher: “I disagree Trinity. I think the Matrix can be more real than this world… Welcome to the real world.”
Neo: “… I’m going to show these people what you don’t want them to see. I’m going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible…”
Neo: “You ever had that feeling where you’re not sure if you’re awake or still dreaming.”
Agent: “What good is a phone call, if you are unable to speak?”
Morpheus: “Do you believe in fate Neo?”
Neo: “No.”
Morpheus: “Why not?”
Neo: “Because I don’t like the idea that I’m not in control of my life.”
Morpheus: “The Matrix is everywhere, it is all around us. Even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you got to work; when you go to church; when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.”
Neo: “What truth?”
Morpheus: “That you are a slave Neo, like everyone else you were born into bondage; born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch, a prison for your mind.”
Morpheus: “Have ever had a dream that you was so sure was real; what if you were unable to wake from that dream. How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?”
Neo: “Why do my eyes hurt?”
Morpheus: “Because you’ve never used them before.”
Neo: “This isn’t real?”
Morpheus: “What is real? How do you define real?
If you’re talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste, and see; then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.”
Morpheus: “Welcome to the desert of the real”
Morpheus: “…At some point, in the early 21st century, all of mankind was united in celebration. We marvelled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to artificial intelligence.”
Morpheus: “What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a computer generated dream world, built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this [a battery].”
Morpheus: “I’m trying to free your mind Neo, but I can only show you the door; you’re the one who has to walk through it.”
Neo: “I thought it wasn’t real?”
Morpheus: “Your mind makes it real.”
Morpheus: “The Matrix is a system Neo, that system is our enemy. When you’re inside you look around and what do you see?
Business men, teachers, lawyers, carpenters; the very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy… Many of them are… so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it… If you are not one of us, you are one of them.”
Cypher: “I know this steak doesn’t exist; I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, do you know what I realised?
Ignorance is bliss.”
Kid: “Do not try and bend the spoon, that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realise the truth.”
Neo: “What truth?”
Kid: “There is no spoon… then you’ll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.”
Trinity: “The Matrix isn’t real.”
Cypher: “I disagree Trinity. I think the Matrix can be more real than this world… Welcome to the real world.”
Neo: “… I’m going to show these people what you don’t want them to see. I’m going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible…”
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