| 词条 | Zion (The Matrix) |
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Zion is a fictional city in The Matrix films. It is the last human city on the planet Earth after a cataclysmic nuclear war between mankind and sentient machines, which resulted in artificial lifeforms dominating the world. Religious meaningStephen Faller writes in Beyond the Matrix that Christianity is the most dominant religious theme in the Matrix films and that "Zion is biblically regarded as the city of God".[1] The book Philosophers Explore the Matrix writes that "The last remaining human city, Zion, [is] synonymous in Judaism and Christianity with (the heavenly) Jerusalem".[2] Racial mattersFaller says that Zion is presented as a contrast to the Matrix, "The racial constituency of Zion is much less European and Anglo than present-day America. We are shifting the paradigm from the racially charged medium of the Matrix, where the subtext is so clearly contrasted in the extremes of black and white, to the imagined world of Zion, which is dominated by people of color."[1] One chapter in The Matrix Trilogy: Cyberpunk Reloaded writes, "Black spirituality is evoked in the Matrix films... by the use of Zion for the underground city of free humans populated primarily by black people, suggesting the dream of Christianised slaves to find a safe haven in 'the promised land' and the Rastafarian belief in an utopian society." Another chapter writes, "The Matrix Reloaded displays black 'life' in a scene reminiscent of countless Hollywood jungle melodramas when the predominantly black population of Zion engages in frenzied dancing to the pounding rhythm of drums. In Hollywood, the war between artifice and reality is drawn along racial lines."[3] Adilifu Nama writes in Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film, "The racial politics of Zion appears to be based on a multicultural model of racial equality and participation. In the Zion setting, a racial utopia is presented where blacks, whites, and other people of color live and work together, and in many cases whites are subordinate but not subservient to blacks."[4] See also
References1. ^1 {{cite book | last=Faller | first=Stephen | year=2004 | title=Beyond the Matrix | publisher=Chalice Press | isbn=978-0-8272-0261-0 | pages=26, 157 }} {{Matrix}}2. ^{{cite book | editor-last=Grau | editor-first=Christopher | year=2005 | title=Philosophers Explore the Matrix | publisher=Oxford University Press | isbn=978-0-19-518106-7 | page=260 }} 3. ^{{cite book | editor-last=Gillis | editor-first=Stacy | year=2005 | title=The Matrix Trilogy: Cyberpunk Reloaded | publisher=Wallflower Press | isbn=978-1-904764-32-8 | page=94, 98 }} 4. ^{{cite book | last=Nama | first=Adilifu | year=2010 | title=Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film | publisher=University of Texas Press | isbn=978-0-292-77876-4 | page=145 }} 4 : The Matrix (franchise)|Fictional populated places|Fictional subterranea|Fictional city-states |
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