Gnosticism

Hollywood likes to exalt human nature, promote the teaching of soul immortality, mess with people's paradigms, and ultimately blur people's sense of right and wrong. Hollywood also likes to present a Gnostic "gospel" that involves freeing the supposedly immortal soul from the material world, which is viewed as a prison. This ultimately makes the Creator God of the bible seem like an evil demiurge with unreasonably strict universal laws.

Neo is the Gnostic Christ in the Matrix and this movie portrays humans being stuck in a programmed computer world managed by three principal agents (like a trinity). Meanwhile everyone else is following the program rules (or computer law), Neo breaks all of them. The computer world can apparently be manipulated from the outside or "the real world". In the real world there is a war that apparently involves humans trying to win a war against the computer machines to saves themselves from extinction and the only humans left are in an underground and earthly Zion. The movie Wall-E perhaps is like children version of this, only with the world completely desolate after humans were taken away into a spaceship called Axiom. The robot Wall-E is the protagonist who wants to bring back humans to Earth (to turn it into a utopia perhaps) and apparently he doesn't like to be kept in line with the Axiom's rules.

Richard Stanley says " I guess one could see the whole of the mass media as it stands today as some sort of extension of gnostic faith... maybe cinema itself is acting as some kind of handmaiden to the apocalypse". The Truman Show also involves the protagonist realizing he was living an unreal life, this is a Gnostic depiction of the world. The movie Pleasantville makes it look like perfection is boring and that the world shouldn't be seen in black and white.