Yasemin:
More explicit in Terminator 2, but a theme still present in "3" is the search for the perfect protective father. John Conner grew up without a father, and Arnold becomes that lost father in "2", and is recognized as such by Sarah. He comes back in "3" to once again protect John, as well as help him cope with the inevitability of Judgement Day (i.e. internalize the "reality" principle?).
That the ultimate terminator became the ultimate father/protector figure
is also a psychoanalytic gold mine, virtually mapping the Oedipal process of primary repression, where the castrating father becomes the ego ideal.
As for the Matrix, see David Brottman's article in Volume 7 of Film and Philosophy "A Gnostic Matrix for the Masses".
Dan Shaw
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