‘We had such potential. Such promise. But we squandered our gifts. And so, 9, I am creating you. Our world is ending. Life must go on.‘

I just saw the coolest movie, Nine. It’s a wonderful animation movie which has an incredibly cool message in it. The world has been taken over by the biggest creation of mankind, The Machine. This super-robot has killed all the people and all that’s left are a few dolls. One says:

‘When we awoke in this world, it was chaos. Man and machine attacked each other with fire and metal. I lead us here to sanctuary and here we waited out the war. Slowly, the world grew still until all that remained, was The Beast. Now we wait for it too to sleep.’

This doll, One, hides away in a church with his fellows. Yet there is another doll, Nine, who wants to do something about it. He is told by Six that he must go back to where he came from (‘The Source, The Source, go back to The Source!) and when Nine arrives there, he finds a message. The message is from The Scientist who created The Machine. He created The Machine out of his own brain to do good, but others corrupted it and it became an evil machine because it had no soul. The Scientist tells Nine that the dolls, Nine and the others, are his soul. They have to save the world.

In the end, One sacrifices himself while saying (about the human race): ‘They’ve left us nothing. Nothing. Why do we have to right their wrongs? Sometimes one must be sacrificed.’ By doing that Nine is capable of turning The Machine off and saving the world. The movie ends with a conversation between Seven and Nine:

‘What happens next?
I’m not sure. But this world is ours now. It’s what we make of it.’

I guess I’m not the only one seeing these amazing parallels here. Wasn’t it God who created the world, hoping it to be purely good? And wasn’t it the devil who corrupted this, turning to evil? Didn’t God put His hope on One person, Jesus, in whom His soul was? Why did Jesus have to right our wrongs? Sometimes one must be sacrificed..