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I fully agree with your take on it!

The Wachowskis (who created the movie series), welcome people's own interpretations of it, in the sense that art is communication, and communication ends with the recipients interpretation, the recipients meaning-making of what their senses witnessed. I haven't watched it since its initial release, but from what I recall, as is common for the sci-fi genre, it eclectically drew from all sorts of cultural sources, merging them into something new. However, what the Wachowskis have since said is that they wanted the protagonist and viewer to experience a deconstruction, evaluation, and (modified) reconstruction of their model of what is real, such that – and I quote – "it asks you to actually participate in the construction of meaning" – and I would say Epicurean philosophy could be characterised using the same words.

Anecdote: When I was forced to attend a state school, the authorities' Christianist priests, who up until then were busy lecturing about the dangers of Satanism and – oddly enough – popular superstitions, had a lot to say about how Biblical this movie series is. There was even a book to that effect, and as we all know they don't just let anyone write a book, so it must be true!