Seeing as I re-watched Tron Legacy on cable recently, I thought it was a pretty interesting story about a god who's lost control over his creation. Flynn is a god that is probably the least qualified to hold the title. He's pretty egotistical and well, human. He's just some asshole game-dev who got zapped into cyberspace. Complete fluke. After escaping, he sought to create a more, "perfect" system, and created the second Grid from the ground up.He projects himself onto the grid, making it so that he can actually walk along side his creation, but by doing so loses a lot of the power he had over it (note: Sam said that from the real world, Clu could be deleted in a few keystrokes. While in the Grid, Clu is basically unbeatable physically). A god that has a craving to interact with his creation more intimately but needing to give up his power to do so. It's a very human yearning, and also incredibly ironic how the creation that Flynn wants to interact with is little more than a series of programs and functions. Machines. But no one on the Grid calls his existence into question. But, that comes at a cost, and we see Flynn veing overwhelmed by what he's created and ultimately unable to stop Clu's coup or save Tron.Then, he's forced to walk his creation powerless as the world around him flays and the ISOs are destroyed, much like the God of Abraham destroyed the Egyptians and Sodom and whatever else he didn't see fit to exist in his vision.Clu and Flynn are very much 2 different sorts of gods.Flynn is an imperfect but compassionate god who gives up some of his power to interact more closely with his work. He's not really capable of fighting on the same level as someone like Clu. He's also knowledgeable of his imperfections and as such wants to "remove himself from the equation". These things culminate in a god that has become alienated from what he's created and no longer quite understands it.Clu although he tries to be a stalwart of logic and indifference. Looking down on the grid (note how he is always flying in his ship, or is overlooking things from on high) and the perfect god, he is subject to all the whims and emotions that Flynn has, because he is Flynn. He can't create programs like Flynn can, only re-purpose them to his desires. This causes a great deal of Clu because he is limited not by choice, but by nature. Flynn created him to oversee the grid, not be a god. That was his job.It's also worth noting that the original Clu existed outside of the Grid. He was a hacker program that Flynn used to gain access to areas of cyberspace that he wasn't supposed to. And the second Clu has the same yellow coloring, showing that he is separate from the rest of the Grid. Does this mean that Clu has freewill? Well, he can actually go against his creator's wishes but he still is slaved to his original purpose. But does it matter? Are we slaves to some other purpose that we can't comprehend, or control. Intrinsic to our existence in a way that we cannot fight? But does that mean that everything we do is already set in stone?What this raises a series of interesting dilemmas. What if God stays in heaven not because he fears us, but because he doesn't want to give up that? How much of what creation is was a fluke, and would that God seek to destroy those imperfections regardless of what collateral damage is done for the sake of his vision? To what degree can a creation surpass its creator? How much power does he have?The Matrix's whole "reality is unreal..." thing is so boring. It verbatim quotes the philosophers it invokes as a crutch instead of showing us characters. "Would you rather have a cute little lie or an ugly truth?" "Mind over Matter" "Matter does not exist" "It's all relative" "Visualize to Actualize" stuff is mostly said outrightrather than proposed and left to the viewer to ponder. The way I see it, smart stories facilitate thought by showing you an interesting scenario and allowing you to ask why, as opposed to outright telling you (and that is why Atlas Shrugged is a shitty book and Hyperion is far more interesting). Also, the fact that there is a flat out "POWER OF LOVE" scene undermines everything that it seemingly proposes as to the nature of reality. It goes on and on about how everything we see is ultimately our brains interpreting what our senses tell it but automatically says that LOVEEEEE exists outside of it for some reason. Why? Because plot. Why it didn't scrutinize the nature of emotions within a space where everything can be rewritten or erased on a whim is horsecrap!