The Matrix, West Influencing the East or vice versa?

During our lecture (seperate blog) we have zooomed into the last 150 years of Art history into a 'digital age' and the big 'key' milestone 3D Film & CGI the use of graphics in movies. 
This ties in with the research I did for the ILM (Industrial Light & Magic) talk hence alot of the films within this set of slides included some of the same 'key' technological developements invented by or developed by ILM. 
 I'm sidetracking as the one film that I noticed falling across our core subjects was 
The Matrix. 
Why? Because it included aspects I wrote about in Creativity & Social Context, namely the way the story and script includes both eastern & western philosophy. 
This subject is heavily written about on-line and I have taken a few extracts below that seem to ring true when looking at the Film past the action scenes. 


"The content of the film includes scenes that are clearly influenced by by Zen Buddhism or eastern mysticism. Many of the lines, and certainly the martial arts sequences, are certainly all aspects of an eastern influence. The fact that many people watching The Matrix are seeing only the "content" of the kung-fu scenes and the electronica soundtrack while missing the serious sermon going on all around them".
 But people often make the mistake of assuming that Judaism and Christianity are somehow exclusively "western" religions. Both are situated geographically and historically in Israel, which is on the Asian continent. The holy city of these two religions is Jerusalem, which sits in the navel of the world, as the meeting point of east and west. In other words, Judaism and Christianity are religions that share and have been influenced by both east and west, and have influenced both eastern and western philosophies since time immemorial.


http://www.metaphilm.com/philms/matrix1.html


Further more the basis of the film is set in a modern enviroment where software and 3D is prevelant and features heavily the use of these mediums in it's production and it's content. 


On Reflection  from our earlier studies where the work of artists like Kitagawa Utamaro(喜多川歌麿, 1753 - September 20, 1806)  a Japanese printmaker and painter, and is considered one of the greatest artists of woodblock prints (ukiyo-e). came to influence arts movements, (Impressionism), artists, and cultures.  
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kitagawa_Utamaro


This cross over and influence now seems to be as influential now as back in the 1700's