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The Matrix seemed to me to suggest the role of God in everyday life. If you take the opposition betwixt the Oracle and the...old guy person, you see the Yin and Yang of everyday life (stating the obvious, and really how obvious could they have made that!) but you never see any real guiding force over anybody in this movie. Well...aside from fate and inevitability. But that's what it really comes down to. God, maybe as a creator, or just a passive observer, passed on the daily care of people and events to balance. There's no ONE person who can arbitrate everyone's destiny, even he's ruled by balance. It sort of adds up to (I think) God having become nature, or a cycle. There was a time (before machines) that events happened that remained permanent. The Matrix was a change, and a long-standing one. After that, after the subjugation of humans, though, long-lasting changes ceased. Neo, the One, eventually gets balanced out of the equation, and so God (as Nature) continues the cycle. The Sun rising in the end symbolizes the eventuality of the cycle.
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