The Spiritual side of Transformers 2 Movie

Warning: If you plan to see the movie 'Transformers - Revenge of the Fallen' and don't want to know part of the ending then DON'T read on.

I went to the movies yesterday to watch Transformers 2 - Revenge of the Fallen with my son Simon. I was going for his sake of course ;) The movie was fast and furious for most of the 2 1/2 hours of fast cars, fast planes and fast robots ..... except ...... when the human star of the movie Sam (Shia LaBeouf) is killed by an exploding misile while running to save the day. CPR fails to revive him and he is given up as dead. That is until the next scene where we are taken into ... Transformer heaven. Here the 'Ancient of Days' of Transformers declares to Sam that it has always been Sam's destiny to be a great leader and to save the day and that he must go back. Whoosh!! Sam's 'dead' body jerks, his eyes open and he's back on the battlefield, full of life and vitality. A little later the leader of the Autobots (good Transformers) Optimus Prime, the only hope of winning the battle, is resurrected by a magical key.

I find it amazing that in a movie where science and technology are 'God' the movie writers still feel the need to inject a spiritual dimension - a greater Spiritual power, beyond this world which controls peoples' destinies, life and death. Is it just that we can't cope living in a mechanistic world where this world is all there is and where death has the final say (c/c to 1 Corinthians 15).