Thank you, I enjoyed reading that.

I see you have quite an understanding of these issues. Are you sure (and having just seen the movie I really can't say either way) that the directory/ author was portraying Chance as "enlightened"? Certainly there was the reference to the miraculous in the last scene, but I didn't take this as making Chance a Christ figure, only that he did something no one other than Christ ever had done because he was unaware that he couldn't (this scene actually brought to mind a favorite Garfield cartoon from my youth, but I digress).

If the movie is trying to be a satire on television, politics, etc. then it succeeded brilliantly. If it is intending to show people who they really are by demonstrating them against a white wall of "nothingness" (Chance), then again it succeeds brilliantly. If, however, it was an effort to show how Chance is a Christ figure it fails miserably. My own thinking was that Christ (at least as portrayed in the Bible) was very deliberate and knowledgeable in everything He did. Chance, however, is anything but deliberate, and not intelligent in the least.

In the end I felt the movie wasn't about Chance; instead it was intending to comment on everyone else. I don't see that falling into the "pre/trans fallacy" as you described it. If however, the point was to elevate Chance as something to which we should aspire, you are very much on target.