Once one chooses the red or blue pill, the choice is irrevocable. Nothing more.Īs narrated, the blue pill will allow the subject to remain in the fabricated reality of the Matrix the red serves as a "location device" to locate the subject's body in the real world and to prepare them to be "unplugged" from the Matrix.
You take the red pill-you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. You take the blue pill-the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. Holding out a capsule on each of his palms, he describes the choice facing Neo: Morpheus explains to Neo that the Matrix is an illusory world created to prevent humans from discovering that they are slaves to an external influence. Eventually, another hacker, Trinity ( Carrie-Anne Moss), introduces Neo to Morpheus. Neo spends his nights at his home computer trying to discover the secret of the Matrix and what the Matrix is. In The Matrix, Neo ( Keanu Reeves) hears rumors of the Matrix and a mysterious man named Morpheus ( Laurence Fishburne). Japanese director Mamoru Oshii's 1995 anime film adaptation of Masamune Shirow's 1989 manga Ghost in the Shell was a strong influence. The Matrix directly references Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice in Wonderland with the " white rabbit" and the "down the rabbit hole" phrases, as well as referring to Neo's path of discovery as "Wonderland". The film's premise resembles Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Zhuangzi's " Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly", René Descartes's skepticism and evil demon, Kant's reflections on the Phenomenon versus the Ding an sich, Robert Nozick's " experience machine", the concept of a simulated reality and the brain in a vat thought experiment. The Matrix (1999), directed by the Wachowskis, makes references to historical myths and philosophy, including gnosticism, existentialism, and nihilism. See also: The Matrix (franchise) § Influences and interpretations Reality, subjectivity and religion Neo chooses the red pill and joins the rebellion. The pill allows Neo to escape into the real world, where he lives in a pod and is being used as a battery - and finds that living the "truth of reality" is harsher and more difficult than living in the ignorance which the blue pill offers: continuing his life within the confined comfort, without want or fear, of the Matrix's simulated reality. you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." The red pill represents an uncertain future and, unknown to Neo at the time he takes it, the pill frees him from the enslaving control of the machine-generated dream world. the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. In The Matrix, the main character Neo is offered the choice between a red pill and a blue pill by rebel leader Morpheus. 1.1.1 Reality, subjectivity and religion.
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