Keanu Reeves’ first trip down the rabbit hole is as electrifying as ever – and Carrie Anne-Moss’s charisma elevates the sequels“You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.” With these words in the Wachowskis’ 1999 sci-fi classic The Matrix (★★★★★) – now re-released as a trilogy with its two sequels – the ironically named Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) issues a wakeup call to computer hacker Neo (Keanu Reeves).
The red pill will show Neo harsh reality, because everything he thinks he knows is false.
And that applies to us too: all of us consumers placidly sucking up the trance-inducing pap from the corporate-political complex of the state.
The red pill and the blue pill was the meme The Matrix gifted to pop
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