As far as they know, this is the entire world.” The Wachowskis ask the same question Plato does: “How do we know what our reality really is?” Inside are people who were born and have spent their entire lives there, chained into a fixed position, only able to see the wall in front of them. The first and by far the most respected of the trilogy, The Matrix “largely interprets Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. But the ideas behind it, as this Film Radar video essay shows, go back a long way indeed. That film, a career-making success for its directors the Wachowski sisters (then the Wachowski brothers), had its own elaborate vision of a false reality entrapping humanity as the actual one surrounds it, a vision made realizable by the finest late-1990s computer-generated special effects. All rights reserved.Do you take the red pill or the blue pill? The question, which at its heart has to do with either accepting or rejecting the illusions that constitute some or all of life as you know it, became part of the culture almost immediately after Morpheus, Lawrence Fishburne’s character in The Matrix, put it to Keanu Reeves’ protagonist Neo. The Matrix Resurrections debuts December 22.Ĭopyright © 2021, ABC Audio. ![]() But if you want it, you have to fight for it.” It could be this is the first day of the rest of your life. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. Anything else is just your mind playing tricks on you.” He adds, “We don’t want anyone to get hurt, do we?”ÂĬonversely, the red pill lets you hear from co-star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, who tells you, “Right now, you believe it’s 2:47 p.m. The blue pill greets you with a voice-over from co-star Neil Patrick Harris that states, “Do you remember how you got here? You’ve lost your capacity to discern reality from fiction. ![]() Each pill unlocks different shots from the movie.Ĭreepily, both choices are personalized with whatever time you happen to choose them: for example, click on the blue pill at 2:47 p.m., and the voice-overs you hear will reflect that exact time. The blue pill allows one to stay asleep in what they think is the real world, while the red tells you the horrible truth: that “real life” is a simulation created by machines to pacify a human race enslaved in the actual world.Ĭhoose either pill, and complete with the drizzling of digital green code the original films made famous, you’re presented with snippets of the upcoming film, and scenes of Reeves’ return to the blockbuster franchise. As in the movie, each offers a different path. ![]() Ahead of Thursday’s trailer release, Warner Bros.’ new interactive teaser for the fourth Matrix movie plays on the choice Keanu Reeves‘ Thomas Anderson/Neo made in the original film.ÂĪtÂ, you’re presented with two choices: a red pill or a blue pill.
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