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The blue-pill/red-pill choice first appears as a dramatic plot device in the 1999 film , where Morpheus offers Neo a literal red pill to reveal the harsh reality of the world and a blue pill to return...
The red pill/blue pill choice in The Matrix grew out of the Wachowski sisters’ mix of philosophical, literary and pop-cultural influences — notably Jean Baudrillard, Lewis Carroll, cyberpunk fiction a...
The red pill/blue pill choice in The Matrix is widely interpreted as a modern restaging of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: the red pill corresponds to leaving the cave and facing a harsher “real” world,...