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#MATRIX BLUE PILL OR RED PILL MOVIE#

In the two decades since the first Matrix movie debuted, one of its core premises has been seized upon and warped by a particular subset of noxious online culture. Those themes lead to the perhaps more pressing issue of ownership. On one hand, Resurrections is Wachowski’s chance to gripe about the economics of what she and her sister made, the way this deeply personal special-effects spectacular was long ago co-opted as a mere commodity-its ornate gunplay and slick aesthetic ruthlessly peddled while its deeper themes were cast aside. It’s a pertinent question for a number of reasons. But rather, who owns those movies and their mythology? That is, in essence, the question of Lana Wachowski’s new Matrix film, Resurrections (in theaters and on HBO Max, December 22). Yes, taking the red pill may reveal things that you don’t want to see.īut it’s far better to be uncomfortably uncertain than comfortably wrong.Who owns The Matrix? Not the computer simulation meant to keep people in a complacent stupor that’s pretty definitively owned by the sentient computers who, in Lana and Lilly Wachowski’s grand 1999 vision, have enslaved humanity. “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered,” he remarked, “than answers that can’t be questioned.”

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The problem with the modern world, as Bertrand Russell put it, is that “the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” Even after he earned a Nobel prize, the physicist Richard Feynman thought of himself as a “confused ape” and approached everything around him with the same level of curiosity, enabling him to see nuances that others dismissed. Rather, it requires a conscious type of ignorance where you become fully aware of what you don’t know in order to learn and grow. Admitting ignorance doesn’t mean remaining wilfully oblivious to facts. When we utter those three dreaded words- I don’t know-our ego deflates, our mind opens, and our ears perk up. Taking the red pill requires an admission of ignorance and a good dose of humility. The more we speak our version of the truth, preferably with passion and exaggerated hand gestures, the more our egos inflate to the size of skyscrapers-concealing what’s underneath. Certainty blinds us to our own paralysis. “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance,” as the late Stephen Hawking said, “it is the illusion of knowledge.” The pretense of knowledge closes our ears and shuts off incoming educational signals from outside sources. If the powers-that-be already decided that we use only 10% of our brains or that dietary cholesterol is inexorably bad for you, we can move on. As a result, facts become dispensable, and misinformation and pseudoscience thrive. Day after day, we choose the illusion of certainty rather than the messy reality of uncertainty. Everything he sees-from his clothes to his job-is an illusion created to blind him from the truth. He realizes that he’s been living in a fabricated reality called the Matrix-a prison for the mind created by machines to harvest energy from humans.

Neo chooses the red pill, and the veil quickly drops. But if he takes the red pill, Morpheus tells Neo, “you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.” The rebel leader Morpheus tells him that if he takes the blue pill, “the story ends.” Neo will wake up in his bed and believe whatever he wants to believe. That’s the choice that Neo faces in the movie The Matrix.

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