Red pill Or Blue pill?

[Quintessence]

It symbolizes the difference between the comforting lie and the painful truth.

That's one way of looking at it. Honestly, I think one just has to watch the movie themselves. There are varying interpretations regarding what it means.

The bare bones of it is, Tumah, that throughout the course of the film, the protagonist becomes aware that reality isn't what it seems. The lives people live are actually a complex virtual reality simulation. Taking the red pill breaks the simulation, while taking the blue pill allows one to continue existing within the simulation. How you interpret the entire thing depends very much on the ontological perspective you take to the film.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

That's one way of looking at it. Honestly, I think one just has to watch the movie themselves. There are varying interpretations regarding what it means.

That's true. Yet I find it favorable because of how it's talked about during the film;

"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. 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."

"I know what you're thinking, 'cause right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here: Why oh why didn't I take the BLUE pill?"

"[to Neo who is choosing the red pill] Remember... all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more." (I can't help but see it as translated: "All I'm offering is the truth. Not comfort/not a better world")

"If you'd told us the truth, we would've told you to shove that red pill right up your ***." (seems to imply that the truth is horrifying, that illusion is preferred)

But I do agree it can be interpreted differently, but I think the interpretation of happy illusion vs bad reality has more to back it.

 

[Amechania]

Can someone explain the significance of taking the a red or blue pill in this movie?

Think of the blue pill as Viagra and the red pill as an MAOI and it all becomes perfectly clear.

 

[CynthiaCypher]

You guys realize that the whole epic of Neo was merely a story that the Matrix was telling itself as was implied in the end of the series.The Architect told Neo that this all happened before and it would happen again and that there were Zions and Matrices prior to the one he was experiencing and in the last movie the Oracle tells Sati that they would see Neo again. Why? Because the whole process would repeat itself.

 

[Amechania]

And did you also know that being straight is merely a story that Keanu Reeves is telling himself but he ends up going out and doing it all over again anyway?

 

[Brickjectivity]

DreamCandy, what if religion is the red pill and science is the blue pill? Have you ever had a dream, DreamCandy, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?"

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I highly prize knowledge, so red pill all the way!

 

[Sees]

Blue pill = Easy way, information spoon-fed to you and meager existence.

Red pill = Path of Heroes, knowledge earned and adventurous existence.

 

[Tumah]

That's one way of looking at it. Honestly, I think one just has to watch the movie themselves. There are varying interpretations regarding what it means.

The bare bones of it is, Tumah, that throughout the course of the film, the protagonist becomes aware that reality isn't what it seems. The lives people live are actually a complex virtual reality simulation. Taking the red pill breaks the simulation, while taking the blue pill allows one to continue existing within the simulation. How you interpret the entire thing depends very much on the ontological perspective you take to the film.

I see, thanks.

 

[fantome profane]

I find the OP ironic when you realize that the matrix movie was another of the several science fiction retellings of the Christ story.

But yes, I would take the red pill. Anybody got any?

 

[Gjallarhorn]

I wonder what happens if you take both?

"The Method of Science, the Aim of Religion"