And though I continue to long for that certainty, I also know there is no magic knowledge to help me finally figure out life. The red pill image suggests there is one clear and simple answer-that there is absolute truth and certainty, that escaping from a mental or spiritual prison is as easy as becoming aware of it. (Spoiler alert: they were not.)Īs an adult, I am skeptical of Morpheus’s offer. I also admired Morpheus’s incredibly convincing speech and hoped that my attempts to evangelize could one day be as smooth. I pitied the unsaved people who were still living in a blue pill haze. Right after Neo is interrogated by Agent Smith and then debugged by Trinity, he meets Morpheus, who offers him a choice: take the blue pill to forget everything and go back to a relatively easy life, or take the red pill and know the Truth with a capital T.Īs a middle schooler, I knowingly chuckled during this scene because I was convinced I had already taken the red pill-I knew I was saved by Jesus and on the fast track to heaven. The Matrix is full of iconic scenes and images, but perhaps the most enduring (and these days infamous) scene is Morpheus’s red pill v. Which makes me wonder: how much have I actually changed? Red Pill, Blue Pill, No Pill But if I’m honest, watching the film reminds me that I still share a lot of the same psychological and spiritual urges as my middle school self. Rewatching the film as a non-religious adult, I’m glad I have grown out of my extremely narrow sense of certainty. When The Matrix came out in 1999, I was in middle school and “on fire for Jesus.” I was absolutely certain about everything and strongly identified with Neo: both of us had been lost and asleep, both of us were now awake, and both of us were on a holy mission to save the world.
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