7/3/2023 0 Comments Red pill philosophy![]() ![]() "When I re-watched 'The Matrix' recently after 20 years, the thing I really noticed that surprised me was the influence of the "The Terminator" movies," Harris said. Harris said that in this area, "The Matrix" takes its cues from the pop culture of the era including the "X-Files" - a show about needing to believe in a different reality - and especially "The Terminator" films that laid the groundwork for artificial intelligence run amok and the dystopian future of man-fighting machines. ![]() ![]() Neo is reborn into the "real world," which is a desolate existence where humanity is being farmed to power the race of machines. The movie follows a computer programmer/hacker named Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, who gets recruited into a group of rebels battling a group of sentient machines behind the artificial reality, known as the Matrix. "When people on the internet or on Reddit forums say, 'Take the red pill' - which is a line that comes from the original 'Matrix' which sort of means wake up - or even when you see a headline that says, 'You’ve been doing such and such wrong your whole life' as if life is this enigma that you just have to wake up to decode, that’s all the world that 'The Matrix' help build," Harris said. It’s that we use its language," Harris told WPR’s " BETA." It’s not that we talk about the movie so much. "'The Matrix' has had a more kind of insidious secret effect on our culture. According to Vulture’s Mark Harris, it also created a shorthand for us to communicate in and understand an online world. It became a surprise mega-hit, grossed over $460 million worldwide and launched a pair of sequels. When "The Matrix" hit theaters 20 years ago, it was heralded for its technological breakthroughs - including the infamous and now ubiquitous " bullet time" cinematography - and its mind-bending story of rebellion against a world proven to be an artificial reality. ![]()
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