Comment on The Matrix

Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• toofpic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The Matrix is a Rambo 3 remake. Living in a cave and eating slop is an allegory for shooting explosive arrows into a bridge.

  Still worth it.

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  • hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, but what is the blue pill for?
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    It lights blue.

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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It can be interpreted that way. That doesn’t mean that anybody who doesn’t see it that way is wrong.

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• queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But my estradiol is a blue pill? 🤔

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  • hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Big pharma ruined the metaphor by changing the pill colors.

    The blue pill was an antidepressant, the red pill was estrogen.

    Also the main villian is a man in a suit who constantly deadnames the protagonist. The matrix is real life.

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    • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I wonder if they did it intentionally.

      Changing the pill from red to blue basically cost them nothing and served no purpose, but just so happened to ruin the metaphor.

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  • hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    At the time they were red.

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• Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Its an alagory for the social matrix we all find ourselves in.

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  • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s an allegory for the fact that through their control of the media, the rich can construct whatever reality they want in the minds of the masses.

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