Comment on The Matrix

• hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  At the time they were red.

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