Very nice job.
I might leave NewsMax off that list. Their reporting is dubious.
Unfortunately, yes.
One of the worst, most immature, biggest POS movies I ever had the misfortune of seeing.
I’ll choose the Bucket of Truth!
I'm just sayin'.
Good job but you have it backwards. It is the Red pill that allows you to see the real world. In my prison ministry band I used to dress the part and give the speech to the inmates. It ended with Christianity being the RED pill and went on from there. It got their attention from the git-go because I began it with “let me tell you why you’re here.” I would leave out the Neo parts.
Here is the whole speech from the movie.
Morpheus: Let me tell you why you’re here. You’re here because you know something. What you know, you can’t explain. But you feel it. You felt it your entire life. That there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there. Like a splinter in your mind — driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I’m talking about?
Neo: The Matrix?
Morpheus: Do you want to know what it is?
(Neo nods his head.)
Morpheus: The Matrix is everywhere, it is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, or when go to church or when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. A prison for your mind. (long pause, sighs) Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back.
(In his left hand, Morpheus shows a blue pill.)
Morpheus: You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. (a red pill is shown in his other hand) You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. (Long pause; Neo begins to reach for the red pill) Remember — all I am offering is the truth, nothing more.
(Neo takes the red pill and swallows it with a glass of water)
Unfortunately, the column writer got his pill colors mixed up. To quote Morpheus from the movie, “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”
In other words, with the blue pill you stay in the fantasy of the Matrix and the red pill shows you reality.
"We need guns. Lots of guns!"
Um, it was the red pill that released Neo from his bonds.
Only taking the red pill does not insure comfort for long. Any time after a short time ... now they will have seized power completely. Then we will all find ourselves serfs or worse. Remember Russia in “Dr. Zhivago”
Immediately after the Reds seized power, people had many people forced into living in them ... due to the size/bigness of the houses. The owners were relegated to a couple of rooms, there were shortages, and the invaders began to burn the furniture for fuel. There was no private property. They were wretched, poor, starving, desperate people ... still glad they had won, and had done away with the Monarchy. It is possible ... I pray God to help us in our day, in Jesus name, amen.
