[central_va]

The red pill and blue pill represent a choice between the willingness to learn a potentially unsettling or life-changing truth by taking the red pill or remaining in the contented experience of ordinary reality with the blue pill. The terms originate from the 1999 film The Matrix.

[Seruzawa]

Trivia: There was a red pill in Total Recall 1990 that signalled a desire to return to reality.