The red pill and its opposite, the blue pill, are a popular cultural meme, a metaphor representing the choice between the red pill - knowledge, freedom, uncertainty and the brutal truths of reality or the blue pill - security, happiness, beauty and the blissful ignorance of illusion.The terms, popularized in science fiction culture, are derived from the 1999 film The Matrix. In the film, the main character Neo is offered the choice between a red pill and a blue pill by rebel leader Morpheus. The red pill represented an uncertain future, it would free him from the enslaving control of the machine-generated dream world and allow him to escape into the real world, but living the "truth of reality" is harsher and more difficult. On the other hand, the blue pill would lead him back to ignorance, living in confined comfort without want or fear within the simulated reality of the Matrix.
The Red Pill or The Blue Pill
It depicts a dystopian future in which reality as perceived by most humans is actually a simulated reality called "the Matrix", created by sentient machines to subdue the human population, while their bodies' heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source.
Cyber criminal and computer programmer Neo learns this truth and is drawn into a rebellion against the machines, which involves other people who have been freed from the "dream world".
The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction action film written and directed by The Wachowskis and starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano.
The truth is a bitter pill to swallow, it's an uncomfortable truth that cannot be avoided - BlackDigital
The truth is a bitter pill to swallow, it's an uncomfortable truth that cannot be avoided - BlackDigital