A glitch in the Matrix, too, has come to mean something inexplicable and surreal happening in an otherwise normal situation. The Matrix became shorthand for the uncanny feeling that our media-saturated, hyper-commercialized, machine-mediated culture had alienated us from some primal human reality. The film also introduced a vocabulary to describe many of its associated sensations. Since its release in 1999, The Matrix has endured as a potent representation of the technologically motivated identity crisis of the early 21st century.
You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.” “You take the blue pill,” he says, “the story ends-you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. He proffers two capsules, one in each hand (they are reflected in his tiny sunglass lenses).
Morpheus has just shown us that the world we thought was real is merely a simulation, and that the actual real world is mired in an interminable, violent power struggle between robots and humans.
In The Matrix, Morpheus, a cool bald guy wearing sunglasses and a black crocodile trench coat, offers Keanu Reeves (and, by extension, the audience) a choice.
