You can not explain to yourself what "The Matrix" is for anything.
You have to see it with your own eyes.
If you take the blue pill, the story is over.
You wake up in your bed and believe what you want to believe.
If you take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I show how deep the rabbit hole is.
All I offer is the truth. ”
So says the character Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) in The Matrix (1999) most famous scene.
Black pills for incels
But in the early decade, the sub-forum The red pill was started on the forum Reddit and the red pill began to be associated with something other than the film.
- You could say that the red pill movement is part of the "manosphere", says Hugo Ewald, fact editor at Dagens Nyheter.
- The metaphor began to be used frequently in the movement as a way of describing that if you take the red pill, you admit that men are discriminated against.
If you take the blue pill, you continue to live under society's dominated view that it is women who are discriminated against.
Hugo Ewald, who has been following online forums such as Reddit for a long time, says that the concept is being expanded.
Parts of the cellular movement have begun to talk about the "black pill" - that they have realized that it is not enough to "see the truth" but that it is just giving up when it comes to women.
The directors have come out as trans
The film's directors, the Wachowski siblings, have both come out as trans women since the first three films were released and seem to have little fun with how the pill has been used.
Lilly Wachowski has said that the films are a metaphor for living as a trans person.
She has also asked Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump to go to hell when they announced on Twitter that they "took the red pill".
- It is the great irony, that they described it as a metaphor for the trans experience.
But I think that the concept today is so decoupled from the Matrix films that it has become part of the vocabulary of men's movements, says Hugo Ewald.