Film Theory: The Matrix has NO ESCAPE

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The Red Pill or the Blue Pill? It's one of cinema's most famous choices. But do the differently-colored pills from the Matrix actually do anything...well different? What if the "real world" and Zion are actually constructs of the Machines? Get ready to have your mind blown, Morpheus, because there is no getting out of The Matrix!

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[weirdbutawesome]

Morpheus: You take the blue pill, your life stays as crappy as it was.
Neo: And the red one?
Morpheus: Same. But it's strawberry.

[Abrxas]

Isn't it amazing that 18 yrs down the line, we are STILL analyzing this movie?

[happybadger]

The best prison, is the one you think you have escaped from already. When you never had escaped to start with.

[lisakanzira]

Ah, the movie that gave me my first existential crisis. Memories.

[bradenvassov]

I hope my gta character never figures all this out

[killerfox]

This is exactly what I THOUGHT the plot of the movie was when I first saw it- that they had never actually left the Matrix at all- but no one else seemed to agree even though they weren't entirely sure what had just happened either!

[noahwolcott]

A simulation.. inside a INSIDE A SIMULATION

[anmuloced]

I always thought there should have been a short mid or after credits scene on the third film showing one of the minor characters in Zion experiencing a little déjà vu and then just shrugging it off.

[juliedorman]

Take both pills. Red and blue, this is the only escape.

[nurse]

Gives more weight to Smith's line "We are not here because we are free, we are here because we are NOT free"!

[byronwilliams]

Philip K. Dick had a story called The Defenders where humanity was forced underground after a war. They left the machines on the surface to continue that war, but the machines soon came to the conclusion that war was illogical. The machines then became unknowing caretakers for humanity pretending to continue the war, but in reality protecting those exiled to the surface and cleaning up the wartorn Earth. I wonder if a similar logic could be applied to these films.

[Flatchlenter]

In the second movie, the Oracle offers a red pill-shaped piece of candy to Neo. This subtle moment perfectly symbolizes the idea that what they perceive to be the truth revealed by the red pill is just another thing to pacify them.

[drjesusgallardo]

The matrix universe has 3 levels:
1. The matrix
2. The “real world” (necessary to give humans option and the illusion of choice)
3. Reality

Nobody has escaped the matrix yet. Zion has been destroyed previously, that in itself is proof enough that the “real world” is a simulation. I knew this the moment Neo had power over the machines. Matt is correct. Hopefully we should see the next level in the sequel.

[dg]

Theory: the matrix is an immersive VR experience, like in R&M with Roy, that’s why he is the saviour, and had powers.

[Simalacrum]

Hey Matt, could you do a film theory exploring the theory that the machines in the Matrix are in fact the good guys, protecting the humans in the matrix while they fix the world that humans themselves made uninhabitable?

[danachase]

There is a concept known as "The Golden Prison". The concept hypothesizes if you make a prison so nice that no one would want to leave you need not spend resources forcing prisoners to stay - they stay of their own volition. I have believed this theory since the movies were released; They never left the Matrix. By making people believe they had escaped the Matrix to a grittier "real world" the prisoners would never question if they were still inside. Hunting down humans in the "real world" was just to keep up the ruse.

The Architect actually touched on The Golden Prison when he explained an earlier version of the Matrix gave everyone everything they could ever want - but it failed. The machines learned they had to make a prison within a prison.

[eyalshani]

what if the entire simulation was created to hide from them the fact that theyre in a movie

[ocarinaplaya]

I like matpat's narration. His enunciation and mannerisms are pretty likeable.

[richardfurman]

There is no Matrix, just a bunch of high people in the future taking stronger drugs and playing better VR Games causing a Total Recall mind game.

[DanielJOropeza]

I was re-watching the movies the past week and one thing I kept thinking something similar: why does no one consider the possibility that the "real world" (where Zion is) is also a simulation. I think that once you have proof that you were living in a simulation, there's no way that you can be certain that the new reality isn't also a simulation