10 Best "Everything You Know Is A Lie" Moments In Sci-Fi Movies

10. The “Real World” - The Matrix

Let's start with an obvious one.

The entire premise of the 1999 classic is that the world we perceive as "real" is actually a high-level simulation controlled by extremely smart machines that are using human bodies as a power supply.

This comes as quite the shock to Thomas Anderson, better known as Neo. One day he's just a humble computer hacker, then upon learning about this facade, his life is totally transformed.

The moment of no return for Neo comes during the legendary red pill/blue pill scene. Morpheus, the leader of a group of free humans, offers our hero the choice - take the red pill and learn the whole truth, or take the blue one and return to a life of blissful ignorance.

In the end, Neo chooses... the blue pill and the whole movie ends there.

Just kidding. He obviously goes red.

Reducing this incredibly complex lore to a decision between two different colours is one of the many brilliant choices the Wachowskis made when putting The Matrix together.

Now if there was only a blue pill available to us to make us forget about the disaster that was Revolutions.