10 Movies That Forced You To Answer Impossible Questions

5. The Matrix - Red Pill Or Blue Pill?

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Keanu Reeves is never one to let the big questions slide, and The Matrix is the big one when it comes to the meaty, brain-altering, impossible situation that has no right answer. In a dystopian future where humanity is harvested by evil sentient machines, the Matrix exists as a computer system that controls human minds to perceive our everyday existence as reality - rather than realise our place locked in as an energy source for the big bad robots.

When Reeves's Neo learns the truth about what's really going on, he is asked if he wants to continue down the difficult path of being #woke, or if he wants to continue to live his life normally, within the Matrix, unaware of the larger terrible actuality that we all actually exist in. The red pill, or the blue pill.

The scene is filmed as a direct question to the audience, asking exactly what path you would choose offered the same scenario. You can know everything, unhappy and fighting every day of your life to change it, or live blissfully in ignorance as only those who have been indoctrinated can.

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