To tell the truth, we haven’t all been in this situation as not all of us work in a cubicle, but many of us have been in dead-end jobs that we’d like to get out of and it’s often difficult to just be there Every day to a place that you just can’t stand. Imagine if Neo took the blue pill and THAT was the result. It’s pretty bleak, isn’t it? It may sound like I’m trying to give office space a bad name, but to be fair, it would never have turned around, had Peter never done anything to improve his situation, it would be way too much like in real life been. Imagine the Matrix holding Neo tight and keeping an eye on him, and Neo just goes about his day and behaves as usual while wondering why he can’t break out of the funk he’s in. It’s too easy to think that he’d finally want to reach Morpheus and take that red pill, but then again, if he didn’t really want to know what was in the rabbit hole, diving off a building might be the only way to stop, apart from other measures.
Since this definitely falls under the type of theories people love to talk about so often, one has to wonder if or if Morpheus and his people could stop Neo from dying at this point if he had got things this far the matrix wouldn’t allow it. Some might even want to argue that Neo wasn’t suicidal and wanted to know too much about the world outside of his own to even consider scuba diving on the sidewalk, but that’s kind of incidental. The whole idea is to have fun with a theory and post it in the hope that other fans will pick it up and run with it. Maybe something about being the One would come to life in that moment and save him, or maybe he would have to be reborn and someone else would have to wait years and years to find him again. But then, as the architect says, Zion would have been destroyed and sown again to start the cycle over. It’s a bleak way of looking at things, but Neo’s life and death seem to be starting a new cycle that may last longer than many may even think.
Imagine if the architect’s words were perfectly accurate, and only enough people were kept alive to restart Zion when they “found” it or were born in it. Their demeanor in the city and their ability to make things work could be attributed to the ancients who built the machines so long ago, and their constant feud with the machines would be both habitual and hereditary. It’s a lot to really think about, and it’s enough to hurt your head, but it’s only accessible via the red pill which, if Neo had taken the blue, wouldn’t even be a possibility as a story . Wachowski obviously did not have that in mind, because they wanted to give people a film that they would not soon forget. The Matrix has influenced so many other films, television shows, and various parts of pop culture since its release that it is easy to see that the world has been affected by this idea in more ways than one. Many people are convinced that we currently live in a matrix-type world, a place where we are locked up just because things keep getting worse and worse depending on the perspective, and there seems to be no escape. It’s a grim outlook on life, but it’s also one that gives a lot of people the space to come up with even more theories. Hey, that’s what people do when they start thinking about their lot in life, and to be fair, it’s really interesting.
But thinking about what could have happened if Neo had taken the blue pill is actually fun, as the feel of office space isn’t too far away as Neo was an office worker who looked like he’d been out of traffic half the time dragging and just couldn’t do it I can’t stand what he did or didn’t do with his life. Many of us have been there before, but many of us may still be waiting for our own version of Morpheus to show up with that fabled red pill and take us into a nightmare that is the truth, but this is way worse than that What we have. Maybe the blue pill wouldn’t look bad in comparison. No, the red pill would be more fun.
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