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==The protagonist Neo== | ==The protagonist Neo== | ||
Although the protagonist in the film, Neo, was always suspicious of bluepilled life, he nonetheless remained (sort of) bluepilled in the early segments of the film, which can be ascertained by certain statements he made such as "You ever have that feeling where you’re not sure if you’re awake or still dreaming?" after meeting Choi at his apartment. He made this statement after Trinity gave him his first redpill clue by transmitting a hacked message to his screen; Neo's response suggesting that the redpill clue was otherwordly hence was dreaming suggests he remained bluepilled. His mental breakdown after receiving the redpill from Morpheus, including the statement "I don’t believe it. It’s not possible" suggested that even during his redpill transformation, he was somewhere between bluepilled and redpilled; i.e. [[purplepilled]]. | Although the protagonist in the film, Neo, was always suspicious of bluepilled life, he nonetheless remained (sort of) bluepilled in the early segments of the film, which can be ascertained by certain statements he made such as "You ever have that feeling where you’re not sure if you’re awake or still dreaming?" after meeting Choi at his apartment. He made this statement after Trinity gave him his first redpill clue by transmitting a hacked message to his screen; Neo's response suggesting that the redpill clue was otherwordly hence was dreaming suggests he remained bluepilled. His mental breakdown after receiving the redpill from Morpheus, including the statement "I don’t believe it. It’s not possible" suggested that even during his redpill transformation, he was somewhere between bluepilled and redpilled; i.e. [[purplepilled]]. | ||
==Bluepilled characters== | |||
Morpheus labels the bluepilled people in the Matrix as the "unplugged". He describes the unplugged as "minds of the people we are trying to save", but that Morpheus and co are hesitant to do so because they are "not ready to be unplugged" primarily because they are "so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it." As a consequence, Morpheus describes them as "our enemy" as they could be compromised by transforming into "sentient programs" i.e. agents such as Agent Smith. | |||
Although individual bluepilled (i.e. unplugged) characters never get much screen time, there are a few who get a modest amount of transcript oration. These include: | |||
* Lieutenant, a high-ranking officer in (presumably) Chicago PD | |||
* Mr. Rhineheart, the software company executive. | |||
* Choi, a reveller/party animal/socialite. | |||
Each of these three bluepillers had very distinct avocations, and the directors of the film, the Wachowskis, made sure to portray them mostly as snobby, whilst ridiculing that snobbiness. For example, the Lieutenant is pretentious towards his superiors whilst oblivious to the fact that his superior is actually a sentient computer program. Mr. Rhineheart is portrayed as compulsively obsessing over his company's finances whilst unaware that his company is actually as fictional as the Monopoly board game. Choi, the reveller, is portrayed as serene and about to consume an LSD-like drug. Choi is unaware of the paradoxical nature of using a hallucinogenic whilst already living in a dream world. | |||
==As a majority/established viewpoint== | ==As a majority/established viewpoint== | ||