The Great Morpheus Monologue: What is The Matrix?

Morpheus: “I imagine, that right now you’re feeling a bit like Alice – tumbling down the rabbit hole, hmm?”


Neo: “You could say that.”


Morpheus: “I can see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he’s expecting to wake up. Ironically, this is not far from the truth… Do you believe in fate, Neo?”


Neo: “No.”


Morpheus: “Why not?”


Neo: “Because I don’t like the idea that I’m not in control of my life.”


Morpheus: “I know exactly what you mean… Let me tell you why you’re here… You’re here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain. But you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life. That there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there; like a splinter in your mind; driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me… Do you know what I’m talking about?”


Neo: “…The Matrix?”


Morpheus: “Do you want to know What It Is?”


(Neo nods)


Morpheus: “The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window; or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work…when you go to church…when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.”


Neo: “What truth?”


Morpheus: “…That you are a slave Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage; born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison, for your mind… Unfortunately, no one can be, told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.


(Morpheus takes out the two pills, one in each fist)


Morpheus: “This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back.” (He opens his left palm before Neo…) “You take the blue pill: The story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.” (He opens his right palm before Neo…) “You take the red pill: You stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes…”


(Neo reaches for the red pill, but just before he takes it…)


Morpheus: “Remember: All I’m offering is The Truth – nothing more…”


– From the movie The Matrix



Hope you liked this super-quote, one of the best monologues in movie script history in my non-humble opinion. Thought-provoking when re-applied to what we all can see and experience in "real life"...


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