Which work does Morpheus belong to?

The film The Matrix. Issue.1 names it when it introduces the scene as one from the Matrix movie.

Which scene do the editions recall?

The one in which Morpheus offers Neo two pills: the red one for the truth, which is painful, and the blue one for illusion or ignorance.

What do the editions use the scene for?

Issue.1 uses it to ask whether the reader has been avoiding the facts about the economy. Issue.20 uses it to open its investigation of truth and why it hurts.

Character

Morpheus

Who is Morpheus in the Agency editorial?

Morpheus is a character of the film The Matrix, the one who offers Neo the choice between a red pill and a blue pill. The Agency editorial recalls that scene twice, in Issue.1 and in Issue.20, both times to ask the reader about truth and the comfort of ignoring it.

In short

Morpheus is a character of the film The Matrix. The Agency editorial uses a single scene of his, the offer of two pills to Neo. Issue.1 says that the world economy is in a very bad place and that people tend to avoid the truth, just like in the scene where Morpheus offers Neo the red pill for a painful dose of truth or the blue pill for a perfect dose of illusion, and asks the reader which one they have been taking. Issue.20, the edition about truth, returns to the scene with the line "What's going to be, Neo? The red pill of pain or the blue pill of ignorance?" and then asks what the truth in that scene is.

Key facts

Which work does Morpheus belong to?: The film The Matrix. Issue.1 names it when it introduces the scene as one from the Matrix movie.
Which scene do the editions recall?: The one in which Morpheus offers Neo two pills: the red one for the truth, which is painful, and the blue one for illusion or ignorance.
What do the editions use the scene for?: Issue.1 uses it to ask whether the reader has been avoiding the facts about the economy. Issue.20 uses it to open its investigation of truth and why it hurts.

Who is Morpheus?

Morpheus is a character of The Matrix, the 1999 science fiction film written and directed by the Wachowskis, in which he is played by Laurence Fishburne. In the film he leads a group of rebels and offers the protagonist, Neo, the choice between a red pill and a blue pill. The editions mention only that scene.

How does Morpheus appear in the Agency editorial?

Issue.1 states that the world economy is in a very bad place and that we tend to avoid the truth even when it is not our fault. It compares this to the scene in the Matrix movie where Morpheus offers Neo two pills, the red pill for a painful dose of truth or the blue pill for a perfect dose of illusion, and adds that ignorance is bliss. Then it asks the reader which one they have been taking.

Issue.20 comes back to the scene in its first section, about telling the truth, whose subtitle asks whether ignorance is bliss. The edition writes the line "What's going to be, Neo? The red pill of pain or the blue pill of ignorance?" and says Morpheus asks it as he offers two solutions to all of Neo's problems. It then asks what the truth in the scene is and starts its investigation from there.

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