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Slavoj Zizek: But the choice between the blue and the red pill is not really a choice between illusion and reality. Of course Matrix is a machine for fictions, but these are fictions which already structure our reality: if you take away from our reality the symbolic fictions that regulate it, you lose reality itself. So what is the third pill? Definitely not some kind of transcendental pill which enables a fake fast-food religious experience, but a pill that would enable me to perceive not the reality behind the illusion but the reality in illusion itself. If something gets too traumatic, too violent, gets too, even too filled in with enjoyment, it shatters the coordinates of our reality: we have to fictionalise it
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But the choice between the blue and the red pill
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is not really a choice between illusion and reality
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Of course Matrix is a machine for fictions
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but these are fictions which already structure our reality
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If you take away from our reality
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the symbolic fictions that regulate it
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you lose reality itself
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I want a third pill
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So what is the third pill
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Definitely not some kind of transcendental pill
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which enables a fake fast food religious experience
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but a pill that would enable me to perceive
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not the reality behind the illusion
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but the reality in illusion itself
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If something gets too traumatic too violent
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even too too filled in with enjoyment
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it shatters the coordinates of our reality
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We have to fictionalize it
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Movie Summary
Slavoj Zizek examines famous films in a philosophical and a psychoanalytic context.
