In the 1999 film The Matrix, what does Neo choose when offered the two pills?

In the 1999 film The Matrix, Neo chooses the red pill when Morpheus offers him two pills.

Morpheus explains that the blue pill would allow Neo to return to an ordinary life without learning the truth, while the red pill would reveal the reality of the Matrix. Neo chooses the red pill, beginning his awakening from the simulated world.

The scene became one of the film’s most recognizable moments and turned “red pill” into a widely used cultural phrase. Outside the movie, the expression has been adopted by groups with meanings that vary substantially from the original science-fiction context.

The scene is sometimes linked to Pandora’s box because both stories involve opening oneself to hidden knowledge and consequences. However, The Matrix does not directly adapt the Greek myth, and the film’s objects are pills rather than a box or jar.