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Given how fast technologies are developing, films about the future become films about the present at lightning speed. “The Matrix,” a 1990s classic, is just a couple of years away from becoming our reality.

Set in a dystopian future, the film shows people living in virtual reality with their bodies living in capsules and being used as an energy source by machines. As the main character discovers this unsettling fact, he decides to revolt. The film’s most iconic scene has entered our culture and is there to stay. In the scene, the main character offers his accomplice two pills: a blue one to forget the disturbing truth and a red one to remain aware of the disturbing reality. Almost 20 years old, the film is more relevant than ever. We are getting fully immersed in alternative realities of social media and online content, with our accounts being used as an energy source by huge corporations. While this unsettling trend is clear to some, most people choose to swallow the blue pill and continue their existence blissfully unaware.

Somebody famous said that those who don’t learn the history are doomed to repeat its mistakes. I believe that those who do not open their eyes to the ways the world is evolving are doomed to stumble into the future as gloomy as depicted in science fiction films. Being a figment of the director’s imagination, films set in the future are a powerful tool that can prevent the onset of the order we find undesirable. Watching films is currently the most popular free time activity among young people, which makes this medium an excellent opportunity to get through to them. Any doctor knows that prevention is better than cure. Watching a film and changing our ways before it’s too late is undeniably better than having to tackle the hardships of the realities we don’t want to live in.

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