The year “The Matrix” came out — 1999 — already had a very sci-fi sound to it. It was the year Prince had imagined as the run-up to the apocalypse, a premonition that would be echoed in the Y2K ...
In last year's post-apocalyptic sci-fi hit "The Matrix," Morpheus offers Neo a critical choice: "Take the blue pill. Wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. Or take the red pill.