Let me tell you why you’re here

You’re here because you know something

What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it

You’ve felt it your entire life

That there’s something wrong with the world

You don’t know what it is, but it’s there

Like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad

It is this feeling that has brought you to me

Do you know what I’m talking about?

Do you know what it is?

The Matrix is everywhere

It is all around us

Even now, in this very room

You can see it when you look out your window

Or when you turn on your television

You can feel it when you go to work

When you go to church, when you pay your taxes

It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth

What truth?

That you are a slave, Neo

Like everyone else, you were born into bondage

Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch

A prison for your mind

Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is

You have to see it for yourself

This is your last chance

After this, there is no turning back

You take the blue pill—the story ends

You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe

You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland

And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes

Remember

All I’m offering is the truth

Nothing more