Is life imitating the movies?

“This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back," says Morpheus in The Matrix (1999). "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.”
“If there’s a blue pill and a red pill, and the blue pill is half the price of the red pill and works just as well, why not pay half price for the thing that’s going to make you well?” says President-Doctor Obama, July 22, 2009.