Where can I find my first self?

Israel 2021-10-13 13:06:06

I have never been so depressed after watching a British drama. The British expression of black humor is beyond the reach of the people all over the world.

[EP01] In the

first episode, the kidnapper who kidnapped the princess asked the Prime Minister to have sex with a pig for a national live broadcast, otherwise he would tear up the princess. When I saw this, I thought that this film should be a comedy. I wanted to see how funny this farce ended. I kept watching with a curious mind, but the development of the plot deviated more and more from what I expected. track.

In the end, under the pressure of public opinion, the Prime Minister was forced to broadcast live to the whole country. He had sex with a pig for more than an hour, in exchange for the life of the kidnapped princess. But what is ridiculous is that the princess was released half an hour before the Prime Minister started the video, but no one noticed it. Because almost all people across the country flocked in front of the TV to wait to see the Prime Minister carry out this ugly and wretched prank-style rescue.

The deserted streets of London are in contrast to the streets full of bars. Everyone is waiting with a curious mood like I did at the beginning. Who knows that when they see their prime minister making love to a pig, most He closed his eyes disgustingly, and lowered his head.

The prime minister chose to do this because of the so-called "popular opinion". The so-called popular discussions on Twitter and Facebook determine all of this. However, such a large group of good people have a kind of mentality to go. To deal with this matter, do you want to see a joke, or stand up and talk without back pain. Have they ever wondered what would happen if this kind of thing happened to them?

The development of network information makes the society become more and more insensitive. One thing can be spread all over the world in just five minutes, and nothing will change. Secret again. A dignified prime minister turned out to be a puppet in the Internet age. What on earth is what we really want to do, and what on earth can we sit there calmly for an afternoon and listen to our innermost thoughts.

The suspect who kidnapped the princess cut off his finger and threatened the Prime Minister in exchange for making a fool of the Prime Minister. But he also became a famous artist. This kind of big irony is really ridiculous. In today's era, what is needed is "hype", isn't it? Even Luo Yufeng's 4.7-meter-high buck-tooth has a halo of self-proclaimed "learning wealth and five carts, and alluring the country," relying on her own hype to realize her "American dream." "So what is impossible?

[EP2]

This episode is the saddest one I watched. If the first episode has reflected the insensitivity between modern people, then this episode simply expresses this relationship to the extreme. People in this era live in a highly intelligent, fully virtual era. They wear the same clothes. Everyone earns points by cycling in the gym. The points here are just like in the Time Planning Bureau, where points are money.

People in this era follow the rules every day to watch fixed programs, eat fixed things, and work hard on bicycles to earn points. Life is not the same, they don't even need to go anywhere, because as long as there is an avatar of themselves, there is nothing wrong for them to stay in the gym for the rest of their lives.

The protagonist was the one who resisted this virtual system the most, until he met our "Miss Three" [actress of DOWNTON ABBEY playing the third lady], and heard the singing of the third lady in the toilet by accident. The actor moved his heart for the first time, and felt warmth and affection for the first time in this icy era of full intelligence. He gave his brother the 15 million points he had left to him to Miss San, and wanted to take her to the "Talent Show".

The way the third lady sang on the "Talent Show" was really beautiful, and the song was really beautiful, and the third lady standing on the stage was as pure as an angel. The performance was very successful. When the actor was as excited as everyone else, the judges said that Miss San was suitable to be a porn star on the adult channel. The emotionless judges only thought about how to squeeze the value of the third lady to the highest value, and ignored her just so moving performance.

When the audience was cheering for Miss San to accept this condition, the actor had already been dragged out of the backstage by the bodyguard. Miss San came here with a dream of becoming a singer, but in the end she gave in to such a dark and ruthless system. She agreed to the judges' request.

The life of the actor has returned to its original state. Everything around is still a virtual world without any emotions, and even forced to watch the porn taken by Miss San because of insufficient points and unable to FM. The actor is fed up with this kind of life, so he decides to work hard to earn another 15 million points to return to the talent show to save their era.

When he returned to the stage of the human show, he held the glass sheet against his throat and shouted at the judges hoarsely. If they didn't let him finish these words, then he would kill himself here immediately. He vented hard, roared, and uttered all his dissatisfaction with this era and this system. He really had enough!

But when he finished his speech, the judges actually said, "This is the most real performance he has seen in this period of time." Did you hear that? He said "performance." Hehe, in their case. Where is the world, where is there any emotion, where is there any sense of reality, when the hero passes with a passion to save the world, but what is the result?

At the end of the film, he made such a huge irony. The actor actually accepted the conditions of the judges and promised to make a speech similar to his passionate speech on TV twice a week. If the third lady wants to get rid of the hard fate of riding a bicycle every day, then even if she does a star break, she can be regarded as fulfilling her dream. But what about this actor? But what about us?

Do we still remember our dreams at the beginning, and remember what our stupid persistence was for? We are still like the male protagonist, even if we have earned 15 million points of our own, we finally lost ourselves. The original dream has long been swallowed by the numbing mechanism of society.

[EP03] People in

this era are still dolls manipulated by high technology. Everyone has a chip implanted behind the ear, which can record past memories through the chip. When you want to watch it, you can use the "remote control" to call up the memory screen. No matter which day, year, or person's memory, you can always reproduce the scene.

The protagonist in this episode has been doing "the fight between the trapped beasts", and the so-called "sniffing the horns" is to describe him who goes to extremes. The actor's suspicion is too strong. From the beginning of the boss's job evaluation, it can be seen that he has figured out every detail and words of his boss to the extreme, thinking about the possibility of his imminent unemployment. Even when his wife watched his reminiscences with him, he clearly saw that his boss had checked his assessment report, and he still didn't want to believe it.

If you are too jealous, don’t be afraid. As long as you have this memory chip, you can doubt where to click, so easy~ When the actor suspects that his wife and her EX are still afflicted, he desperately asks his wife what happened to them. , How long have you been together. His wife told him that it was a ridiculous love long ago, but he still deeply doubted it. A man kept watching the footage of him and his wife attending the dinner together. Of course, this was not over. The next day he came to the door to threaten the man and asked him to delete all the memories of her wife in his chip.

It was when the man deleted his memory, the actor unexpectedly discovered that the memory of the man 18 months ago still had his wife, who was already married at that time. He went crazy when he returned home and forced his wife to show him the memory of her and this man 18 months ago. The protagonist numbly witnessed the sex scene between her wife and this man 18 months ago. He even said, "When I doubt something, when the result is the same as I thought, then I will feel a little happier. "

The actor's obsessive-compulsive disorder and suspicion have driven him to a dead end. Finally his wife left him with the child. The protagonist repeatedly played the beautiful scenes of him and his ex-wife alone at home. It is not difficult to see the extremely regretful expression and heart of the protagonist. So in the end he chose to cut his skin and take out the chip behind his ear. So this "trapped beast" was finally rescued.

I read the book "When the Color of Sound Tastes Sweet" a while ago, and it was said that the memories in the human brain are obviously personal, because we will be selective in every past thing. Modifications are stored in the brain, so some things will feel so beautiful when recalled, even if the original situation was not so perfect at all. And if the times are going to come when everyone has to rely on memory chips to live, then can we still find the good things we have modified in the past?

People have lost too much innocence and instinct in this age of material desire and advanced information. We will change our original intentions because of certain public opinions, we will give up our original dreams because of the oppression and temptation of the system, and we will disperse our wives because of the ruthlessness of high technology. We have changed too much.

Where will we be the last? Who are you waiting for to redeem?


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  • Dessie 2021-10-20 18:59:59

    For such a collection of black blockbuster movies that are sharp, embarrassing, psychedelic and heavy at the same time, I think of the Chinese movie "Thirty-Three Days of Broken Relationship". People regard the TV series as a movie and we regard the movie as a TV series. Shoot, stop talking.

  • Martine 2022-04-24 07:01:02

    When we enjoy ourselves and are overly dependent on the various networks and entertainment in the world, we are also being consumed by this era, and we are also getting a big ear scratch.

Black Mirror quotes

  • Kenny: [sobbing] They filmed me.

    Hector: Filmed you...

    Kenny: Through my computer camera.

    Hector: What, like, filmed you?

    Kenny: Yeah, like, you know, doing it.

    Hector: Like sex?

    Kenny: No. Like, you... you know.

    Hector: Jerking off. Jerking off to porn or something? Well, everyone does that. The fucking pope probably does that.