of the drama Black Mirror was called a divine drama when it was born, which was extremely shocking. After the baptism of time, the plot it describes is attached to the hearts of the audience, catalyzing and stirring the relationship of reality, and it is classified as part of the memory of the life experience of the crowd.
Its existence in this sense is no different from the existence of television, movies, PCs, mobile phones, and various media.
This black screen, big or small, is loaded with most of the elements including information, association, money, emotion and even the meaning of modern life, which has completely changed the relationship between people and the world.
So, is it still trying to shake humanity?
No great work can circumvent human nature. Black Mirror attempts to help us map what current and near-future technological advances will bring us, or what may be potential, and how information technology and media carriers can reshape our strengths, wills, likes and dislikes, concepts, and even basic human nature.
The mutation direction of these things is like the classification of films, which can be drama, comedy, sci-fi, thriller or even horror.
A black screen is a world, a portal to a world that is farther and nearer. It's a bit virtual, but technological progress has made that world more and more real, so real that it's like an elephant in a room. What it connects and records is reality, shouldn't it be called a compressed three-dimensional?
Facing this black screen, is it like being in an abyss, unpredictable and unpredictable? Does the mirror reflect the true nature of a person? Just a virtual image.
EP1 God Bless My Lord
Princess Ying was kidnapped. The kidnappers asked for a bizarre "ransom". The Prime Minister had to live stream sex with a pig to the world. The ridiculous setting and the sarcasm in the bones are disdainful of black humor.
As the opening chapter, the first episode of Black Mirror explores multiple dimensions: (1) The life of the princess (the heir of the nominal head of state, the national symbol) and the dignity of the prime minister (the actual leader, the symbol of national status) are weighed on the balance, if not the princess or if If it is not the prime minister, how will people choose - to some extent, it can even be seen as an irony of the national system and the political system;
(2) The influence of the media on public events - technological progress has formed the power of self-media, information infiltration and leakage are everywhere, and the media are deeply involved in emergencies, and in many cases even become an important force in changing the situation;
(3) Onlookers Effect - People's interest in the event changed from anger over kidnapping to expectations of the Prime Minister's making a fool of himself. Onlookers claimed that the live broadcast was too disgusting and didn't want to watch it. Is this true? Spectators set off a wave after wave of collective onlookers due to the endless emergence of public events. The drama of this kind of private power being smashed by the group's unconscious/conscious "democracy" violence has been played too much in the "social network" era. . Group, random evil seems to cover up its evil essence, disguised as "group resonance" rampant in the world, and this episode makes this sinister exposure of human nature no different.
EP2 Is this small world worth 15 million
Utopia? Or should it be more of a dystopia. A group of people who have been fooled and enslaved, the virtual represents everything, and the high technology is close by, but there is no freedom. The second episode clearly aimed the criticism at TV shows and talent shows. The story clearly contains two meanings: (1) games, animations, special effects of film and television, entertainment programs, the overloaded virtual sensory stimulation makes people feel numb, and the flood of adrenaline makes it difficult for people to feel the stimulation and experience the authenticity in real communication. Emotions, and then lost in life;
(2) The consumption society, entertainment to death, and the creation of gods have deprived people of the diversity of basic rationality and value judgments. The mysterious brainwashing organization that monopolizes everything is in a certain sense, destroying everything. Look at this episode, the public is bewitched, so why aren't the singers on the show? Public opinion and comments are designed to be manipulated (the judges are all your good teachers and friends, those who support you and those who don’t like you—in fact, it’s just for the effect of the show, to “mobilize the audience”), and the public’s psychology is to follow the trend, Unconscious (the one slapped one by one to the over-excited, ecstatic face), the singer turns into a porn star (this is what some people like, to create topicality, and you are just a named entertainment symbol, representing nudity , peeping, sexual excitement, and trading). The show is actually very cruel. Behind the success may be full of viciousness and blood. This is a warning to the participants. Of course the warning to viewers is also obvious, watching too much TV will make you stupid!
ep3 your whole history
This is an episode with the least critical feeling, and basically does not involve the public, but this episode is deeper in the thinking about the life process and the exploration of human memory. If people can keep all their memories (all personal history) in real time through technology, it sounds like a wonderful thing - things can be found where they are forgotten, and the reactions of people and objects of communication can be played back and experienced.
But on reflection, perhaps it is because there are always too many secrets and too little joy in this life, and the excessive storage and abuse of memory can easily cause trouble for people. People often replay precious happy moments in the past to escape the unfavorable truth, and This is not conducive to facing the reality and solving the dilemma; the uncertainty and unreliability of memory will generate traumatic stress to form some protective mechanisms, but the complete and indelible truth will cause harm to people, and digital memory will eventually make People become its vassals.
Living in undoubted memory always seems to make people live in the real pain of the past and the illusory beauty of the past, and eventually be controlled and destroyed, rather than the other way around. This may also be one of the tragic fates of human beings.
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