Does science and technology benefit mankind or enslave and control mankind? Is mankind's pursuit of scientific and technological progress freeing labor or restraining itself?
The first-season drama version of "Black Mirror" consists of three separate short stories, satirizing the impact of technology on human life in a dark humorous style.
I will probably never forget the story of mating with pigs in my life. The video is extremely uncomfortable, but my brain truly admires the creator.
The following is the movie of the Black Mirror series - "Black Mirror: Christmas Special".
The movie continues the style of the drama version, showing the audience a technological "accident".
The wonderful mix of technological spectacle and moral panic makes the film extremely intense.
Let’s first introduce the two main scientific and technological achievements in the film.
One is cookies.
Cookie can extract human consciousness from the brain, store it in an egg in the form of data and code, and then use the copy of consciousness to guide the behavior of the body under the operation of the staff.
Through the use of cookies, people's seemingly autonomous behavior can become a patterned response to receiving a signal.
The advanced point of cookies is that they hand over the control of human nature to technology.
Another is shielding technology.
Everyone has an electronic eye. Through the electronic eye, people can block others, and those who are blocked will become a mosaic. At the same time, people may also be blocked by others and lose the right to communicate with each other.
This shielding can continue to descendants, that is, A blocks B. If A has descendants, B still cannot communicate with A's descendants. Only death can unblock it.
The advanced level of shielding technology is that it does not block some information, but cuts off the channel of communication and unilaterally obliterates the past between people.
Here are two things to think about this movie:
First, self-incrimination, contempt of the law
The staff responsible for investigating the case used cookies to uncover the truth.
The female prosecutor said to the cuckold man: The cookie we took out of your head just gave us the full story. So you can keep the silent as long as you want.
The cuckold wanted to keep silent, but cookie betrayed him.
Most of the laws of western countries grant criminal suspects and defendants the right to remain silent.
The "Miranda Rules" in the United States require the police to inform the police of four sentences after arresting a criminal suspect before questioning him, two of which are "you have the right to remain silent" and "you may not answer any questions, Otherwise your statement will become evidence against you."
The U.S. Constitution states that "no one... shall be compelled to be a witness against himself in a criminal case."
my country's Criminal Procedure Law also has similar provisions: it is strictly forbidden to extort confessions by torture and collect evidence by threats, inducements, deception and other illegal methods, and no one may be forced to prove their guilt.
The judicial principle of ancient Roman law includes the protection of the right to silence, "justice never calls for anyone to expose their sins".
The core of silence is "no need to incriminate oneself", and the right to silence reflects the protection and respect of civil rights.
The cookie did bring the truth to the surface sooner, but it violated the cuckold's right to remain silent and flouted the majesty of the law.
With the progress of the plot, cookie not only violated the cuckold's right to silence, but also further pushed him into the abyss of doom.
Because at the end of the film, the cuckold's consciousness is imprisoned in a world of nothingness, and the copy of consciousness is immortal, so he will be tortured for eternity.
This is a punishment outside the law, harsher than the death penalty, a flogging of the spirit of humanism, and a great disrespect for life.
Second, technology is advancing with each passing day, and morality is stagnant
Black Mirror is not a pure science fiction and horror film, but a technology thriller.
We live in a modern society where technology is developing vigorously, and we are exposed to various scientific and technological achievements every day.
What Black Mirror does is: extend technology in a known direction. This design makes it easy for the audience to have a strong sense of substitution, and is scared into a cold sweat by the storyline.
The two technologies of extracting consciousness copies and intelligent electronic eye shielding have been implemented without moral and legal permission, indicating that technology has a strong tendency to "sweep the leaves in the autumn wind" in modern society and is not subject to human control.
In the second half of the film, consciousness extraction technology is even used by the police to torture prisoners and achieve human goals, which further shows that modern society is likely to acquiesce to the barbaric growth of dark technology.
The film places ethics and technology in stark contrast:
Technology has made great strides, but ethics and legislation have stagnated.
Just imagine that technology that has lost its moral shackles dominates and erases humanity, and all of this has been tacitly approved by human beings. This is simply terrifying.
Not only do we have to ask, whether science and technology benefit mankind or enslave and control mankind, and whether mankind’s pursuit of technological progress is liberating labor or restraining itself?
Compared with traditional sci-fi films, "Black Mirror" has a stronger irony, contrary to the normality of sci-fi films that focus on the audio-visual experience, and assumes the role of education and inspiration.
Through black humorous stories, the antagonistic relationship between technology and humanities is exaggerated, and people's subconscious skepticism about "technology defeating human beings" is used to create an atmosphere of panic.
Finally, I sigh, "'Technology life' is increasingly becoming an indelible feature of modern society, and it is an inevitable development trend that science and technology will have human nature.
As technology liberates hands, people begin to look forward to emotional, life-oriented, and non-tool-oriented technological care.
However, the temperature of technology is really difficult to control, and if you are not careful, it will freeze human nature or scorch human civilization.
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