Now that technology is more and more developed, it seems that everything in people's lives can rely on technology to solve problems, such as mobile payment, artificial intelligence cleaners, driverless transportation and so on. The series of stories in "Black Mirror" are about the use, reconstruction and destruction of human nature by future technology. Today, Xiao V will introduce to you his Christmas special.
"Black Mirror: Christmas Special" can be said to be a sci-fi horror film. Although this film has a lot of funnels, it does not go to the details in it. The film itself is very good. There are two technologies in it that make people sigh, one is the copy of consciousness, and the other is the shielding function. The two male protagonists have been punished accordingly for the crimes they committed - immortality, imprisonment for a minute and a thousand years, and being shielded from the world, with everyone turning a blind eye to you, which is more terrifying? One fan said: "How merciful is the death penalty compared to these two psychological tortures."
Copy of Consciousness - Torment on the Soul
Nowadays, people's online browsing information is recorded on the computer, and after the mobile payment is made, there is also a consumption record. If you have money, people can control the electronic devices at home through their mobile phones. Wherever technology exists, people's actions are recorded.
The screenwriter of the film made a bold assumption that there is one thing that replicates all your thoughts. This is a copy of consciousness. It is a copy of your own consciousness, but it only has consciousness, that is, soul, and no body.
"I think, therefore I am", people in reality only regard this copy of consciousness as a string of codes, but they have the ability to think independently, and because they do not have a body, they will be played by people on a control panel. This is a powerful satire of idealism against materialism.
Just because they were disobedient, people let the copy try to retreat for a few months until they finally compromised. Just because of the sin of the flesh itself, the copy will spend "a minute and a thousand years" in the Christmas celebrations all over the world, and the same song will be played continuously for this thousand years. This is a real soul. It seems that with the continuous progress of science and technology, people's moral thoughts are constantly becoming passive and indifferent.
Shielding function - absolute cold violence
Today's social networking platforms such as WeChat, Weibo, QQ, etc. all have the function of blocking others. Once you block others, you will no longer receive messages from them.
But the blocking function in the film is to completely block the person you want to block in real life. You can't hear or see the other party, and the other party can't see or hear you. What both parties see is just a cloud of gray If you don't unblock it, you can't let yourself indulge in memories, because the photos are full of ghosts. This kind of shielding also applies to the descendants of both parties. Unless the shielding is lifted, the two will be separated from each other, and they will not be able to do even the most basic communication.
When people get along with each other, it is inevitable that there will be a cold war, that is, "cold violence". If you have this technology and block it, you can really suffocate people to death.
What impresses me the most in the film is not the stories that are layered up like a thousand and one nights; not the immortal and repeated life of Potter at the end of the film; Registered at the police station, blocked by everyone. In the street full of celebratory atmosphere, Matthew looked at the phantoms, looking extremely helpless and vulnerable, completely different from the eloquent him who was talking to Potter just now. He was a red phantom that marked him as a dangerous figure, and no one dared to approach him. This is not being registered, but being abandoned by the world, and it is hard to imagine how much life would be worse for him in the future.
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