After waiting for a few years, I finally waited for the return of "Black Mirror". The so-called Black Mirror is to use the mirror of technology to reflect the dark side of our human nature.
With the participation of Netflix in the third season, it will inevitably bring more capital, the scene is bigger, the picture is more refined, the filming techniques of many movies are used, the cast is also stronger, and many familiar faces are seen. , However, the idea and plot are much weaker than before, and even a little disappointed, perhaps because of taking care of the mass market, fortunately, the excitement from the first episode to the sixth episode has continued to improve, and it is still a good drama. Throwing domestic dramas N (N>100) streets.
Episode 1: The
Upcoming Class Society of "Falling Down"
Episode 1 uses social scores to determine a person's social class. Everyone uses all their favors, hypocrisy is prevalent, and even smiles require deliberate practice, and there is almost zero tolerance for bad reviews. , the surface reflects our reliance on social networks. Today, aren't we trying our best to post likes in the circle of friends? The deeper level is that social stratification has been solidified, and the bottom society has no way to counterattack. The social environment, whether it is buying a house, renting a car, etc., is beneficial to the upper society. Once you fall into the bottom or are born at the bottom, a bad life will only make people deeper and deeper. , the aunt driver's chicken soup can't save the cruel reality, the cruel bottom life or the false happiness of the top, what do you choose?
The second episode: "Game Test"
virtual reality game killing
Virtual reality and augmented reality have attracted much attention in recent years. This episode is about a virtual reality horror game test. Players are scared to death in only 0.04 seconds. The reason for being scared to death is not It's because of how scary virtual reality is, and because players are like the intruders of "Inception". In the end, it's unclear whether the wind is in the game or in reality. Technology can intelligently calculate people's emotions and physical perception methods. This is the most important thing. Terrible, everyone has their own fear of people or things, once combined with technology, it is like knocking over Pandora's box.
Usually, what we worry about is that virtual reality is too understanding of people's preferences, making people addicted and unable to extricate themselves. This episode also tells us that technology may also understand our disgust and fear, understand the darkness and weaknesses of human nature, and use these in less than 1 second. kill us. Episode 3: Indulgence and nothingness after the upload of
"San Junipero" consciousness
As soon as this episode came out, there was a strong nostalgic style, which felt inconsistent with the future technology theme of "Black Mirror". Attentive audiences can see the clues leaked by the director little by little, especially the protagonist's repeated emphasis on time. This episode is my favorite episode from the perspective of an ordinary audience, lesbian, love, nostalgic, warm and beautiful, and the plot twists many times. It also belongs to virtual reality. In the future, people's consciousness can be uploaded to the virtual world after death and continue to live forever. Would you like to? Maybe you would like to experience it, but sooner or later most people in that world will go crazy. If there are no deadlines in life, if we can do whatever we want, what's the point of indulging ourselves (like a quagmire)? It is death that gives meaning to human life.
According to Kurzweil's prediction in "The Singularity is Near", the final stage of artificial intelligence is consciousness uploading. Our consciousness can be uploaded and downloaded at any time, just like software can be installed on a certain carrier at any time. Originally, people have just been freed from the shackles of food today. Having fallen into indulgence and nihility, how can human beings face the torture of meaning if they are freed from the constraints of death?
Episode 4: "Dance of Black Letters"
Privacy in the Big Data Era
This episode is not so much the future as it is the present. It is data that brings privacy leaks. The darkness of human nature lies in the fact that everyone has an unspeakable secret in their hearts. , However, in the era of big data, it is easy for us to leak these secrets, but we want to keep these secrets, so just like a lie needs a thousand lies to make up, people are getting deeper and deeper on this road of no return, and the little male protagonist is nothing more than a fight A plane was photographed, and in the end, in order not to let family and friends know, he robbed the bank and killed people.
In the end, we can see that big data leaks privacy and has an impact on family, interpersonal relationships, social image and even stability. If the technology of the other episodes is farthest from us, this episode is the most urgent problem we are facing now. Episode 5: The Human Removal Plan under the Augmented Reality of
"Heroes of War" This episode is based on the military war. It has a zombie movie style. The genetic race, the augmented reality system is implanted in the soldiers, so that they can see humans with inferior genes as if they see animals (cockroaches). The conflict of the plot does not change the reality.
The theme falls on two points:
1. Augmented reality can change the world we see, and it can also change our worldview. Our worldview is easier to manipulate, and free will will no longer exist.
2. If memory can be erased and changed, what is the meaning of human beings? The difference between humans and animals is that they have memories, live in the present according to the fulfillment of memory, and have expectations for the future. If there is no memory, what is the meaning at all?
Episode 6: "Public Enemy on the Internet"
Public Opinion and Artificial Intelligence Joint Murder
This episode is most like a movie, the plot is also tense enough, the suspenseful murder case is solved, the battle of wits with the technical villains, the artificial intelligence kills, and finally leaves an open ending .
The theme of this episode also focuses on 3 points:
1) The people who were killed in the public opinion killing
drama were all because they offended public opinion and caused public outrage, and were finally killed by public opinion. In the past few years, this trend was obvious. All people are human, unable to live or even forced into a desperate situation. Chen Kaige's "Search" a few years ago was this theme.
There are two main dangers of public opinion killing people. The first is the harm to freedom of speech. Dissent is not tolerated, but dissent is often the truth. Secondly, the public cannot have the right to enforce the law because they stand on the moral high ground. This is a wrong value that many hero movies are easy to convey. Even bad people must be tried through procedural justice. No individual has the right to kill him. See Takashi Miike's "Shield of Straw".
2) In the artificial intelligence killing
drama, bees are used to kill people. Bees provide some inspiration for the development of artificial intelligence. The cover of Kevin Kelly's book "Out of Control" is bees. In the play, bees are used as a substitute for biological bees and the government monitors people. The monitor eventually lost control and became a killing weapon for tech madmen.
3), technical madman kills
technical madman using technology to do bad things has become one of the basic settings of science fiction movies, in fact, what we should worry about is that technology kills for its own evolution!
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