Friends who are familiar with the Black Mirror series should know that in the Black Mirror series, vigilance against technology and pessimism of technology have always been a very clear position, and the alienation of technology to people has always been a very important theme. For example, in S1E3, the memory recording technology has torn apart intimate relationships. In S2E1, technology cannot reproduce intimate relationships. In S3E1, the scoring system makes private life subject to public discourse space scrutiny, and people become more hypocritical. In S3E5, "perception closed "System" makes soldiers into killing machines, in S3E6, the original ecosystem-assisted mechanical bees become killing machines, in S4E1, the personality/consciousness replication technology makes people enslaved... All of these are listed, technology or technology is used by Placed on the opposite side of the good, technology does not bring about the progress of civilization. Under the progress of science and technology, people are alienated - more suspicious, more hypocritical, more ruthless, more domineering, more humiliating. All of these discussions are extremely safe—you’re naturally wary of technology, but more conservative as a result—and they’re all just reinforcing ideas that are already in the audience’s mind. But S4E2 is not like that, its discussion is bolder and more focused. Technology has become the protagonist of the discussion. It is finally no longer placed in the position of absolute evil. Technology has played a more positive function in this episode. In this episode, the subject of discussion is a surveillance technology. Some people think that the topic of discussion is family education/parent-child relationship, but it is not, because family education is deliberately hidden in the drama - you can hardly see the education of mothers to daughters, and the parent-child relationship is also deliberately weakened- The fetters between mother and daughter and the manifestations of rivalry are also very superficial and functional. The reason why these are deliberately hidden or weakened does not mean that family education/parent-child relationship does not exist or fails, but that the main discussion Give way to another body of discussion. "Surveillance" itself has a very clear "original sin", which represents control, the invasion of personal privacy, and the struggle against subjectivity. The show is very restrained on this point. The mother turned off the filter mode in time when she discovered her daughter's rebellious behavior due to the filter system, and shelved the surveillance system after her daughter had spent her childhood safely. When the mother reactivated the surveillance technology, it also happened when her daughter lost contact and the mother was very worried about her daughter's safety. All of this restraint is deliberately breaking some stereotypes, giving it a certain degree of legitimacy while preserving the ethics of the discussion of technology. In the play, this technology has played a very positive role Function - If there is no access to the visual images of the daughter, the grandfather may not be able to get timely assistance in the event of a heart attack, the daughter is pregnant at the age of 15, and bad things such as drug use will not be discovered in time, then she Life may be destroyed because of this... This technology is very positive. In this episode, Black Mirror changed its previous conservative stance on technological progress, no longer criticized and criticized technology on the opposite side of good, but guided the audience to think more openly and actively: a project with positive meaning technology and how we view its values and ethics in conflict. I'm not saying that Black Mirror changes the usual theme of being wary of technological progress, but that it creates a relatively level playing field when discussing technological progress, and that kind of discussion is precious.
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