It was a very non-Black Mirror season, and a White Mirror in terms of results.
Throughout the season, we continue to expand and explore technological settings such as consciousness copy, empathy, etc., such as the continued discussion of "White Christmas", which is of course more in-depth than White Christmas.
(I just wanted to write a short comment and complain, but the number of words is limited,,,,,, I have no language skills, just take a look)
E1, the protagonist, as a player, only has this permission, not even teleportation? NPCs are only generated from DNA. DNA is not the carrier of memory. How can there be previous memories? Although we can't go too deep into the technological background of Black Mirror, the settings in this episode are too perfunctory to care about. In terms of plot, it is the old-fashioned artificial intelligence rebellion.
E2, about the relationship between protection and control, many technological products, services, and systems were originally under the banner of protection, but after being used by criminals, they became tools of control, like the artificial bees in S3E6. On the whole, it's okay. First, the positive effect of the chip is shown, and then from the daughter's sex to the drug addiction, the mother's desire to control gradually increases. It is the turning point where the daughter knocked out her mother a little abruptly.
E3, technology plays a dispensable role in this episode, and it does not play a role that is different from the current technology world. Looking at previous seasons, technology has always played a role in directly stimulating human contradictions and eliciting moral dilemmas, but here it is not. It means that even without the memory reproduction device, the police can still track down the murderer step by step like the insurance company employee, and the murderer will keep killing people in order to cover up. If the memory device is replaced by eyewitnesses, and the murder scene is found to be replaced by bloodstains, isn't this the way many crime films do. In fact, when I watched it, it felt like an ordinary criminal investigation film. From this episode, the ending starts to turn white.
E4, I didn't understand this episode, does it mean that the system is actually a true love tester, put two matched people into the virtual world to see if they can rebel against the world for love? But the heroine can't even stand the 'ah' sound of drinking water. How do you think that you can stay together with the hero? She has never lived with the male protagonist for a long time. The portrayal of love is too shallow. Or is this itself irony?
Both E5 and E6 have a Black Mirror style, but don't end well. E5 wants to talk about mother's love. In the era of wasteland, mothers risked their lives to break into the area controlled by killing robots in order to bring back a new doll for their children. The previous plot was tight and tense, and there were only 3 minutes left in the progress bar to usher in the ending. I once thought that this episode was going to have a big twist that I couldn't guess, but in the end? ? ? ? Such a long story, just to show a mother's love for her child? Those pig houses, the identity and purpose of teammates, the desolate land, the whereabouts of humans, the origin of the robot dog, can't you explain so many elements? And these elements, these backgrounds, don't seem to contribute directly to the theme of showing mother's love, which leads to a very divisive and inexplicable process and result.
E6 is the same as E5, the process is good and the ending is bad. Can't say bad either, I just don't like it. E6 tells 3 stories, one about common sense and two about copy of consciousness. The point is still the same question: Is it a human with only autonomous consciousness without a copy of the consciousness of the human body? Do you still have human rights?
Black Mirror has been discussing this issue since White Christmas. But it wasn't until this episode that the answer was given: count. That's why I didn't like this episode.
Take a look at the previous Black Mirror routine, put the current human moral system in an extremely advanced technological environment, let the technology directly raise ethical issues, and finally cause the audience to think. However, it will not directly express who is the problem, nor will it directly say that it is all the fault of technology, but by telling a good story and showing the struggle of the protagonist, let the audience judge and reflect on their own. Not didactic, which is important.
Looking at the ending of E6, the heroine liberated her father, took away the monkey doll, burned a whole room of sins, and got along well with her mother's copy of consciousness. The tragedy of the second story did not affect her at all. Her words and deeds are all saying: the copy of consciousness is human, copy of consciousness has human rights, they should not be objectified. Expressing opinions through the heroine in such a straightforward manner immediately loses the taste of Black Mirror.
I really like the first two seasons of Black Mirror, and some episodes of the third season. The tragic ending of Black Mirror is indispensable in my opinion. Only by tragedy can human beings fear the development of technology and the fragility of existing human systems. . How can a happy ending express this? How can it be called Black Mirror?
Maybe some endings in this season can't be regarded as happy endings, but they also give people hope (E3 was arrested by the police, E6 succeeded in revenge). Black Mirror is no longer black and clear.
This is a real betrayal of Black Mirror.
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