S2E1: The good places are still there, and the bad ones are coming out.

Karl 2022-04-21 09:02:53

The good part
of the first episode: Continuing the various grotesque and cold realistic themes of the first season. How to describe the TV series "Black Mirror"? To say it is science fiction seems to be much more realistic than science fiction, and to say it is realistic is far from reality. The analogy I can think of is "1984", both of which are between science fiction and reality, let's call it science fiction realism.

The first episode of "Black Mirror" is about technology and SNS. (To tell a joke, that robot is basically the gospel of an otaku.) At the beginning, the male protagonist brushing Weibo is too in line with the current life, and the subsequent plot trend seems to be a little farther from life - which is in line with what I said above. Said "Black Mirror" characteristics, sci-fi realism.

The bad part of the first episode: the
focus is too loose - every season of the first season has a clear theme: E1 talks about eyeballs and morality, E2 satirizes reality TV, E3 talks about privacy exposure Refundable.

Since the second season, the ambition has become bigger, and the first episode alone has talked a lot, but it seems very messy.
The social network at the beginning can be made into a theme of "people pay attention to virtual SNS and ignore real communication", and then spread out a picture scroll of "whether technology can steal people's memory", which is also mixed with some such as "robot and human relationship" Discussions like that - if the ambition is big, it's easy to lose it.

To sum up: the first episode of the second season is still excellent, but compared with the stunning style of the first season, it is still a little worse. Let's see how the director of the next two episodes filmed.

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