Black Mirror has always made me reflect on the current situation from a surreal perspective.
Sexual fantasies are more easily fulfilled as the speed of data transfers increases. From the bbs era to blurry pornographic web pages to tumblr and twitter, people in this era can easily start a figurative sexual fantasy anytime, anywhere. And no one can deny that this fantasy is extremely wonderful, and those who experience him for the first time can be regarded as entering a new continent. Many of the scenes and beauties are hard to see in reality, and that kind of spiritual excitement and climax are difficult to satisfy for most ordinary people in real life. In this bit world full of videos and pictures, people put on masks to start the carnival every night. "That kind of feeling is like visiting a brothel." This kind of cloud shopping costs almost nothing, and the entry channel is extremely simple and cheap. More and more people are entering this world, including almost all of you, me, and others.
I was shocked at first, thinking that maybe only a few people do these things that have become dirty and obscene in the moral code of the past. At first I was disgusted, because all the data I read pointed to a conclusion for me: people in this world who are unfaithful to feelings because of their temperament, or even because of their sexuality, have ignored their need for that kind of classical and simple feelings. Much more than I imagined. From the point of view of probability theory, the person I like or the partner I meet in the future is very likely to be of the same type as them. The so-called meeting true love is not a false proposition. This bothered me, and my expectations of having a good relationship plummeted. Had this idea when I was about 17 years old.
But after wandering around in this world for a long time, more righteous words tell me: this is human desire, this is freedom, people will have the appearance of not human beings, existence is reasonable, you love me. I seem to be gradually accepting such a trendy and fashionable point of view, and it seems that only by agreeing with this statement can I be a person with a qualified view of sex and a mature person. I also began to sink in it, and to get happiness in this way, I only need to pay a trivial cost, but I can get the happiest moment. It seems that everything here can be infinitely satisfied in a temporary segment of time. But the cost. What about the cost.
In this matter, I did not carefully check the account. But come to think of it, the price is horrific. The cost of time, where more time is spent in the mind, and in real sex with a partner, the pleasure is harder to be satisfied. Just like the male protagonist in the first episode, in the VR game, you don't need to move one hand or one foot, and you don't need to consider the reality of the other party's relationship, and the sexual impulse can be satisfied to the greatest extent. In the face of real life, when it is necessary to appreciate each other's feelings, sweat and act in real sex life, he said: "Im tired." In real life, happiness is indeed more than virtual, but those Satisfaction will continue to be preserved, accumulated, extended, and finally cultivated into feelings in addition to moments. Return to the real life, return to the classical, life that belongs to human beings. The image is very deep. When living in Germany, the pedestrians on the road were really not playing with their mobile phones. They seemed to be out of time. They were drinking alcohol on the street, or reading the newspaper while waiting for the car, or were The station sat so quietly, the sun was shining on them, and I looked at the human beings and felt warm and content. In the evening, friends gathered in Frankfurt to watch the sunset on the highest tower, cross-legged face-to-face on the Bruhl platform, chatting and chatting happily. This is the real life and relationship I want. Compared with China, everyone on the bus on the street is using mobile phones. I don’t know if they are avoiding embarrassment, or trying their best to get the maximum amount of information transmission within a limited time. Those lonely and fragmented moments. Is this really enough to live?
Walking out of that virtual world, there is nothing but a moment of joy. Not dominated by simple desires, the carnival of those people has nothing to do with themselves, what they find is their own life, and it has nothing to do with others.
In the end, I also liked the end of the first episode very much. While the male protagonist sticks to his own feelings, the two lovers also learn how to face the truest self in their hearts. Indulgence can exist, but it cannot be the norm. Learn to balance hypocritical sex and true love, and learn to live with your own desires.
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