S0E02 Trial as a medium of public landscape

Brice 2022-01-06 08:02:30

The screenwriter of the second episode feels pretty godly.

The metaphor behind this episode mainly revolves around the media trial. In the next 20 minutes, dig directly to another level.


The first 20 minutes:

Hunters symbolizes the media, and the tourists taking pictures symbolize the various spectators in the media environment today. This paragraph is not too difficult to understand.

1. Hunter pursued the reported subjects involved in the news event all the way, especially the chainsaw in the horse head girl's hands that reminded me of the microphone in the hands of TV reporters. The screenwriter is obviously disgusted with this phenomenon itself, and even thinks that this kind of behavior is extremely deformed or even abnormal. So there was a scene of a middle-aged man holding an electric drill asking for the xx heroine.

2. The mass media and the judicial system themselves are also unable to maintain an objective and neutral attitude in this type of (girl abuse) cases. They ignore the defendant’s own statements, and the media directly denounced the hostess’s defense as sophistry when evaluating the hostess’s defense. The defendant’s defense of his actions was legal and reasonable.


3. All spectators turned a blind eye to the feelings of the subjects involved in the news report. When the heroine shouted HELP ME HELP ME, she was still shooting and not helping. Moreover, they don’t care about the truth of the facts themselves, but they are holding their own emotions as a bystander, using words as weapons when they are excited (in this episode, the various messy things that the heroine smashed into the car while walking on the street can be regarded as Its symbol) to attack.

4. This paralyzing function of mass communication is nothing new. On the surface, verbal participation of the public replaces the actual social participation, and behind the apparently more active participation is actually a more indifferent mentality. The screenwriter puts particular emphasis on mobile phones, and has a very pessimistic mentality in secret. Technological development and technological progress have actually made this paralyzing effect more serious, and the supposedly serious judicial trial has become a form of entertainment.


(Let me spit out the search...The search took more than 100 minutes to express, and the black mirror finished it in 20 minutes)

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last 20 minutes, especially the appearance of the White Bear Justice Park, True Bull 13


All the plots shown in the first 20 minutes are actually just daily routines of White Bear Justice Park, and the media trial has become a public landscape of White Bear. The public landscape is completed by the four parties: park managers, boring actors, hard-pressed heroines, and painful tourists.

The issue of trial activities becoming a kind of public landscape has already been analyzed in Foucault’s "Rules and Punishments" (= = so Foucault is a smart man...). The place for this episode of bunker is to tell everyone : Hehe, media trial is also a kind of public spectacle. We can’t just criticize the media and the audience for trouble, but see the power relationship behind it.

The park manager symbolizes the party that holds social power and ideology in reality. Transform the media trial into a public landscape to make profits and mold oneself into the absolutely correct way. They also hold the right to speak, and the description and details of the entire case are actually subject to theirs. They also set some rules that all tourists are required to follow. Behind the manipulation of this kind of public landscape is the penetration of ideology.....Compared with the modern media environment....hehehe a

bitter female protagonist, it is uncertain whether or not she will kill a little girl. However, like a prisoner, she has no sense of freedom at all. She is forced to perform the same drama every day and become a tool for park managers.

Actors symbolize real life media and consciously participate in this public landscape.

The audience symbolizes the general public. They consciously or unconsciously participate in this public landscape. They are both visitors and actors. They are also the source of the real interests of the park managers (the wool is really on the sheep), and they must also follow the rules and controls of the park managers (the surveillance cameras mentioned at the end).

The interaction of the four parties actually shows the mode of media trial as a public landscape in social life, and the power relationship between them.

Hey, it hasn't been reflected before, and media trial can also be a kind of public landscape ==

Some people think it looks like Truman’s world == it’s quite similar... But Truman’s world pays more attention to Truman’s inner struggle and the interaction with the producer. Truman and the audience (the third party) are not There is no direct interaction. If the screenwriter realizes that the media trial is written by the public landscape, it is pretty godly, if they originally wanted to copy the world of Truman... I wish them happiness. Um,

there is no logic in speaking at midnight

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