Some people say that there are only two kinds of novels in the world, good-looking novels and bad-looking novels. Although this is not close to humanity, it also captures part of the truth. As an unprofessional film and television audience, as to whether it looks good, I think I will value the story or the characters presented in the video, plus the atmosphere that reproduces or transcends reality. Whether this movie or drama tells any profound truths or whether it has educational or social significance is not the first thing. When watching the second season, I think it’s not difficult for the audience to see from the first episode "be right back" that modern technology can’t fill up human emotions at all, but makes it even more hollow and hopeless; in the second episode "white bear" , We will also feel anxious and even introspect for the fact that modern ethics is nothing but an umbrella for the evil in most people's hearts. The advantage of "Black Mirror" is that its theme is very deep, it has a sensitive grasp of the absurdity in modern society and culture, and expresses everyone's inner anxiety. However, on the other hand, this drama is a theme-first drama series, and it has a unified concept as its program. However, compared with the first season, the second season has revealed a problem that is that this advanced abstract concept is constraining the characters in the play and restricting the development of the story. This concept is gradually becoming people's single action logic, and the story seems to be just to illustrate this concept.
Take "be right back" as an example. After the idea of using social network data to reconstruct the dead boyfriend, the story unfolds very linearly. It is true that the heroine is very immersive, but the development of the plot seems too thin and lacks change. Now, we can know that this must be a tragedy (the men who want an inflatable doll girlfriend are naturally not included), we also know the crux of the problem, and we know that we must feel very abusive at the end, and even watch "Black Mirror" with some This is the expectation of being abused; let's talk about "white bear", this may be a relatively unsuccessful episode in the current two seasons. People get the happiness of "justice" through punishment and watching criminals who kill children, while still being protected by social ethics. Law and conscience have become people's consumption and play objects. This episode has many implications for "justice", "criminal sanctions" and "consumer ethics". However, this huge and complex concept completely controls the story. The story has become this abstraction in order to express these concepts without any ground. The vassal of the idea appears stiff and "separated." As one senior sister said, the text is not good, and the latent text is useless no matter how good it is. At the same time, the characters in the play are stripped of flesh and blood, and they only become symbols of a single logic of action. No one in this episode has the second side of character, and no one has the ability to reflect. Although the screenwriter mentions the idea of "The Walking Dead", there are always a few living characters in the zombie film, and there are also in "1984" Rebels. There is only dead logic in the hell on earth that the screenwriter is trying to create, and there is no stagnant water in the future, which is a very standard answer.
In fact, the second episode of the first season "15 million worth of value" has similarities with "white bear", but the former is richer and fresher in the setting of the situation, and the symbolism is also very clever. The irony hit the nail on the head. More importantly, the protagonist is a rebel and reflector, a possibility in a dead end, which brings us hope and its opposite. Even if a mud cow enters the sea, he was once a bloody hero and a living person. . Compared with "white bear", it is much more withered, but it brings deep despair to people.
Camus said, "The absurdity of survival is a sober wise perspective, but the realization that the absurdity of survival does not mean the end of life, on the contrary it is the beginning of life." The important thing is that Sisyphus still decides to push the stone, not the fact that the stone will still fall. We do not abuse for the sake of abuse, not despair for despair. After watching "Black Mirror", if we really need to understand something, I think we should know not only what is unreliable and nihility, but perhaps what is truly precious, worth pursuing and believing.
The screenwriter of "Black Mirror" once participated in a BBC TV series "Watching TV Ruins Your Life", and wanted to have the same goal as "Black Mirror". Ironically, the release of "Black Mirror" on Channel4 in the UK in the past few weeks has made audiences want to stop. Will watching "Black Mirror" ruin your life? I don’t know, will the absurdity, shock, and despair that the audience feel after watching "Black Mirror" be the same as the fanatical onlookers in the "white bear"? Is irrelevant indignation still a form of self-hypnosis?
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