I watched it quickly after get off work. There are three episodes in total. The following is a fresh commentary.
Note that the following contains 100% spoilers. It is estimated that you will not be interested in watching the original drama after watching it. Please pull down carefully.
Let me talk about the first episode:
It is about the same-sex roommates who rented together when they were young. They often played a video game called "Life and Death Fight" together late at night, and then they separated.
Many years later, on the hero's 38th birthday, an old friend sent a copy of the "Tenth Edition of Life and Death" VR game. At midnight, the two were connected to play the game. In real life, the two boys in the game play a male and a female. The two are slapped in the game. They suddenly confirm their eyes and do something indescribable.
The male protagonist with a stronger sense of morality refused at first, but then became addicted to it. As a result, he was estranged from his wife in real life. The wife noticed the strangeness and had a deep bond with him on the wedding anniversary. After self-reflection, the hero decided to quit the game completely.
One year later, another year was the birthday of the hero. My wife accidentally invited an old friend. The old friend asked him to play the game one last time. So at midnight that day, the hero did not resist the temptation to enter the game again, experiencing the most wonderful experience of his life.
The hero thought, shit, how could this end? He asked an old friend to meet in real life and wanted to see what to do.
The first step is to confirm whether the two people are calling in real life, so as to have a starting point to deal with the problem. As a result, the two kissed awkwardly, without feeling.
The hero breathed a sigh of relief, that's easy to handle, and withdrew, let's shake hands, so that we can get together and relax. The old friend said, why did you want to withdraw? Isn't it a good time to have fun? Can’t you just watch a small H movie?
Then the two quarreled, then fought, and finally entered the police station.
The male lead’s wife fished the male lead from the police station, and the male lead took care of everything.
The result of the film is that the husband and wife reached a friendly agreement that every year the male lead can go out on the birthday of the male lead, and the male lead can also play games.
The story is over, tell me about my inspiration. This episode mainly discusses the boundary between the virtual and real world.
Let me ask you a few questions first.
In real life, there is a lover, but at the same time falling in love with a certain male celebrity, such as Hu Ge, such as Zhu Yilong, is it cheating?
Have a lover in real life, but fell in love with the virtual characters in the game at the same time? Such as the voice assistant Her, such as Siri, such as Xiaodu? Is it derailed?
Do you have a lover in real life, but at the same time fall in love with a certain character played by a real person in the game (but you don’t feel a bit disgusting for that real player offline)? Is it derailed?
There is a lover in real life, but at the same time I fell in love with a certain character played by a real person in the game, and I also fell in love with the real player, but I never meet offline, is it cheating?
Go one step further. If technology can be realized, we can not only fall in love with these male stars, virtual characters, and game players in the virtual world, but also experience the incomparable physical pleasure of sex. Is this derailed?
After all, these experiences only happen in your mind, and there is no sign in real life. Should this be regarded as a daydream, a brain hole porn, or a real event?
Everyone’s answer may be different. Just like, is mental derailment in real life counted as derailment? Many people may have different answers.
But the important thing here is that if the answers to these progressive questions are different for you, then a question arises, where is the boundary?
In this film, the two people playing the game are very cleverly set as "friends of the same sex".
On the one hand, it is easier for us to understand the situation where the love of role-playing games is fierce, but in real life there are two straight men who do not call at all. This ambiguous setting has brought everyone to the gray area of acceptable & unacceptable, leading to the issue of derailment boundaries.
On the other hand, it also reminded me of another question. If you have no feelings about the same sex in real life, but fall in love with a same-sex character in the game, is it homosexual?
At the end of this 50-minute film, the husband and wife reached a friendly agreement that every year the male lead’s birthday, the female lead can go out to the bar by herself, and the male lead can also play games at home. In other words, a couple with a very strong sense of morality said that "the promise of marriage is to refuse temptation and make sacrifices." In the end, they gave in for their personal desires.
If you interpret it in this direction, then you are acknowledging the authenticity of the feelings and experiences in the game world, and "derailment" will become easier than ever before and not easy to detect. The promise of marriage to "love only one person" will become increasingly difficult. Open marriage may become a popular way?
So what's the point of getting married? …If, by the way, test-tube parenting can solve the problems of the next generation, and insurance and pensions can solve material problems, then the marriage system may die out…
Technology will reconstruct the way of life and communication between people. I think it starts with these brain-inspired discussions. Tell me about your answer?
Let’s talk about the second episode:
A man who kidnapped an employee of a social app company wanted to talk to their founder. The purpose of the call was to tell the founder that he accidentally got into a car accident because he picked up his mobile phone to read the app while driving, and killed his fiancée who was in the car. Left a huge psychological trauma.
At the scene of the kidnapping, the male protagonist Connected the founder decided to die after saying these things in his heart. In order to persuade him not to commit suicide, the kidnapped victim wanted to snatch his gun. The policeman who was aiming at a distance was unknown, and seeing the conflict, he asked the sniper to destroy the male lead.
This episode wants to explore the problem of Internet addiction, right? Everyone is playing mobile phones, but when playing mobile phones, we may have missed many important moments in our lives, which will lead to many irreparable mistakes.
Whose sin is it? Blame the founder of APP? The direction of APP optimization again and again may not necessarily be determined by the original intention of the founder. Once things start to become a commercial action, they will develop in the direction that "capital" wants.
How to attract users to increase stickiness, how to make big profits, how to expand the scale... Everyone in the company is being pushed in the most correct direction of the business model. They may not be able to help themselves, or they may add fire. But the decisive force, I think it is "capital."
Capitalism has its original sin since its birth. It is a virus that multiplies itself. There are many Internet addiction apps that no one wants to harm other people. Everyone is just controlled by capitalism and wants to make money.
In addition, I think this episode is not good enough. Of course, the pot is written by the screenwriter. Because there are too many imaginative, "outsiders" settings with no sense of life.
For example, why didn't the high IQ male protagonist get in touch with the founder through the application itself, or through online hackers or other methods, and deliberately engage in malicious kidnapping, and finally tied up an intern (WTF)?
For example, why did the founder want to leave the world and participate in the introspection and meditation activities in the desert without talking for ten days (learning from Jobs?). I was really drunk when using a mobile phone or a big BP machine. Too rigid labeling.
There is also a small branch in it, that is, a mother's young daughter committed suicide, but the mother didn't notice it beforehand. In order to find out why, she persevered in trying to log in to her daughter's social account, trying different passwords every day.
This is probably a social application in the Internet age, a commendable benefit, right? Let us leave some eternal digital memories in our lives?
Finally, the third episode:
The heroine, a popular traffic actress, and a lot of positive energy, is the idol of many teenagers. Then behind this female star there is a terrible aunt who controls everything about her, dressing, talking, eating and so on. Female stars are very depressed, in fact like funeral music, but the public set is a young girl with a bright smile.
She secretly saved the hallucinogen that her aunt told her to take as evidence to lift the contract restriction with her aunt. As a result, she was discovered by the aunt, who mixed the medicine she had saved in bread for her to eat, put the female celebrity in a dormant state (WTF), and then told the public that she was allergic to seafood and caused her coma.
Then the aunt extracted her brain activity signals, decoded ten songs, and turned them into a new album (WTF), and then turned into an "eternal star" through holographic images to hold concerts and continue to make money (WTF).
On the other line, the female star’s consciousness and corpus were once copied and the AI doll with the same voice appeared, a bit like a voice assistant. After buying an iron fan and returning home, he was addicted to it.
As a result, after the female celebrity accident, one day the doll began to be disordered, talking nonsense, and then crashed.
So Tiefen and her sister plugged AI into his father’s computer and accidentally clicked a button, which activated all the female celebrity consciousness (WTF) copied in the AI doll, and then the female celebrity consciousness awakened on the AI doll Now, I can speak by myself, and I am out of control. Moreover, the memories are automatically synchronized. The little doll also knows about being poisoned by the aunt before sleeping (WTF).
Then AI Wawa guided Tiefen and her sister to go home to collect evidence, rescued the real female celebrity at home, went to the concert together, and broke the aunt's scam.
Finally, the female star and Tiefen’s sister started a live together, singing the negative energy heavy metal music they wanted to sing, AI doll and Tiefen shaking their heads under the stage to listen...
There are too many places in this episode of WTF, I have nothing to say.
The above is the full record of the fifth season of Black Mirror.
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