When the "Black Mirror" series first came out in the first few seasons, it was hailed as a divine drama. After watching it, I felt that it was more unconventional than the "Yin and Yang Demon Realm", "The Wonders of the World", and even "Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio", or Short stories such as "Secrets of the Nine" and other short stories, it adds a stronger sense of science and technology, and discusses things that are slightly more pungent and serious, but they may be praised higher.
So the second two or three seasons after the United States took over, it became more popular, and the word-of-mouth fell a bit, but after reading it, I think it is not that bad.
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Let’s take a look at the stunning first season.
The story in the first season is a bit spicy. The plot including President X Pig attracted attention, but the ending was actually quite ironic. Everyone was paying attention to the president's affairs, and no one noticed that the hostages had been released back alone.
The third episode is actually a story about memories that can be replayed continuously, but do you say how good this story is? The final point is actually that the wife cheated and the husband unplugged the chip and felt the gloom of technology and human nature. This story, I don't think it is much better than the second story of the fifth season, for example.
The most exciting part of the first season should be the second story, which is quite distinctive, and the irony is also very strong. It can be regarded as a better episode that combines the setting, plot, brain and deep meaning behind it.
The second season of "Black Mirror" is actually similar to the first season. For example, the first episode explores the death of a husband and whether a virtual robot can replace a real person. There have been many similar movies in this episode, and it doesn't look very brilliant.
The second episode is much more interesting. It tells the story of making the prisoner amnesia and feeling chased by the murderer. The purpose is to make the murderer feel the same reincarnation. In terms of setting, there are many similar dramas. For example, "The Wonders of the World" has a story that allows death row inmates to die in consciousness, but the baggage set before this episode is new, so it is still a masterpiece.
The third episode belongs to the type of dark adult fairy tales. Cartoon characters run for the campaign. Eventually, things get out of control. There are still many similar dramas. As a digression, the new season's restart version of "New Yin and Yang Devil" also has an episode where the children run out of control at the end of the presidential campaign, but this episode is not as good-looking.
To sum up, the fascinating thing about the first two seasons of Black Mirror is that, first of all, it almost has a setting of brain-opening sense of science and technology, and from this it has developed one that explores human emotions or has social and political metaphors. The complete story, diverse themes, both popular and serious, makes it very attractive.
The next "Christmas Special" is a segmented story. Starting from this one, there is more content to explore such as consciousness transfer, to explore human consciousness and ethical issues, including the last scene, in which the prisoner is always seen from others. Mosaic inside, it also makes people's back cool.
Generally speaking, the English version of "Black Mirror" is unwilling to be completely popular in the subject matter, and will more or less add some heavier subjects, including a lot of social and human discussions. The narrative is not entirely Hollywood. Style, fast-paced, such as the first episode of the second season, is actually a bit fragmented, literary, and more stylish.
So what has become of "Black Mirror" in the US version?
In the official third season of "Black Mirror", I guess part of the reason for the slight decline in word-of-mouth is that there is no such thing as "White Bear Park" or "Fifteen Million Value", which has both novel settings and profound reflection on social chaos. Episodes. What may be a little bit more profound is that the soldiers in the fifth episode are deceived to treat civilians as monsters, and the ultimate revenge of the sixth episode "Keyboard Man".
The other episodes, except for the pedophile episode, are a little bit nonsense. Many people think that the level has dropped. For example, in the first episode, the story of the little fresh girl in order to score the results all the way down. I think the filming is very good. In one scene, it seemed very anti-routine, the little fresh girl finally didn't save anything, until after being locked up, she finally said "fuck", how interesting.
In the second episode, I went straight to the line of horror elements. I still think it was a good shot. Although the previous inversion settings are not new, they are proficient in shooting. At the end, they are on my mother's phone. Everything is complete.
In the fourth episode, the story of a pair of lesbians shifting their world consciousness after death and entering eternity, both sad and touching, is a masterpiece.
In this season, the US version of netflix took over, and the most complaints were that "Black Mirror" lost its coldness and its content became naive.
In fact, in my opinion, "Black Mirror" is essentially a popular drama series. The best part of it is the combination of narrative and subject matter. Irony and metaphors of some social events are one aspect of its selection of materials, but it does not mean that without a heavier subject matter, it will not be able to tell a good story.
Many times we are willing to have an innate preference for themes, such as dramas that criticize society for digging out human nature. In many people's eyes, innateness is greater than depicting love, or simpler typified themes, such as ghost stories. In the third season of "Black Mirror", it depicts the emotions between people, more profound wars or reflections on the harm caused by Internet rumors, and it also has more popular and typified stories, such as The horror story in the second episode is actually more diverse in terms of topic selection.
Sacrificing a certain kind of heaviness in exchange for a certain kind of diversity, I don't think the latter will be inherently weaker.
In the fourth season of "Black Mirror", it actually started to go a bit longer on the route of popular stories.
In this season, almost every episode is a more Hollywood-style story. There is almost no such deep metaphor for attacking social chaos. The episodes are all about the relationship between people. You can say that this season of "Black Mirror" has lost the original coldness of Britain. I also think that some of the stories in it are actually a bit lackluster. But I still feel that there are many bright spots this season.
For example, the first episode of paying tribute to the galaxy spaceship actually tells a very complete and interesting story. It is no longer like the English version. For example, some fragmented white space is added to disrupt the narrative rhythm and create a sense of fracture and unfamiliarity. The narrative is very smooth, and it narrates a story of consciousness shifting, defeating the villain, and liberating oneself. The narrative is obviously more in line with the rhythm of modern Hollywood movies. The suspense part is attractive and the ending is pleasant. I also want to fly into outer space hand in hand with my mom in my mom and dad's romance.
To reiterate, I still feel that "Black Mirror" is essentially indistinguishable from "The Wonders of the World" and "The Devildom of Yin and Yang", and is even far inferior to the literary nature of "Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio" (of course, different themes cannot be compared. , It’s just a comparison between the way of telling stories and the way of constructing imagination), it is still a popular drama series, it can have a lot of more adult and deeper content, but the way it tells the story, the way it is presented, is not Literary is mainly audio-visual, attracting the viewer’s attention, and even entertaining (even if it can bring you thoughts after reading it, with a lot of metaphors and irony buried behind it), I don’t I don't think "Black Mirror" can satisfy our more thinking demands on society and human nature. Its essence is still a commercial film that "shocks you instantly". So in the US version, they have eliminated some fragmented narratives. Maybe the American style of filming is more industrialized and more routine. Of course, it doesn’t hurt. After all, their mastery of the rhythm of the drama has been accumulated for many years. , Is the most in line with the audience's psychology and taste. (But it doesn’t seem to have changed screenwriters? Maybe there are too many brain-opening dramas written, and the screenwriters themselves are very tired. Look at the screenwriters in the last episode of "New Yin and Yang Demon World" and they drive themselves crazy.)
Therefore, for the US version, I think that "Black Mirror" can be regarded as a typified brainstorming film. In fact, I treat the English version the same way, and I don't think there is any problem. (As a digression, I obviously obviously prefer "The Nine Secret" more naturally, and I think it's better than "Black Mirror".)
Speaking of the fourth season, there are actually good-looking stories, such as the first episode mentioned above, and the fourth episode "Hanged DJ". It tells a story about the simulation of the success rate of virtual dating and friendship, and the ending looks like the hero and heroine. Walking out of the high wall, in fact, they still entered the success rate set by the dating software, which is gratifying and sad. For example, the last episode, the last episode, is basically an extension of several stories in "Christmas". It is still a consciousness transfer, but there are many short stories, rich and beautiful.
I think the fourth season is actually not as good as the third season, but it’s still not that bad. I don’t think that a more popular series will be inherently unsightly. It depends on what kind of story it tells and whether it has been updated. Ying's imagination, its way of telling stories is clever.
When it comes to Netflix's next "Labyrinth", frankly speaking, it may really need to have a sense of participation. For example, the selection version of the official website I watched is lackluster. It is better to play the game "Stone of Destiny".
So, finally this new season has arrived.
This season, I return to three episodes. How can I say it? After watching the first episode, I WAS LIKE WTF, I don’t know what to say. Brokeback Mountain of middle-aged blacks does not seem to be. In short, it depicts a virtual marginalized cosplay. Emotions.
It is estimated that there will be fewer resonances, but compared to the memory chip in the first season, the robot husband in the second episode is actually discussing the interaction between people and family and emotions with the participation of technology. In terms of the subject matter, it does not Not completely out of the setting inherited from the English version of "Black Mirror".
In the second episode, in fact, there was also "President X Pig", and no one cared about the return of the hostages. The male protagonist kidnapped the little black brother, and in the end, it became the irrelevant news popped up by everyone's software. I think that in this episode, in the screenwriting, we can actually guess that the male lead must have died from his family or partly because of this software. Of course, at the end, I got rid of the routine a little bit. The police fired the gun without telling us. Whoever hit it, everything turned into a piece of news that would be deleted soon, and the people who watched it were empty, but I was quite moved when I watched it.
In the third episode, let Miley play, basically the real character, the dilemma of female stars, but it still gave up the British version of the deeper discussion of society, everything became a simple heroine, little girl and female A teenage adventure story of a star defeating an evil aunt.
But I don't think this story is ugly. Some stories are just like that. You know how it will be made up, but when the suspense gets there, you will still get nervous. How cute the Maili robot is. In the last scene, singing rock and roll on the sidelines, how cute. In this part, I basically gave up discussing the contradictions and ethical issues of self-recognition after consciousness transfer. It is a simple adventure story. After tying them to the end, I think they are quite sober, after all, Netflix audiences don’t like to watch too deep stories. . .
In general, I still feel that I am a master of leverage. I think that the English version of "Black Mirror" has some advantages in addition to adding some more grim themes, but its many episodes of narration are still quite artificial, not as good as the US version. The later period is simple and straightforward, just rushing to tell a popular and beautiful story. Of course, when it comes to the US version, it is a mixed blessing. Some stories seem somewhat inexplicable, but I think it’s better to watch the highlights. There are a few episodes of stories that will leave a mark in your heart, which is pretty good. . .
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