The Prime Minister actually has no choice, because the decision-making power is never in his hands. The robbers gave the prime minister a deadly proposition that seemed to be an option. If he compromises with the robbers, he will face the outcome of discredited reputation, physically and mentally injured, and broken family. The Prime Minister can actually bear this outcome. He does not intend to compromise with the robbers in order to preserve his political career. Because when his staff analyzed the result for him, his expression was resentful and rebellious. He is refusing to compromise, he wants to resist.
And if he chooses to refuse, he will not only become an object of anger for the British people, but also the lives of himself and his family will be threatened. When he heard that his family's life might be threatened, the Prime Minister's expression immediately changed from resentment to despair. He compromised, and he had to compromise.
The robbers knew that the Prime Minister would compromise, just as the Prime Minister’s staff said, it was impossible for the Prime Minister to help.
Is this game really dead? Can't help the Prime Minister, who can't help? Robber? no! This matter is actually in the hands of everyone, in the hands of every general public. This is actually an experiment done by the robbers, or it can be a performance art as mentioned at the end of the film. This performance art is to prove whether the world is getting better or worse in the Internet age. First, the robbers kidnapped Princess Susanna, an influential "Facebook Star Princess" in the Internet age and an all-British sweetheart who protects the environment. The poor video of her kidnapping was uploaded to YouTube. Although the government quickly removed it, it still couldn't match the speed of the Internet. The tied video spread throughout the UK at an unimaginable speed and spread to all corners of the world. Choosing to kidnap Princess Susanna is to use her influence in the Internet world to attract as many people's attention as possible.
Some people may ask, as long as it is a princess, it will definitely attract everyone's attention. Is this a bit over-interpretation. Princess Susanna can be called the "Facebook Star Princess", which shows that she should be counted as a deep user of Facebook. Millions of people understand all aspects of the princess’s life through this platform. Compared to other princesses, her identity is more than a title and a name. She is a living person in the hearts of the general public. A friend-like existence who is familiar and understood. Therefore, her painful experience and her dangerous situation are more likely to arouse everyone's empathy and arouse everyone's emotions. Not only that, but the ransom demand made by the robbers is extremely absurd to allow the Prime Minister to copulate with the pigs. The dignified, righteous prime minister has sex with the vulgar and disgusting people and pigs. This kind of absolute contrast, absurdity, ethical and sensational behavior is also one of the ways for robbers to incite as many people as possible. In addition, the robbers also put forward strict live broadcast requirements, listed a list of requirements, and stipulated shooting angles, objects to be used, shooting methods, and broadcasting platforms. As the onlookers in the film said, this approach reminds people of the Dougma 95 Manifesto. The so-called Dougma 95 Manifesto is to use as little artificial means as possible to create the movie, making it as close to the reality as possible, so that the audience can be more concerned about the plot and development of the story.
Judging from the performance of the public in the film, this method of the robbers basically worked. In interviews on TV stations and on Facebook discussion forums, the general public is basically concerned about whether the prime minister should have sex with pigs, and what the form and result of the sex will be if it is done. In particular, the question of one of the nurses, "Will they use sows?", even more shows people's concern about the incident itself.
The greater the degree of concern about the incident of intercourse itself, the lower the degree of concern for the kidnapping incident itself, the kidnapper’s motives, the prime minister’s situation, and the solution. The kidnappers can see more clearly how the copulation incident has led the public's emotions into crazy and absurd situations. Everything was ready, and the robbers began to wait for the "good show". He expected that the prime minister as a party would resist as much as he could, so he set up a fake hiding place to destroy the prime minister's last straw. The prime minister is not to be afraid. The general public is the force that determines the course of the event, and the media has played a role in fueling the flames. When the video of Princess Susanna's being tied up went viral on the Internet, people were mostly skeptical about the authenticity of the incident. But with the intervention of the news media, public opinion began to develop out of control. As the incident continues to ferment and public opinion erupts, the news media, which should have been synonymous with professionalism and rationality, has gradually become irrational. Under the two-phase action, the outcome of the incident will eventually develop in a desperate direction. The media representative in the film, UKN, decided to join the news war due to the pressure of other colleagues competing to report the matter. Even if you have received a warm reminder from the British government in advance-Notice D (the British government will issue this notice once it believes that media reports may affect military and intelligence operations, requiring the media to self-discipline.) When it first decided to report the kidnapping incident, the news In fact, the head of the ministry was sensible and clearly stipulated that the mention of intercourse conditions should be minimized as much as possible, and all pictures should be reviewed. However, as the report progressed, everyone’s attention to the incident became higher and higher, and UKN gradually became irrational. Not only did it launch a "Will you watch?" survey on TV, it also circulated the video of the princess being tied up on TV. Play it and show all kinds of comments from netizens. In addition, the survey they sent is problematic. "Will you watch?" This question is the most concerned point of the public in the entire incident. Investigating this issue can not only attract more attention and discussion, but also instantly increase the audience’s participation and attract the public to continue to pay attention to this issue. The incident keeps constant attention.
This practice of UKN has brought the public's attention to whether they will watch the live coitus. This means that another point of the incident that should have received more attention has been ignored. That is whether the prime minister should agree to the robber's request and whether there are other ways to rescue the princess. They put the princess's kidnapped video together with this question, which is to lead everyone to acquiesce. There is only one way to rescue the princess, and that is, the Prime Minister agrees to the kidnapper's request. Because of this setting, everyone did not think about what they could do to help the Prime Minister save the princess and save the Prime Minister from despair. Everyone has now become a spectator, waiting for the event to develop whether it should be seen or not. The development of the whole incident was thus led astray. At the same time, UKN invited different guests to participate in a special program to analyze the reasons for the kidnapper’s request, and listed the details of the shooting requested by the kidnapper on TV. Of course, other media are not idle. "Daily Telegraph" has a full-length video and online real-time interactive links. "The Sun" features a video of Princess Susanna being kidnapped. The "Guardian" has opened a real-time updated blog and published an article about pigs in history. The symbolic short essay.
Is this situation very familiar? Whenever a major event happens, our media will follow up like this, with multiple reports and interpretations. Then there will be a variety of online editors, WeChat editors, and Weibo editors. Hot incidents are connected, and even developed to the point of spreading rumors. Next, UKN has another wave of assists. When the robbers learned that the prime minister had hired a sought-after person to shoot the video on behalf of the prime minister, they sent a threat of suspected princess fingers. Without confirmation, they quickly made the news public, although the report said it was a suspected princess. The finger was cut off, but with the vivid video, the public will be sure that this is the princess's finger. Because of this strong visual stimulation, the public's emotions began to develop irrationally. The people who believed that the prime minister should compromise with the robbers instantly went from 28% to 86%. The mood of the public is so easily influenced. The opinions of the public are so easy to be changed. This makes people have to think, can the so-called polls and referendums in which the minority obey the majority really become an important basis for decision-making in national affairs?
The reason why people's mood can change so quickly is that there is not much time left. Second, because the video of the princess being abused was shown in front of everyone with great impact, everyone felt the same, and felt that the princess was in the middle of a sea of swords and flames, and it was urgent to rescue the princess from the magic cave, and nothing else was important. However, if the people can intuitively see the prime minister's tragic situation after completing the intercourse required by the robbers and the subsequent indifference between the husband and wife, everyone's emotions and opinions are estimated to be a different scene. The end of the film shows the identity of the kidnapper-former Turner Prize winner, artist lunatic Bloom. With the exposure of his identity, an art critic called his behavior "the first great work of the 21st century." We will not discuss the quality of this evaluation for the time being, let's see why film creators throw this proposition. The 21st century can be called the Internet era. The Internet has changed our way of life and thinking, and has become the most important force influencing the world in the pursuit of silence. This is also one of the themes that the film wants to express, but what the film wants to express should be the destructive power of the Internet. At the beginning of the film, the tied video spread to every corner of the world at an uncontrollable speed by virtue of the Internet, allowing the whole incident to ferment rapidly and develop out of control. And Princess Susanna's title of "Facebook Star Princess" is also a manifestation of her online appeal. Not long after the video was uploaded to the Internet, the number of discussions on the incident on Facebook has reached nearly 20 million. But unlike UKN’s relatively good-will and objective attitude when conducting live street interviews, online public opinion is full of malice and schadenfreude. In addition, it was passers-by who sent photos of popular shooting locations to the Internet that further intensified the incident and pushed the Prime Minister into the abyss.
In fact, can this really be attributed to the destructive power of the Internet? As the saying goes, science and technology have no distinction between good and evil. It is always at work by the people who use it. The netizens in the film who made gleeful remarks seemed to be indifferent to the safety of the princess, the prime minister’s situation, and the hatefulness of the kidnappers. They had nothing to do with the excitement of themselves, and expressed their vulgar entertainment in a vulgar manner that hurt the parties. Speech. They will not feel guilty about this. If the princess is killed, they can be blamed on the Prime Minister. If the Prime Minister commits suicide by agreeing to the kidnappers' request and cannot bear the tremendous pressure of his heart, they will also claim that the Prime Minister is reaping the consequences. I don't know how many such malicious and irresponsible netizens were when an incident occurred, but as everyone involved in online life, it seems that everyone has an obligation to make the entire online environment more rational and objective. Because each of us has a weapon called public opinion and a sharp weapon called public opinion. Every word we type is powerful and will produce good or bad results. These results not only have an effect in the online world, but also deeply affect everyone in the real society. Therefore, do not trust the media and information on the Internet; do not treat a serious matter with an entertaining attitude; do not create online violence; do not create and spread online rumors, and make objective, well-founded remarks. A person must have a bottom line and principles. Whether in a real-name real society or an anonymous online society, you must be upright. Someone might say that if the robbers really have to wait until the Prime Minister has done what he requested before releasing the princess, then the Prime Minister’s sacrifice is worth it. It may be worth it, but this does not conceal the sins of the media, malicious netizens, and everyone watching the live broadcast. At the beginning of the incident, almost no one except the Prime Minister considered how to better resolve this matter. How to help the Prime Minister to rescue Princess Susanna without compromising. The media has not assumed its social responsibilities. In the process of news reporting, they just tried to find more updated news clues and wanted to attract more TV viewers, but they didn't think about how to lead the event in a better direction. Also, although in the initial interview, 84% of the interviewees claimed that they would not watch the Prime Minister’s live broadcast, when the live broadcast was officially broadcast, almost the entire city was guarded in front of the TV. They even cheered in front of the TV when it was predicted that the Prime Minister would make indecent actions on TV. They viewed this matter with an entertaining attitude, not caring that the Prime Minister was sacrificing himself to save the princess of this country. In their eyes, the Prime Minister's sacrifice is not a sacrifice, but more like a good show. Who sees this
Therefore, the robber committed suicide. His experiment was successful, his views were demonstrated, and he was desperate for the entertaining world in the Internet age. As for the Prime Minister, his actions did not make his citizens feel that he "showed extraordinary courage in this life-and-death event", he got only the pitiful 3% approval rate and the extra 3%. A painful heart and broken family. One year later, the media still dug up the scars and reported the incident. Princess Susanna was also pregnant and married, and satirically attended the Juvenile Valor Medal Award Ceremony. As for the others, they knew nothing about the hurt and pain they caused behind the door, and they were still alive and entertaining to death.
Attached to the 2/3 episodes of the first season of Black Mirror:
1. The second episode of the first season of Black Mirror: Let’s see what kind of person you will be in it
2. The third episode of the first season of Black Mirror: With a sigh, you and I can't escape this huge net
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