For "Black Mirror", my understanding is: "The director has Bozeman and Huxley-like concerns, a pessimistic attitude towards modern media and rapidly developing technology, and awakens the audience to reflect on their alienating effects on human beings. "
In last year's "Aesthetics of Film and Television" class, I discussed 3D film technology with Mr. Zhang Zhen, associate professor of literature and art at Jianghan University. Ms. Zhang Zhen held a noncommittal or even slightly negative attitude towards 3D, which is in line with the mainstream of the academic school. Views are similar. Christopher Nolan, the most innovative contemporary film director, resisted 3D film technology personally, which shows the status of 3D in the hearts of other academic film artists. After class, I wrote the article "3D film technology is not a beast of a flood", proposing that "just as montage replaces single shot, sound film replaces silent film, color film replaces black and white film, every major innovation in film technology will cause great controversy, but The power of every development has ruthlessly overwhelmed adherence to the rules. Therefore, 3D technology will soon become a 'standard' in the process of development." This small paper was appreciated and affirmed by Mr. Zhang. I also use the above points to express the questions raised in Black Mirror.
Neil Postman's concerns about the modern medium in "Entertainment to Die" have now turned out negatively. The emergence of online media has fundamentally changed the definition of media. Ordinary people no longer simply receive information from the flat media supported by television and print products, but become the publishers and disseminators of information. This kind of interaction makes everyone involved must learn to think and distinguish. This kind of upward force will also subtly improve people's quality and morality. The rapid development of science and technology has not made contemporary society develop as described in Huxley's Brave New World. On the contrary, everyone has noticed the alienating effect of technological development on human beings, so more humanized design. I thought of Apple's advertising slogan: "This is everything, this is the key, the experience of the product, what kind of feeling does it give people, can it make life better? Is there a meaning to exist, we spend a lot of time Used to hold on to something great until we touch every thought and change the life it touches, maybe you notice, but you can feel it, that's our mark, it's everything." It's tech Power, it makes our world better.
Looking back at the six episodes of the first two seasons of "Black Mirror", we were shocked by director Owen Harris, and were in awe of his in-depth thinking and discussion of the current situation and future of human existence, and I am not stingy. Five stars for it. But we must understand that from ancient times to the present, we have been worried about the future, but human wisdom has always been creating everything that is more suitable for human survival.
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