Only atmosphere, no depth. Avalanche's Black Mirror, what to save?

Bethany 2022-03-25 09:01:14

The Black Mirror series has been in an avalanche from season three to season four. This series has fallen from the top of the pyramid step by step, and now it has become a superficial "American drama" like the fourth season, which is really distressing. Only atmosphere, no depth.


The first episode of Callister is
here to make a general rant about this season's Black Mirror issue. Don't play Extract Consciousness again, okay? Extracting consciousness can play a lot of tricks we know, but if you want to play something new. Is this abuse victim against abuse, bullying victim against bullying the theme of the year? Where this episode fails even more is that the technology design is completely wrong, and there is absolutely no realistic possibility for DNA to simulate real people. Because the new person shaped by the simulated DNA has a completely independent consciousness, it is impossible to share the old memory. So in this episode, if the chief technology officer downloads the memory copies of the company's employees when the employees are playing games after get off work, it will be more immersive. Also, does it have empathy for us to have a copy of a simulated memory being abused in a virtual world? Please, the thrill of our gamers killing real player characters is ten thousand times more fun than this copy of YY. You have to tell me this is an American nostalgic classic sci-fi drama, please don't kidnap the great Black Mirror with this sentimental thing.


In the second episode of Archangel
, if the screenwriter is not sexist, women's hysterical control of their daughters can completely use women's control of their sons as a dramatic metaphor. The combination of Electra and Oedipus combined with the possessiveness and sensitivity of the natural loneliness of the human nature puzzle caused by the single parent environment can write a heart-piercing story. As a result, it was a story that I could monitor my children's activities with ordinary cameras. The struggles and self-blame of the daughter from disappearing once to using the surveillance system are too mediocre, and there is no other emotional link between mother and daughter. There is no excavation for the pain of parting with the daughter leaving the family and both starting a new relationship with each other. And it must be said that Black Mirror has already shown the consequences of visually isolating other people. The distortion of human nature caused by the filtering of this surveillance system is not out of control here, and it is not dark enough.


The third episode of Crocodile
, a story that hides the past to the point of hysteria, is not as detailed and suspenseful as "The Invisible Guest". The sci-fi element is pretty much useless here, and insurance investigators can find out the truth in other ways. Originally, the science fiction of the Black Mirror series was to predict the possible changes to human society caused by technology in the near future. This episode did not reflect anything at all. Extracting episodic memories can completely construct more complex, grander and more terrifying stories. The story of a vulgar crash that hides traces of corpses and finally crashes and kills a series of investigators knows the ending from the beginning, and I can't feel any sense of substitution at all, and I can't understand the horror of extracting episodic memories.


The fourth episode of strangling DJ
love, Black Mirror's love theme, San Junipero in the third season is a passing line, this one is completely offline. A virtual love reality test technology is "Meet the person you meet among millions of people, in the boundless wilderness of time in thousands of years, there is no one step earlier, no one step later, just happened to catch up, then. There is nothing else to say, except to ask softly: "Oh, are you here too? "The reality of "realization. Life after life, thousands of kinds, spring breeze ten miles, is not as good as you. Unfortunately, this is the primary stage of love, this is anti-romantic romance, it is the imagination of love that wants to talk and stop at the surface. Life is interesting. The boring comedy and tragedy are all because people do not have the right to choose after many experiences. You design a love that repeats countless times. After 998 failures, it is still you. That is obsession, and it is the imprint of the chemical reaction of the organism. Don't try to give love a standard answer, especially if this stupid test gave me a happy ending. I was critted and disgusted at the same time. It's not enough to end with "there are so many towns in the world, in the towns There are so many pubs and she walked into mine. "It's touching and interesting. Of course, the saddest thing about this episode is that the busy lives of contemporary people have been forced to neglect their minds. Perhaps, this system has become the last straw to replace blind dates in the future. In this irony, Rather better.


The fifth episode of Metal Head is
speechless. There is nothing to discuss in such a 10-minute short film. The fear of the era of robot self-awakening is far more than the helpless horror that this episode will show. Moreover, what is even more desperate is that in that era, people themselves will be absolutely layered, and it is impossible to have collective mutual assistance. The survival instinct destroys the order of all civilizations. At the end, the scene of the doll makes me want to laugh. The audience of Black Mirror, are you kidding me here?


The offshoot of the sixth episode of The Dark Museum
could have been more exciting, but it ended up serving yet another mind-extracting infinite-mode revenge, which is a shame. In addition to pain, fear, love and the most important family relationship, the emotional connection of the autonomic nerves is not reflected. If this is fully expanded, it is possible to understand all the men, women, parents, friends, teachers, classmates, bosses, colleagues, and colleagues of a person's growth experience, and build a complex and even interactive experience of the human society. It can even be expanded to the animal level, of course, that may be upgraded to conscious empathy. In fact, the script of the Super Sensation Eight is a kind of God development of this model. As a result, the Wachowski sisters played a big game, the play was cut, and the heart was filled again. As for the receivers that extract people into other brains or even toys, I feel that the atmosphere shaping is more meaningful than the actual discussion, but I am not watching a B-level horror movie.

In short, staying up late and watching the heart is cooler than the rain outside Hangzhou. I hope that the script will use more brains in the future.
If you rank the Dark Museum-Strangling DJ-Archangel-Calister-Crocodile-Metal Head.

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USS Callister quotes

  • Nanette Cole: This is a dream... It has to be.

    Walton: It's more like an eternal waking nightmare, from which there is no escape.

  • Robert Daly: I'm coming to get you!