episode 1
While technology benefits mankind, it can also bring harm.
The concept of immersive experience has been proposed many years ago, and it is still under development. Maybe in the future, consciousness can really enter the game.
One of the charms of sci-fi is that these scientific hypotheses are likely to come true, but you can't predict how long it will take. It could be 10, 100, or even 1,000 years.
The male protagonist Deli can collect other people's DNA, and then create a digital version of Ta and put it in a stand-alone game on the computer. And in this game, the male protagonist is God.
In particular, Deli was hit in real life, and the plot of venting his distress by abusing cloned colleagues in the game was too close to life. We also often have the experience of abusing people in the game, but we abuse the computer, and Deli abuses the AI that is close to the real person.
The plot of making digital clones of people reminds me of "Black Mirror: Christmas Special", which is also used in this season's fourth episode "DJ Down" and sixth episode "Black Museum" in addition to episode 1. an idea.
I also think of Liu Cixin's science fiction novel "China 2185" completed in 1989, which tells the story of someone collecting the DNA of 6 dead people and resurrecting them in the computer, one of the dead is the leader. Because the subject matter is too sensitive, the book has not yet been published, but the full text can be found online.
In addition to technology and immersive experience, another theme of this episode is human nature, human rights, and ethics.
Digital clones have memories, feelings, and thoughts. Except that they don’t have genitals, they are no different from real people. After all, we don’t know if we are real people or digital clones in games.
More importantly, digital clones do not even have the right to die, and it is more painful to live than to die.
Deli's behavior of enslaving, playing with, and oppressing digital clones is of course a violation of human rights, but the characters in the game can't do anything about him. After all, Deli is equivalent to the god of the game world.
Deli is self-inflicted, he deprives others of human rights, and eventually he was retributed.
If we go deeper, there are bugs in the means of digital clone resistance, but because of the needs of the plot, it is inevitable that there will be bugs. The screenwriter must make the game have loopholes and allow the digital clones to resist, otherwise it will not be possible to shoot later.
I thought that in the style of "Black Mirror", the plot would be blackened to the end, and the ending would be whether the digital clones tried hard to escape, or could only continue to accept Deli's enslavement.
As a result, the digital clones were finally freed, and Deli suffered the consequences.
We can imagine that in the future, artificial intelligence is popularized, and gamers start to get tired of abusing computer players in games, and begin to try to abuse artificial intelligence, and even abuse thinking artificial intelligence.
The plot of "Black Mirror" may become a reality in the future, which is also the terrible thing about "Black Mirror".
Episode 2
Since the popularity of mobile phones, communication between families has decreased.
After the mother used "Archangel" in this episode, she communicated less with her daughter.
The archangel made the mother easy and lazy. She did not educate her daughter about violence, blood, sex, dog barking, etc., and chose to close her daughter's mind.
In fact, the ancients have long summed up the experience: Gun's "blocking" method of water control ultimately failed, and Yu's "sparse" method of water control succeeded.
The daughter chose to self-mutilate because she didn't understand anything and was curious. She didn't even know what "self-mutilation" meant.
Facts have proved that those things that are not suitable for children should still be educated more than prohibited, at least let children know what it is and at least have the ability to distinguish.
And growing up, the mother's practice of monitoring her daughter is even more thought-provoking.
This episode does not criticize the archangel, nor does it support the archangel. Instead, it talks about both the archangel's shortcomings and the archangel's advantages. The result is left to the audience to judge.
When the mother sees the picture of her daughter having sex, she violates her privacy; when the mother sees her daughter taking drugs, it is an opportunity for redress.
Without the archangel, the mother might have no way of knowing about her daughter's drug use, but again, the mother used "block" instead of "sparse."
She learned that her daughter was taking drugs, and instead of communicating with her daughter, she forced her daughter's boyfriend Ryan to leave her daughter, which made things worse.
In other words, the archangel is a tool, just like a knife, it can cut vegetables or kill people, the key depends on how you use it.
I have to say that the level of the director and screenwriter is still quite high, and the pros and cons of Archangel are filmed. It is reasonable for the audience to support it, and it is also reasonable to oppose it.
On the other hand, it can be said that the archangel is like peeking at a diary, which is an invasion of the child's privacy, for example, he may see the child having sex.
It can be said that the archangel gives parents the opportunity to prevent their children from doing unlawful things, or to remedy them after they have done so.
Of course, no matter how useful the archangel is, it may not be as useful as the parents’ personal education and communication with their children.
Episode 3
It's the same sentence: while technology benefits mankind, it can also bring harm.
As long as it is an eyewitness, it must cooperate with the investigation, and it must also cooperate with the detective to use the memory device to obtain memory. The advantage is that the case can be restored. This technique is similar to "Black Mirror" Season 1 Episode 3 "Your Full History".
I remember someone asked before: Why isn't the death penalty for child abduction?
The reason is that if child abduction is a death sentence, the abductor will feel that since murder and abduction are death sentences, it is easy to be caught if the child is kept, but if the child is killed and the corpse is destroyed, maybe he will not be caught. Therefore, they will choose to kill children, causing unnecessary casualties.
By the same token, the invention of the memory device allowed criminals to kill all witnesses in order to escape, resulting in many more deaths.
It's definitely wrong for the heroine to kill a child, but the point of this episode isn't to kill a child, it's the memory device that causes her to kill three more people she wouldn't otherwise kill.
Moreover, viewing the memory of a real person is considered an invasion of privacy, and no one can guarantee that they will not say it; it is even more dangerous to let a robot view the memory. What if the robot has a thought?
My worries may be superfluous. After all, this is just a science fiction drama. The memory device may not be invented. It is better to install a few more surveillance cameras to invent this kind of thing.
Overall, the ending where the police grabbed the heroine with a hamster was pretty good.
Episode 4
The ending of this episode is very unexpected. The first 45 minutes are very ordinary, and I even want to complain. After all, it is difficult for people to meet true love, but even if it is not true love, they have to have sex. Instead of promoting a few couples, it contributed to a group of guns. friend. I feel that this is not a blind date software at all, but a gun dating software.
As a result, the last 5 minutes were caught off guard and brought a reversal, and all the slots and bugs in the first 45 minutes were self-defeating.
The theme is somewhat similar to "The Truman World", and there are many places in the middle that imply that the audience is a virtual world, just a string of codes.
The female protagonist can only play four water floats, which is the most convincing suggestion, and the others, whether it is security, fences, exiles, or the outside world, cannot explain that this is a virtual world, at most it is similar to "The Hunger Games" " The dystopian world of Maze Runner and Divergent.
It turned out that the male protagonist and the female protagonist were in a simulated relationship, and 1,000 pairs of their digital clones fell in love in the virtual world. In the end, 998 pairs chose to risk their lives to escape, so the match rate was 99.8%.
In fact, this kind of thinking can be inferred from other facts and made into many film and television dramas, not only to simulate love, but also to simulate anything, such as wars, games, sports competitions, and so on.
Episode 5
This episode is a bit abstract and less straightforward than the previous episodes.
My personal understanding is that people invented electronic dogs to replace real dogs, but then electronic dogs developed a mind and started hunting humans in turn.
Episode 6
This episode is so exciting, with twists and turns, layer by layer.
The first exhibit is to allow doctors to feel the feelings of others, but later it was very different from the original intention of the inventor. The pain sensation of others will make the doctor feel pleasure. Step into a monster. I have to say that this black technology is really terrible.
The second exhibit is even worse. First, it can extract consciousness, then it can set the authority of consciousness, and finally, it can be implanted into plush toys. It is more terrifying than the first exhibit. It reminds me of " Black Mirror: A Christmas Special.
The third exhibit, Treasures of the Town House, is a holographic projection of a digital version of a death row inmate.
Torture of death row inmates reminds me of "Black Mirror" season 2 episode 2 "White Bear".
Although a death row prisoner kills someone, do people have the right to torture him at will? The death penalty is already a punishment for him, so there is no need for him to continue to be tortured after the death penalty.
The most terrifying souvenirs are given after electroshock death prisoners. The consciousness of death row prisoners will be permanently tortured in it, which is more terrifying than "Black Mirror: Christmas Special".
What is scary is not the death penalty, what is scary is that it is better to die if you repeat 10,000 years of life.
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