Episode 4 Hang The DJ

Chelsey 2022-03-27 09:01:13

Let's take a look at the origin of the title of this episode. 'Hang The DJ' is a recurring lyric in the end credits of the song titled 'Panic', a song by The Smiths, an indie alternative rock band in the UK in the 1980s, written by lead singer Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr The lyrics were a protest against a DJ named Steve Wright at the time, because it was boring and commercial because of taste. The lyric of Hang the DJ is to let the audience refuse to passively accept the music played by others, but to choose the music they like. Putting it in the film is to encourage people not to rely on the so-called coach technology system to tell you who to fall in love with, but to choose a lover according to your heart.

Let us first assume the scientificity and correctness of this matching system (I think the biggest problem is that the data scenario simulation almost excludes many real-life factors, such as the work, family, social background of both parties, etc., and these are often in real feelings. It is a very important factor in the world), 99.8% of the numbers on the screen at most encourage the male and female protagonists to know each other in real life. A simple 'Hi' in the real world is 1, and the possible happy life simulated by data is the back Countless 0s. And even with a relatively secure beginning, the hero and heroine are still faced with an unknown emotional journey, and they may also experience joy, excitement, sadness, betrayal and other tests. I think many people think that this is the rare Happy Ending of the Black Mirror series after reading it, probably because there are finally no rules and regulations set in the digital virtual world. Clothes are watching your every move at all times, and the hero and heroine can be together freely. However, there are no such strange rules in the world. Men and women are very happy and free to fall in love. Isn't it because technology suddenly came in and mixed it.

Let’s talk about two different views on emotions. There's no right or wrong, I think it's pretty good if you trust any of them.
In the film, the heroine has a memorable passage. She said that this system is actually useless, it just allows you to spend random time with different people, and let you experience one relationship after another until you feel When you are tired and disappointed and don’t want to try and make mistakes, tell you that the next match is perfect match, so you accept it, and if you don’t look for it, you settle.
The male protagonist Frank and the female protagonist Amy got along very well when they first met. They also dated many different people after that, but they still miss each other the most in their hearts. Even later, they were indeed each other's Mr. & Mrs. Right. So my question is, aren't the few relationships between the head and tail ends meaningless? There is a trend in modern people that everything wants to find the best and fastest way to get the best results. What is the best relationship? Holding the hand of a child and being together forever is one of the beautiful things. Is that unforgettable feeling that you want but can't get it considered beautiful? Isn't the feeling of being betrayed despite one's own life not worth experiencing? Without these different emotional experiences for people to experience, accumulate and sublimate, how can they be better aware of happiness, cherish and take care of it?

Finally, a small point, the artificial intelligence (the virtual game characters in the first episode) mentioned in this issue of Black Mirror has its own consciousness in the end. They all know that they are in a virtual world, and they all try to find the truth of things across the boundaries of this world. The hero and heroine in this episode finally disappeared and turned into numbers in percentages. Will there be another digital dimension to the world one day, and these digital people live?

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Extended Reading

USS Callister quotes

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

  • Robert Daly: [Furiously patching through to Walton, who is fixing the engine manually from the jet fader] Walton, you're going to pay for this.

    Walton: Robert, listen.

    Robert Daly: I'm going to bring Tommy back in.

    Walton: Hey, Robert, listen...

    Robert Daly: God so help me, you are going to regret all of this SO HARD!

    Walton: Bob, I wanna talk to you here! I was thinking i should say... sorry.

    Robert Daly: [Beat] Go on.

    Walton: [Breathlessly as he fixes the engine] You created Infinity. You're a fucking genius. I exploited that. I treated you like the golden goose and I got fat off the profits, figuratively speaking. And I was thinking, I should have appreciated you more, you know? I should have treated you better. Yeah, yeah I was thinking I should say all that.

    [Beat]

    Walton: But then you threw my son out of an airlock, so... FUCK YOU TO DEATH.

    [Activates the engine which incinerates him]