Technology is a double-edged sword that can benefit mankind and at the same time have devastating consequences.
- This is the theme throughout the four seasons of "Black Mirror".
In this season, I love the first and last episodes, which are amazing to open their minds. In fact, these two episodes are talking about the issue of human rights - whether replicators and consciousness itself have human rights. Although it feels the same way, the two reversals at the end of the final episode and the ubiquitous easter eggs (the museum displays easter eggs from the previous episodes of this season and the previous seasons of "Black Mirror") add to the final episode. A lot of points.
Now, let me tell you a little bit about my thoughts one by one.
01 USS Callister
At the beginning of the retro restoration, I thought I had read the drama wrong, and then the truth was a little bit slaughtered. While cheering for the replicator, I felt sorry for the male protagonist who finally heard the apology of the partner's replicator and burst into tears. His inferiority complex and anger had nowhere to vent, so he founded his own kingdom.
Several details show that he is a shy otaku. For example, replicants have no genitals in that world. For example, when the heroine seduces him to play in the water, he hesitates and is at a loss. As long as everyone obeys him and satisfies his self-esteem, he will not hurt everyone. He's more of a psychopath than the black-hearted tech maker in the last episode.
He ended up being self-inflicted and trapped in his own game, and in real life, with the 10-day Christmas holiday coming, he probably won't be able to wake up again.
I didn't want to discuss whether this ending was suitable for him, just sighed silently in my heart.
And if the future world also has this kind of technology... I can't imagine it, I'm afraid it will only be worse.
02 Arkangel
There must be many parents wanting this machine. It has its own positioning and will warn parents in the event of danger. In fact, it is understandable that the single mother overprotected her daughter. A single mother who failed a natural delivery and had a caesarean section at the time of childbirth. When the doctor first saw her daughter, she almost thought it was a dead baby. The daughter was almost lost when she was a child, so the mother would be overprotective of her daughter.
I don't think there was anything wrong with what she did in the end. When her daughter became violent and self-harmed because of the filter, she stayed away from the machine. After a few years, when she found out that her daughter had a male ticket, she was angry and surprised, but she did not interfere with her daughter. It wasn't until she saw the boy teaching his daughter to use drugs that she warned the boy to stay away from her daughter. Putting birth control pills is also for the benefit of my daughter. It's just that because of this machine, she couldn't communicate with her daughter in person. As soon as she said it, her daughter knew that she was monitoring herself again. So a vicious circle, the snowball is getting bigger and bigger.
At the end of the picture, the daughter gets into the stranger's tanker, and the picture stops abruptly, we don't know what will happen.
Her daughter's violent tendencies as a child and her rebelliousness when she grew up were all caused by her childhood under the surveillance of machines and the protection of filters. The reason why technology is a double-edged sword is because of the uncertainty of human nature.
03 Crocodile
"Invisible Guest" is the visual sense, but it is still very different.
Devices can access people's memories, too real to hide. But also because of this machine, the heroine killed more people.
There is also a technology that can search for names and addresses with blurry images alone, which is terrible.
The little guinea pig is cute, but the discussion forum says its eyesight is not very good.
04 Hang the DJ
The sweetest episode. I'm leaning towards the ending as HE, but it's ironic nonetheless.
It was the 998 couples in the system simulation who broke the rules set by the system that achieved the 99.8% success rate of the system, but in reality they still believe 100% in the choice of the system and are completely controlled by the system...
Emotions cannot rely on machines to accurately calculate the matching value. Emotions are never rational. If you want to obey the machine and spend even a second with someone you don't like, it's a torture, and in this episode, the heroine wasted months and the hero wasted years with people he didn't like.
05 Metalhead
At first, I was stunned that what the three of them were desperately looking for was actually a teddy bear. After watching the sixth episode, I felt that there was something special. The teddy bear should preserve the human consciousness.
In fact, this episode was super nervous. I thought the heroine would have a chance to escape, but I didn't expect that she couldn't escape the tracker. . But because there is very little background explanation, it adds a lot of mystery to this episode, and a lot of information can only be known by reasoning.
Some people in the discussion forum said that there may be human consciousness in the metal dog and the pig mentioned at the beginning, and they think it is possible. I still like this kind of drama that relies on the details to slowly deduce the whole picture.
06 Black Museum
This episode has hidden super colorful eggs, you can go to the discussion area to find them.
The machines made by black-hearted technology manufacturers have bugs, and they end up harming others and themselves.
The first is a machine that shares the senses, and finally the male doctor fell in love with the pain, as if he was addicted to drugs.
The second is a machine of consciousness storage. Who can stand another person directing in his head? Share all your privacy and thoughts? I don't think anyone can stand it, no matter how close that person is to you. In the end, the heroine's mother should also temporarily live in the heroine's mind for revenge, and it is impossible for a lifetime.
The third is a machine that has been detached from consciousness, and can actually carry out secondary abuse.
The storytelling and watchability of this episode are the highest in this season, and there are also small reversals at the end, which are very pleasing.
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