Originally I should have written the first episode of the fourth season of "Black Mirror", "Ship Callister", but based on the second episode "Angel of the Ark" which shocked me even more, I wrote this episode first.
The whole trend of the fourth season of "Black Mirror" began to be cut in from a female perspective, so the whole season looks more delicate and less gloomy than the first three seasons. The whole is getting closer and closer to a family ethics drama, focusing on the impact on the existing social order, morality, law, and ethics when technology is infinitely powerful, and the tearing and collapse of human values.
When I watched this episode of "Angel of the Ark", I was thinking: What?! Wasn't this really made for Chinese parents by the crew? This is also in line with China's national conditions. Look at the advertisements of telephone watches on the street, with positioning functions, instant calls, and one-key calls for help. Almost every child has a telephone watch. .
Which Chinese parents are not scared of old age, since they have children, the news of abducting and selling children, robbing children on the street, children being abducted, maimed, and killed never grabs the hearts of parents, every time they take their children to the street, watch the news It is the consensus of almost all parents that they dare not let their children out of their sight.
Sambriel is a brave single mother who made the decision to raise Sarah on her own and be a single mother before she gave birth to her daughter Sarah. But also because she is raising her daughter alone, she regards her daughter as her own life, and does not dare to be careless for a moment. When Sarah was three years old, because she was distracted by chatting with friends, her daughter accidentally lost her chasing a kitten. When she found out, her daughter was long gone. At that moment, Sambriel was almost insane, shouting hoarse, and lost his soul. Fortunately, with the help of the police and passers-by, his daughter Sarah was quickly found, holding her lost daughter, Sambriel burst into tears under the rain.
In order not to let her daughter have an accident, she used a high-tech method - "Ark Angel". A high-tech chip was implanted into the daughter's brain. The implantation process was fast and painless. When the child watched the cartoon, the child had no feeling for it in an instant.
The mother, who was bent on protecting her daughter, didn't even ask during the whole implantation and consultation process, were there any side effects? Will it have any effect on the growth of the child? If the daughter grows up and no longer needs to monitor her, can the chip be taken out?
Perhaps, in the mother's mind at that time, she didn't think about the long-term at all, she just wanted to ensure the current healthy growth of her daughter. Perhaps, she already knew that once the chip was implanted, it could not be removed, but she could not accept that her daughter was in any danger, so she was willing to pay some price.
Poor little Sarah was implanted with a chip without knowing it, and her mother never asked her for advice. It was as natural as taking her to the dentist.
However, without far-sightedness, there must be near-term worries. Just as it is impossible for people to live in a sterile environment, children have their own developmental order and laws in the process of growth. If artificially controlled and disrupted, it will only be counterproductive.
When the mother first started using the monitor, she hid in the closet and looked at the world in the eyes of the child. It was so cute, and both mother and daughter laughed so happily.
However, once you get used to the simple and fast operation of the monitor, you will quickly become addicted and unable to extricate yourself.
Because it takes so much energy to raise a child, you have to observe her, accompany her, play with her, play with her, and want to figure out what she is thinking and what difficulties she encounters? How to do it at the right time , Properly guide her, encourage her, communicate with her, communicate with her, tell her your life wisdom and principles of life, not only lead her to appreciate the beauty of the world, but also teach her to understand the dangers of the world. This process is too energy-intensive, but it is also enjoyable. Isn’t it only in such collisions and exchanges between parents and children that they have emotional connection and love flow?
However, with the parental monitor, it is much simpler, more direct, and more rude.
Images that are not suitable for children appear in my daughter's sight, code! There is an object that scares her, code it! If the students around you speak dirty words, the muffler tape will be coded! Let the child neither see nor hear. Someone fights in the street, the scene is too brutal, the daughter's heart beats fast, cortisol rises, code! Out of sight is pure. Even when my grandfather fainted from a stroke and his daughter was afraid, the system automatically set the coding mode so that the child could not see it.
It was easy, but she didn't explain to the child why she often had a blurry vision in front of her eyes. Sarah has grown from three years old to ten years old. She has never experienced sadness, fear, fear, or anger, nor has she ever seen her mother look sad or sad. However, joy, anger, sadness, and joy are all normal human emotions. The older Sarah also felt out of place with her classmates. She couldn't understand the jokes the classmates told her. The boys laughed at a child like her for being a chip-headed child, and did not want to play with her because she was next to her. It's like an automatic whistleblower. No one likes whistleblowers.
When Sarah was 9 years old and started to self-harm (she just wanted to know what the blood looked like), her mother took her to a psychiatrist in a panic. When the psychiatrist showed Sara a picture of two people fighting, Sara couldn't distinguish the sinister at all, she thought it was just two people talking. The psychiatrist told the mother that the "Ark Angel" program has been banned in Europe because it is not good for children's physical and mental health and violates ethics, and the existing ones will also be suspended because the negative effects are obvious to all. You can throw away the monitor."
At this point, both mother and daughter bravely took the first step. The mother no longer uses the monitor, and the daughter walks out of the house independently and faces the real world. Although it was difficult at first, over time Sarah, who was terrified of dogs at 9, was able to play with dogs at 15. On the surface, Sarah is already a "normal" child.
But there is a very special psychological phenomenon. When a dictatorial country or region is affected by the trend of democratic thinking, children whose behaviors are constrained by tradition and behave in rules will have serious misconduct. But without this initial step, parental challenges and ineffective parent-child relationships will never have the opportunity to be addressed and corrected.
Such is the relationship between Sarah and her mother. From the age of 3 to the age of 9, in the past six or seven years, not only Sarah, but also her mother, has lost her ability to communicate effectively with her daughter.
Sarah's past is like a blank slate, and now she can't wait to pursue the stimulus, to make up for this lesson, she wants to know everything she didn't know before. So, the first thing she found was Trek, the bad boy who laughed at her back then.
Why Trek? Because bad boy Trek has everything Sarah was shielded from when she was a child! Certainly attractive.
Under the leadership of Trek, 9-year-old Sarah directly watched pornographic videos, and even the killing process of terrorists executing hostages. A 9-year-old girl stared at those pornographic and violent videos with innocent eyes. This was something her mother never expected.
The normal 9-year-old child is at an intersection, a key node in the transition from childhood to pre-adolescence. Before, children saw the world with pure eyes, but around the age of 9, they began to doubt and began to observe the dark and sinister side of life.
Normal children, under the supervision of their parents and schools, establish the most basic safety and moral standards, and know what to do and what not to do. So it was also a violent video. Sarah's female classmates would refuse to watch it, and persuaded Sarah not to watch it. After watching a short clip out of curiosity, she felt disgusting. It shouldn't be watched. It's a bad thing. Look, Children of the same age have their own sense of boundaries.
But Sarah is different. Before, her mother restricted her from watching by using the code on the monitor, but she didn't tell her what to watch and why. Now there are no restrictions, she is full of curiosity, and the more she is suppressed and restricted, she bursts out. It's even scarier. At this time, Sarah still loved her mother very much, and was still a well-behaved daughter in front of her mother. Even if she knew that her mother had added vitamins to her breakfast, she just smiled and ate it.
It's just that she won't tell her mother about some things. She knows that she won't get answers from her mother about those dangerous and irritating things, so she closed the communication channel for some things to her mother. She no longer trusts her mother as completely as she used to, and she knows that her mother is not omnipotent.
For a child to grow into an independent individual, the most important task of adolescence is to gain maturity and healthy autonomy.
Autonomy is the ability to make decisions completely independently without the help of others, and the ability to control the affairs of life.
Knowledge and answers that cannot be obtained in the family will be sought from peers and the opposite sex. A girl becomes an independent and mature woman, first of all, it is the demonstration and strength from her mother. If the mother does not give her, then she will get it from the competition and friendship of her peers. The growth of a child requires both excellent same-sex guidance and Imitation also requires the affirmation and recognition of the opposite sex.
Sarah is fifteen years old, and if the family does not give the necessary sex education and safety knowledge, then the challenges of adolescence -- drugs and sex -- come. But at this time, I clearly saw that there was a turning point. My mother started dressing up for dates, starting to have a boyfriend, and my daughter would praise her mother for looking hot.
Everything seems to be getting better, and when mom goes out and has intimacy again, her focus will go back to herself as an attractive woman, not just a nervous, anxious mom. And the identity of a woman will make her think that her daughter has grown into a beautiful girl, and it is time to talk about love, sex, life, and safety.
But that night, Sarah began her sexual exploration and slept with Trek. Unlike other girls, she has never had a heart-pounding youthful time, nor has she experienced the little throbbing of first love and the beauty of mutual affection. For the opposite sex, all her education comes from pornographic films. She and Cui Grams only goes to bed to experience the thrill, and her performance is flamboyant, a complete imitation of porn.
Because there was no emotional immersion, she did not feel that this experience was very exciting. Next, the only thing that could satisfy her was drugs.
That night, Sambriel couldn't get through to her daughter's phone. After trying all the methods, she thought of the monitor that had been on the shelf for a long time, located her daughter's location, opened it and saw the scene of her daughter and Trek, she was in pain. closed his eyes.
Then, when her daughter came home, she just hid in the room and held her head in pain, pretending she didn't know anything.
Isn't this the best communication opportunity in my opinion? Of course, she was guilty and dared not let her daughter know that she was still using the monitor. However, why not in the living room, holding a glass of wine, slowly swaying and waiting for my daughter to come home. Tell her, Mommy had a great night, how was your day baby? As you can see, mom has a boyfriend, I'm not sure he's the right fit, but I promised him a date next week. Well, yes, it's beautiful. It reminded me of how I felt when I was young, the first time a boy came to my house and took me out on a date. Just about the same age as you are now.
My mom said to me at the time, my sweet little beauties, you can hang out with those handsome boys and you can go out to eat, but you have to remember, if you want to experience sex, the legal age is 18 age. If before then, you thought you had found true love and had to experience it, or faced danger and coercion, I hope you learned how to protect yourself.
Speak clearly about the harm and how to protect yourself, and let your daughter decide on her own. You don't have to please her, and you don't have to be afraid of angering her. This knowledge mother should teach her early in the morning. The dangers of drugs need to be pointed out. Because you are her mother, no one else can be responsible for her future, but you need it.
However, the mother who has the monitor has already given up the ability to communicate directly with her daughter. She does not know how to communicate. She just secretly gave her daughter birth control pills, threatening Trek to leave her daughter. In the end, the monitor was discovered by her daughter.
Do you think Sarah is too much? How would you feel if you found out that your parents peeked into all your privates, including making love? ! Trust Collapsed! I just want to quickly escape from this terrible place and escape all this, because the chip in her brain cannot be removed, and no one wants such a tragic life. She smashed the computer and ran away. Randomly got into a stranger's car.
And my mother's face was covered in blood, standing on the street, all she recalled in her mind was the docile and lovely Sara when she was a child, calling her mother sweetly. She didn't understand, what went wrong? What happens to a child brought up by yourself? !
Who is to blame? The source of the tragedy was doomed when Sarah was three years old. Technology is on the left, humanity is on the right. When we make any decision for a young child, we might as well think about whether it would feel sad and painful if we were a child.
All parent-child tragedies stem from the failure to truly treat children as equals
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