People in the Mirror 02: "Black Mirror" Season 2 Diversity Notes

Einar 2022-03-27 09:01:13

"Be right back":

1. You are your Facebook, your Twitter, your ins, your circle of friends, or at least the good side of you. In the information society, all of us are becoming more and more "virtual" and more and more invisible. Even after you die, your state is still alive, your little video is alive, and you can completely continue to live on the Internet. If you want, you can also be "fake" by the traces of the past. These web traces are like your DNA.

2. It shows in detail that creating a robot by imitating a specific real person is a promising investment. Home robots are destined to be docile, industrious, capable, and love their masters. These are not the same as Blue Star people. It can be said that robots have their own "character", which cannot be lost, and there is no need to move closer to any flawed human beings. Human nature is complex after all. Anyone is irreplaceable. Before this technology company produced this robot and put it into the market, why didn't its internal staff and executives remind this point, I feel bad, this money is wasted, is it not obvious that it is destined to be full of bad reviews? Moreover, the commercialization of AI is still in the experimental stage, and it will lose potential customers. Still a deep customer.

"polar bear":

1. Personally, I think it's still the "tyranny of the majority" thing. There are too many discussions, but it's interesting to bring out something of human nature and chew it over and over again. The scariest and weirdest thing in this film is not the sound of gunfire being fired at any time, not the "corpse" on the cross, nor the "torture" used by the heroine at the beginning of each loop, but hiding behind the window one by one, or A bystander who has a smile on your face and is filming with a mobile phone throughout.

This is a complete visual symbol that can only be expressed through movies and only pictures. There are also some obvious visual symbols in the "Black Mirror" series, such as a piece of glass in "15 Million Worth" that was carefully preserved in a box at the end, such as that in "Waldo Moment" There are only noisy blue bears, but none is more frightening and shocking than the people who are taking pictures with their mobile phones. It's neither bloody nor violent, so why horror?

It's incredible to think about it this way, the crowd alone can create an excellent horror effect, which is very rare based on my limited experience of watching movies. I think the success of its horror creation lies in two points: one, extremely strange reactions; two, extremely accurate human nature.

It is this highly symbolic image between the strong sense of disobedience and the shocking real texture that makes these people seem inexplicably terrifying.

2. If a wicked person loses her memory and becomes as helpless as a newborn baby, is she still worthy of punishment? How much punishment is worth it?

After watching this episode, I didn’t think much about this point. After all, the law has never been set by the general public, and even criminal law is used to avoid lynching to some extent. Regarding some excessive punishments in this film, Jurisprudence has long thought of it thousands of years ago. In comparison, the brain holes of these old people may be even bigger.

The Waldo Moment:

1. If I was not born under the banner of democracy, it may be difficult for me to understand some of the irony of Westerners about the democratic system itself. Waldo probably represents a trait of many young people: indifference to politics and aversion to all political figures. A cannon is aimed at everything, but there is no achievement or thought at all.

Why is Waldo so popular? Because he's not a real person, he's not a political figure, he's just a cartoon character, so he's cuter than a real person. No matter how he scolded people, no matter how personal attacks, no one wanted to blame him, nor would he be held legally responsible.

He's just an entertaining element of venting, representing ratings and popular liking, but nothing to do with any helpful, productive political discussion. He can't do anything except stir up a debate and spit out the blood of others. The voice actor Jamie also described himself in this way. In fact, this characteristic of him is also the characteristic of Waldo, and it is also the characteristic of some young people.

However, such a virtual blue bear who can only curse people has entered the political stage. What does this mean? Democracy is a show in itself from a certain point of view. No matter how reasonable and predictable the policies and opinions you say are, if you can't make people like it, it will be no show . And popular love often overshadows truly valuable insights and logic that only a few can understand.

2. Jamie thought that Waldo created it by himself, but he didn't expect that after leaving Waldo, he was the one who became nothing. Waldo, on the other hand, was carried forward, with a global development of organized and precise calculations.

People who insist on doing unkind things must not think that what they do is shameless. He must be high-sounding, either in society or everyone else, or else the law of the jungle, the strong eat the weak. Without this knowledge, he will certainly not be able to do it for long.

Jamie clearly recognizes his own limitations and the pointlessness of a show like this, but he either continues to voice Waldo or quits and loses his job. He became more and more aware that continuing to be himself would be tantamount to walking dead and a puppet, so he chose to resign and quit. Perhaps it was the huge gap in life after his resignation that overwhelmed him, or perhaps it was Waldo's continued success that frustrated him. In short, he found that his brave feat had somehow failed. He's no longer a puppet, someone more happy to be a puppet must have taken his place, and this pointless and hypocritical show will continue. He was the only one affected from beginning to end.

The works of writers, the paintings and sculptures of artists, and even the trademarks and mascots of the commercial society all have their own lives. Once it is created by the creator, it is no longer under the control of the creator, just as humans are not under the control of God . It interprets itself, develops its own meaning, manifests its own existence. Its life is the continuation of the creator's life, and is often longer than the creator's life, and it is also full of interpretation.

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Be Right Back quotes

  • Martha: He would have worked out what was going on. This wouldn't have ever, ever happened, but if it had, he would have worked it out

    Ash: Sorry, hang on, that's a very difficult sentence to process

  • Martha: See, Ash would've been scared. He wouldn't have just leapt off, he would have been crying...

    Ash: [starts crying] Please don't make me do it. No.

    Martha: That's not fair.