(Six changes completed)
Regarding the easter egg part of the last episode, a brain-opened but very possible hypothesis is proposed, which can dilute the disadvantage of insufficient technological innovation this season.
Written in the front——
It took a day to watch the fourth season of "Black Mirror" intermittently. Personally, I think it is better than the third season, and several episodes performed very well.
There are several characteristics of this season that impressed me. For example, the more female-oriented perspective makes the story more intellectual and delicate. In addition, the technology that appears in almost every episode can be used in the first three seasons. Find similar shadows, but the presentation form, core and theme of the story are completely different, giving people a familiar and unfamiliar experience.
In my review post a few days ago , I said that " Each episode of "Black Mirror" constructs an independent story with a near-future scientific and technological background to reflect the impact of contemporary science and technology on human nature, society, politics, morality, and public order. Influence, positive and friendly, but also more likely to bring tears and destruction... "
The reader "Torpedo Shark" put forward a more precise supplement: technology is obvious, its essence is the medium (media), where there are human senses, there must be people waiting to be connected (being bought), technology is to achieve "surrounding" this Target is a tool used to focus on all desires driven by the media. The "black mirror" refers to the screen.
This became more apparent in the fourth quarter.
"Black Mirror" S4E1 "Carlister Spacecraft": The Unknown of Reality PK The Power of Virtual
This is the most entertaining episode of the season.
It is not only the difference between switching back and forth between virtual and reality, but also the technology and bridges displayed in it have a familiar feeling: immersive experience game, like S3E2 "Game Test", personal consciousness can survive in the server, S3E4 "San Junipello" not only has a sense of sight, even Nanette extorted herself in the end with the tune of S3E3 "Dance of the Black Letter"...
The male protagonist Robert Daly is a wise and brave captain in the world of "Space Fleet".
But this is only the development of the game in his "unlimited" in it, in reality, Daley is a sense of presence is very low and is not respected senior programmer.
It's okay to be cautious and low-brow pleasing in life. Daly only needs to enjoy the supreme power in the game to comfort and satisfy him.
As the chief technology officer of Callister Company, Daly created the "infinite" universe with one hand, but at the same time he also has a set of "private customized version" for himself.
In this version, all environments are independent, and others cannot detect or delete Daly's custom code.
Simply put, Daly the "Creator" can do whatever he wants in this world.
He takes pleasure in calling his digital clones—they are all colleagues in the company who were specially crafted by Daly who stole their DNA. In reality, Daly is somewhat resentful towards them, but he dares not speak up. Can only get it back in the game even harder.
Therefore, for Daly, this is a paradise that is unique; for the crew, it is a nightmare that cannot be awakened or escaped.
In the virtual world he created, any behavior is not restricted by law and morality. Therefore, Daley does everything in order to "surrender" these digital clones with real human feelings, wills, and thoughts: in order to make the first one Wharton surrendered when he came here, and he could kill his son Tommy in front of him.
Such distorted and extreme repressive methods set a dictatorial and cruel tone for Daley's world from the very beginning.
Many people would say that "the hateful person must have pity". Daly's gloom and perversion are all forced out by the real humiliation and contempt-but I think the main problem lies more with Daly himself.
The CTO of a dignified giant game company has almost the same detached status as CEO Wharton. The creators of the "infinite" world and occasionally have little fans to express their admiration. They can't be connected with loser in any way...
However, Daley, who is extremely clever, just forcibly beat a good hand of Tianhu, and became a deceptive loser.
Newcomer and fan Nanette regards Daly as the boss of the company, and in fact it is true... but no one in the company regards him as the boss, and no one respects him.
Everyone has different reasons. For example, Shanya regarded Daly as an autistic and weird stranger or sorrow because Daly had stared at her.
Daly has a lot of opportunities to change his situation , such as getting along with Nanette. It is obvious that she came to Callister Company for herself, although she is only a technical fan, but he only needs By creating more topics and interactions in your field of expertise, you can bring a friend or even a girlfriend, and Daly doesn't even have to make much change.
However, he pretended to be deaf and dumb to the words and deeds of others chewing his tongue behind his back, and tied Nanette into the game to find a sense of existence... Self-inflicted , not to live.
Even without mentioning the merits of the company, Daly is not friendly and pleasant in life. The takeaway guy desperately rushed to deliver pizza on Christmas Eve. He would not thank him for not giving a tip, but just as someone else made a mistake. Eating pizza is complacent, while turning people away is full of disgust.
And think about it again, the actions of those who were dictated by Daly into the game are actually no big deal : the front desk girl Irina is cold to herself (she is cold to everyone), and the intern Parker got the wrong sandwich. (He is still doing an internship), programmer Dudani wrote the wrong code (you must not make a mistake), colleague Shania scolded herself (who made you stare at others hairy) and so on.
Even if he used himself to suppress his partner Wharton, Daly did have enough reasons to hate him, but when the virtual Wharton apologized to him, Daly couldn't help but listen...
Wherever there is any deep hatred, they are all knots that can be solved in a sentence or two. Some contradictions are not even friction. It is just that Daly's heart is suppressed to the distortion and misshapen.
So, Daly wants to change his life easier than he imagined , but how did he do it?
The girl who has a good impression in reality but dare not talk to her actively anymore directly swept into the game to use God's identity as a strong one.
Create a series of artificial "adventures" in a universe where there is no real adventure. All people are just dolls and jesters who accompany them to play RPG. The meaning of their existence is to satisfy themselves time and time again botched and false obscenities. .
And one thing is almost certain, Daly is still a dead house + virgin who has never been in love, and has never had sex.
There is a lot of evidence. Obviously, in the game, he can satisfy his various nasty and obscene thoughts, but Daly still stubbornly insists on the principle of kissing and not sticking his tongue out. He also does not design genitals for all (female) crew members. He wants to kiss Nanette. Being slapped in the face, the first reaction was at a loss.
You might say that not sticking out your tongue is loyal to the masterpiece "Space Fleet", and not giving genitals is to prevent the crew from messing around. Nanette is tolerated because it is interesting to her...
But, look at his performance before and after being lured into the water by Nane's characteristics... admit it, Daly is an unmanned baby.
I don’t know much about psychology, but I can understand Daley’s character and thoughts from the ground up . People like him have lived in their own world since childhood. Of course, he will yearn for the real world. Communication and lust, but he pays more attention to the final result and pleasure, so that he will be afraid and tired of the process of achieving them.
Daly only wants results, so he will only use rough power to suppress and punish disobedience, even if disobedience is originally brought about by rough power.
Going back to the theme of "Black Mirror", the problem for Daly (and all of us) is actually: the fear of the uncertainty that may exist to change reality, and the temptation that comes with the inevitability of controlling everything in the virtual world. , How to choose.
In fact, Wharton has been giving Daley "tips": Do you even ask for advice from your own subordinates? Show off some leadership momentum! (Like i ordered you)
If you want to be respected by others, you must first respect yourself. Of course, if Daley really understands this, or can achieve this, there will not be as many problems as before...
Nowadays, countless people have found their own "life value" in online games, and the "infinite" universe designed by Daly himself has magnified this sensory experience by countless times. Compared with the indispensable failure in real life, It’s more comfortable to choose the “success” that is readily available in the game...
What Daly lacks is just a trace of courage. This courage plus a cleverness happened to be possessed by Nanette, and her particularity is also the key to defeating Daly. I have to say that being "the most scared and most proud of myself" The quality of "to defeat" is really an inexplicable irony for Daly.
In addition to the above-mentioned theme of "reality vs. virtual" , this episode also has an unobvious metaphor (it may be that I am too concerned).
It was Christmas Eve when everyone defeated Daly. According to the company's arrangement, they would have a 10-day holiday next.
The actions of Nanette and others not only lifted Daley's control and restored his freedom in the "infinite" universe, but also accidentally trapped Daley in his self-made "rogue universe".
Considering the identity of Daly as a single dog, and the image of "keep away from strangers" in the eyes of acquaintances and strangers, and the game update just completed on Christmas Eve...
It is very likely that after half a month (or more), no one else will discover his disappearance, and in his state, the possibility of death or paralysis when he is discovered is extremely high. I would also say "sorrow for its misfortune, but not for anger." Although it is not illegal to abuse digital clones, his mentality and actions are not worthy of sympathy.
The point is that after the "God" disappeared, Daly, theoretically, rushed to the Kalliste spacecraft in the online game, with the ingenuity of the new captain Nanette, and the experience of long-term abuse of Wharton and others. Skills, coupled with the permanent time advantage of 24 hours online...I let Buddha see that there will be a team of legendary ultimate players in the "infinite" universe in the near future .
(There is also a small easter egg, the actor Jesse Plemont is Todd in "Breaking Bad", and the player who appears at the end is obviously "Little Fan" Jesse Pinkman-Aaron Paul's voice.)
Does this also imply that the true function and merit of the Creator is to create, pioneer rather than rule and manipulate. Those who can truly bring glory and miracles to a world should be those who follow the creator's footprint and original intention?
"Black Mirror" S4E2 "Ark Angel": Pandora's Box Destined to be Opened
This is what I feel the most serious episode.
It's not to say how novel the technique and technique of this episode are. On the contrary, this episode seems lacklustre in many ways. The reason why it is said to be "heavy" is because it hits the contemporary people's anxiety about raising and educating children.
Think about what we have seen and heard in life. Cameras are beginning to appear in families and classrooms, and electronic products for positioning children are changing with each passing day... Where is "Black Mirror", this is clearly reality.
Before we had children, we couldn’t really experience the feelings of being a parent (our daughter is more than a year old, and her mobility and destructive power have increased, and she can give people new "surprises" every day, and we can’t let her out of sight and become elders. Consensus), so many people can empathize with Ms. Sambriel’s feelings about gains and losses in the play.
On the other hand, with the development of social economy and drastic changes in family concepts, "fewer births" (and even DINK) has become a growing trend (although it is not yet mainstream). Faced with only (irreplaceable) children, Every parent will devote all their efforts and emotions.
What's more terrible is that not everyone can accept this trend. People of the previous generation often sneer at young people's views on marriage and love, fertility, and education. This contradiction is difficult to reconcile.
Therefore, the story of "Ark Angel" not only "has a market" in European and American countries, but also has a certain degree of universality in the heavenly dynasty.
At this time, I suddenly told my parents that there is such a technology that can help them to better take care of and protect their children. Even if someone is aware of its hidden dangers, I believe that many people will still be unable to resist it.
There is no need to have confidence in human nature (never have confidence), most parents do not have all-round monitoring of their children, not because they don’t want to, but they can’t.
All times, really be able to separate the individual child as very few parents, after all, "so young," the baby does not yet have an independent personality, parents as guardians have the responsibility and obligation to hand in dealing with the ...... Sarah unknowingly, on Forced to plant a nightmare that will accompany her throughout her life.
This is the most desperate aspect of this episode: due to the irreversible nature of technology, the tragedy of the mother and daughter has been doomed from the beginning.
Perhaps when the child is young, the advantages of the "Ark Angel" technology outweigh the disadvantages. It can be clear about the child's position, vital signs, and visual signals. Parents can also set blocking content to interact closely with the child (using the child as a "toy" to play Know everything--)……
But in the child's entire life growth process, its drawbacks and harms are definitely more serious than expected.
Although Sara has escaped the intrusion of various external disturbing factors, as she grows older, the all-round protection she receives makes her more and more like a "giant baby" who does not know the suffering of the world. She can't see her grandpa being injured. The pain of illness, the heartbroken sorrow of her mother-because she has been growing up happily.
In "Inside Out", there are five kinds of emotions in the human brain. In addition to happiness, sadness, anger, disgust, and fear are all negative emotions-in fact, there are far more types of human negative emotions. Positive emotions, they make people stronger and survive. Without their tempering, people will have problems sooner or later.
A few years ago Sarah has been a carefree life and pristine, but the real world is not the case, the more she grew, the more sensible this ridiculous shielding the more you will stimulate, squeezing her nerves - —After all, she has never even been "angry".
I thought of the concept of parenting that was once a smash hit many years ago, but not many people have mentioned it: aseptic parenting . After all, an environment that is too clean cannot improve the body's immunity, and proper exposure to a small amount of bacteria can make children stronger.
In fact, the "Ark Angel Project" was not promoted in the story. Not only was it banned in Europe, the existing ones would also be stopped. Its side effects are obvious to all... Therefore, Sarah is a guinea pig.
Knowing the seriousness of the situation, Sam Brier could only stop using the "parental monitor" and force Sara to start contacting the normal environment, even if there was an obvious "withdrawal reaction" at the beginning, he had to stand firm.
The fear of external threats on the bright side can be erased with time and patience.
For example, Sarah has been very afraid of dogs since she was a child, and the protection of "shielding her ears and stealing the bell" really helped her avoid a lot of harassment when she was young.
The price is that when Sara sees a dog again at the age of 8 or 9, she will still be as helpless as a 3 or 4 year old child.
But these can be overcome, especially under the practice that the other party cannot really hurt himself and has to face every day...
When Sara was 15 years old, she could even become friends with dogs. This is the practice of "practice makes perfect".
The real curse is actually the "curiosity" seed that Sarah has been planted since she was a child. This is her "psychological disability". We often say "see the old at three years old", but Sarah hasn't seen many things since she was three years old. How strong will she be in the real world?
The answer is very, very, very eager.
If she had a slow process of understanding the dangers and pornographic information around her since she was a child, then she would probably be like other girls, staying away from the restricted videos in the hands of boys instead of being completely naive and curious.
So after being "lifted", it was inevitable for Sara to find the bad boy Trek as her "enlightenment teacher".
Because in Sara’s eyes, Trek knows the most "restricted level" things, and Trek is also very responsible as a make-up teacher, starting with advanced tutorials-watching pornography, bloody and violent movies, terrorist execution videos ...
Education is a gradual process. Sarah is eager to make up the progress as soon as possible. Although she quickly catches up with Trek's help, it will give her the illusion that the adult world is like that.
Normal people will have a process of sexual awakening, sexual enlightenment, sexual fantasies, and sexual contact, so we can more or less distinguish the difference between pornography and general sex, but in this aspect , Sara is missing -so Sara is in When I first tasted the forbidden fruit, I showed the demeanor of an old driver.
If Sara’s problem is just that, it might be a blessing to Trek...
But the hidden dangers caused by "Ark Angels" are truly terrifying because they are "much higher than ordinary people's desires and lack the corresponding restraint and vigilance." Simply put, Sarah doesn't know how to be afraid.
Although Trek is a bad boy, his growth process at least guarantees that he can still maintain some bottom line while transporting drugs, but Sara lacks such scruples. She just broke the place the day before, and started to fight the day after. Drugs got interested...
Whether it is the exaggerated first experience or the desire to attract fans , it is the sequelae of Sara's blank period. This is her destined "fostering".
Sara's tortuous growth trajectory is only half a tragedy, and the other half can only be completed with the cooperation of her mother Sambriel.
In fact, this half could have been avoided, as the psychiatrist said: You can't remove the implant, but you can throw away the parental monitor, and the problem is solved.
... But I said before that many times parents fail to satisfy their own voyeuristic desires, not because they don't want to, but because they can't.
It's like turning on the switch of Pandora's Box and putting it at your own hand. As long as people's desires still exist, there will be a day to open it sooner or later.
Sambriel’s unspeakable suffering is that she dared not confess to her daughter that she still kept the parental monitor, because it violated the promise between the mother and daughter, and she could only silently "guard" in secret. daughter.
Besides, as long as the goal can be achieved, the process does not seem to be that important. Hasn't it been the same for so many years before?
Under the constraints of subjective and objective factors, Sambriel has been quietly driving away the instability factors around her daughter, warning Trek this is the case, and giving Sarah the contraceptive pill is also the same... but she can't and dare to talk to her daughter .
The process of education and instruction is usually to achieve a corresponding result, but sometimes the process and the result are equally important, or even more important, or the teaching process itself is part of the result.
Without this "process", once the bubble is burst, any overreaction may occur.
Frankly speaking, there are several scenarios for this situation between the mother and daughter, and there is a small probability that there will be a happy ending. The most extreme and saddest one is chosen in the play... But it must be admitted that it is also the ending. one.
This tragedy happened when Sarah was watching cartoons when she was three years old.
What’s even more desperate: When Sarah beat her mother and ran away from home, when Sambriel woke up and rushed out of the house to find her daughter, she couldn’t find any effective experience and method to communicate with her daughter. She only had the damaged parental monitor in her hand. Without the "Ark Angel", she couldn't do anything.
Everyone is eager for shortcuts, but education has no shortcuts...This is the biggest problem raised in this episode. Even if everyone understands the shortcomings of shortcuts, who can guarantee that everyone can resist the temptation of shortcuts?
Having said that, some viewers are not too cold about this episode. I thought about it for a number of reasons: for example , the technology in it is not very innovative , and the seamless monitoring looks like S1E3 "All Your History", and the crippled people The shielding function also has traces of "White Christmas"; and the development of this story is obvious , the ending will not be too unexpected or reversed, and there will be no surprises...
Therefore, in terms of objective quality alone, the second episode is slightly mediocre, but if you resonate with this story, it is one of the best stories in the fourth season.
"Black Mirror" S4E3 "Crocodile": a black and white world without gray areas
This is the most stressful episode I watched.
Even if the theme of the story is removed , it can be regarded as the best of the season in terms of only the emotional atmosphere, and under such a cold lens language, the story has become more fascinating.
This episode builds an "ideal society": a world in which lies can theoretically be eliminated.
The tool to realize this ideal is a memory miner called a "forensic device." This technology has been applied to the field of insurance claims in the play. By extracting a series of memories of the parties and other witnesses, insurance companies can construct, Restore the complete process of the case.
Such powerful technology has obviously been around for some years, after all, it has been extended to commercial and civilian use.
And since the previous year, it has been a legal requirement that relevant personnel must accept the machine to "investigate and collect evidence". If the other party does not cooperate, the insurance company can call the police.
After all, if a person did not break the law or did something shameful, why should he fear being retrieved from his memory? As for leaking some privacy in the process, it is also a completely tolerable side effect.
Speaking of privacy, it is probably difficult to guarantee in the world of this episode, because the insurance company's Smyrla can quickly and easily find the target through the facial recognition system, I don't know how popular this system is...
Of course, privacy violations can be large or small, and people will of course recognize the negative impact of this technology. Therefore , companies with "forensic devices" must take their breasts to ensure that "memory is absolutely confidential and will not be disclosed."
Even so, there has been a "yanzhao judge" incident in history-this means that as long as you accept the machine's "forensics", your privacy will always be exposed.
As for the inauspicious anti-criminal system and the professional ethics of forensics personnel, it is just a beautiful fig leaf.
Since the hidden danger of memory miners is so great, why are they still being used more and more widely? Just because it is real! exist! too! it is good! use! NS!
Take the case of a pizza car crashing into a person as an example. It took ten and a half months to be unable to determine the truth. Smyrla finished the work in one day. This is because she has found five people one after another, otherwise it can be faster...
The memory miner does not require the person to go to great lengths to retell the vague memories, but directly allows the brain to provide relevant memories. Although the content of the memory is subjective and may be biased in some details (for example, recording yellow as green), it will never be wrong in the truth, because memory cannot actively lie.
In the process of extracting target information, many irrelevant memory contents will naturally appear along the way, and they often involve people's privacy.
What's interesting (terrible) is that as Smyrla's investigation and evidence collection deepens, the privacy she has been exposed to has become more and more private and more intimate.
From car accident guys visiting homes and shops and seeing pretty girls, to the innocuous trivial things of passersby looking at the street and seeing handsome guys, to dentists peeking at naked men in hotel rooms and taking pictures of naked men in hotel rooms, to the big things that endanger people’s reputation, to women. This terrible thing like Lord Mia's murder...
In the pursuit of the absolutely unmistakable "truth", human privacy and secrets are constantly being harassed and invaded. Any lies will become pale and weak under this technology, and all concealment and darkness will be invisible under its shining.
Let's look at the main line of the story in this episode. Smaila introduced that the memory of any subject under investigation will be kept confidential, provided that the other party does not show threats (such an accurate and efficient supervision method is also one of the reasons why the use of memory miners is protected by law).
It is conceivable that in such an environment, if you want to lie and round up the lie, the cost will correspondingly become greater than ever.
Therefore, in order to completely cover up the crimes of the year, Mia Nolan would never allow any mistakes to occur-just like Rob, who was on the verge of losing control, was about to write an anonymous letter to reveal the truth, Mia completely rejected it, because with the current technical conditions, it was tracked down. Rob will be easier than before.
But Rob didn't listen-in fact he didn't care if they would be punished by law (perhaps he still wanted to be caught in order to get salvation), so Mia killed him.
Not wanting to leave any clues, Mia had to completely destroy the corpse, including smuggling the corpse into a construction site under her name for destruction, washing the back seat of the vehicle, burning down the newspaper clippings Rob brought, and so on.
But the teasing of fate caused Mia to run into the next bigger and more dangerous hole immediately. She could neither refuse Smyra to attract the police's attention, nor control her memory to cover up the crime...
In order to prevent the two murders from being exposed, she had to kill Smyrla. In order to prevent the third murder from being discovered, she had to kill Smyrla's husband. In order to prevent the fourth murder from being exposed, she I had to kill the other's child Ali...
If in the past, a child who could not even speak could not pose any threat, but now there is a memory digger, then he will also threaten Mia.
The ridiculous thing is that the boy Ali was born blind, and Mia did not include this information in the memory of reading Smaila, so in fact she added a blood debt for "self-protection".
The world we live in is full of all kinds of lies. They make people feel tired. If there can be a world where false lies can't hide, it will be very beautiful, right?
But the "crocodile" makes people see that only the truth of the world will cause another kind of horror: human words are no longer important, and there is no need to choose to believe, because they always have the possibility of fraud, but the memory is absolutely true.
Just as Smyra promised Mia that she would be tight-lipped in order to save herself, and to protect her family, she lied that she had come to Mia and no third person knew - regardless of whether Smyra said it was true or false, Mia did. Will not listen, anyway, she has a more reliable helper.
When a person is asked a question for which he knows the answer, although the brain will automatically retrieve the relevant memory, the human will can decide to tell the truth, tell lies, or not to speak.
This is where the memory miner technology is truly powerful. It does not require human will at all, but directly "filters" these impurities and deprives human beings of their inherent freedom.
The most ridiculous thing was that Mia was still planted afterwards, and the only thing that was so sparse was that she did not "disregard the whole family" of the Smeral family.
Think about it, too, memory retrieval doesn't even let people go, let alone beasts.
"We can do what we want. It is not too late to change. I have decided to consider it. Maybe you should agree with me. We do what we want. The decision is in our hands..."
After being "forced" to kill consecutively, Mia might feel particularly harsh when listening to the lyrics sung by her son during the performance.
The above question is scary enough, but in this episode of "Black Mirror" there is another fearful truth that goes with him:
The three-color world that was supposed to be "black, white and gray" has become more and more "black and white" under the ruthless transformation of the "zero lie" environment.
After the accident happened 15 years ago, Mia wanted to call the police to surrender, and Rob decided to destroy the body.
It is true that Rob was the principal culprit, but Mia still became an accomplice. According to the simple theory of "good and bad black and white", neither of them is a vicious villain, but a villain who is afraid of the consequences. "Black", Mia is slightly more "white" than Rob.
Fifteen years later, the tortured Rob was in embarrassment, and the news that the deceased's wife was still waiting for news stimulated him to "whitewash" and intentionally bring Mia.
But over the years, Mia has not only overcome the sense of guilt, but also has a happy family and a successful career. Compared with Rob, who has nothing, she is unwilling to lose everything she has. At this time, Rob is "light gray and white". And Mia is "dark gray to black."
Everything that happened next was actually forcing Mia to make a choice, either to force her to turn white or to blacken it completely - in short, she could no longer stay in the gray area where the four and six were not reliable.
So Mia can only continue to use new mistakes to cover up the previous mistakes.
Ironically, the key to preventing Mia from continuing to kill is precisely the "personal will" that the memory digger discards like a shoe. If Mia is simply driven by primitive desires, she should do it when Smeral comes to investigate. Looking for a chance to kill the killer-she did not have this idea-but "will and reason" persuaded her to accept the evidence with a fluke.
If the "forensic device" does not have such a detailed "no dead ends", at least the Smeral family of three will not suffer.
In a black and white world, in the gray zone, there will certainly be a person with a strong spirit of fighting, wearing a mask and becoming benevolent , but there are also many people who are embarrassed on all sides, desperate and then take risks ... But we know how pure human hearts are. Black or pure white, more of it wanders in the complex and difficult to distinguish gray.
Gray means "buffer", also called "room".
"Black Mirror" S4E4 "Hanged DJ": Is this candy really that sweet?
This is the most ingenious and cunning episode in the history of this season and even in the history of "Black Mirror".
Because the style and melody of this episode are unique, in the past, the story of "Black Mirror" will more or less obviously have some unpleasant tragic colors, and this story seems to be nothing from beginning to end at first glance. "Depression" element, it is very soft, very interesting and very beautiful.
After reading it, we know what's going on: this ultimate blind date app can help users have thousands of simulated situations in love with their matched counterparts. It will enter the virtual code of the two in the system to keep them in a closed Identify each other in the "love village".
Before the end, if they choose each other, resist the system, and escape the wall, it is considered a success.
In 1000 matches, the blind date software will sequentially record the number of escapes of two users, and finally calculate the percentage of matches between the two.
I'm not sure if 99.8% is the "lowest match rate" advertised by the software or the high score unique to the male and female protagonists, but one thing is certain: this blind date app looks extremely accurate.
After reading it for the first time, I feel that this software is simply amazing! Even those human virtual codes in the system don't seem to be too miserable, not to mention that it can help people find true love, which is perfect on most levels and can't be "black" at all.
Don't forget, this is "Black Mirror". According to the creator, Charlie Brooke, “Speaking of “light”, but don’t think that you will cut corners and lose (what you want) coldness and nihilism.”
When I watched it the second time, my feeling was completely different... Next, I will throw out my own " conspiracy theory ".
In the setting of the virtual world, the "coach" in each person's hands is acting as a "love mentor". "A person needs to experience a lot of relationships to find true love" has become a consensus , and this is also the role of the role's long-term obedience to the "coach". The basics.
After Frank and Amy entered the system for the first time, the first object they met was each other. The "first experience" objects of the two novices were both zero experience, and they had a sense of intimacy invisibly .
In addition to being equally cautious and at a loss, the two people are also exceptionally in harmony, that is, they have feelings and throbbing that can be further developed between men and women.
Obviously the first person has such a good first impression, the system gives only 12 hours to get along with each other.
Although the two have a good opinion of each other, they obviously do not defy the "coach". After all, they have just come into contact with this well-known love system. Naturally, they are not willing to break the rules for the first "not bad" object, but with a little regret. Hopefully, "It started well, and it will be better later."
However , the system gave them the most unsuitable object for a long time : Amy and Lannie will live together for 9 months, and Frank and Nicola will live together for 1 year.
In Frank's eyes, Nicola is picky, serious, and contrived. In Amy's eyes, Lannie is self, strong, and still not willing... In a long period of time, of course the two will only continue to recite the good of their predecessors.
"Targeted" is that Amy's personality is more "active" than Frank, who just wants to find a suitable partner, so in the three months after separating from Lanni, the system kept matching her with only 36 hours of time to spend objects, not like about guns not like dew love more than love, Amy quickly run out of patience and luck .
And compared to Amy, Frank's whole year was even more tormented... so when the two of them were matched by the system again a year later, it was the happiest moment in their history.
This is the pairing. The two have agreed not to watch the time set by the "coach". They both fully understand the pain and weird feeling of waiting for the countdown, so they grab the "good partner" in front of them and enjoy life. ,why not?
This is the first time that Frank and Amy actually have consciousness and behaviors against the system.
The year-long bad relationship life has infinitely magnified the existing goodwill between the two of them , so waiting for them to "dream come true" with each other again, it is more than just dry wood and raging fire...
Since then, Frank and Amy have officially entered the standard love period. But if a relationship is really going to be mature, long-term, and stable, two people must go through (at least) a "run-in period" in which both parties do not deal with each other , and the first "trouble" is often the male.
Between Frank and Amy, this friction is manifested by Frank secretly asking the "coach" about the time left.
At the beginning, the "coaching" showed that the time was 5 years. That is to say, even if both of them can keep their promises and live well, they will have big problems about 5 years later-it should be almost the time of the "seven-year itch". NS.
And in this unique environment in the system, it will further accelerate the occurrence of contradictions . According to the "coach" said that "everything has cause and effect", there is nothing wrong with allowing time to be recalculated quickly.
Frank's unilateral suspicion and oath "doomed" the two to have a catastrophe. The seemingly big problem is actually not that serious. There will always be conflicts between lovers-but between normal lovers, this kind of thing may be noisy. One frame passed, but in the system it was directly judged to be the end of fate.
Frank didn't want to break up because of this, so much so that he wanted to break the rules further.
This is the second time Frank has shown a strong sense of resistance to the system.
If Amy agrees, they can escape "earlier"... At this time, Amy, who was angry, was all blaming Frank for ruining his promise, and naturally they couldn't make it.
Frank left alone, cursing this damn system alone.
Strangely, Frank and Amy never had the idea of escaping outside the wall alone...
Next, the two people began to experience a more protracted war of attrition. The system continued to match them with all kinds of opposite sexes. It seemed that they had plenty of choices, but as long as the psychological knot of their "abrupt cessation" relationship was still there, Coupled with the existence of the countdown of the system's "regulations", they will never be able to truly start the next normal relationship -it seems even more impossible to find someone who doesn't have a tacit understanding to run away together.
The freshness of changing partners will disappear sooner or later, and later the patience of the two has been exhausted, and the only person who still misses is the other.
Just when Frank and Amy no longer believed in the system, the "coach" suddenly told them that they finally found true love. Tomorrow will be the match day, and will not reveal any information about "that person"... but at the same time allow them to be here. Before choosing someone to say goodbye...
This feeling is like a person who has had no credibility for a long time suddenly telling you that he is going to fulfill his promise tomorrow, and before that, an acquaintance with your knowledge put this promise in front of your eyes, who would you choose to believe in?
What's more, the two can't remember where they came from before, and they feel safe, happy, and comfortable with each other... so they are even more convinced that this is a test.
Therefore, everything was designed by the system, including the final escape with a companion. Frank and Amy just walked out of the road of "believing to break through the shackles" according to the script.
This is the most "chicken thieves" part of the system: the "coach" has always declared that "participants do not require any clear action to be taken", and do not interfere with their behavior in the interaction, as if giving users enough autonomy ...
But it does not allow participants to choose who they want to be with, and to accumulate motivation for their inevitable resistance in the end.
The title of this episode is "Hanged DJ". The rough meaning is that when the DJ's song on the party or on the radio is too ugly to listen to everyone's emotional taste, people will want to "kill" him- this kind of cheerful attitude of whatever one wants . It's like being free and willful in love.
However, does Frank and Amy's tortuous experience really have this invigorating feeling?
When you meet people who have a good opinion of each other, you have to separate immediately, get along with a person you don’t like, but you are not allowed to break up immediately... When a normal person is in a relationship, he would never make such an abnormal behavior, let alone. Obediently obey a software's order only to violate it in the end.
Everything has cause and effect -the "coach" is right. In fact, Frank and Amy are right many times.
Allowing them to spend a long time with people they hate is to create a strong contrast in their hearts.
Let them experience a period of bad relationship is to kill patience and curiosity, make them tired of all kinds of attempts, and finally directly yearn for "success", and the only object they can choose is the other party.
It is basically certain that in this virtual world, except for the two participants who accept the match, everyone else is an NPC designed to cooperate with them.
Regardless of whether Frank and Amy quarreled, broke up or kissed and reunited, once they made an emotional "extreme behavior", everyone would watch them without emotion, highlighting their difference- this is also stimulating the two more. One of the factors that add to the desire to resist.
People in the virtual space have no relatives, friends, colleagues, work, injuries, accidents, and other daily chores. They have no third person to communicate with other than the specified objects and "coaches". They are either objects or reading or sports. , Leisure, the only social activity is to listen to others bragging about how amazing the system is... People locked in have only two states: in love and ready to fall in love.
Can this be the most idealized love world? In other words, even if it is the most ideal, is there such a pure land in the real world?
In the final analysis, this is not the life of a normal adult at all, and few people have so many opportunities for trial and error. Real love is not as dreamy as a story at all.
Frank and Amy have only two options, either to escape with each other or to admit counsel. Therefore, for the 1000th match in the play, under the psychological hints constantly imposed by the system, the escape of the two is more like a carefully choreographed drama.
The point is that we don't know what kind of plot the 1000 matches arranged by the system are.
If it is 1,000 different acquaintances to resist, then this software is really a magical tool; if it is 1,000 times of similar routines, then it is just a small program that falsifies and plays a certain comforting effect... For this, I am more inclined to the latter. By.
After all, how can there be such obvious shackles and cages for you to break in reality, and how can there be so many abnormal and harsh love conditions for you to comply with?
But I still have a fluke-if the emotional memory of 1,000 matches in the software can be accepted by the real Frank and Amy, then they can basically stay together for life.
But it seems that all experiences are stored in the matching calculation inside the software. The parties do not know about their 1,000 love scenes in the system... They are still just strangers with "very high matching".
The main function of this blind date app is to help users magnify their favors 1,000 times, which will not be of great help to both parties in the long-term relationship.
However, the most powerful thing about this episode is that even if my above "conspiracy theory" is not established, the technology really overcomes the "love problem" that has plagued mankind for thousands of years. In addition to some doubts about ethics and three views, "Dead DJ" can still be a good story.
After all, whether the candy is wrapped in a narcotic or a chocolate filling, at least it must be sweet in the mouth.
"Black Mirror" S4E5 "Metal Head": When there is only despair in front of us
This is the most unconventional and uninspiring episode in the history of "Black Mirror" .
Many of its new attempts are obvious, such as the first use of black-and-white lens narrative, the first time in the style of wasteland film to show a human apocalypse that has been countered by technology, etc., but the manner and posture of its narration seem to be paradoxical, and it has lost the "black mirror." The hazy sense and charm of the style.
Because the technologies that appeared in every episode of "Black Mirror" in the past always have strong "two-sidedness" and "confusion". They bring convenience and cause a lot of light or dark troubles, which makes people very convenient. It is difficult to evaluate merits and demerits, good or bad likes and dislikes, but look at the electronic dog in the "metal head"............
Below, I will introduce you to this electronic technology product with unique streamlined design beauty.
As you can see, its surface structure is not complicated, and it is not an exaggeration to say that four legs are supported by an iron bump. Due to its shape and movement characteristics, many people like to call it an "electronic dog".
However, don't be fooled by its appearance. As a magic weapon for hunting all kinds of creatures, it has complete functions and extremely high efficiency .
As long as there is any wind or grass around, it will automatically start and immediately release a miniature fragmented high-explosive mine containing nearly a hundred trackers. It only needs to be shot into a tracker, and it will chase to the end no matter the target escapes to the end of the world. .
At the same time, it also has the function of quickly cracking all electronic code locks , whether it is a car lock or a door lock, it extends its forelimb into the interface, and all can be easily unlocked with one key.
Therefore, no modern electronic tools can stop its progress.
Worried about long-term vigorous operation that will affect the signal reception of the tracker? You can rest assured that this is its main strength, because the built-in system is very advanced, even if the distance is far away, it can accurately find the location of the tracker.
Of course, considering that the prey may play tricks, secretly take out the tracker from the body, just in case, its tracking function in other aspects is also very powerful .
For example, if the prey leaves blood stains during the escape, it can accurately identify the traces and track it all the way.
In addition, he can also intercept the signals of various communication tools such as walkie-talkies, and the search range covers dozens of kilometers around, or even farther.
A more intimate design is that it can perfectly interpret the content of various communication messages and give feedback to the prey according to the situation .
What, think that the electronic dog has too many functions and too strong, and the battery life is poor? Don’t worry about this. Under normal circumstances, its power reserve is sufficient to keep hunting for about 24 hours, and once it encounters an inability to move, it will automatically stop operating to save power.
Even if there is an unexpected situation and the power runs out during the hunting process, it can absorb sunlight and quickly recharge , charge for an hour, and run for a whole day.
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