I wrote a short article about the fourth season of Black Mirror , which briefly discussed the issues of free will and determinism. In fact, the black mirror is the "thought experiment" that philosophers like to do when they think about problems, such as Rousseau Locke's "state of nature", Rawls's "veil of ignorance", Nozick's "experience experiment" and so on. To put it simply, the method is to push a certain premise in the situation to the limit, imagine what the consequences will bring, and then seek the essence of things. From this point of view, philosophers, physicists, and the creators of Black Mirror are all doing the same thing, a blackboard and a pencil are enough ( Bazinga! ).
I finally finished watching the whole season. In the past few days, I have thought about it, and I like the final episode "Dark Museum" more and more: we can regard it as the manifesto of the Black Mirror series, and what it wants to say and how to achieve the Black Mirror series. What purpose is clearly stated . Recalling the previous sub-series, each has its own problems: "Otaku" questioned the impact of virtual scenes on personality, "Metal Head" reflected on the militarization of household intelligence, "DJ" explored the boundaries of free will... Sensory experience when watching Very exciting, then? What should we do after returning to the real world from the dark world constructed by Black Mirror? If technology goes wrong and can catalyze the loss of humanity in minutes, how should we reflect on it? How to act? How can we prevent the black mirror world from becoming a reality? Even more importantly, if the advent of the black mirror world is inevitable, how should we live in this darkness?
The first thing that "Dark Museum" opened was the all-round no dead-angle gun mode . The museum displays props from previous episodes, reminding us of the problems that have been bombarded in previous episodes, remember how innocent white rabbits became infanticides (S4E3crocodile/bathtub), and how weak chicken otaku abused colleagues (S4E1USS Callister/DNA extraction machine), do you still remember how the sacred love of nature collapsed (S4E2 Arkangel/Monitor)... The museum curator is even the king of mouthpieces. A three-stage progressive narrative story will tell us The optimism that human nature may hold disintegrates a little bit. It is particularly worth emphasizing that the mouth-cannon mode of "Dark Museum" is not preaching, it does not directly list question 123, pulling your ears and shouting "danger"; it uses an "experiential" mouth-cannon to construct An extreme mode. Please integrate into the character in the mode. After you "personally" experience the pain of life and death, you will naturally urge you to really feel, "This is not right, something is wrong!"
The "experience" mouthpiece is very advanced. Here is a concept "purification/katharsis" to illustrate. Simply put, if P accuses you of indulging in TV movies and getting used to too "magical" or romantic emotional experience, so that you can't face the changes or setbacks in real life, how should you respond? A think for a while and help you answer that in the experience of TV and movies, you follow the virtual characters sad and happy, your emotions are vented, your mind is cultivated, and you are purified by the mercy and fear aroused by the TV and movies. To become a better person. Think about the Black Mirror series. Isn’t that the case? It is not about telling us that the fire is hot, but to build a story that is interesting enough to attract us into the character, borrow the hand of the character to touch the fire, and get the real experience of the hot hand. In real life, we cannot experience destruction over and over again, but in the virtual world—a world constructed by many media such as TV, film, fiction, poetry, music, games, etc.—we can make the deadliest mistakes and do the most dangerous. Decision-making, so as to obtain real knowledge from the disaster. (By the way, if you are curious, the friend mentioned earlier, P is Plato and A is Aristotle.)
But no matter how advanced the "experienced mouth cannon" is, it is far from enough! The "purification" obtained from the virtual world must oscillate the real life to be the complete "purification" . It’s like watching 20 episodes of Black Mirror. You have deep thinking about technology and human nature, and you are sufficiently vigilant, but in real life there is still no change except for talking and behavior. Then what's the matter with claiming that you have been "purified" use? "Purification" must be extended to practical actions. What should I do? "Dark Museum" tells you, what to lose and resist! Learn the heroine, come to a Jedi counterattack hero reversal! The heroine is trapped in a dark world. Her father's consciousness is imprisoned by greed and cruelty in the darkest cell and repeatedly experienced the most terrifying death. Her mother's consciousness rests in her mind. What can she do? What should I do? What should I do if I finally choose? The episode made us worry about N’s safety from the beginning. The curator with weird behavior seems to show his fangs in minutes, turning the seemingly thin and innocent N into another walking dead (I admit, I remembered seeing it before. The excellent thriller "get out" ); when we were worried about N and empathizing with her, we had unconsciously substituted for N and became the heroine in the film. How to do? You can choose to passively "visit", you can choose to "forget", but you can also choose to actively resist. So together with the seemingly thin and naive N, we became strong, brave, and thoughtful. We used the curator's technology to punish the curator. Finally, we burned the dark world and embarked on the road of freedom with the consciousness of innocent victims. The road ahead is difficult, but it is worth fighting for.
In the last five minutes, with the heroine, our consciousness has been promoted from the mouth-cannon party to the foot-throwing faction, and evolved from a person who bombards the dark world to a person who resists with practical actions. The flip of "Dark Museum" has evolved from the sharp criticism mode fully shown in the previous episodes to the active foot shot mode: it brought us to experience a pleasing resistance. Only by experiencing the "ekstasis" (ekstasis) of striving for freedom and justice can one truly understand the meaning of freedom and justice . The creator of Black Mirror can only help you get here-Black Mirror is just a TV series, "Dark Museum" is just a virtual world no matter how good it is-let's see you next! In the real world, how should we accomplish the "purification" aroused by criticism?
(Welcome to leave a message and tell me your point of view. Is there any TV movie, novel, or song that allows you to experience "purification"? What actions did it make you take and what did it produce in your real life? Influence? Sharp criticism, active action, still the same sentence, Don't accept what you can not change, change what you can not accept! Encourage with all the monarchs.)
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