Everyone is saying that Black Mirror is going downhill. I don’t deny it. It’s not as amazing as the previous seasons.
But Black Mirror has indeed been discussing some deep conflicts in modern society, discussing some essential things about people in the era of continuous technological revolution.
The so-called "black mirror" originally refers to the state after the electronic screen is turned off. It is a black mirror. So what we mean is how we see people through modern technology.
This season is still very close to the theme, and each episode has a different style, and the story is different and similar, so it feels basically qualified.
Let me refine it hahahahahaha:
E1 USS Callister
1. Does a person's subjective consciousness count as a person? Are there human rights?
(The consciousness of the heroine and the group is kidnapped, so their feelings are true. It is the fact that most of my friends in this episode discuss whether they sympathize with them or sympathize with the hero.)
2. Self-righteous values, a unified universe?
(For the male protagonist’s speech and rule on the spacecraft, if one person can rule everything, what is justice? His speech is somewhat similar to Star Trek’s earliest values, but we have seen his distortion. ST is actually a specific history The product of the period itself also represented a certain political orientation at the time. So is there a point here that is ironic? This is my second-level thinking. The most important thing in this episode is the first point. I won’t go into details here. )
3. Social fears in modern society
(Well, this is another level point. The social interaction brought about by modern technology is actually very distorted.)
E2 Arkangle
1. Who is good for you?
(This episode is also very controversial. I think it evokes the bad memory of being read in the diary when I was a child and the worries about today’s xxx children’s mobile phones/smart watches. Just watching the plot, the controversy will fall on some family concepts, but skip this, Can be further interpreted.
Rather than saying that this episode has political metaphors, it is better to talk about the issue of where the boundaries of a personal subject are. Before the heroine went crazy, there was a lesson that I heard about Oedipus, self-will and so on. Oedipus is and Destiny contends and seeks the independence of individual will. The conflict here is, "I want to be good for you", but for "you", how does personal will exist?
This theme actually runs through Black Mirror, but it collides with different topics. This episode is a collision with family ethics.
2. Protection and vulnerability
Going back to the plot itself, I don’t want to say that in this episode, I think my mother is right or the daughter is right, but I want to say that this is indeed worthy of our reflection. Many of the education we receive and the control we hope to impose on others are indeed deformed. . Parents often overlook that the child paper should be an independent individual. If this step is not formed very early, the child will inevitably lack an independent personality when he grows up, and many times the parents who take such measures are also unsound in their personality.
In many cases, over-protection does produce fragile problems, because there is no perfect protection. If there is, then we are back to the previous root problem. What is the meaning of the individual?
E3 Crocodile
1. It's not easy to be an architect
Just kidding, professional habits, I would be more excited to see practitioners engaged in construction and community construction hahahaha.
I thought that the heroine architect's settings would make her stronger in image thinking ability, so as to control her own memory screen. Well, it doesn't really matter.
2. What are the boundaries of privacy
Is memory privacy? How is privacy defined? How to be protected?
Our computers and mobile phones store part of our memories, our externalized memories, these are privacy? But there are situations that can be spied on. As for the privacy in the mind, if it can be snooped, it will not be protected.
What's more frightening is, should it be protected? If it can be used to catch criminals, should it be used? If it should be used, how should it be used?
every body has skulls in cupboard.
(This episode is not so well-discussed. I personally feel that the completeness, depth, appeal, and novelty of the story are not very special)
E4 Hang the DJ
1. Can feelings be calculated? Are there unpredictable things in the world?
This episode will immediately make people think of the calculation and measurement of feelings, but if I think about it, I will say what else we can't describe quantitatively.
In the expansion of modern technology, we look forward to the quantitative analysis of anything, scientificity, statistics, analysis, data, and calculation results, with a belief that human reason can conquer everything.
Will we still believe in the unfathomable things, feelings, intuitions, experiences, feelings...Do we still have that kind of ability?
2. Probability. The predicted result is probability, and probability is not all.
I believe many people have watched "Black Swan". Modern statistical thinking is easily accepted by numbers. We believe in numbers.
But probability is always just probability, not all. I'm not a bit of a bullshit and don't believe in the data, but in fact, whether we make predictions or attributions, it is just a confidence interval set by people, a range of errors that we think is acceptable.
Even if your relationship is 99.8% fit, it does not mean that you will fit, it only means that the probability of your fit is this number.
It seems that we are back to the first question. Do we believe that everything can be calculated?
3. Are virtual feelings feelings? Is a virtual individual an individual?
Back to the core conflicts commonly used by Black Mirror, is the virtual one real?
I like the end of this episode very much. The love-hate entanglement of the male and female protagonist is only one of thousands of simulations. They are fake.
But they don't know that they are fake, they really love each other. So we will see that they are fake at the end, and we will be a little sad when we discover that they are fake.
Will they be happy together in the real world? unknown.
But for them in the virtual world, they disappeared in a brief simulation. Are virtual feelings feelings?
E5 Metalhead
What makes this episode more impressive is the pictures and narrative techniques. Basically it outlines this worldview bit by bit.
The questions I can think of are more superficial, just general: what will happen after technology dominates mankind.
At the end of the filming, the heroine is to take the teddy bear for the child. Maybe she wants to say that there are things that technology cannot replace, cannot be suppressed, and cannot be obliterated, such as feelings. But people might be destroyed because of this? This is what makes people different, isn't it?
E6 Black Museum
Welcome, die-hard fans come together to find the easter eggs!
Leaving aside the black mirror universe created by a lot of easter eggs, this episode is very dense. In fact, I want to say that these stories could have been disassembled for acting, right? These few brain holes are very fun.
1. The reason why you are for you, the reason why I am for me
I personally feel that the story of a doctor and a story of a vegetative mother both tells that if personal feelings are shared, there will be trouble.
We always want to feel the same, we always say that I am willing to be with you, I understand you and feel you.
But the individual is the individual, and the personal feeling is the personal feeling. The individual feels that this thing is so subtle that if it is forcibly cracked by technology, there will be bugs.
For example, according to the doctor’s story, self-harm will not bring him real pain and fear; my understanding is that people’s feelings are complex, with extremely large individual differences, and a mixture of transcendence and experience. Component, this is why our current technology cannot surpass it, and this is why it is set in the plot that if the technology exceeds the boundaries of personal feelings, there will be trouble.
The story of the vegetative mother is also obvious. It is conceivable that problems will arise when she enters her husband's body.
2. Is human consciousness human?
This question is in the vegetative mother and the last black prisoner on death row.
The former is involved. Does deleting consciousness kill? Does this consciousness have human rights (is implanted in toys)? I also mentioned that there will be legislation afterwards, and consciousness implants must have five senses to be legal, so it feels like a human right.
In the latter story, the museum owner used his consciousness to torture. Is this true? This pain is real, it is real to him, but, it is not real, he is actually dead.
3. What are justice and humanity?
In particular, in the third story, (aside from the possibility of a little racial discussion, (for example, I think that the father is not a murderer in the plot)), his punishment has become a collective carnival for everyone.
Even if he is a murderer, is this humane, but this is just a consciousness, so isn't it a real person? (Back to the previous question)
Then we don't know if he is a murderer, and most people don't know.
I personally thought that the last episode was a more straightforward discussion of several common conflicts in Black Mirror, and the story was more compact, which was a more beautiful episode. Then the style is very unique. As for saying that this is a fan or something, different people have different opinions.
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Although I also think that this season is to tear the black mirror off the altar, but originally this altar was made by ourselves.
The whole series has always been relatively introverted and low-key. Until this season, I still feel that the main creator is working hard to make some content.
So I still think that the ok season, how to interpret it is a very personal thing, whether it's not good to read, there is no content or you don't understand it, it's boring.
However, many details must be criticized for flaws, and the overall is not refined enough (small shots, too blunt loopholes, etc.).
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