you are my mirror

Zula 2022-04-21 09:01:09

——You are the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. At 3:30 in the morning, you received a call from a gangster who claimed to have kidnapped the princess, asking you to have sex with a pig at 4:00 pm and broadcast it live nationwide, otherwise you would tear up the ticket and track the kidnappers without success. The actors are brainless and the media public opinion is ferocious. The time does not come at four o'clock because of your madness. In the end, you completed the disgusting task with tears in your eyes. The princess earned a lot of sympathy points for saving the people. A year later, chatting and laughing at the door of Downing Street, the princess is still beautiful, but your wife's heart is as cold as water;

- You are an ordinary person, and your daily job is to exercise to earn virtual coins - everyone around you is like this, Rejecting the Tokyo fever on the LED screen is like rejecting advertisements and you will lose money until one day you fall in love with a girl's singing voice and exchange all your belongings for a ticket to the talent show, you think everyone will be like you by that singing voice Touched, they were just following the judge's suggestion - this girl should play Tokyo Heat, otherwise it would be a pity. After your heart was broken, Nirvana saved up tickets to arrive at the talent show, raised half of the glass to vent your anger, what are you doing?

——You are a well-dressed white-collar lawyer, you carry a memory chip with you, you can play back your memories anytime, anywhere. You read the boss's expression at the morning meeting to guess the real purpose of his conversation with you. You also read the lips of your wife and her old lover, and you kept replaying the funny joke at the dinner party that made the wife laugh. Haha, you even asked the babysitter if the joke was funny. You can't stop, you force that ghost to replay his memory chip about your wife, you force your wife to play back that ghost, and then the truth comes out, you dig out the chip behind your ear with a blade - the wisdom of a scientist Crystal yo.

Of course, these are not true. It is the three episodes of the British mini-series "Black Mirror". This is not a pleasant viewing experience. I always feel strange. appeared in the present.

I have to admit that the media and public opinion are the most powerful liars in this world. They turn their hands into clouds and turn their hands into rain. They hold you in the cloud and drag you into hell. It is futile to clear the fog. Before you know it, you will even become their accomplice. The butterfly effect caused by a click of a retweet, share, or recommendation will always exceed your imagination. Is there less, do you think what you think is really what you think? In this regard, the prophetic McLuhan gave a warning as early as the 1950s, calling for "a free and responsible press", he said, when the bride's hijab was lifted, it turned out to be a robot, your sister.

It's like taking the subway to passively browse hundreds of advertisements. You have no choice like the Prime Minister. The difference is that when it comes to politics, we can't talk deeply here. In this country, we don't know what "public opinion is". ". The person who kidnapped the princess is said to be an artist. Well, it turns out that the whole farce is just a performance art installation - a great irony, as soon as the tide goes out, you know who is swimming naked. The princess who has never been positively described, smiling like a flower a year later, is the saddest footnote.

Public opinion often plays the role of a brainless fan. I have been waiting for this beautiful girl to reject the judges, waiting for the young man to wipe his neck with glass, but no, if it is true, this is just an inspirational film. The young man's anger from the bottom of his heart when he first appeared on the stage was very pleasant. What followed was unbelievable that the so-called sensationalism was just a wrong expression. I was stunned and sadly discovered that this is the reality. Everyone said you were born to play Tokyo Fever, so you went, everyone loved your indignant show, so you did. People are like a city, demolition everywhere, you are under pressure, I am under pressure, everyone is under pressure, you have to find an exit.

With a wave of the hand, the toothpaste is automatically squeezed out. The apple grows out of the petri dish. This is a possibility of future life. The development of science and technology makes the nothingness no longer ethereal. A book, a Facebook that records all your information and contacts with everyone, knows you better than your own mother, but no matter how obsessed you are with Sora Aoi, can you bear it if you want to show you a movie every night and fine you if you don’t watch it? , are you afraid

Memories can warm your body from the inside or cut your body violently from the inside. Scientists have invented memory chips, which can recall the party the day before yesterday's meeting at any time. Do you really want to put one in your head? Seeing this gentleman obsessively looking for evidence of his wife's derailment, don't you think it's funny, in fact, you are no more respectable than him when you are paranoid. Whether he should not install this memory chip, his wife should not go out, or he should pretend to be a little confused, life will be happier, you can find thousands of reasons, and every one of them is right.

If in the end he finds out that his wife has not betrayed him, it is because he is too suspicious, this drama may just be a joke, so maybe it will be easier, but no, what you suspect is really what you think you are going to lose, in When you feel this way, you've lost it, and that's the deepest sadness, irrelevant to technology. In the end, the night rain and spring wine, the deep alley with apricot flowers, the feeling that the tide hits is called powerlessness.

Just like everyone else in the office, you open your computer every day, hang up chat software, read news, go to social forums, swipe your scarf, check your mailbox, fill up with righteous indignation for the suffering of people's livelihood, and secretly scolded the motherland's mother, Nima, for beating her child's mother so badly, and then check A pile of junk mail in the mailbox, and then start a day's work after being bored. Until he woke up early one day, looking out the window, the demon looked like a ignorant teenager. After a few hours, he would row a boat and push the waves away, swinging his pompous oars in the cross current of desire, and suddenly felt that such a fresh morning was more exciting. What a beautiful thing to do, I couldn't help laughing.

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Black Mirror quotes

  • Kenny: [sobbing] They filmed me.

    Hector: Filmed you...

    Kenny: Through my computer camera.

    Hector: What, like, filmed you?

    Kenny: Yeah, like, you know, doing it.

    Hector: Like sex?

    Kenny: No. Like, you... you know.

    Hector: Jerking off. Jerking off to porn or something? Well, everyone does that. The fucking pope probably does that.

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