“This episode of Black Mirror is disgusting!“(“This episode of Black Mirror is disgusting!”): this is a proverb that is now quoted at every disturbing event in our news. (Don’t) Relax, we’re not done using it. With its individual episodes, it’s difficult to summarize Black Mirror. But if the series keeps reinventing itself with a new story, new world, and new characters each chapter, the theme remains the same. A true study of the relationship between humanity and technology, black mirror Combining our darkest instincts with great innovation, the result will send shivers down your spine. Because if progress comes with danger, we’re primarily to blame, and series creator Charlie Brooker understood this well.
Riding a bicycle all day to generate electricity, using the online chats and social media profiles of the deceased to revive them, keeping digital clones in a facility to make them personal assistants or torture criminals, pitting individuals against each other while affecting their socio-economic status. Others to death on social networks, execution by robotic killer bees or even using DNA to create a duplicate in an immersive game: all concepts discussed here that have not ended our trauma.
Award-winning British science fiction anthology series inspired by The Twilight Zone and endorsed by Stephen King, Please black mirror Explores the dark side of the digital through a twisted and particularly pessimistic multiverse. Its purpose: to make us think about our dependence on progress, which can really go wrong.
The show debuted in 2011 on Channel 4 before being acquired by Netflix in 2015 and has proven its brilliance internationally with new episodes as weird, disturbing and uncomfortable as previous episodes and the groundbreaking interactive film, Bandersnatch. (2018). After a four-year absence, get ready for season six to see the light of day next June.
“Nosedive” (Season 3, Episode 1)
And that famous “black mirror” of the title, know that it is what you see on all your screens – TV, computer, phone – that, when turned off, returns your own image, worse than ever. And they are everywhere. Front mirrors? We hope not. Because while we’re still a few years away from connected lenses recording every moment of our lives or perfect human clones, certain technologies presented in the show already have echoes in our reality. An automated pizza delivery truck, a robot bee, an app to rate your neighbor, a digital version of the deceased…: we are sorry to announce that it already exists – to a certain extent – and that in the end, there may not be a step between fiction and reality. worry.
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Camila Luna is a writer at Gossipify, where she covers the latest movies and television series. With a passion for all things entertainment, Camila brings her unique perspective to her writing and offers readers an inside look at the industry. Camila is a graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in English and is also a avid movie watcher.
