Black Mirror season 6: finally the return!
Four years after the fifth season, the dystopian series black mirror is finally back on Netflix with a sixth season highly anticipated by fans. And the least we can say is that it started very well with a first episode called Joanna is terrible in which the platform with the red logo makes fun of itself. The other episode that got the viewers talking a lot is episode 3 titled My heart for life with Aaron Paul, Josh Hartnett and Kate Mara.
Set in 1969, in an alternate universe, the episode, also written by Charlie Brooker and directed by John Crowley, features two astronauts, David and Cliff, aboard a spacecraft millions of miles from Earth on a six-year mission. So that they don’t feel too violently the effects of loneliness on board, a technology allows them to teleport their minds into ultra-realistic androids of themselves, so they can find their familiar life again.
A known true story as inspiration
While leading a quiet life with his wife and children, David (Josh Hartnett) finds himself in the clutches of a dangerous cult. One evening he helplessly watches the sordid murder of his wife (played by Auden Thornton) and her children. A sequence directly inspired by a well-known case that took place in the United States in 1969.
Indeed, this murder is inspired by the assassination of Sharon Tate, Hollywood actress and wife of Roman Polanski, by the sect of Charles Manson, in the night between 8 and 9 August 1969. Even the actress who plays the astronaut’s wife is very reminiscent of Sharon Tate.
About that inspiration for episode 3 of season 6 of black mirrorsaid Josh Hartnett in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that the era had not been chosen by chance by Charlie Brooker:
At the time, the space program was the great hope of the American people and the hope of humanity, in a way. It was the pinnacle of technology at the time: going to space had meaning, as if we were all going to colonize the Moon or live in a Jetsons-style future. And I think that’s why he wanted to set it at that time, just before the Manson murders. I was talking about it earlier with Kate and her character reminded me of Joan Didion because she said or wrote at the time that the 60s had put an end to all optimism, all hope. All trials ended in the murders of Manson. It was like this. It was the end. And I think that great experiment ended so long ago that Charlie wanted to go back to that time and reinvent why…
Source: Cine Serie
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