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Say that the last installment of Black mirror Broke Internet would be obvious. When the first season of the program fell in 2011, it changed forever the panorama of the narration of science fiction stories on the small screen, if not the silver screen, infinitely extending the limits of what the cinema can do and what its lovers can expect.
Then when Black mirror Season 7 fell on Netflix on April 10, not only broke the Internet. He dissected it, raised his conscience and sold it to us as a subscription package. And in an exquisite turn that challenges gender, it is difficult to say that if this new season is science fiction or horror because either seems too reductionist for what the six episodes really offer: a strange sensation that remains to start ending, never shaving or decreasing, never moves away. Creator Charlie Brooker promised a return to the darkest and most disturbing roots of the program, and he delivered.
Too real to us the commoners
Like any other set of episodes, this last season stays with its audience because it never moves too much from what US commoners (read: all those who are not Charlie Brooker, Charlie Kaufman or David Lynch) can perceive that they are true at some point in our existence.
Black mirror Coddles Our humble capacity for the suspension of disbelief by maintaining real world’s problems in the heart of each story: debates surrounding dishonest technology, environmental degradation, fertility, bully Breakups and more of everyday existence. USBS
A wide variety of devices work together during the course of the six episodes, joining the thick and suffocating tissue of strangeness that surrounds Black mirror audience. Of them, some are as manifest as references to the dark network in Common peopleThrough which the always so tired Mike of Cuello Azul tries to win some extra cash to pay the Rivermind subscription of his beloved wife, who keeps her alive. If that means putting a mice trap on the tongue or drinking your own urine in a dreary room for a sick digital audience, so it is. The horror that one feels to see someone to get a perfectly good tooth of pure strength on the screen is often inexplicably more complex than seeing a full -fledged murder, perhaps because the first seems much closer to us, and it is this phenomenon in which this section of the Monetea episode. Add to the mixture of completely credible characters that we have personally witnessed: workers with excess of work and desperate who try to reach the end of the month, computer geeks of the high school that would not become friends of anyone (or vice versa), furious “pleasant guys” and the like, and you have the feeling that you will be friends with one of these characters soon.
Here and there, things very obviously uncomfortable happen with indifference only for an error in the Black mirror universe. Blue spit and blue blood in Callister de USS Cover this table for a mile, although, of course, one cannot forget to frown at the randomly thick Scottish accent on a planet that one has just seen. And while it appears brief and in fact, Brooker does not waste a single moment of development of the plot to Pelusa, so in the case of Callister de USSThe normality of blue body fluids causes the discovery of dishonest elements in the game that bleed red (great, great surprise).
Are we exaggerating?
And then there are things that Brooker places on the screen so subliminally that the feeling of restlessness catches you before you can put the right. There are faces that change so fast in real time, it is difficult to know if it is an incredible action or a double body. TO
At the end of USS CALISTERWhen Robert finally descends to his penultimate madness after 500 years of forced labor as the god of infinity, his face really goes from a stream of boys to such a fast girl, one has to blink twice to know that the veins of the temple that really belong to the same character that was in place five seconds ago.
There is also something deeply about the way people look Black mirror Season 7, a look that makes a small incision in a tender part of her skin, crawls under it and sews the wound again. It is the look too long, too useless and that also does, it is drilled in the spine. In Common peopleAmanda starely looks while the ads kidnap their ocular balloons, regardless of how smoking the situation is; in Bête noireVerity’s side eyes are almost serpentine in their cunning. The girl’s eyes go from naive and crying to hard as stone as if it weren’t a problem.
But then, you would learn whether you had lived one million lives, one of them as Empress of the Universe. Eulogy increases it with the glow of the glassy eyes of a daughter when her mother’s issue dissects the table and is the change that is difficult to swallow: sympathetic eyes, research eyes, eyes angry in a very short time. And then Robert is in Callister de USS – Smiling, without looking, nothing, making you feel that you are the error of the program. Forget the Stanley look; Each look in the black mirror is a unique failure in the Human Code.
Brooker does not turn his magic in a vacuum. It is accompanied by equally competent and creative directors who create the world element by element, so nothing seems to be out of place. In Eulogy, the soft restaurant lighting becomes hard as emotional tension and color become confrontation. Throughout the season, the palettes change with mood: sterile whites, bleak blues, striking neons. It combines that with a disconcerting sound design: buzzing, static, silent silence too thin, multitude sounds that will never leave our minds (rest in peace)) and the atmosphere makes the narration of stories even before the characters speak.
Stunned madness
Black mirror has done this before with Bandersnatch (And hopes to do it again with Bandetruck) But this time, Brooker has taken it too far (or has several spectators and points of sale realize the many scattered Easter eggs during the six episodes, the most notable is references to Juniper. In addition to that, spectators report that they are seeing different versions of Bête noire On its screens, and for an episode that uses Mandela’s effect on an unhealthy level, it is as creepy as it seems. Whether these are gossip, mischief or truth, demanding this type of interactive audience makes the viewer a participant, bordering the boundaries between fiction and reality. It is disorienting, as the program knows you. That unpredictability, that feeling of being observed, adds a chilling layer to the experience already strange.
In short, looking Black mirror Season 7 is falling into a very elegant and very bright existential spiral with Wifi. It is fun, strange and scary to the same extent, with enough strange enamel to make you ask you if that strange look that your co -worker gave you today was … normal. Brooker has coding the program again and the result is a season that asks: “What happens if technology goes too far?” And “what happens if you have already done it?” Whether the six episodes have been accompanied in an afternoon of the blackout or is still gathering the multiple versions of Bête noireOne thing is clear: Black mirror He is also looking at you.
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