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With the dystopian horrors that currently form our vigil reality, one could have easily confused with Black mirror Last season. However, Charlie Brooker thought it was better to resume her anthology series that changes culture and launch the seventh season last Thursday.
The last mediocre seasons changed the original Black mirror tone. They lost the characteristic desolation of the program and the disgust after the show you felt while looking at you in the black mirror while the credits rolled. That bitter aftertaste is back in season 7.
I intended to write ‘… and the world rejoices’. But it seems quite tragicomic that our appetite for the horrors of our lives leaked through a screen has only increased with years. It is scary as Black mirror It is not a program that portrays futuristic technological screws, he comments on the inevitable fatality of our civilization and warns us of our collective failures, but almost a reality show that narrated the events of our current life.
All this to say that if you trigger these nihilistic thoughts in yours, Black mirrorThe welcome return to the umbrelbad hole, where all the Tesseracts show our fatality, is largely successful.
Episodic breakdown
The season, consisting of six episodes, begins with an explosion with Common people. It is the only episode of the season that has a similar impact on the first episode of the program. The national anthem. In terms of plot and structure, it reminds you of the second season I come back right away With the gender roles inverted.
Criticize the increasingly ridiculous subscription culture, Common people It revolves around Amanda whose brain tumor puts it in a coma and the only treatment is radical of a new Rivermind company, which replaces its lost brain tissue with a synthetic one and by a monthly rate, damaged brain functions are transferred wirelessly from a server. However, subscription models require updating for benefits: more area coverage, without ads (otherwise, Amanda literally speaks advertising messages in the middle of the conversation) and a relatively normal sleep cycle during which the brain “returns the grid.”
Pepperidge Farm remembers the good morning when, once he bought something, he owned it and did not have to pay it every month. But even softwares and applications use subscription models now. And so, the idea that your own brain is leased by a subscription is scary for an infinite degree.
Leaving aside the final heartbreaking of the episode, there is also the idea of intrusive ads that surround us, which the program explored in Fifteen million meritsThe second episode of the first season. Here, you are an advertisement to walk.
The second episode, Bête Noire, stands out with its terror rhythm of slow burning and the incredible performance of Rosy Mcewen. A story of revenge set in a chocolate company, it could be said that it is one of the best written episodes. Dialogue, narrative progression and rhythm flow as softly as marble on an ice rink. The end is outside a Coralie Fargeat movie, if it was forced to establish a story of revenge in a corporate office.
Yeah Common people He broke your heart Praise Town your heart shattered and throw it in your face. Paul Giamatti, in a beautiful performance, plays a bitter and angry old man who has never forgiven his ex -died girlfriend. For funeral, he contacted him to offer a memory for his praise. It would not be Black mirror If the lives of the characters were not interrupted by a new technology. And so, the new AI allows people to transport virtually within the photographs and wandering. Throughout the episode, Giamatti uses it to remember and find an adequate memory of his ex to be shared at his funeral.
The trial presents an interesting concept similar to cultivating our own Sims and worrying more about virtual beings than other humans, but a defective and mediocre end does not do justice the episode. However, it offers that Poulter will repeat his Black viewpoint: Bandersnatch paper like the player Colin Ritman in a small and sweet Easter egg.
Hotel Venerie It is one of the two long -term episodes in the season. It feels like a spin -off of The twilight zone is the sanctuary of sixteen millimeters Where an actress has reproduces her old 24/7 films and wants to be permanently transported to the highway world. In Hotel VenerieA young Hollywood star Brandy friday also wants the same thing: immerse yourself in a magical world. She has the opportunity when she is chosen in a new version of a classical romantic film. The warning is that the film will be filmed in real time as its conscience feeds on a virtual world created by AI. Brandy soon realizes that certain characters in the history of AI have more agency than expected.
It is an intriguing episode. It is based on contemporary remakes of iconic films where gender roles are invested. In the remake of the classic film, the role of the male protagonist Alex is replaced by a black woman brandy, but the story remains the same. Brandy is told not to worry since AI’s characters, including Alex’s love interest, are scheduled not to notice the difference.
By making fun of the ridicule of this trend, it inadvertently creates new wonderful female characters in a complete and emotionally satisfactory story. Brooker here definitely suggests creating original characters instead of repeating the old and exchanging genres for taste, as well as the trend in Hollywood.
The end of the season USS Callister: Into Infinity It is the first direct sequel in Black mirror. While it was a long -awaited return to Trek-The inspired by the world, the sequel is slightly lower to be as shocking as the rest of the season. The plot becomes complicated only to maintain interest and the end has a large hole of the plot that leaves you disappointed. But well, it establishes the possibility of a threecejas.
Aftertaste
When Brooker called him returning to og Black mirror roots, I wasn’t joking. The seventh season certainly brings the sensation back. Despite a somewhat disappointing ending and a failure, the general quality is significantly better than the last season.
Brooker realized that his new optimism did not adjust to the bleak universe of the program and returned to what he did best. Of course, it is not to say that “technology is bad”, but how we use it. Seeing certain characters to return, some Easter eggs, tributes and expansions of the universe, Black mirror S7 gives you an appearance of happiness in the midst of a catastrophic existence. Whether through AI or not, we could be the first generation that would find comfort in our imminent doom, since Black mirror Familiarize ourselves with him in advance.
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