After 4 years of suffering, the king of the top divine drama has returned, and I heard that it is going to overturn again?

12 years ago, the British drama "Black Mirror" exploded the world with the shocking "Prime Minister Shiri Pig", and has since become a masterpiece passed down by netizens.

4 years ago, the fifth season of "Black Mirror" fell to the altar, and the rating of 6.9 not only dishonored the name of the divine drama, but also did not renew, and died quietly and quite humiliated.

The day before yesterday, the sixth season of "Black Mirror" that has been silent for 4 years was officially resurrected, and countless fans brushed 5 episodes at the first time, as far as the current feedback is concerned, it must be stronger than the fifth season, but the controversy is also very large, many fans while affirming the quality of the story, but also issued doubts that the taste is not right, this... Or Black Mirror?

Why does Black Mirror S6 taste like this?

What kind of alienation will Black Mirror have in the future?

Today, let's review the past of "Black Mirror", analyze the transformation of "Black Mirror", and talk freely about the future of "Black Mirror".

One: The evolution history of "Black Mirror" - from the original black mirror to the flavored red mirror

When it comes to the evolution of "Black Mirror", it is necessary to start from the initial impression of Black Mirror, that is: What is the original taste of "Black Mirror"?

 This has to be summed up from the first two seasons of "Black Mirror".

The first two seasons have a total of six episodes, through Prime Minister Shiri Inou to talk about the power of public opinion, through the speech of the suicide brother to talk about the extreme of the entertainment era, through the man's infinite tracing of his wife's memory to talk about the meaning of privacy, through copying the deceased boyfriend to talk about emotional projection, through the White Bear Theater to tell the group witch hunt of good people, through the virtual blue bear to tell the truth behind the campaign.

These six stories are all about the interaction between the medium and human nature, human beings inventing technology, technology changing life, and human nature alienating in life.

The creator of "Black Mirror" once said: The black mirror is a black screen, and the moment the screen goes out reflects the viewer's avatar, symbolizing that people observe the outside world through the medium and refract themselves, and that crack is the alienation of human nature by the medium.

To put it simply, the original flavor of "Black Mirror" is roughly composed of three parts:

1 Screen medium, through a certain direct vision to achieve self-examination.

2 Human alienation, all contradictions and struggles stem from the evolution of human nature and the iteration of technology at different frequencies.

3 black technology, the technical color and futuristic sense of the first two seasons are very strong, so that everyone defaults to "Black Mirror" is a science fiction drama.

After the second season of "Black Mirror" was broadcast, Netflix bought this IP and began to expand and innovate, and the taste of Black Mirror slowly changed:

The third season of "Black Mirror" opens diversification while continuing the "black technology style", no longer simply cold and hard and ruthless, with a touch of beauty and temperature:

Like the episode about euthanasia, through consciousness uploading, a dreamy world is constructed, with hazy and beautiful pictures, delicate and timeless affection, and the choice between life and death, the meaning of love and freedom are vividly interpreted, which can be called the most beautiful and unforgettable episode of the Black Mirror series.

And the episode of the nano killer bee pushes the horror of public opinion killing to the extreme, and the complexity, impact and completeness of the storyline are no less than big movies, and the persistent search of the female reporter in the ending Easter egg also gives people a great sense of strength.

The bright side of these people is not in the original black mirror, or rarely displayed.

In the fourth season of "Black Mirror", Netflix connected the Black Mirror universe through the episode of the museum, and from those collections, we can find a hidden technological evolution line behind the entire series, and the abnormalities of human nature are all in it.

After the fourth season, the IP of "Black Mirror" fell into a bottleneck period, and the score of 8.4 could barely maintain the decency of the divine drama, but the lack of creativity and the solidification of the theme became more and more problematic, and it was time not to break and stand.

The fifth season of "Black Mirror" gave it a go, and then jumped into the street, which fell into silence, until the sixth season of "Black Mirror" launched "Red Mirror", the main creators seemed to find new ideas, the Black Mirror universe was alienated, began to fission into a new exclusive field, and a colorful future officially arrived...

Two: The transformation of "Black Mirror" S6 - the fission mirror universe and the corresponding colorful human nature

The 5-episode story of the sixth season of "Black Mirror" presents a good transition rhythm.

Episode 01 "Joan sucks", which is most in line with the public's stereotype of Black Mirror.

Netflix makes fun of itself, telling the story of the streaming media giant using the overlord clause to steal user information and make a profit, the BOSS company inside is called "Streamberry Body", and the "duang" sound of the open interface is exactly the same as Netflix.

Netflix first blacked out the lack of creativity in streaming media, and could only steal the lives of ordinary white-collar workers as material for serial dramas.

Secondly, from the domineering chicken thief of the black streaming giant, the capital company not only squeezes ordinary white-collar workers, but also squeezes female stars (Salma. Hayek, Cate Blanchett), female stars even with a professional legal team, still inevitably fall into the pit of hidden capital.

Finally, the audience was hacked, and the person in charge of streaming media said that big data analysis, the audience likes to watch other people's negative content, so the bloodier and more explosive the content data, the better. The implication: there are garbage audiences to have garbage dramas, you love to watch this kind of garbage, mind my.

There is nothing new in this episode, it is nothing more than telling Black Mirror old fans: there is quantum black technology, human alienation, stars catching horses, multiple flips, and gimmicks of church, anyway, I am satisfied with the "Black Mirror" you want!

Episode 02 "Lake Henry" has a sudden change in style, textbook showing the whole process of the birth of a classic murder documentary.

First of all, explain the background, the personality girl follows her boyfriend back to her hometown in Scotland, preparing to shoot a documentary about guarding bird eggs.

Secondly, the question is asked, as an outsider, the girl wonders why the beautiful town is so depressed during an outing?

Then, digging up the past, he told the serial murders in the town through his small mouth, and the father of the male protagonist was the policeman who handled the murder.

At this point, the opportunity to shoot a murder documentary has taken shape, and all that remains is to pull investment, break into the murder house, and then have an accident...

This drama looks very non-black, not science fiction, and no black technology, but it interprets the process of media distorting human nature extremely profoundly:

The heroine, as a media person, has a sensitive sense of smell, and her boyfriend's career is not going well and needs to open up new fields; The town is depressed and needs to develop new heat; Your own career prospects also need to be endorsed by successful works, and her boyfriend, as a family member of the party in the case, this kind of blood steamed bun is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

In order to eat this steamed bun, the heroine first contributed her boyfriend's family privacy, pulled the TV station to invest, and then sacrificed herself in the process of investigating the case, adding a new gimmick to this murder documentary, and finally the male protagonist's mother contributed the truth and made the final help for her son's documentary.

In the end, the male protagonist who died his girlfriend, died his mother, and his world view collapsed won the Best Discipline Film Award issued by the Flowing Berry Giant, and swallowed this human blood steamed bun with tears.

Retaining the core of the black mirror, but not using the skin of the black mirror, the second episode broke the audience's inherent impression of the black mirror, but did not go off topic.

Episode 03 "The Other Side of the Sea" can be called the most "black mirror" flavor, the whole story revolves around a black technology, the script is solid and rigorous, and the reflection on human nature is also very deep.

David and Cliff, who need to work in space closure for 6 years, can "soul penetrate" to the imitation of the earth through the wiring device every day, so that they can live with their families through the imitation, which is a comfort for their families and themselves.

However, after Cliff's entire family (including the imitation) is destroyed by the cult, the balance in the spaceship is broken, and the subtleties of human nature begin to attack, eventually leading to an inevitable tragedy.

Initially, the two people in the capsule are balanced, both have families, and both have imitations, but after the destruction of one's family and imitations, the balance is broken, and the person's psychology must be unbalanced, and the other person has to live in an enclosed space with a companion who may go crazy at any time, and this companion still controls his own life and death, because the out-of-cabin operation requires cooperation.

In order not to let his companion go crazy, David had to contribute his own imitation body, so that his companion had the opportunity to "soul transmit" the earth and relieve psychological pressure, but the companion was infatuated with his wife, trying to make up for the psychological imbalance through some "common" way, and when this attempt failed, the companion found a balance in bloodbath.

The whole story revolves around the "bionic" technology, creating a knot that cannot be untied.

Bionic technology is too realistic, causing human fundamentalist hatred, causing the tragedy of the Cliff family, and then causing Cliff's psychological imbalance, resulting in a second tragedy, assuming that without this technology, the tragedy can be avoided, but this technology can indeed help people, so how should technology and human nature be balanced?

At the end of the story, the murderer gives up a chair to a colleague who has lost his family, and two lonely people strike a new balance in a closed spaceship.

Episode 04 "Mezzie Day" is not only not science fiction, but adds werewolf elements, opening the fantasy precedent of Black Mirror and laying the foundation for the fifth episode.

This episode focuses on the paparazzi, interpreting the bloodthirst of "medium" through the paparazzi's class characteristics and werewolf attributes.

The female hook who washed her hands in gold was forced to return to her old business due to the economic crisis to investigate the missing female star who was mired in scandal. After some intrigue, several paparazzi colleagues sneaked into the deep mountain sanatorium where the female star was hiding, and it was the night of the full moon, and the bloodthirsty paparazzi bumped into an even more bloodthirsty werewolf.

This episode belongs to the worst episode of "Black Mirror" S6, not because of the introduction of fantasy elements, mainly because the theme of the story is not clear, the female star who turns into a wolf and the female paparazzi who have not yet a conscience seem to have no correspondence, or they are forcibly put together, and in the end, the female star who does not want to be bloodthirsty is forced to be bloodthirsty by the media, and the female paparazzi with a clear conscience also put down their conscience and stick to the behavior of eating human blood steamed buns to the end.

Episode 05 "Demon 79" is the first Red Mirror movie produced by Black Mirror, telling the story of mortals and demons in the Cold War era.

With the foreshadowing of the fourth episode, the fifth episode finally tells a complete fantasy story: a rookie demon who goes to the mortal world to practice must induce a good person to voluntarily complete the sacrifice of 3 kills, otherwise the world will be destroyed, and he will be exiled to the "Endless Hell" to enjoy eternal pain and loneliness.

The interaction between mortals and demons is also full of black humor, and the prerequisites for completing the sacrifice make the whole story very interesting, such as only sacrificing people who have not killed people, killing people is even a demon, their own people do not kill their own people, etc., the more you think about it, the more ironic it is, and the retro Cold War background makes the story and characters have their own deep meaning.

This episode is the least black mirror story, so the title indicates that this is a "red mirror movie" played in the theater.

The birth of the Red Mirror Theater marked the first fission of the Black Mirror universe to officially take shape.

Since it is impossible to abandon the name of Black Mirror and create another way, simply refer to the concept of "Black Mirror" to launch "Red Mirror", Red Mirror Theater can be built into an exclusive field with "fantasy and thriller elements", so that the theme of the story is not limited, and it can still hold the original style.

After the success of the Red Mirror Theater, you can also launch "Green Mirror" and "Blue Mirror" in the future, each color corresponds to an exclusive field, the colorful mirror universe is unified under the "Black Mirror IP", and only the most complex mirror image can reflect the most bizarre human nature.

From episode 01 of multiple lives manipulated by big data to episode 05 of the retro theater of the Cold War era, the main creator set Netflix's black stream berry body as a background board connecting the black mirror universe in series, and launched the Red Mirror Theater to test the more diverse mirror universe, whether this transition can be recognized by fans remains to be verified by the market.

"Black Mirror" S6 is over, under the gaze of the audience, Black Mirror has also undergone alienation, as a black mirror fan, do you like Red Mirror Theater? What do you hope the future of Black Mirror looks like?