"Black Mirror" S6E1: Face the pain points of reality and attack the light sci-fi irony of virtual technology

A woman is woken up by an alarm clock to start her ordinary day. Washing, breakfast, driving to work, greeting neighbors, it turns out that her name is Joan.

The appearance of a feminine male secretary reminds her that there is a long-awaited person, and her irritability and procrastination mean that this person is carrying trouble that is difficult to handle. The result is to fire an employee; At the same time, he casually contacted his lover Mark on his mobile phone.

Meeting with a psychiatrist, talking about his lover and now boyfriend Krish, he finally decided to meet his old lover.

Awkward meetings, polite to each other, cautious temptations, the old lover is naturally seducing, but Joan grasps the bottom line.

Watching TV with her boyfriend, I saw "Joan Sucks" (a play within a play), everyone saw it, and it completely reproduced Joan's previous work. Everyone sees their role in the play, talks to the people around them, and things start to get strange and hide unease.

The conversation with the psychologist, the contact with the old lover were also copied, there was a rift between Joan and her boyfriend, and the others naturally fell into all kinds of tension and panic, the husband and wife quarreled, and the boyfriend ran away from home.

Then came another day, and Joan became the one who was fired because of revoked work secrets during the conversation.

Then at night, she began to see the life episodes she had only experienced on streaming again.

Angry, Joan went to consult a lawyer and was told that because she had inadvertently accepted the streaming agreement (similar to what we saw on a web page that clicked "agree"), the streaming media had the right to use her life to shoot the series, and the entire series was intelligently generated, using the avatar of an actress.

Lost and sad, Joan finds Mark for solace, and then inevitably circles and forks. However, bad emotions always surround her, and Joan, who is angry and devastated, begins to run away.

She frantically swallowed burgers and laxatives, dressed as a cheerleader to go to someone's wedding scene, and was caught at the police station for the record. Her purpose was achieved, and the actor of the image in the play was angered by the success, and after scolding the lawyer, the actor went directly to Joan.

The two share a grudge, express some criticism of this life-destroying virtual smart streaming, and then decide to work together to destroy the quantum computer that generated it all.

After a botched operation, the two entered the top floor of the office building and watched the reporter's interview with the boss. The technology and future plans were then shown, which is to use a quantum computer to run virtual programs and tailor a series for every ordinary person who accepts the agreement.

It also explains why it is called "Joan Sucks", because the test found that people are not interested in positive plots, and audiences want to see plots that show weakness, selfishness and cowardice.

The two infiltrate the server room, and Joan discovers an even more amazing secret: she herself is only one of the generated avatars, and she is not the real owner of these life episodes.

This is more difficult to accept than the previous setting. Who wants to be a stand-in in someone else's life? A performer? Similar to Jim Carrey in "Truman's World", living in a set world.

In anger, Joan raises her axe to destroy the multibillion-dollar quantum computer. However, she faces another paradox, the world she is currently in is generated by quantum computers, and if the computer is destroyed, everything at this moment, including herself and the people around her, will cease to exist.

Joan hesitated for a few seconds, then swung her axe hard.

She was taken away by the police and imprisoned at home, but in exchange for the freedom of her soul, because she once again became the protagonist of her life.

The whole film is nearly an hour, and from the moment you see the episode, the story enters an atmosphere of metaphor and irony.

The core of the story is naturally network information and virtual technology, which pays attention to the workplace, emotions, life and other aspects of modern people, and several layers of metaphors are of great practical significance.

The first is the control of people by smart devices, monitoring anytime, anywhere, setting up bureaus everywhere, and being caught in it without paying attention, and the logic is meticulous, there are few loopholes, and it is extremely difficult for ordinary people to get out;

The second is the abuse of virtual technology, face technology can be multi-layered, computers to exaggerate and render, and finally human nature is accurately pinched by technology, we all live in the facts and emotions that are created, completely trapped but without knowing it, this is also a certain way for artificial intelligence to control human beings, profit-seeking capital and efficient technology hit it off, human nature is manipulated, used, bosses are complacent, except for the victims, no one is aware of the hidden dangers;

Naturally, there is also a mockery of public communication, and the collective unconsciousness of "Rabble" is raised again, which is thought-provoking.

This series of irony, reminiscent of the sketch in the comedy competition, went to the hospital was also used by various routines, making the physical examination a farce. If all information and media are harnessed as means of profit, our technological life and the online world will also become a disaster.

As the beginning of the sixth season of "Black Mirror", there is science fiction, there is irony, there is reflection, and it can be regarded as a qualified beginning.