You and I should have thought there would be this day.
The fifth story of the sixth season of "Black Mirror" is finally officially launched.
Just like this cool slogan, the first mini-series "Black Mirror" launched by the BBC.
It is with a near-science fiction theme that satirizes and warns of the impact and fear that technology may bring to human beings.
The so-called near-science fiction refers to the future that people can foresee, that is, the day when they should have thought that there would be.
For example, in the shocking first episode of "God Save My Lord" in 2011:
The Welsh princess was kidnapped, and the kidnappers' demand for release turned out to be for the Prime Minister to live broadcast on TV and a pig XXX.
Faced with public pressure, the prime minister had to comply.
Ironically, the princess was released before the live broadcast.
And people all over the world are waiting to watch the prime minister make a scandal, leaving the safety of the hostages behind.
From beginning to end, everything is just a carnival of public opinion.
Today, the phenomenon of "media manipulation of public opinion and public opinion interfering with facts" satirized in this episode has long become the basic face of the world in which you and I live.
And this is the meaning of the title "Black Mirror" -
Behind the shattered black screen, who is laughing arbitrarily.
After two seasons of nearly "full score", Netflix took over the BBC, and "Black Mirror" also changed from a niche British drama to a global American drama.
Wanting to please everyone often means becoming mediocre, and the reputation of "Black Mirror" that changes owners is indeed not as good as one season.
Netflix, which has been criticized for much, simply hacked itself this time -
Black Mirror season six
Black Mirror Season 6
The old rule, the 5 stories of the evil king only tell (through) one in detail (drama), which was praised as the first episode that most adhered to the original intention of "Black Mirror" -
Joan sucks
Joan is Awful
The heroine Joan, played by Anne Murphy, is an ordinary working woman who lives a monotonous life every day.
Interrupted by the alarm clock not enough sleep, after enjoying the fiancé's light breakfast, do not forget to praise a delicious;
On the way to work, turn the music to the maximum to activate yourself, and when you get to the office, you will dry up a cup of super bad coffee.
In this way, a day's tedious work is considered an official opening.
Today, her first task is to relay the board's directive to fire a programmer who has worked diligently on environmentally friendly software.
Although the other party pleaded bitterly, Joan, who was the middleman, could not do anything.
During the lunch break, Joan went to the psychological counseling room as usual to relieve stress.
She confessed that she was generally satisfied with her fiancé, but she just thought that this "honest person" was a little too boring.
In contrast, she often misses the madness and unruliness of her ex-boyfriend.
Happily, her ex-boyfriend happened to come to Joan's city that day and sent a text message inviting her to come out to catch up.
Qiong Ghost almost gave in, but fortunately in the end, he reined in from the precipice and hurriedly said goodbye to the other party.
Back home, Joan catches up on her fiancé's "boring" dinner, after which the two decide to watch a TV series to pass the time.
Their most popular video software is called StreamBerry.
The familiar title of the same font is the parallel universe of Netflix.
The two searched for a lot in the vast "Internet University", and finally were attracted by a new drama called "Joan Sucks".
The heroine on the cover is the famous Salma Hayek, who has the exact same name and hairstyle as Joan.
And the content of the episode is Joan's life on this day, and even every detail is exactly the same.
It's just that Hayek's version of Joan is more mean, and expelling colleagues is merciless.
In addition, she failed to resist the temptation of her ex-boyfriend, and the scene was once very grabbing...
Joan's fiancé instantly exploded and offered to check Joan's phone on the spot.
After being rejected, he already knew in his mind and ran away from home overnight.
On the other hand, the Hayek version of Joan in the play also encountered the same trouble.
Surprisingly, "Joan Sucks" in "Joan Sucks" is actually starring Cate Blanchett~
The next day, a confused Joan went to work at the company with malicious eyes around her.
The board of directors swept her out on the grounds of violating a confidentiality agreement.
The originally stable life fell apart overnight because of the "Flowing Berry" TV series.
Joan can only choose to use the law to protect her rights and interests.
However......
The lawyer told her that from the moment she clicked "accept" on the pop-up clause when she signed up for the app, the law was already on the side of the "flowing berry".
Joan moved and said she wanted to sue Salma Hayek for violating her portrait rights.
But this is also within the company's calculations -
Instead of actually filming the show, they used "digital portraits" of actors and quantum computers, images that were automatically generated.
As long as Joan is still using her phone and computer, hidden big data collection, she will continue to put her life intact on the screen...
Fortunately, Qiong is also half an insider, and soon came up with a conspiracy to kill a thousand enemies and self-damage eight hundred.
I saw her swallow a large number of burgers and a bottle of laxative in one go, and then run to the church to make a fuss about a certain wedding scene.
After such a bridge was reproduced in the original flavor, the devout Hayek Buddha could not sit still, and as Joan expected, tried to prevent "Joan Sucks Terrible" from continuing.
Unfortunately, superstars such as her have not escaped the sanction of the chaotic acceptance clause.
Ownership of Hayek's digital portrait is simply not in her own hands.
In desperation, Hayek had to find Joan to discuss countermeasures.
The two are both victims of the "Flowing Berry", and soon form an ally, and after some calculation, they decide that they must be paid from the bottom of the cauldron.
Use Hayek's identity and status to infiltrate the "Streamberry Body" company building and physically destroy the evil quantum computer.
After successfully diving into the core computer room, an unexpected fact surfaced.
Joan, played by Anne Murphy, is not the real Joan, but a digital space at the first level.
To put it simply, there is indeed an ordinary woman named Joan in reality.
The digital portrait of Anne Murphy plays Joan on the first level;
Salma Hayek's digital portrait plays "Anne Murphy" on the second level;
The digital portrait of Cate Blanchett plays "Salma Hayek" on the third level...
And "matryoshka dolls" like this are practically endless.
Joan was just unlucky and became the first experiment to be officially released...
After all, it is a virtual digital space, only a programmer brother guards the computer room, he has no intention of resisting by force, just warns "Anne Murphy".
If she destroys the quantum computer at this level, she will "kill" everyone in every virtual universe above this level.
Billions of digital souls who thought they were real people wiped out innocent moments.
"Anne Murphy" Ben was a little hesitant, but thought about it, since she came here, it means that the real Joan has made a choice.
It doesn't matter what she thinks, only Joan is the only "should" being.
The axe fell and everything returned to calm.
The real-life Joan and Anne Murphy were arrested by the police, but were quickly released on parole because of the "legitimacy" of their actions.
Joan no longer seeks work at a tech company or recovers her already unsympathetic fiancé.
She opened a coffee shop she had been obsessed with for a long time and tried her first time to hold her life firmly in her own hands.
The first episode of this fifth season is really explosive enough.
The fear brought about by the subtle invasion of human life by new technology is only the tip of the iceberg.
Under the surface of science fiction, the speculation of personal will and self is even more evocative.
"Black Mirror" doesn't have to be cool sci-fi, its essence should be the bizarre refraction of human nature in the medium.