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To say that the last episode of Black mirror Broken Internet would be obvious. When the first season of the show dropped in 2011, she forever changed the landscape of science fiction narration on the small screen, otherwise also the silver screen, infinitely extending the limits of what cinema can do and what her lovers can expect.
So when Black mirror Season 7 fell on Netflix on April 10, he not only broke the Internet – he dissected him, downloaded his conscience and sold it to us as a subscription bundle. And in a deliciously defying turn, it is difficult to say if this new season is science fiction or horror, because either seems too reductionist for what the six episodes really offer: a strange feeling that remains from start to finish, without wax or decline, never vacillating. Creator Charlie Brooker promised a return to the darker and more disturbing roots of the series, and he delivered.
Too real for us commoners
Like all the other episodes, this last season remains with its audience because it never walks too far from what we are the commons (read: all those who are not Charlie Brooker, Charlie Kaufman or David Lynch) can perceive as being true at a given moment in our existence.
Black mirror Rope our humble capacity for suspension of disbelief by keeping the problems of the real world at the heart of each story: debates surrounding the rogue technology, the deterioration of the environment, the fertility, the intimidation of the high school, the invention and the imagination of the Messenger of God, of the ideas of death and the infinity, associated with daily troubles USBS.
A wide variety of devices operates in tandem during the six episodes, weaving the thick and suffocating strangeness fabric that envelops Black mirror audience. Among them, some are as obvious as references to the Dark web Common peoplesthrough which Mike with a blue collar still as tired try to earn additional money to afford the Rivermind subscription of his beloved wife, which keeps her alive. If that means putting a release mouse on your tongue or drinking your own urine in a dull room for a sick digital audience, too bad. The horror that one feels looking at someone to remove a tooth perfectly good by a pure force on the screen is often inexplicably more complex than to look at a murder in its own right, perhaps because the first seems so much closer to us, and it is this phenomenon on which this section of the monetized episode. Add to the mixture of fully credible characters which we have all witnessed: overworked and desperate workers trying to join both ends, high school computer geeks that do not bind to friendship (or vice versa), `nice guys ” furious and the others, and you have been crawling that you will soon run one of these characters.
Here and there, very obviously uncomfortable things occur nonchalantly for a single blow in the Black mirror universe. Blue and blue blood spit USS Callister Top this graphic of a mile, although of course, we cannot forget to frown the eyebrows with a thick Scottish accent appearing at random on a planet on which we have just put eyes. And while appearing briefly and in fact, Brooker does not waste a single moment of development of the plot to Duveter, so in the case of USS CallisterThe normality of blue bodily fluids causes the thug elements to discovery in the game that bleed red (big, big surprise.)
Are we reacting excessively?
And then there are things that Brooker places on the screen so sublimated that the feeling of discomfort catches you before you can put reasons for it. There are faces that change so quickly in real time, it is difficult to say if it is an incredible game or a double body. A
At the end of USS CalissterWhen Robert finally descends into his penultimate madness after 500 years of hard work as God of infinity, his face goes from really to one Guy to a little so fast, you have to blink twice to know that the veins of the beating temple really belong to the same character which was in its place five seconds.
There is also something deep about how people look at Black mirror Season 7, a look that makes a small incision in a tender part of your skin, crawls under it and covers the injury. It is the too long, too abant and too oriented look that infresses in your spine. In Common peoplesAmanda is staring at it while advertisements divert her eyeballs, regardless of the hot situation of the situation; In BaneVerity’s most shy eyes are almost serpentine in their Slyness. The girl’s eyes pass from naive and tearful to hard as if it was not a problem.
But then, you will learn so much if you had lived a million lives, one of them as an empress of the universe. The praise that reproduces with the glare of the glassy eyes of a girl while her mother’s affair is dissected through the table and it is the change that is difficult to swallow: sympathetic eyes, investigation eyes, eyes exasperated in no time. And then there is Robert in USS Callister – Smiling, looking at, saying nothing – making you feel as if you were the bug of the program. Forget Stanley’s gaze; Each look in Black Mirror is a unique problem in the human code.
Brooker does not run his magic in a vacuum. It is accompanied by equally competent and creative directors who create an element of the worlds by element, so nothing seems out of words. In praise, the gentle lighting of the restaurant becomes hard as the emotional tension peaks and the color become a confrontation. Throughout the season, the pallets move in mood: sterile white, dark blues, garish neon lights. Combine this with a disturbing sound design – Hums, static, the silence stretched too thin, sounds of chutes that will never leave our minds (rest in peace) – and the atmosphere makes the narration before the characters even speak.
Madness in training
Black mirror has already done that with Bolersnatch (and I can’t wait to do it again with Banderstruck) But this time, Brooker took too far (or he?) Various viewers and points of sale learned the many dispersed Easter eggs throughout the six episodes, the most visible being reference Juniper. In addition to that, viewers report that they see different versions of Bane On their screens, and for an episode that uses the Mandela effect on an unhealthy level, it is as scary as possible. Whether they are gossip, misdeeds or truth, demand this type of interactive audience transforms the viewer by participating, blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality. It’s disorienting – as the show knows you. This unpredictability, this feeling of being watched, adds a frightening layer to the already strange experience.
In short, looking Black mirror Season 7 falls into a very elegant and very glitchy existential spiral with WiFi. It’s funny, bizarre and scary in an equal measure, with just enough strange varnish to make you ask you if this bizarre look that your colleague gave you today was … normal. Brooker re-coded the show and the result is a season that requires: “What if technology is going too far?” And “What if you have already done it?” Whether you have excited the six episodes in a used afternoon or that you always reconstitute the multiple versions of BaneOne thing is clear: Black mirror You are also looking at you.
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