The series "Black Mirror" Black Mirror
British series Black Mirror started in 2011on Channel 4. His second season was launched in February 2013. The genre of this television product is fantastic, and the series are interconnected by an exclusively common satirical direction, the desire to show the influence of modern and future information technologies on the lives of people and human society. In other respects, they are not related to each other by plot lines or cast members.
While the action in different parts of the seriesis happening in the future, the stories clearly ridicule the existing realities and those processes that we can observe on our TV screens in the daily news, as well as in everyday life. But this is a kind of laughter through tears, the desire to change something that people do not like and show people how absurd is something that already seems familiar to us.
In his stories you will find a story aboutthe stolen princess and the absurd claims of terrorists who, having got to Youtube, began to multiply, like cockroaches, and you did not conceal the sewing, and you will have to go on the occasion, or public opinion will deprive the Prime Minister's portfolio, and maybe not only ... And also the history implanted chips that record memories. Conveniently, like, do not need shelving films, CDs, photo albums. But on the other hand ... After all, everything that was always with you. And do we really need to remember everything so well?
In the third story, social networks0 and thenrobotics allow you to create images of dead people who will help cope with the pain of loss and replace lost loved ones for a while ... or forever? How complete should this imitation be? Is it really necessary to hold on to the past and escape from reality?
This is a talented parody of the author of the idea of the series CharlieBooker on the modern world, in which the computer became more familiar to family members, and Aypad - inseparable companion. People become hostages of their technological assistants and it seems that it is nowhere possible to break away from this dominance. But in fact, everything is not so pessimistic.
After all, we have not yet come to the future that wethere is a vivid picture of Booker, and we can always turn off the computer and phone and go to play football, call on my parents, go with friends to nature. Become more human, start thinking and looking around. Do it now, and not when the TV series "Black Mirror" Black Mirror will cease to be fantastic and will differ only in details from the existing reality.
Author: Katerina Sergeenko
