Black Mirror
Although
Black Mirror uses fictional technology, it is always related to our reality in
this chapter, it implies that social networks and the eyes of others condition
our lives and what would happen if all those social codes that are managed at a
virtual level will move and they had direct repercussions in real life.
As a
consequence of the scoring system, the episode proposes a society in which
people are constantly having good gestures with others but all always behind a
"mask" of falsehood that hides the sole intention of improving their
own image.
This causes
a climate in which people can not stop trying to like each other constantly. In
fact, in conflicting situations, the characters can do nothing but suppress
their anger when they disagree with someone who has a higher score as if they
were speaking to a superior.
This
creates a decompensation in social classes between people with high scores and
people with low scores, to the point that if you talk to people with low scores
you lower your own score, where in this society it is very important.
Those with
high scores have a more comfortable life and with more possibilities while
those with a low score have more limited options for everything and this added
to the negative assessment of society to see that they already have a bad score
makes it difficult to leave that situation, so they fall into a spiral that
puts them in a worse and worse condition.
I believe
that Black Mirror indirectly makes use of a resemblance to capitalism where the
rich tend to be richer and the poor increasingly poor.
To finish
black mirror it implies that only when you are isolated can you feel free from
social pressures and find happiness and I personally liked it a lot and I
recommend it since Black Mirror is a series full of interesting and
thematically rich stories for which it gives A lot to analyze.
Alejandro Rodriguez
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