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Sick Product of a Sick System

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The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

I get that the series is a constant commentary on today's social networking and where it might lead us, but blocking everyone for a sex offender makes it immpossible for him to live. Also punishing a mental clone for 24860000 years in solitude is plain meaningless and stupid.

That was awesome. How everything ended was great. The main idea and how to deliver the concept of memory copy was good. I liked John Hamm. I kept thinking about if we took a copy of mind and made it do nothing for some time just to obey the orders in future. Black mirror is one of the best shows I ever watched.

In their effort to be clever, myriad new technologies are thrown at us - and the characters - as if we're all still stuck in 2014. No societal adjustment, expectations or learning to deal with these technologies has happened - they've just dropped out of the blue onto the characters, without any explanation or hint that they're widely used and accepted.This is a problem with much modern scifi - uncareful attention to details or backdrop. See instead Blade Runner's extremely careful writing and attention to this. Westworld built up the background of societal tolerance and interaction to the androids - where as Humans again just dropped us into this future with no warning (no one has dealt with attractive female bots living in family homes before? cmon.) Additionally, no discussion or hints to the societal attitudes towards the cookies/eggs. We can interrogate them but they're not exact copies to the point that extended decades of solitary confinement (which is illegal in all western nations even for multiple homicides) is OK? Even for a manslaughter self defence charge? Cmon.It was tweaked to lead the viewer into feeling the injustice of the main character's situation and then suddenly foisting surprise societal norms on the viewer. Poor writing.Very flashy technology ideas but anyone with any background in scifi reading will recognize these as being tried and true concepts developed from the 1920s through 60s. Blade Runner is the same - but the execution of the original and sequel was so environmentally accurate and self consistent, that is gives amazing life to these stock ideas -- but this episode was careless and gratuitous.

This episode from the series Black Mirror just creeps me out and upsets me on so many levels. It touches, I suppose, on many of the fears that affect me most, those being isolation, non-existence, having an active mind but a non-functioning body (like a coma where you can't move one bit so everyone thinks you're dead but in fact you hear everything), and picking someone up at a party or bar that you don't know, only to find out that it was a very bad idea. Oh, and how love can change to hate and the horrors that come with letting your love grow to the point where, if it ever was betrayed, it could drive you mad beyond reason. This is a high-def link and surprisingly they all seem to be on you-tube. The atmosphere you watch them in affects a great deal the impact they would have. Must be in the evening/night and must be with the lights dimmed low. That's not precisely because the night is scarier than the daytime but because dark moods and fears thrive better and are more susceptible to causing fear at night/in the dark. I'm not joking though ladies and gentlemen, this is serious stuff.