Watch Black Mirror: Hang the DJ For Free

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I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Out of the rest of the episodes, this one took an other concept of technology, and made a story about, a simple and beautiful story

Loved this episode. I was hoping please don't end with typical black mirror negative ending. And i just can't describe how happy i am. I'm binge watching season 4 so the last episode i watched was obviously crocodile and i was just so mad i got so angry in the end of that episode. But then i watched hang the DJ and Life is Beautiful again.

The fourth season of Black Mirror has mostly been a mixed bag that tends towards disappointment; the last couple of episodes in particular were overly simple or overly bleak (in that order). Hang the DJ is one of the episodes that everyone seemed to rate, and that is how I found it too. The plot sees a walled city where people use dating technology to go through a series of relationships on their way to getting their perfect match. More or less like we try to do in real life, but in this episode each relationship is given a defined period of time, is then ended, and the data used for the later matches.This device mocks the Tinder generation in a way that is realistic but also exaggerated for sci-fi effect, but what the episode does well is produce an engaging relationship at the core of the story. Amy and Frank are delivered with good chemistry, and in particular Campbell does well to contrast her time with Frank with the pointlessness of the casual sex relationships. This builds well, and I did get tied up with the idea and the specifics of the characters. The ending is pretty good, even if it has a bit too much of a feel of simple tidiness (the type of ending that makes you go "oh, right" as opposed to being twisted by it). That said it is a positive and cleverly written episode and while it doesn't compete with the best Black Mirror episodes, it is easily the best one of this season so far.

As a love story, I think this one works because the principal characters resolved in the end to be with each other, but I think anyone watching should be troubled by the inherent finality offered by a technology that seems to be accepted as unerring and inviolate. The episode speaks to how much faith younger generations place in 'others' to do the thinking for them so that they don't have to make decisions. We see this present day in the mindless desire to put government in charge of curing all ills, when it really falls to informed individuals to make the right decisions for themselves. There's some inconsistency in the writing as the story plays out. For example, with all the security personnel in place to insure 'couples compliance', why is 'The Wall' designed to have a ladder that allows people to go over it? I can't think of reason for that that would make sense; maybe we weren't supposed to think about it. It also bothered me that Amy (Georgina Campbell) and Frank (Joe Cole) engaged in sexual relationships with their programmed hook-ups when they had no desire for them. OK, I get it, but the whole point was for them to understand their true feelings for each other. I'm actually surprised there was no opt-out provision on those programmed monitors that would allow incompatible couples to break off the timed arrangement sooner. You could require the couples to tap at the same time like they did to find out how long their courtship would last. Simple enough I would think.One might think that my comments suggest I didn't care for the episode. It was okay as far as it goes, but I'm not going to get starry eyed about the whole thing like I see in a lot of the reviews here for it. The whole concept of having things done for you as if you didn't have a mind of your own is really what bothers me about the story. There's always that little bit of something that a technology can't translate properly for it's intended user. If it could, we wouldn't have hundreds of different dating websites.