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2019-07-06 04:37:38
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Black Mirror Bad

In this video, I talk about and review all three episodes of season five of black mirror, Striking Vipers, Smithereens, Rachel Jack and Ashley Too. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bigjoel Support me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/biggestjoel

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Anonymous

Hey Joel, great video as usual. I have to admit, I really enjoyed Smithereens. I do have my own reading of the juxtaposition, but I'm glad that I heard you explain your feelings about the episode, because it has certainly made me try to rethink why I enjoyed the episode so much... in retrospect, it's almost preachy in it's choices. The billionaire on the mountains, closing his eyes while everyone else is forced to open theirs to look at their phone. The intern wearing a suit while the billionaire wears a messy bathrobe. This, while I first thought it to be very smart, was really just obvious, almost mythic style storytelling. Darn you Big Joel, you made me recognize I'm not as special a critic I thought I was.

bigjoel
>>24462896

Ooo I look forward to hearing your explanation of the juxtaposition. I’m writing one right now that really doesn’t work for me lol

Anonymous
>>24462896

Well, I'm not exactly sure if I myself am still confident on this, but I'll say that my original reading of the sequence was that of illustrating the instantaneous means of access that permeate power. The police, a power structure, always have a solution to maintain control, and to reestablish the proper ideological hierarchies. That of, an instantaneous , controlled killing. This is one of the means to access the freedom, and/or power in society. And under the same token as the information of the Persona account password being handed down from person to person, class to class, to eventually be used by someone who wishes to exert a sense of control, a sniper takes the kill shot as per their orders from higher along the authoritative chain. They must use the tools granted of them by the higher powers to attain a form or mode of freedom or agency. Whether this is the access to a dead daughter's social media account to search for clues, or the authority to take a criminal's life; these are the means of freedom for the lower classes in a world restricted by wealth structures. And much like the message of this episode, of which that social media services continue to propagate a dangerously distraction-addicted society, the continued operation and "giving into" these power structures that many socially connected people do everyday furthers the system that makes people like our protagonist act the way they choose to act. He is someone who simply wants to speak and be heard by someone, just another person, but since that person is incredibly wealthy, he sees no other option but to commit crime to simply get the rich guy's attention. And it feels like everytime the trigger gets pulled, or the phone gets checked, or the account gets accessed, we as a collective allow a society where a situation like this could reasonably happen. And by the time we put the pieces together as to what the clear injustices really are, we are all distracted by another news headline, social media notification, or real world obstacle. I still don't even know if I like this reading of it. I'm more curious to know what you think though.

Te Taonga Kororā

The opinions around 6:00 really are the most frustrating reading people have of media and esp. Black Mirror. "It's meant to be bad. It's meant to not make sense." Unless that "badness" is a satire or making a statement on something or serving some function in the piece, is it not exactly the same as unintentionally making something bad? The episode where the kid dies testing a video game really rings to mind for this type of defense of a very shallow episode concept