Monday, January 8, 2018

Is underground man a writer for Black Mirror?

Blakc Mirror, a true masterpiece of show is an antholgy series that is center around how technology affects human life, in both good and bad ways, but mainly bad ways. Underground man remninds me of a charcter from one of the episodes in Black Mirror's season two. The epsisode is titled the Entire Histroy of you and follows a man who speculates his wife cheated on him with one of his firends. Now what makes this episode a true black mirror episode, is that all humans have an implant which allow them to replay all of their memoires. On thing that make Black mirror such a fantastic show, is that in nearly each episode, some large statment is being made about human life. In the entire hsitroy of you, the main charcter nearly drives himself mad over-analyzing his memoires to find evidence that his wife cheated on; he eventually does, but coms to find that all of that over analyzing has only brought him despair, becaus ethe end of the episode is the man pictured alone in his house watching old memories of his ex-wife and child. The point this episode makes is that we humans tend over-anaylze life, and it usually is not neecassery to be so analitycal. Underground man also makes the point of overly concious human beings and how it negativey affects the progress of life. Undergound man states that an overly conscious person over anylazes nearly every aspects of lide and it cause them to not be able to decide. The moral of the story is to not over analyze, it does more harm than good.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I've just recently started watching Black Mirror, and it is already one of my favorite shows. I have watched till halfway through season three. The point you have made is very insightful. I agree that the underground man often over analyzes his life trying to figure out how his life has been changed by being a conscious man. Another problem that the underground man faces is perhaps reading too much, and basing all of his life off of the books he reads. As technology becomes increasingly more important in our lives, people become more and more engaged in their screens. This is a theme that could be easily criticized in Black Mirror. So the underground man could easily be seen as a writer for a future episode in which they continue to criticize this theme.