Black Mirror: Our Future in Technology?
- from Rachelle Carmen
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- Newfield High School
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The popular television series, Black Mirror, that originates in the United Kingdom has made its way to the popular streaming service, Netflix, in the United States. This anthology series brings together the modern world that we reside in with dystopian aspects added in to create a setting that is not too unfamiliar to us, but does make the audience a bit uneasy. With very misleading episode titles, such as “White Christmas” and “Shut Up and Dance”, we are introduced to a new world that hits a little too close to home. We are presented to a world that has become so advanced in its technological age that mostly everything they do within their lives is based off or some sort of technology that they are forced to rely on. The series takes a dark turn with many episodes leading the protagonists into deep distress due to problems that rose upon them due to this advanced technology that they have available to them. This series creates that “Black Mirror Image” that presents to us our current twenty-first century lives where we are consumed with technology at every turn we take, but with the twist of it all coming back and negatively impacting us, even leading to gruesome deaths in some cases. Black Mirror currently gives us four seasons of multiple stories that touch upon different issues that technology brings upon us. The series is in no way predictable as each episode is a completely new and alluring story within its own that unwinds right in front of your eyes as the minutes pass. Is Black Mirror predicting a world that may come for us as our technological advancements continue to excel? Will this “Black Mirror Image” soon become our reality and less of just a television series?