From horrifying science fiction to tragic reality The most powerful moments in Black Mirror, episode “Fifteen Million Merits”. Although Bing wants to revolt and denounce the system that oppresses him, he eventually becomes part of it, abandoning his morals for a comfortable life.
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Reality TV and gaming are the only entertainment, and fame the only ambition. In this materialistic society, where technology dominates and corrupts, everyone is constantly being filmed. He earns credits, called “merits”, to buy products or services. The main character, Bing, spends his days pedalling an exercise bike in front of a television screen, like the whole of the middle class. It presents a world close to the description of philosopher Herbert Marcuse, in which humanity is enslaved by mass media, advertising and industry.
One of the most iconic Black Mirror episodes is season 1, episode 2, “Fifteen Million Merits”. The topics covered include the obsession with celebrities, reality TV, social networks, video games, smartphones, and pornography the end of private life robots and androids social and commercial profiling fake news and opinion manipulation dating sites and matching systems immersive augmented reality cybersecurity and cyberbullying the transfer of memory or consciousness into a machine and transhumanism. Each episode is independent, with its own universe and style, though clues sometimes link them.
In Black Mirror, the situations are familiar, but are pushed to the extreme, provoking anxiety, destruction and even death. Technology can be dangerous in itself, but more often malicious designers or users use it to manipulate, humiliate, coerce, enslave or kill. Each episode shows how an existing technology could evolve in the near future, for better, or especially for worse. Launched in 2011, Black Mirror not only aims to entertain, but it also invites us to think about how technology can harm society and transform our behaviour. An original concept for a powerful message
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