Since it started on December 4 of a distant 2011 with the twisted and, in its own way, hilarious ‘The national anthem’ —also known as “the one with the pig”—, the prolific anthology ‘Black Mirror’ has progressively evolved to become more or less the series that reflects the most perverse and harmful side of technology.
Hell is others (not technology)
Well then, This isn’t too funny for Charlie Brookerthe father of the creature, who explained during an interview with the medium Game Radar the reason that has led him to distance himself a little from the original premise of the production to leave its technological component slightly apart.
“It was definitely a conscious decision to change what the show is a little bit. It was interesting to reboot things that way. It was kind of cleansing the palate, and that means you then approach every other episode from a slightly different perspective.
There was a certain danger that people would pigeonhole the show as saying that technology is bad, and that frustrated me a bit, partly because I always felt that the show is not saying that technology is bad, but that people are bad. of the fucking head So, you know, get it right!”
Brooker also stressed the importance of satire on the audiovisual medium and contentwhich has gained weight in the sixth season by complementing the readings on personal image, identity and self-perception.
“I guess part of it is about the pain of something from real life being turned into a true crime documentary, like ‘Loch Henry,’ or something more playful, like ‘Joan Is Horrible,’ which is an existential nightmare, but it’s also about identity and control and that whole bee thing. On Netflix they’re in the reverse order they were written, because ‘Demon 79’, which I co-wrote with Bisha K. Ali, who I think is fantastic, we wrote it like a ‘Red Mirror.’ I was almost thinking, ‘Okay, let’s imagine it’s a companion piece to Black Mirror.'”
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