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having your past soo clearly visible and available to you at all times could easily turn people suicidal
Or just extremely obsessed with the past, like in this episode.
Rohan Purohit well that's happening right now with cellphones and facebooks and so. But most people get that we all make mistakes and everybody's growing up and the past is past. But when a person you love betrays you, the memories are enough to turn you mad. After all divorce is the most common reason for suicide especially with men.
there are people that can remember anything in their lifes, from the dress they wore at a party to the food they ate at a random date. In an interview with one girl with this "ability" she said that having the ability to remind the past so clearly is pretty bad, because you can't erase "dark memories"
I'm surprised you didn't touch on Liam's potential blindness when he removes the grain. The grainless woman says at dinner that she's lucky she didn't go blind when her grain was snatched out. The abrupt cut to black could mean that Liam didn't only remove all his past memories but his ability to create more (visual) memories.
this is a really good point!
Bordje I totally missed that. nice catch.
Bordje whoa there! great observation skills
Great point..
As someone with sight loss I caught this point immediately.
Just thinking back on something, this guy was great at investigating. He had great intuition and was great at reading ppl gestures, reactions, body language. He was a BEAST OF A LAWYER. If he wasn't such a beast of a lawyer he wouldn't have figured it out.
I think that's why they made him a lawyer. It fit his attention to detail and his drive to investigate. For most people it would be paranoia, for him it kinda makes sense because of his job.
Evija3000 I agree, but it's not just that, it was the fact that he was a GREAT LAWYER. If he was a regular run of the mill lawyer, he probably wouldn't have figured it out. So many people(his wife and friends) accused him of being paranoid.
That's a great point, I believe Brooker made him a lawyer because it is their job to investigate the finer details that many of us would look over to win a case. Black Mirror is a show not about the evils of technology alone, but rather the downfalls that come when they work synonymously with the human psyche. He is portrayed as a brilliant lawyer, which should have lead him to a fruitful career, but he instead used his brilliance as a catalyst for his demise with his wife. Everyone continued to label him as being paranoid, but he continued to persist. This persistence, a human characteristic common in good lawyers, mixed with the ability to replay every aspect of his life lead to the eventual demise of this man which left him cold and empty.
Alam Qara Just wondering when “cheating” became exclusive only in American culture? It happens everywhere in the world....
Alam Qara I agree with you on that but not always and I wouldn’t deal with it either way I have a step brother his mom his crazy and she doesn’t pay for anything when your suppose to get child support so both women and men are screwed in this situation
I think he removed the chip because he was constantly reminded by the life he lost . He was constantly reminded of the wife he loved and lost and if the child that may not be his . Those images of his memory were torture
eric kinsey My take on it was that he removed it because he finally realised how it had ruined his life
Pat Colyn good point never thought of that . My best guess that support my theory is . That would take to much effort going through each encounter with his wife finding every interaction with your child and then choosing to wipe them . Being a father I wouldn't give up the worse memory of my kids . Maybe if was easier to erase everything and plead ignorant .
I think you can delete them specifically. Like how he asked Jonas to delete everything regarding Fe and he was able to do so quickly. It has face recognition and probably auto-tags people so you can search for them easily.
+Pat Colyn he didn't simply deleted it because he realized that his downfall wasn't because of Fi's betrayal, it was because the grain was making him mentally ill and obsessed
what's the point of living in memories and forget to live the present
what i found pretty interesting too was this whole over-analysing. watching conversations over and over again and look at every little detail can drive you crazy. image overthinking every little detail. this is a huge problem nowadays too. like "why didn't he text me a emoji" "why did he only use 3 words".. etc.
sreliet605 how many kisses x mean they love me?!
Yeah, I think that was largely the point. They seemed pretty obsessed with details and the past. We already do that in our minds, but here they had actual visual material, taking it to the next level... or three levels after that :D
well yeah when you care about something/someone you want to know the truth about whats happened or how they feel about you. hence why we over analyse someones text.
Indeed. And when he achieved success in getting the ultimate truth - Fi's infidelity - it didn't make him happy because then he was constantly replaying happy memories, which contrasted with his actual, miserable, empty existence. Being able to perfectly visually record his entire life ends up being a torture, causing him to be unable to move on. It's what you described but ten times more powerful and probably devastating.
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Heck I'd rather find out my partner is cheating and be depressed forever rather than just live my entire life wondering without finding out
Rman The Ass Eater me too!! But, what if you could be ignorantly happy with your partner, not suspecting at all that she ever was unfaithful in the past, and she was (and assuming that she will always be faithful in the future) or find out that she was unfaithful before and be depro for the foreseeable future?
Would you choose be blissfully ignorant to what she had done or know the truth which could ruin you?
I'm just asking out of curiosity. I know what I would do.
+Dr. Gonzo (Dr. Gonzo) what would you??
What would I what?
what would you do in that situation?
This episode is honestly my biggest nightmare. As someone with anxiety, the ability to watch past memories in that clear of a way would be awful for my mental health and impossible for me to not indulge in. I’d end up even more of a mess than Liam.
Me same. I would suicide myself if I had to go back to my past memories.
Somwthing aimilar like this has happend to me. And as a Scorpio, such a deep thinker that I am, I have almost compensated the thought of suicide. I just try to live the present and not the past
I feel the same way. I would constantly be reviewing my life and regretting everything I do.
Just delete it. I got cheat from 4 different women in the past, almost similar situation with Liam. Cant trust women till now. The way they lies with their innocent face.. pheww
Yeah... I agree I would not be able to live like that
This episode was one of the best things I've ever seen on TV.
The entire Black Mirror series is one of the best things I've ever seen on TV in a long time. San Junipero is my favorite. Every episode is Amazing
Vanity Rae the recent seasons are not as good as the first couple.
I think Liam found out it wasn't his kid. They'd cut to the baby's eyes(blue) then back to Fi's eyes(brown). He also lingered on a memory about the eyes of Mr. Marrakech(which were blue). I'm pretty sure he noticed that.
damn that's a good observation, i was just about to rewatch the episode to know for sure whether the baby was or wasn't his. thanks you saved me time 😄
The ending scene when Fi asked "Brown or green?" (referring to picking her dress) was also a hint that Liam realized the baby's eyes were green and not brown.
Makes sense, except that Jones' eyes don't look blue to me but brown. (see 9:20 here: czcams.com/video/Sw3GIR70HAY/video.html)
Where do you see that his eyes are blue? And when does he linger on a memory of Mr. Marrakech eyes?
keen observation
Derick Gabrillo I thought the same thing, as he kept replaying memories that focused on their eyes
I disagree with your interpretation of the last part of the episode, I think the point was that deep down, Liam knew all along that his wife had been unfaithful and the kid wasn't his. The events of the episode were just to show this new technology dig up what his subconscious already knew.
His life would not of been better without the events, the child would still not be his and he would be living with a women who he really despised. The technology did nothing but reveal the truth.
Gamenetreviews Good interpretation, that feeling of complete defeat is quite interesting, thanks for stopping by!
Gamenetreviews I tend to think that the child was not his as he no longer had a crib or toys in his house.
What I got from it was that he was alone, depressed, and that he terribly missed his old life. He could only dwell on the most negative memories when she was there, and now that it's over he could only dwell on the most positive ones.
By cutting out the grain maybe he could heal, but he just couldn't continue re-living every moment with a nostalgic bias and perfect recall. He's unwilling to delete the memories that are only complicating his life, so he just gets rid of the source of them entirely.
I could imagine everyone who had a grain would probably do this at least once for similar reasons, and then a few would have another one installed a short time later.
He still has the same clothes on from that day. The bottle and glass, still on the table downstairs when he replayed the dinner and social interactions at the party. But the kitchen is dirty. He has been cooking. Everything in the bedroom is gone. The painting even the sheets off the bed. She left quick and likely went over to Owen's house. The other man fathered the child and clearly she was enjoying his company that night.
Liam needed to know. He was searching for the truth, even though he loved Fi, to him knowing the truth was more important than living with his wife who could be a liar. I am siding with Liam here. He became miserable, but not because of technology, but because of Fi.
My train of thought also.
Why is everyone defending the wife and putting the blame on the main character? She cheated on him which was inexcusable? Sure he acted as a bloodhound and was violent, but what do you expect when your partner cheats on you? He wanted to know the truth. He was the victim, not her.
The whole government surveillance act in the review was offtopic.
The things I took out of this episode was mainly the disconnect with the presence. People mainly watch the replays of their past and ignore the presence. Because of this, the person to person relationship is awkward. The whole dinner scene was just pure cringe.
@@user-vt6td9hp3g you mean r/White Knight?
On God🙏🏾
I just don’t like either. I felt no sympathy for either really
I agree
I think a theme of Black Mirror is that NOBODY is right, everyone is an asshole who abuses their technology/their partner.
I've always thought the ending of the episode was more of a statement from the writers telling us that we are not supposed to remember everything vividly. That there are some things we need to let go, and that having infinite access to all of our memories is a destructive thing of human nature.
Yup. Thats exactly what it is
@@ahmedvg5075 ........erm.....ok..... she was definitely a bitch......
Deserve to be killed ? Kind of overkil...... so to speak ....
I feel sorry for Liam. She cheated on him and had him help raise a baby that wasnt his. She's the bad guy in this story.
TheLukeylala it is not necessarily that clear. Liam walked out after he suspected cheating from her with Dan, she did not think he was coming back, so she went and had drinks with an old friend, got drunk and made a bad mistake. However, if she had come clean about it, things might have worked out a lot better, Liam might have accepted it and forgave her or walked out. Though I understand why she didn’t tell him, he is shown to be quite paranoid and slightly obsessive, she did not want to ruin the relationship. I am not what she did was good, but she was not the straight up bad guy, if anything everyone was.
@@arthurmorgan3127 she should have thought about their relationship before she fucked the other guy
Arthur Morgan im sorry you think like that, but she is the bad guy period. Liam was very patient, calm and collective considering he already forgave her once before and was cool and calm at the start.
@@arthurmorgan3127 how many guys does she have to fuck while in a relationship for her to be the bad guy for you? The reason they fought is because she fucked Dan then because of the fight she fucks Jonas. But she's not the bad guy? Wow
@@arthurmorgan3127 you cant just say that he was paranoid when he was right. he is a lawyer and his job is to look at body langauge and because of that, he found out that he was right..
18 years, 18 years, and on the 18th birthday he found out it wasn’t his
Wow, these are all so insightful. There really aren't enough channels that analyse entertainment like this.
Thanks man!
Goo goo goo joob
Sorry, but this is not an analysis of the movie. This concentrates too much on the (impact of the) science-fictional technology (on society). The analyst has forgotten this is a movie, a psychological drama, a marvellous piece of entertainment. Of course, this is Black Mirror, so the foundation of the story is the "history" chips that are implanted on people. But it's the psychological drama that makes the movie so unforgettable. The new technology gives the jealous, suspicious husband a powerful means to detect his wife's past activities. It's the wife's act of betrayal and constant lies that lead to the sad, tragic family breakdown. One can ask the question "Would one rather be oblivious to husband/wife's lies to keep living a "happy" family? Or would one rather know the truth, whatever it is?". I myself prefer the truth.
Sort of agree but i do think Moving castle did a great analysis of the larger themes of the episode. It's fair game for him to choose his points to highlight. I do agree that i found the inner theme of the drama between the husband and wife more interesting. To me the purely social issues of would having every moment of your life at your fingertips make life better. Would people worry and care too much of the past and not look forward to the future.
The technology is fascinating. It will improve lives on earth, and at the same time, will bring tragedies once in a while as well, like every major invention and discovery in human history. Personally I think this particular recording chip implant will not become real any time soon.
In regards to the sex scene, one thought that came to mind upon second viewing was the idea that Fi may have been watching her past sex with Jonas as opposed to Liam. If you think about it, the scene implies they are watching they're past sex life, but this could only be true for Liam as Fi still shows feelings towards Jonas as exhibited by her flirtatious reactions to him at the dinner party. This also plays towards the notion of fantasizing about other people during sex, further perpetuating this sense of a disconnect between partners during sex
You're wrong. It shows both Liam and Fi's POV which would clearly suggest they are both accessing the same memory.
Well sure i may be wrong, what i just said is my interpretation of the scene in relation to the subject of the episode, you don't have to agree that's fine. I like to analyse things deeper to what is shown on the surface.
Axel Reigns Hey, you're free to have your own theories but you can't really ignore that fact.
It could have been possible if the girl was replaying the sex scene between her and the other dude she broke up with. It they kept that idea it would have made the last 10 minutes of the episode more shocking
What? That's literally what was just said lol
But could you rewatch something of your memory, and then rewatch yourself rewatching this memory, and then rewatch yourself rewatching yourself rewatching the memory?
Saskia H. technically you could, but it would basically be having three copies of the same memory.
Rewatchception
Paradox
I know im really late on this but I was thinking that it probably just records your vision, instead of actually accessing the memories in your brain for two reasons. I would imagine it would be far easier to do that and also memories are nowhere near as clear and detailed as the ones in this episode. This leads me to conclude that the technology probably stops recording when your viewing an older memory. So you couldn't view yourself viewing yourself.
You are Genius sir
god i fucking love these reviews.
I feel like I was the only one that said "Fuck this bitch" when she cheated, yet I agree that he had issues socially, emotionally, and many other factors. I just hate the wife for cheating. Although I think that they both at the root of their marriage going down the shitter but I don't like cheaters. The saddest moment was the flashbacks of the good times at the end, and the sex scene between Fi and Liam.
Ethan Bradberry i feel you. Every episode of black mirror I root for the wrong protagonist. Like in Shut up and dance I supported the hacker's mission and here I just hate his wife and feel real bad for him. If he had issues she should've helped him or divorced him. Sleeping with another man didn't help their marriage anyway.
agreed with your point, i personally caught someone very very close to me and after that i swear i have trust issues, i cant trust anyone its like i am going mad and sometimes i really thought about going to therapy etc,,,, if u cant be in a relationship end it and move on why cheat in the 1st place and the most effecting thing for me was the child issue i read messages of that person talking to the cheater about her child if its theirs and the girl keep mentioning May god be with me its mine and my husband (means not confirm to her), this episode make me relived my worst time of entire life i swear to god
I'm surprised you didnt mention the very last bit right at the end, when the screen suddenly flashes black after Liam gouges himself. The woman who was gouged earlier in the episode had mentioned how lucky she was that she hadn't lost her sight after the incident. It seems when Liam removed his Grain he wasnt so lucky. I think he was looking for a fresh start, tired of being weighed down by his memories that he could not forget. In a last desperate attempt to rid himself of his paranoid obsession with this device, he rendered himself blind; accidentally destroying any chance he had of truly starting over.
It is a possibility what you say is true, be that it would be to grim of an ending for an already so tragic story. Good "eye" though 🙈.
Loved this episode, felt the message they were trying to send was you shouldn't live in the past and that to move on, you should let go of memories that belong in the past, with Liam at the end, him removing the chip symbolised himself letting go and carrying on.
I totally agree. This episode sends the message of individual morality issues. I don't get why so many people are involved in the political aspect. The things about social surveillance, I don't think that's message the writer intended.
Agree. That is why I said it got a very Buddhist outlook.
Or ditching evidence, cus he killed them
Its hard to let go
I'm liking how well Black Mirror is holding up. The guy from last episode starred in Get Out, and this main guy was a supporting character in Kong Skull Island
He wasn't just supporting cast, he was also the mo-cap actor for Kong.
@@JohnHitman Meh
The amazingly talented kid from shut up and dance is the protagonist of Netflix' "The end of the fucking world". Jodie Whittaker (the woman from this episode) is the first female doctor in Doctor Who.
But then again, many of the actors in Black Mirror were already very successful before that and just proved their worth in it.
the guy from get out was in psychoville as well, right?
He was also Koba in Planet Of The Apes reboot trilogy.
I like how they brought back the grain in White Christmas and introduced the Blocking concept, gives the whole series a feeling of it being in the same universe
Starkiller100 the same technology is used in the episode men against fire with the characters eye color being the same shade whenever the device is used.
They didnt they also reference 15 million merits in White Christmas
The Tv program in special white Christmas is the hot shot show . I liked that a lot
@@chronica6457 and in black museum
I thought they were all set in the same universe just in different time points
Dude he was cheated on and he knew it no wonder he persude the truth. It wasn't him that is at fault for the kid growing up with divorced parents it's the mother for going and cheating. What's worse is he figured it out by the way she STILL acts around her ex, meaning not only did she cheat once but it doesn't seem so far fetched she'd do it again. She had no remorse till she was getting made to watch what she had done to their family. I agree. I think the message was that what at first look is progressive and cool, it might hold repocussions. For instance in this situation it brings trust issues where It's okay to have your memory checked by almost anyone because there is no need what so ever to trust people cause it can all be proven in a second so why wouldn't they
The reason he removes the chip is obvious. Remember what its like breaking up or those total destructive feelings in the aftermath of a relationship? you probably can't feel the actual emotion you did but rather a shadow of it. So why do these powerful emotions ever leave, one thing only ....time. Time simply dulls and causes memories to fade.
But in this episode Liam is replying ever single thing/moment that was great in his relationship as if it was brand new, he is totally trapped in his memories emotionally and mentally. Without the implant, he will slowly begin to move on with his life.
Also people taking one side of either Liam or his wife clearly are projecting themselves and their experiences on to the episode. If you watch it on its own, both are guilty of fucking up the relationship, no innocent parties. She is deceptive, weak and cheats on him. While he is controlling, aggressive and insecure, which pushes her away.
Bingo.
Louis, Something I thought about, he walks the empty house and replays her in the rooms, the colors are brighter she is giving loving gazes, whispers back she loves him. He found how she was happy looked with him, so many views of care, peace in her voice and body language. He cuts the chip out. Black Mirror only showed us a couple in an hour. We try to know what was going on in the minds of Fi and 2 men. God, I'd love if they made part 2 ‘The Aftermath’?
The reason I go back to desperation, he thinks he to removes the chip and that had to do with the woman at the dinner party. She removed her chip and they were shocked. She told the group it hurt a bit but she said her life was easier )and seemed more calm than the others ). The male slut Jonas got up to feel her scar, she was with Jonas when Liam arrives drunk in the morning. He wouldn't be able to replay her over and over, what she said and her body language during the marriage.
out of sight out of mind
He was controlling, aggressive and insecure because she gave him plenty of reasons to be. She was a manipulative cheating bitch who turned a probably otherwise good guy into a straight up mess.
one of the best episodes
I had always thought he removed the grain because the memories of Fi and his(?) baby were too painful for him to keep reliving
I think the normalisation of the "grain" doesn't necessarily mean it has been around for very long at all. The first smartphone was only released about 15 years ago, and I only remember them becoming commonplace around 6 years ago. But now I am seen as extremely weird for not having one. People often look at me funny when I pull out my basic phone, I have even had members of my own family challenge me on my resistance to get a smartphone. The way some people go off at me you would think I'm a vegan in a steak restaurant. Even my 7 year old niece has a smartphone.
Nicole Silver The obsession with social media and constant entertainment is freaky. I'm a part of the problem, but trying to cut back.
Nicole Silver sometimes vegans have to go to steakhouses. Like when they want to be part of a family, friend, or work event.
I know, your point?
Nicole Silver I just thought it was a funny analogy. lol being vegan myself I've actually had some of my best meals at high end steak houses. Not trying to start an argument it just made me giggle.
Jay Dee lol, no arguments here. I am actually Vegan myself and honestly eating out is easy these days. But when I was Vegan 10 years ago I do have a particular memory of going to a steak house and asking "What are your Vegan options please?". The server looked at me as if I had just asked "Do you serve human flesh here?" lol
The joke on the baby sitter really reflected life as we know it today.
What is a joke between friends may not be understood as a joke to other people.
I see this sort of scenario happen with Stand-up comedians, celebrities, vloggers on YT, and even everyday people.
Every little sentence or statement they makw can be misconstrued and taken the wrong way even when their lives are so heavily documented.
Fascinating moment.
Incredible evaluation and analysis once again.
I think another important factor in the child having a chip at such an early age is the fact that as she grows she will be able to access the memories of the parental meltdown she has suffered. If there was no chip she wouldn't even remember.
I also wonder at what age the parental access to her memories ends or gets limited.
That's just messed up in my opinion. I'd be depressed if that was done to me.
10:00 it's not about the outcome of his child, because it's not HIS child. And he's finally finding that truth. Not paranoia. He gets actual justice. And he's made his life infinitely better.
Well I think he killed them, and he blinded himself, ditching evidence.
I took it as a happy ending. That he decided he couldn't forgive his wife and love his child with all those memories stuck in his head. With the chip gone, he can move forward again in life and his relationship.
@@SirRicheybee Blind people can still be happy. Sure, it's not all rainbows and sunshine, but what did you expect? It's Black Mirror. By their standards, this is a fairy tale ending.
@@SirRicheybee Wait- if this is so far in the future that they can create these high tech grains, why have they not made a cure for blindness yet?
@@SirRicheybee Yes.
I hope he wouldn’t forgive this bitch. and it’s not his child
Fuck that
The video is now unblocked! Sorry about that!
Ill have to check this out
Would you please just tell me what that song you play in the opening is called?
Harry's Moving Castle m so happy that there are such chanels on youTube
Just started watching Black mirror and I watch your analisys after each episode, they are great
His wife was the problem, not the grain. The govt presence was hardly used.
This one seems to point out how modern surveillance is a double-end sword, on one end he was able to catch his wife cheating, on the other end, his life wasn't objectively happy investigating and knowing every minuet detail that lead up to the discovery, or even the discovery itself. One thing I have to give this particular episode is how you actually felt the invasiveness of having your daily activities recorded at every moment. Especially when the friends asked to see the interview. That seems very personal, and I could sort of feel myself cringing. I also wondered likewise how privacy could be protected especially in sexual relationships if someone can (for instance) a private photo of your body, and upload it to a TV screen projection.
Like the actress from Black Mirror 15 Million Merits ! She is one of the iphone leak Flapenning (sp) ! I can't watch Downton Abbey without thinking of her begging the guy to s*** his ba*ls and he is whacking her in the head with his 'johnson' 'tower of power'. It is wild that these celebrities sext with people so the public see this? I suppose they do not care.
Kæla Brown, I think we have started down that road. Many people, celebs post images themselves, or someone they once trusted, on the web having sex with others. Past lovers think it is a way to get even or revenge.
A murder occured, the Police want the Amazon Echo (sp) to hear if they can pick up language where the murder occured and that will be a court battle.
Crazy landlords have put cameras in apartment rentals to watch what tenants are doing in the bedroom or bathroom.
World is moving fast.
moving fast forward what...that's the real question
This episode was so freaking stressing and hard to watch for me, it reminded me of my ex, I never knew if she cheated on me but im pretty sure she did because I discovered a few lies when we got mad because she got drunk and somebody kissed her.... I have never cheated in my life but God
I was just like Liam... overthinking can get you to a dark place that is not sane, and thats why I prefer to be loneley as always, I dont know if I could ever manage a relationship again, it would be a miracle but for now, I lost my hope on people.
I can relate to this
Same my ex didn’t realize what such simple lies can do to someone. I didn’t feel sane each and every morning thinking there was more to be found I always found it better alone anyway . We’re all going to die alone someday .
Grow tf up.ppl lie.cut them off, and move on.stop crying about it and blaming/suspect of other.damn.i bet y'all are still mad Satan claws isn't real, either 🙄
@@GamingSkiid do u have parents????if so talk to them.grow tf up.
I vaguely remember it being mentioned or hinted that Liam and Fi have been trying and failing to conceive for a long time. My interpretation was that this was the start of them growing apart. I also think that Liam's suspicion that the child is not his (and that he is infertile) is strongly hinted, and is part of what fuels his obsessive behavior.
The kid isnt Liams, and he removes the grain bc hes caught in a constant loop of torturing himself with past memories. His final attempt at trying to move on and end his pain is removing the grain. I dont think its bc of the grain itself he removes, but simply bc he wants his pain to end.
I have just finished watching your series and I love it! Can’t wait for more!
Can't wait to see you analyze my favourite episode White Christmas. These videos are great!
About the sex with the grain thing ... I don't think that necessarily had anything to do with the grain. I thought that was a reflection of their relationship being on the rocks. It's common facet of a loveless/long-term marriage, couples stop having sex with each other. There were other clues outside of Liam's suspicion that his wife was cheating on him. When they visited their friends early on they made a deliberate choice not to sit next to each other. Fi was on the couch while Liam chose to sit in a chair off to the side.
he did not take the memory for the sake of his memory he did it because he knew that his life would be better in the future if he removes the device. I believe this to be true, because if he wanted to cope away from the memory he could've simply clicked the delete button.
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I thought the child wasn't his since they specifically showed her blue eyes and none of the parents had them?
Roman Doe blue eyes are a mutation, both parents could have different color eyes and the baby's eyes could still be blue
then what is the purpose of the scene where he checks his wife's eyecolor
Roman Kuznets Yeah I think you're right, for the sake of a tv show saying that it's a mutation is just out the window. Showing the wife's eyes in a closeup then Liam repeatedly remembering a shot of the baby would presume that the baby isn't his.
My eyes are blue. My mum’s are green and my dad’s are brown. It happens but that shot definitely got the point across. The kid clearly wasn’t his.
treshawn wilson well both parents should then have the genes which results in blue eyes.
I love the small details you catch! They make me appreciate the episodes even more.
Ed R yes like the fact the girl didn't have a grain so it was hard for her to get emergency help!!
Love your vids keep em up man. your work is definitely on par of a huge channel. One day the channel will just explode
Yeah it is underrated but I think it'll pick up soon
This was one of my favorite episodes🙌👏this show is very well put together
Just started Black Mirror. So far this has been the best episode. Great break down of it!
Great stuff. Great series. Love it.
I love your videos man! you deserve waay more views.
Subbed. Great work, keep it up.
This was the first episode that made me realize how dark and thought-provoking this show is. For some reason, this one stuck with me more and had me thinking on a deeper level. So well done.
Great vid. Just watched the first season today
These videos are fantastic!!!
Another great one harry
Great video man this episode is fucking insane if the future is like this no thank you
great analysis!
This was my favorite episode from season 1 and Liam is a great character. I love how this explores the positives and negatives of having your whole life recorded.
love this!
yes! I love this show.. I need to see more of these videos
This episode is the most uncomfortable thing to watch!
That was exactly my thought
Late to this episode but love your analysis!
Omg this channel deserve more sub
AMAZING VIDEOS!
I quite like your perspective on this episode. I'm writing a critique of this episode now for a critical thinking and writing course, and I found your insight to be very interesting.
thevainestsafe Make sure you slap me in your bibliography. ;) I jest, thanks for the comment, hope the paper goes well for you!
This is my favorite episode so far
we need more content like this on utube
Sometimes having doubts in ur relationship is good
Karl
so living with a fucking child is not yours and a fucking bitch is better ???..that is a fake live man wtf
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Ive heard of being stuck in the past but damn this episodes takes it to the most twisted extreme.
Wow, just finished watched this episode. This one is just mind-blowingly good. Damn.
i Agree, it was a perfect mixture of real life situations, great acting/writing and they took their time directing it, this is the best type of entertainment and it blew my fucking mind 😅
One of my favorite episodes!
But he was 100% right. The father was Jonas, I don't understand why you said it was his awkwardness and issues that drove fi to do anything at all... why does it make him spiteful to not want to think about the woman who cheated on him and tricked him into raising another mans child?
Yes you're right, i believe he removed it at the end because the memories he had of her were in conflict with the reality of the person she really is, it's an emotionally devastating thing to be cheated on and your perception of the memories you have of that person change drastically, for every time you have a good memory of the person it's instantly belittled by the fact that they betrayed you, for every time you remember a tender moment it's followed by doubt.
It's considered torture to most people being in situations like these and most would remove the chip to spare themselves.
This is why I can't understand why adultery is legal, but poligamy is not.... Why is it okay to go behind someone's back and emotionally devastate them, but it's illegal to say to two people, I love you both, you we all get along, let's get married?
@@tastyloaf5487 adultery has been illegal and is still illegal in some third world countries. The problem is that its not equally enforced- women accused of adultery can be stoned to death or killed in another gruesome manner. Men either dont get punished or get a very light punishment.
@@tastyloaf5487 most democratic countries dont see adultery as a crime. Its hard because i can see arguments for both legalising and criminalising it.
I love what you do! My friend and I love this serie because it refere to the technologie, and we are aganst that the way it's use in our socity. I think that all the episode in this serie may happen in the future !
I knew I recognised her from somewhere, but it wasn't until the end credits I realised she's the new Doctor Who. I didn't realise she was so pretty.
Wow i knew that black mirror was a preview of our future but now this present. And this obsession arround "if you're a good person you have nothing to hide" is terrific. And repression of the unconnected reminds me me few months ago...
By far my favorite Black Mirror episode
This is honestly my favorite episode.
*"pioneers of a Brave New World"*
How is this a good thing, lady?
I had that exact reaction .....
"Freedom of speech is fading away now in 2016"
Me in 2020: oh boy you haven't seen anything yet
brings out the feelin that it's one universe and just events from different parts of the world
You really do analyze things well.
The husband is raising a child that isn't his. But it's his fault for knowing? How dare he knows what he's investing in!!!
blasphemy loool people just want to live in limbo smh they persuit happiness instead of truth , sure you'll be happy , but is it worth it tho ? living a lie ? being a joke ? i say no , id rather know the truth
He could have deleted Fi without having to remove the grain, so it might not be the 2nd reason you mentioned.
The stuff about chip implant surveillance was so offtopic... did you not realize it had nothing to do with the episode? It wasn't government surveillance more about jealousy and living in the past, and over analyzing...
but government surveillance did sort of come into play in the episode at the airport. They make you consent to having your feed viewed but that is still surveillance albeit retroactive.
This one really reflected me and my exes relationship...Social media and the fact you're able too see past conversations and pictures from years ago (Facebook im looking at you). Kind of disturbing to me because that led to alot of problems between us, including me obsessively going back months and months trying to find information or possible cheating. I became obsessed looking into every message every comment..I convinced myself I would find something.. Eventually I did, it was a rabbit hole of madness :( Social media and technology killed relationships.
I did too. Chat apps and gps trackers
One of my favorites episodes
Great episode i can relate so much.. its just i never got real evidence like he got. Its a battle between your intuition and your feelings towards that person. But in the end, you know your intuition is not lying even without a proof. He just had to see it cause he felt hes going crazy and the only way to remain sane is to watch the hard truth. I always said i prefer the truth no matter how painful instead of living a lie and going crazy cause your intuition wont let it go. The memories of her in the end reminds the shock of it all and the trauma, flashbacks, PTSD.
It’s pretty sad seeing Liam go through all of this. He deserved so much better. The lesson in life here is that mistakes happen but when the mistakes involve heartbreak they can never be fixed no matter what. It’s hard to move on in life but always be honest with the ones you love always!! and no matter what never do anything without thinking it through a hundred times because sorry doesn’t fix anything.
This feels like a female writer trying to convenience me that being lied to is better than knowing the truth. It's not.
I swear that is their mindset! I got cheated on and that was what she wanted to happen.
The writer of the episode is a man
Man get a screen for all that projection.🙄
I really don't know how to feel about this episode. It left too much open for interpertation for my liking. There were so many things they could've done, or done more with, and I felt it was a bit lackluster.
Love your videos man, keep up the great work!
How would you improve it? It certainly leaves a bitter taste in the mouth, but the lack of satisfaction Liam feels at the end is reflected by the lack of any substantial ending for me.
***** I feel like they should've emphasized a lot more on certain ideas and concepts like they did in other episodes, rather than giving a bunch of ideas and leaving it for the audience to interpetate it however they want.
The only scenes in which I truly got what they were trying to say were the sex scene, the car scene which you used at 9:33 (don't really know how to describe it) and the airport scene in which the security guard goes through his entire past week.
The reason I love Black Mirror is because it has such great social commentary, which wasn't as prominent this episode. Though Liam's breakdown was great to watch unfold, it wasn't enough to carry an entire episode for me.
Sorry if I'm just rambling
10:58 - I can't get this image out of my head. That face is so haunting.
I saw it as him regretting he ever found out. He sees all this memories where Fi is looking at him lovingly, just the way he accused her of not doing. Tons of memories of them as a happy family, and now it's all gone. I'm not trying to make light of Fi's cheating or says it was ok in any way, I just felt like at that moment he blamed his own obsessing over memories (and therefore, blamed the grain) for the ending of the good thing they once had together.
The ending of this episode gave me some hope in light of the grim reality of this world. I felt that the device had total control over Liam's life, and with the removal of it, he's taking it back knowing how difficult life can be without it. But he doesn't care about those difficulties and does it anyway.
A couple thoughts I had: 1. Those implants are what most people right now wish they had and if given the chance would do and give up almost anything to have one. 2. Liam's behavior with his implants is already happening now with cellphones. People right now keep call records and text threads. Someone says they called- a quick call history check says otherwise. Someone says they didn't get a text- a "message read" message says otherwise. We do what Liam did and more with the technology and resources we have today.
Orwell always said that the issue with a totalitarian society built around total surveillance in real life is logistics; you would need half of the population to constantly watch the other half and vice versa. However, with the domination of social networking in our lives, the show I believe is saying that, to an extent, we have solved that logistical issue; by people willingly surveying/surveilling themselves by constantly telling people what they are doing and where they are via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, etc. The comedian Louis CK touched on this in a segment of 'The Opie and Anthony Show' where he was mocking the hypocrisy of people demanding privacy, whilst documenting every aspect of their lives: czcams.com/video/zR1jTuGm7ok/video.htmlm34s .
Also, this video reminded me of a really good quote by Edward Snowden: "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say," (I think it was used in a recent episode of Mr Robot too).
Another thing is that I quite enjoy putting together hypothetical double feature movies that, although different, share a similar themes told by two different perspectives (Yes, I'm a film nerd). For example, Edgar Wright mentioned once that he wanted there to be a double feature of his film 'The World's End' and the James Ponsoldt film 'The Spectacular Now'; both films exploring the idea of trying desperately to retain one period of their life with the inability to "move on" - except one is from the perspective of a young Miles Teller, and the other is told from the perspective of the middle-aged Simon Pegg. One that I came up with is doing a double feature of the 1996 film 'Matilda' and then follow that up with showing the 1976 version of 'Carrie' (Both have telekinetic powers with emotion....with different results). In this sense, I weirdly link this episode to the Woody Allen film 'Midnight in Paris'; one utterly romanticises nostalgia and looking into the past - whereas this episode turns nostalgia and looking into the past a dark and oppressive obsession.
Whilst some criticisms of modern technology and trends are completely valid, as Bertrand Russell once said: "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”. In other words, whenever I've settled on an opinion, I find it useful to immediately attempt to contradict myself - and learn the opposing arguments against your position well enough that you could theoretically argue for their position if push came to shove (A mentality I learned from the late, great Christopher Hitchens). So whenever I hear myself criticising modern technology and trends, I tell myself to remember the witty Douglas Adams quote:
“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
Sorry for the essay.
Don't worry man I look forward to reading it at some point. ;) I'll give you a proper response when I can!
***** No problem. Oh, and what's the name of the ambient music that plays at the end of your video? Is it from the show or from something else? I recognise it.
Yeah, I too am curious about the calm yet somewhat eerie music that starts at 1:06.
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Best essay I have ever read! bravo! here's a cookie 🍪
Ultimately I always felt this episode came down to the idea of ignorance being bliss. He deserved the truth, but discovering it ruined his life and took everything away from him.
As someone who does not have a smartphone everything you said was 100% spot on.
Excellent
really like your summaries and interpretation :) have you ever considered writing down the transcript in the discription? You tend to use many useful phrases for a non-English speaker and I think they would be of a much use :)