Saturday, April 15, 2017

Black Mirror's "White Bear" episode was very interesting and disturbing.  It starts out with this lady waking up and she sees a strange symbol on the computer screen.  She does not know where she is nor does she remember anything about herself or her past.  She walks outside and there are people hiding out everywhere recording her with their phones and she has no clue what is going on.  Then this guy in a mask starts chasing after her with a gun and the people do not even try to help her- they just remain recording her.  She then sees these two people by a gas station and they run inside and help her out.  The man of the two people ends up getting shot by the guy in the mask and the woman runs off with the other lady.  She protects her for the majority of the time until the end when she turns her back on her and begins publicly working with the masked guy.  Towards the end, the woman gets cornered by everyone that she has encountered and they capture her and tie her up in a chair and the curtain comes up.  It turns out, the white teddy bear that the captured lady had kept seeing in her mind, was this little girl's stuffed animal.  The now unmasked man reveals to her and the crowd that the lady recorded her "daughter," whom was actually reported a missing child, being killed by the lady's boyfriend.  The whole episode was like a play. The whole set-up is a White Bear Justice Park.  They refresh and erase the bystander murderer lady's brain every day and have the audience be the recorders, so that she will feel what it is like to be the little girl being recorded while being hunted to kill.

1 comment:

  1. Good recap of the episode. Do you see any connections with our own society?

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