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Black Mirror anyone?

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Jellykat · 11/02/2013 22:05

After the one with the Prime minister and pig, its got to be done..

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NicholasTeakozy · 21/02/2013 16:50

I think the title 'Black Mirror' refers to the tv screen when it's switched off.

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garlicbreeze · 21/02/2013 18:53

Fantastic and horribly close to believable.

Public humiliation (filmed for TV) was part of Shena Hardin's sentence in Ohio. To catch her, police set up a fake situation with cameras. Report with two videos.

I can't watch Big Brother because it reminds me of this sort of thing! BB isn't "all pantomime", those are real people being their real selves both inside and outside the house.

Black Mirror can mean a lot of things, not least that the film holds a mirror up to our own darker sides.

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ThreeBeeOneGee · 21/02/2013 20:23

I thought it was called 'Black Mirror' because the common theme is technology (screen = black mirror) and how our use of it reflects human nature.

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ThatVikRinA22 · 22/02/2013 22:58

god almighty.
just watched the second one -charlie is good isnt he? that one was disturbing.

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ItsOkayItsJustMyBreath · 25/02/2013 11:24

I love CB's work, he is so insightful it's disturbing.

I thought that the timing of the White Bear one was very apt due to the photos of Jon Venables and Robert Thompson (allegedly) appearing on social media sites. Sadly, I don't think it is too far away from reality hence it's ability to be so upsetting.

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CruCru · 25/02/2013 21:22

Anyone watching tonight?

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MarshaBrady · 25/02/2013 21:25

Yes this the last one, bah. Hope it's good.

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thenightsky · 25/02/2013 21:28

Yes... definitely watching this at 10pm.

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Jellykat · 25/02/2013 21:50

I'm definitely in!

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Jellykat · 25/02/2013 22:12

Hmm...

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AmberSocks · 25/02/2013 22:13

hope it gets better....

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dontwanttobefatandforty · 25/02/2013 22:14

think Im bored with this already, had high hopes with it being the last one....

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MarshaBrady · 25/02/2013 22:20

Awful so far.

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Jellykat · 25/02/2013 22:22

Reckon he'd get done for some 'obscenity in a public place' type thing there..

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dontwanttobefatandforty · 25/02/2013 22:28

tempted to just go to bed!

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Jellykat · 25/02/2013 22:34

Am going to stick with it, it's getting darker..

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PirateHat · 25/02/2013 22:34

Waldo is a bit crap isn't he? I am presuming he's meant to be? (hopefully)

Feel very sorry for him being jilted.

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SignoraStronza · 25/02/2013 22:38

Continuing to watch, if only because labour candidate looks absolutely identical to someone I used to know!

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PirateHat · 25/02/2013 22:53

oooh that's got him.

"What's this? Irony?"

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baskingseals · 25/02/2013 22:53

i am a bit late to the party, but could anybody talk to me about the significance of the compere/torturer putting a photo of the little girl in the larger photo of the girl and her boyfriend.

i thought it suggested an ambiguity about whether she was actually her daughter. also some of the memory foogate of the little girl showed her looking happy and relaxed in the car.

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PirateHat · 25/02/2013 22:57

He's read 1984 then?

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Jellykat · 25/02/2013 23:06

basking.. That was last weeks.. but i thought the putting the photo back in the frame was purely to help reinact the groundhog day element. I don't think the victim was her daughter from what i remember..

Well just 'hmm' to this weeks, didn't hit me with any great thought provoking revelations.. shame.

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PirateHat · 25/02/2013 23:06

basking, I think it's just to set up the idea in the woman's head. It is plausible they (the killers) got the photo and kept it as a momento but bascially it's to fuck with her head so she thinks she's lost her daughter, to make a better set up.

There is a scene of a different couple doing an appeal for the lost girl so I think it's clear those are her parents. The bits about her looking happy struck me too but I wondered if that was just a bit of mis-judged writing, the niavety of someone who doesn't have children of that age, not realising that children would most likely not be happy to be in a strange place with strange people for days.

I suppose it's possible they've made it all up but all the voyuers wouldn't have a reason to go along with it if they hadn't seen the story of the girl going missing, capture of the couple, the trial etc.

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PirateHat · 25/02/2013 23:09

I see what he's getting at this week but the jump from local by-election to taking over the world was a bit quick. I think they should have gone into the "do you speak Spanish?" stuff more.

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baskingseals · 25/02/2013 23:09

oh yes i forgot about the tv interview.

thanks for replying. it was very powerful stuff.

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