shesnake:
36/? costume design: San Junipero by
Susie Coulthard
halle-berry:
You can’t begin to imagine. You can’t know the bond, the commitment, the boredom, the yearning, the laughter, the love of it. The fucking love. You just can not know!
Black Mirror: San Junipero (2016) dir. Owen Harris
biharries:
Black Mirror: U.S.S. Callister (2017)
brendanthesalty:
woodygaythrie:
I’m not sure how people walk away from certain episodes of Black Mirror thinking the main point is, like, “iPhones are bad and technology is scawwy!!” And not “in capitalist systems and institutions where inequality persists, technology will be exploited to enforce the status quo”
Almost all of the nightmarish scenarios in Black Mirror are not produced by technology but evil assholes abusing it. Seriously.
Virtual reality that can create literally anything and allow people to experience it as if they were there? Great! Until it gets in the hands of a sociopathic fanboy with a victimhood complex and a nostalgia boner.
Consciousness transferrence that can allow dead or comatose people to communicate with their loved ones when they never could before, and even live on after death? Miraculous! We even saw how beautiful this could be in “San Junipero”. Until a slimy “entrepreneur” on the leash of an amoral corporation cooks up scheme after scheme to exploit disadvantaged people with it for his own gain.
Robotic bees that can propagate pollination and environmental restoration on an nationwide scale? Best thing ever! Until some judgmental Unabomber wannabe who thinks he should have the right to play god with the lives of thousands of people turns them into weapons of mass destruction because the governmental couldn’t resist also using such an amazing technological breakthrough to consolidate its power over its own people.
Black Mirror isn’t technophobic. It’s just very cynical about how humans will inevitably use that technology.
