Black Mirror: 15 Million Credits.
anyone else watch it ? proof that decent TV drama is still being made - its apparently simplistic premise, style and lean script belied a depth that had me riveted from start to finish, great stuff.
anyone who likes a good bit of dystopia, THX1138-style, go look it up.
anyone who likes a good bit of dystopia, THX1138-style, go look it up.
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don't tell me what to do!
Oh, you mean it's like the film. Okay. hee hee
hey zombies have been done to death (haha), doesn't stop The Walking Dead from being damn fine TV also.
- it was as original as any orwellian vision of the future could be tbh, i.e not very - but bang up to date with the tech and cultural references.... at least as much as reality TV can be called cultural anyway, blech :p
I thought 15 Million Merits (not 'Credits') was interesting but a bit derivative. The technology of TV screens on all the walls that rotate to keep the main view in front of you was a nice touch,as was the way the door is disabled during adverts, and the faked window views of the vending machines. But it was all completely over-the-top. I suppose you have to see it as metaphor rather than dystopia.
But ultimately, what was it satirising (besides the obvious grotty talent show mechanic)? The guy who rants against the TV-controlled system ends up with his own TV slot. What it's satirising is Charlie Brooker himself, which seems to me a little too self-indulgent to base a drama on.
He does get a nice view of the countryside, but then that's another question as to what it means. Is it fake? Or is it a future where no-one's allowed to pollute so they have to provide their own power? Fundamentally that wouldn't work so is the whole thing a set-up to amuse people like some sort of walk-around version of The Matrix? Or, perhaps, is it just a random bit of rip-offs of various future dystopian ideas with no real central idea of its own?
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I'd say it's satirising the way everyone praises anything that isn't mass-marketed at fat lazy unemployed tv-addicted slobs; write something that's slightly edgy, add a nice sheen and watch the critics fall over themselves as they with ply it awards.
(I particularly liked the bit in "15 Million Credits" where he was trying to switch the adverts off by waving his hand in the air then, it cuts to the actual adverts...and an advert for Xbox Kinnect comes on :D)