![]() ![]() Easter egg references are made to each previous episode and a "Z-Eyes" technology which records hearing and vision has the same design and similar functionality to the "grain" from series one's " The Entire History of You". Topics depicted include pickup artistry, artificial intelligence and consciousness, as well as the concept of Internet blocking extrapolated into real life.įilming took place in London with a restrictive budget and timescale. The first follows a man attempting to seduce a woman at a Christmas party while receiving remote guidance the second sees Matt at his job training "cookies", digital clones of people and the third shows Joe obsessed over an ex-fiancée after the relationship abruptly ends. The episode explores three stories told by Matt ( Jon Hamm) and Joe ( Rafe Spall) from a remote cabin on Christmas Day. Agreed as a one-off special after Channel 4 rejected potential series three scripts, the episode was the last to air before the programme moved to the streaming platform Netflix. It was written by series creator and showrunner Charlie Brooker and directed by Carl Tibbetts, first airing on Channel 4 on 16 December 2014. " White Christmas" is a 2014 Christmas special of the British science fiction anthology series Black Mirror. ![]() " I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" by Wizzard This indecisiveness is always present in our everyday lives, expressed in a multiple voices arguing about different wants, in opposition to the notion of a single decisive intention which one can call "me.Matt ( Jon Hamm) talks to the digital clone inside a "cookie". The indecision of approaching to a woman in a party will sound about the same in Harry's head, even without Matthews's technological presence in his mind. For me, the comparison of the characters marks the fact that there isn’t a single voice in one's identity. How Matthew is more real than the voices in Jenifer's head? How can one distinguish a voice from a "genuine" thought? But these kinds of questions are mostly boring. Taking the plot to the route of insanity encourages the viewer to focus his attention to the comparison between the two characters, in how their thoughts come to mind, and the way they differ in that regard. ![]() ![]() But the cliché' twist in the end, that shows Jenifer as mentally ill, makes a turn as well in the way one should interpret this scene. At the beginning, we see how this kind of technology will come to use in practical terms, in a resemblance to the Google Glass we have today. In this scene, Matthew is coaching Harry to hit on Jenifer at a party using a device, which allows Matthew to see, hear, and talk to Harry while he's making a move on her. The first sub-story is less straightforward but can be similarly read. This scene reminded me the absurdity of the use of solitary confinement for prisoners, which implies that a prisoner prefers to be among rapist and killers rather than being in solitude with his own self and thoughts. When Matthew pushes that button to advance in time for 6 month, you cannot but feel great empathy for the pain that Greta the electronic egg is going through. I'm mentioning this of course, in regarding to the moment that Mathew chooses to drift the time in Greta's subjective sense of being. Nevertheless, I like how this scene shows how human suffering is not only imposed by social affairs and bodily urges such as sex, tiredness and hunger (she can't even feel those things), but even if you take all of this away, and just remain in a state of being in thought (we don’t know any other state), this alone can cause a great misery. There are a lot of elements in this scene showing the contradictions coming to thought about the possibility of this kind of split, and furthermore, if this kind of distinction between mind and body is even plausible. More questions about the possibility, morality and purpose of why one would duplicate his mind into an electronic egg (what is this thing?) come to rise, rather than questions about how this kind of use of technology will function practically in society. This observation is most obvious in the second story where Greta decides to literally detach her mind from her body, a thought experiment that is old as the practice in philosophy itself. ![]()
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