We’re launching a new column at The Escapist, called Out of Focus. With the sixth season of Black Mirror releasing on Netflix last week, it seemed like a good opportunity to delve into one of the defining shows of the modern moment.
Black Mirror is often framed as a technophobic show, asking, “what if phones… but too much?” However, this is an inherently reductive way of looking at the series, which is much more about humanity than it is about people. In many ways, the show is about how technology reflects humanity’s worst impulses back at them, and the fear that cinema and television – along with other forms of media – serve as barriers to empathy rather than windows to it.
You can read the piece here, or click the picture below.
Filed under: Movies | Tagged: Black Mirror, charlie brooker, empathy, humanity, media, phones, science fiction, Technology |
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