This black mirror episode is actually a new version of the classic of the classic pity area

I don’t know if you have heard this or not, but the British “Black Mirror” chain “Black Mirror” is very inspired by the American Settings series in the 1960s “The Twilight Zone”. Certainly, the first one may not have an innovator to stop twice a episode of a novel like the latter (Something that Rod Serling hates to do), But it is still easy to see the relationship between the two. Both shows use one -time buildings to explore the dark aspects of human psychology, and it contains a different set of each episode (Well, almost, in the case of a “black mirror”) And they are not afraid to end things to note the problem.

That is why it is not surprising that “White Bear”, a dark episode in the second season of “Black Mirror”, is partially inspired by “Night Night”, a Dark Season 1 episode of “The Twilight Zone”. They are different enough so that most viewers will not notice, but there is no doubt that interference in their subjects and plundering the plot.

To summarize, “White Bear” is an episode of a woman who wakes up with memory loss. She finds itself in a world in which some people have deteriorated mentally, while others turned into a zombie without life linked to their phones. After spending most of the episode in an attempt to survive, disappointed by people who stand with their phones instead of helping them, you discover that this is all a trick (Evolution was an addition at the last minute to the text of the episode). In fact, it is in a special type of prison, and it is now being tortured in a manner that coincides with the crime committed by poetry.

“The Night of the Governance”, at the same time, is a ring on a man with a memory loss who finds himself on a British passenger ship in 1942. Then he begins to panic when he realizes that the ship is about to bomb by German boats, only to realize that, literally, in hell. Again when he was alive, Captain U-Boat who raised a British passenger ship during World War II was. As such, his divine punishment is that he was forced to restore the crime of war from the perspective of passengers every night, in a cycle that lasts forever.

It is difficult to say which of these rings is darker. At first glance, it seems that “White Bear” is the cruel, if the hero of the novel, Victoria Crichlow is more sympathetic instantly. Before the episode withdraws the rug and reveals what she did, every scenes feel bad for Victoria and its roots. Meanwhile, “Night Night” leads Karl Lancer (Nizhia Pearsov) a little more difficult. It is a terrible conversation, and the moment when it is mentioned that he is born in Frankfurt, it becomes very easy for most viewers to know what is going on.

“The Twilight Zone” outperforms the “Black Mirror” here with the huge size of the punishment. Victoria can only be tortured for life at most, while Lanser is explicitly tortured for all eternity. Make things darker is the fact that Lanser is punished by God himself, or at least a kind of powerful power. The implicit meaning is that this severe punishment that he is going through is what he deserves, and there can be no kind of redemption for him below the line. Meanwhile in “White Bear”, torture is done by his human colleagues. We were not supposed to feel terrifying only what Victoria did; We are also supposed to feel terrified of what people are doing now.

In general, I think “Black Mirror” has more interesting to the hypothesis because it leaves the audience more to think about the nature of justice and the importance of memory on the identity of a person. “The Day of Judgment”, on the other hand, leaves a little ambiguity about whether Lancer deserves his fate or not-even that the episode includes a scene with him before death, where he boasts of evil and spit in the face of God. But the “white bear” only allows you to identify the crimes of Victoria used; If you want to believe that it is innocent (or, at least, is not relentless as mentioned), the “black mirror” gives you a room to do this specifically. “Night Night” may have a more clear narration, but the chaotic effects of “White Bear” are more convincing.