Black
Mirror Arkangel 8/10
This
will have spoilers. Black Mirror is known for messing with my brain
so much that I started spreading out when I watch episodes. It is not
a binge show which most folks learn too late. I finally finished
watching the episode titled Arkangel last night and was glad that I
didn't feel greasy afterward. This episode starts with this mom named
Marie played by Rosemarie DeWitt giving birth in a hospital. There
are some complications for a moment but then her daughter is all
fine. Later her daughter is a toddler and one day at the park she
turns her back and her daughter is gone. She freaks the fuck out and
eventually her daughter, Sara, is found. After this Marie is like
“Never again shall I not know where my daughter is!” But she
takes this shit to a whole 'nother level.
Introducing
Arkangel. It is a program to monitor your children. No only does it
track where they are at any moment, you can also censor what they and
look through their eyes. Yeah. It is as creepy as it sounds. If Sara
sees anything disturbing with the press of a button her mother can
blur out the image and the sounds it makes. This is all fine and good
until one day her older father has a stroke and when Marie checks in
on her daughter because her heart rate rises and sees a moaning blur
on the ground. She turns the censor off and sees her dad on the
ground calling for help. Still, she doesn't remove the device.
Now a
little girl and known for having this implant in her head Sara is a
weirdo. When kids fight at school she sees nothing but blurs. She has
no idea what violence is or looks like because of Arkangel...meaning
her mother. One day while at home she stabs her finger with a pencil
to see what it looks like and the blood is censored. Her mother
rushes in to see what is wrong and tries to stop her daughter and
catches five across the eye for it. A psychologist is like “The
program is about to be discontinued and can not be removed but you
can turn it off and get rid of the monitor you use.” Marie puts it
away and lets her daughter attempt to live a normal life. Sara
finally goes to school with no censors and is shocked by everything
including a dog she walked past since she was a baby barking at her
and everything the internet can offer. A kid at school bombards her
with the worst shit he can find.
Now a
somewhat normal teenager, if there is such a thing, Sara played by Brenna Harding, likes this
guy named Trick. He is the one that showed her all the shit online
when they were younger. He is a drug dealer so yay. One night Sara
says she is going to a friends house but ends up at a party by a
lake. She should be home so her mom starts calling everyone and
freaking out until she caves in and turns on Arkangel once again and
starts to see some shit you would never want your parents to see you
doing. And it don't stop there because Arkangel is like Pringles and
masturbation. I will not say how this ends but I liked it and this
episode because it shows what happens when you have the best of
intentions but go about it in the wrong ways. This kind of technology
is not too damned far off. So have fun with that, kids.
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