If you only look at one episode “Black Mirror”, it should be this romantic at least

Black Mirror Season 7 feels like a return to the disturbing roots of the show. Each episode focuses on different facets about how artificial intelligence can disturb society – it is one kind. I have seen every entry in the new episode, and a certain episode has followed me since the credits rolled.

I am talking about Hotels Reverie, which is mostly bittersweet black and white romance, which delivers a lot of nostalgia and sincere emotions. However, there is a strong warning for entertainment and the future of the industry. Simply put, the episode indicates the threat of AI for Hollywood. And, I dare to say, the bleak creative scenario that the episode alludes is pretty much here.

The episode follows Hollywood A-Lister Brandy Friday (played by Issa Rae), which decides to take a considerable risk with her career and to sign in the remake of a vintage film, which aps well with the episode itself.

She soon discovers that this is not an ordinary project. Instead of stepping on a film set, she is confronted with reality that with the help of an urgent technology company called Redream, which of Reality Designer Kimmy (Awkwafina)-and the opposite, who is living live, in the film in which the film was running, instead of reality designer Kimmy (Awkwafina) and Live, in which the film in which the film is produced, in the film that happened in the movie, in a movement of the film (Awgas) and what happened in the film, in what was in the film, in the movement of the film (AWFINA) -In the film that is moving in the movie in a movement of the film (awfina) -In the film that appeared in the movie instead of doing a movement of the film.

Dorothy Chambers (Emma Corrin) is the star of the film, which closes every scene as a puzzling Ingenue -Clara. Brandy’s task is Dr. Palmer, Clara’s love interest, a race and gender -specific Dr. to play. The Immersive Project would involve a new career as a new career on Friday and introduce a new method of filmmaking for the world, which will change the entertainment industry forever.

Spoiler warning: Before I continue, I have to warn her that there is a big story Spoiler below. If you have not seen any hotels for the reverie, I suggest that you are reversing now.

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The 76-minute episode is an emotional roller coaster ride, which ultimately reveals itself as a tragedy of romance and identity. Hotel Reverie examines how an actor, also a woman with color, has to navigate her professional and personal life in order to maintain a certain degree of success and status without making too many waves.

Like the fan favorite relay 3 episode San Junipero before, Hotelreverie plants the seeds for an unlikely romance in order to bloom between two women in an area scheme that is separated from time and space restrictions in the real world. Brandy’s enchantment with Dorothy is used up to a close connection with the actor’s AI version, which, when the system becomes dark, shows Brandy a fulfilling relationship that it may never have given the grace that has ever been followed. The border between imagination and reality blurred quickly.

Death from virtual reality is not a new science fiction concept. But Hotelreverie turns this idea upside down by not only adding life -threatening inserts to the mix, but also placing topics such as body autonomy, agency and identity on the minced block. The use of the classic cinema as a stylistic lens to tell this story and explore these ideas creates a moving and entertaining experience.

But what if you drove your perspective a little further and looked at the overall picture? You may see this Black Mirror episode as a Death Knell for filmmaking. Hotelreverie is a fictional reality that questions very real concerns about the AI ​​and how we can disrupt the concept of entertainment (and possibly destroy) as we know it.

Ok, that sounds pretty dramatic. I understand it. As an actor who took part in the SAG-ATTRA strike in 2023, I watched how these topics show the most hot debates and conversations that drive these negotiations.

Let us assume that software like Redream was in the real world and remixing classic films for modern audiences, such as Hotel Reverie, became a hot new trend. In this case, major effects would follow. The economic effects would be hard and abundant. Without a film that affects reporting, production employees such as crew members, make-up and wardrobe artists, set designers, caterers and many other people who hold the film machine are without working.

However, the human influence can be blurred and pushed to the background if the creative process is renamed as a content. Netflix obviously knows that. After all, it Is A technology company. It makes it possible to participate in Black Mirror’s ongoing streamberry joke, but if so many hours of films and television programs are lost in the streamer’s with, this content begins to show up to show some teeth.

Think of Dorothy’s similarity here now. Since she is a figure that has now died, Redream would have to approach her estate in order to maintain permission to promote this immersive project. How much would that cost? What effects would be creative if a situation like that, the hotel reverie would actually be confused?

“It is a violation of the original filmmakers who, as they all know, spend so much time and meticulous details with making films what they are,” said Issa Rae and selecting journalists about zoom during the virtual press day of Netflix. “If an average Joe or Corporation is like this: ‘We will bring a contemporary star into the star and hijinks will arise,’ is crazy for me. That would annoy me on so many levels.”

There is no happy ending in hotel dreaming. The episode ends with the restart of the film to a hit and Brandy’s career that reaches new heights. But the success at this level can be insulating. The love of her life lived and died in a virtual area that proved to be not sustainable for human life. This is absolutely shit.

The Hotel Reverie questions the viewer whether Brandy can find happiness beyond the fantasy life, which was on the other side of the screen. I asked me whether the way we do entertainment, shortly before evolution or on the edge of the collapse. I have no answer; The episode also not.

However, I repeated these ideas in my head. So yes, I was haunted by Hotels Reverie. It is beautiful, tragic and disturbing how every good episode of Black Mirror should be. Wait, that means that the science fiction series has understood the task again, right?

I think it does. Well played, Mr. Brooker. Well played.