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The Black Mirror movie on Netflix is another revolution in streaming…and in how companies collect and use our data.
Black Mirror is a TV show on Netflix that does its level best to live up to it’s title. A dark reflection of human existence with a deep science fiction lean, Black Mirror’s plot-lines are eerily prescient and relevant in the 21st century.
A very creepy kind of Twilight Zone uncomfortably familiar to the world around us, the show operates on a very effective recipe: 1 part cultural or political theme, add a (semi)realistic technological twist, fill to the brim with either horrible people or normal people making horrible decisions, shake and enjoy. The new Black Mirror movie “Bandersnatch” on Netflix is more than just another delicious dystopian cocktail and, delivering on the show’s ‘What If?’ premise along the intersection of technology and culture, now the viewer is the bartender as well as the drunk.
“Bandersnatch,” like so many plot device devices and technologies in the show, is an experiment in Interactive Television: a choose-your-own-adventure story…
