Charlie Brooker- Black Mirror

Black Mirror: Episode Be Right Back 

What postmodernism element and it’s relationship with postmodern society is it’s link and ability to embrace technology in a digital world?

Products by Charlie Brooker often highlight a cynicism and bleakness. There are many texts that focus around the structuring theme of identity which raises the enigmatic code and forces the spectator to think.

Postmodern texts puts the spectator in an active position. (but the enigmatic code isn't postmodern)

Postmodern products made in a postmodern way force the spectator to be active and think of the world in a different way. Quite often through the medium of film and tv they pose a certain bleakness. In ‘BRB” Charlie Brooker raises questions about the simulacra world we create through social media and technology. The consumer over relies on technology. Public rely on social media. Charlie Brooker offers no solutions, however.

What was real in the episode?
Nature- countryside walk
Emotion- Martha’s greif is real

Audience can identity with Martha’s emotion/ grief. Audience relate with the false world you/ others create through social media.

On Facebook we create a false representation. Simulcraic world in our simulacraic friend group.

Often raises philosophical questions around abstract notions such as identity, sexuality, gender, morals.

Music video and film/ tv tie up with identity. Not only is gender a performance, but our identity and who we like to claim we are is also a performance. Blurring of what’s real and what’s hyperreal.

Postmodern test have a self-reflectivity. They know what they is.

Postmodernism makes us question our existence.