douglashaddow:

Black Mirror: Fifteen Million Merits

Required viewing for anyone with eyes. 

No films or television in 2011 were better on modern-thematic, intellectual, and darkly comic levels than Black Mirror’s three installments. Required viewing, co-sign. I have a doc saved on Charlie Brooker’s trident of Idiocracies that sputtered down a tunnel of 3,000 words flooded by hopelessness at pervasive media noise and over-milked stimulation. “Fifteen Million Merits” is the easiest to label as satire, though in five or ten years viewers’ amusement will dissolve, a thin membrane of choice given way to naked wincing at the very real violence of inescapable screens and their pop-up acne. A deadly astute tonal equation for “Merits,” if I do say so, is the rad schizo-tech video for Babe Rainbow’s “Combed” multiplied by the lewd, depersonalized conflict humor in Dave Chapelle’s classic “If the Internet was a Real Place” sketch.