White Christmas

White Christmas 

The theme of white Christmas really makes you think about the whole subject on whether if an artificial intelligence has consciousness should it have the same rights as a human.

 Depending what stance you take on that question really affects your feelings to the episode, as the classic black mirror curtain pull on the episode is that Matt is actually in a simulation trying to solve a murder investigation by interrogating an artificial intelligence of the character Joe who is the main suspect and in the end turns out to be the murderer of a child and his ex’s dad which leaves one of the officers to leave his AI on an endless loop of listening to Wizzard wish it could be Christmas everyday with each minute in real life being a 1000 years for the AI. 

Back to what the audiences take on whether they believe Joe's AI should have rights and the process he is put through is torture or if it doesn’t matter because Joe's AI is just a bunch of 1s & 0s of code.

The story really uses yourself and your emotions to drive the story and to create the shock of what is really happening in the episode and I think that is a really good tool to use when producing something as not only does the audience have an emotional reaction and connection to the episode but that connection allows you to push how you want to go about the ending of a production and what emotion you want to leave the viewers with.

A running theme that seems to occur with black mirror and this episode as well is that we are fed information about the world around us from the perspective of someone who doesn’t really know a lot about what is going on or the world around them we are told the information by other people and accept it as truth but as things start to crack and the curtain is pulled us the audience and Joe's AI find out the reality of the situation at the same time allowing us to feel the emotion of the situation at the same time as the character allowing us to feel more connected to the episode.

This episode also uses three flashbacks of different stories that seem to have no connection or link to the main story of Joe and Matt but these stories give us a lot of information on the character of Matt and the world they live in but as we come to the end of the episode we realise how the stories told link to the episode and you have that moment where everything clicks and then you are shocked with the outcome. I think the use of feeding the viewers information that seems to just build the world but is then revealed to be key information is brilliant as it gives the information away to audience but we interpret it completely different because of the setting and mood of the scene as well as the fact we don’t know the reality of world and so we don’t question it until the end where we see the links and the reality of the situation.

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