Black Mirror: White Christmas (2014)

You won't be disappointed!

Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I enjoyed the first and third stories but the second story and the end were not enjoyable for me. I think this is the risk they took but creating three stories but I do praise the way that they linked the stories except the ending. I feel like the ending was just put in to have an additional link to an earlier story when it was not needed.

I think the concept is absolutely genuine and interesting. I would even say that this so called "cookie" could be extremely useful. The thing I must learn from this episode that until humanity exists in the present format we will never lose the hidden evil inside. Whatever we make or will make in the future will always be used for the wrong purposes and to hurt others just because our own ego. This episode and black mirror itself is just phenomenal because it highlights topics which are deeply pressed inside us in this heavily sugarcoated society.

These episodes are about things that frighten us more than any threat physical or otherwise. The invite us into a world where we are alone and hopeless. We always think about eternity in some pit of hell, with devils and pitchforks. This is about the impossibility of redemption. There are forces at work that punish without mercy and leave people to face eternity alone. No human contact. No dignity. So what can they do. This one is about two men in an old house in the middle of nowhere, telling stories about why they have been imprisoned. These are horrible tales of murder and ugliness. One man is a master salesman who works the technology of the time to gain his prurient ends. The second a sad, unstable jerk who crosses his wife and is doomed to not see his child. No one really looks at her except we know that she faced some really sad times. These are powerful and almost sick.

This episode from the series Black Mirror just creeps me out and upsets me on so many levels. It touches, I suppose, on many of the fears that affect me most, those being isolation, non-existence, having an active mind but a non-functioning body (like a coma where you can't move one bit so everyone thinks you're dead but in fact you hear everything), and picking someone up at a party or bar that you don't know, only to find out that it was a very bad idea. Oh, and how love can change to hate and the horrors that come with letting your love grow to the point where, if it ever was betrayed, it could drive you mad beyond reason. This is a high-def link and surprisingly they all seem to be on you-tube. The atmosphere you watch them in affects a great deal the impact they would have. Must be in the evening/night and must be with the lights dimmed low. That's not precisely because the night is scarier than the daytime but because dark moods and fears thrive better and are more susceptible to causing fear at night/in the dark. I'm not joking though ladies and gentlemen, this is serious stuff.