Mahsa Fathi

se7ep1 The irony of Black Mirror streaming on Netflix is a conversation in itself — like warning labels printed by tobacco companies on cigarette packs. Still, let’s talk about the first episode of season 7. This episode brilliantly links science and technology to capitalism — showing us how the system always wins by exploiting human vulnerabilities. This time, the weakness is love. A man is about to lose the love of his life to an illness. Enter the system, dressed like a savior, offering a miracle: “For just $300 a month, you can save her.” It’s all bright, shiny, and wrapped like a life-saving gift. And yes, it’s comforting to think science can save us from death. But the real question is: whose hands is this science in? What if the one who sells you salvation is also the one who traps you? What if you’re just being drawn into a cycle — one that starts with giving you something for free, makes you feel you need it, and then charges you for more, again and again? That’s what capitalism does — it manufactures needs. We keep buying things we don’t actually need, and one day, the system will start applying this model to the things we do need — like the health of someone we love. That’s what we witness in this episode. It’s not just about capitalism; it’s about values. At the beginning, we see intertwined feet — a symbol of intimacy and love. But by the end, all that’s left is one lonely foot. Technology, which claims to connect us, actually isolates us. Values collapse under the weight of a system that rewards performance and humiliation. One character chooses self-degradation in front of millions just to pay off a debt. And others pay to watch — to witness someone’s humiliation, because that’s what they’ve been conditioned to want. A cradle meant to nurture a child is burned in a music video. Nothing is where it belongs anymore. Even in the fake ad for “River Mind,” it’s not about genuine need. The message is: “I nearly died during my liposuction surgery. River Mind saved me.” A system creates fake needs (like risky cosmetic surgeries), increases the number of people at risk, then swoops in to sell the solution. Just like with the bees: industry destroys nature, then offers artificial replacements — drone bees — to patch the damage it caused. This is how it works: it sells needs. And every need becomes a swamp — the more you struggle in it, the deeper you sink. That’s why the main character, trying to save his love, ends up killing her with his own hands. That’s us — killing our lives instead of living them. Because we’ve been sold the idea of life, and we spend all our time chasing it. Capitalism always wins because it sells us the idea of life — at the cost of death. And we’re too blind to see it. So we keep trying to save a life we never got to live.

"Anora" felt like a film that continued even after the credits rolled. I understand why many people couldn’t connect with it—why some may see it as an empty experience. But for someone like me, who tries to take something away from every film, Anora was full of meaning. And even if it weren’t, Anora would still be full of meaning—for those willing to listen. I almost wish it hadn’t won so many Oscars. Maybe then, people could have approached it with less bias, more openness. Because Anora isn’t just a story about a sex worker—it’s a story about humanity. It’s about a woman who sells her body for a living, and suddenly finds herself marrying a teenage boy from a wealthy family. To her, it feels like fate has finally knocked on the door. She clings to the chance of living a “normal” life. But what she sees as fate turns out to be just a childish act by a spoiled kid from an upper-class family. This film, to me, was a collage of contradictions. It wanted to show something deeply ordinary through an extraordinary life. A sex worker dreaming of love and marriage—that's a contradiction. Someone going from poverty to the peak of wealth, laughing in the middle of the most painful moments. Scenes that start with joy and end in gut-wrenching grief. There’s a moment when she speaks of rape. And after everything she’s been through, after all the physical intimacy, there’s one particular scene—so simple, so quiet—where she refuses to be kissed. She gives her body, but not that kiss. That moment hit me hard. Because by then, rape wasn’t about the body anymore. It was about the soul, the feelings, the emotional violation. And by resisting that kiss, she was protecting herself. Anora may be a sex worker, but above all, she is a human being. And every time she’s insulted, ignored, or treated like trash, you feel it. This film is a winner to me not because it picked a topic that people like to call "Oscar bait," but because it touched on something more raw and universal—what it means to be human. The sex work is just a symbol. The real subject is the violation of the human spirit. In a world where violation is mostly understood as physical, this film dares to say otherwise. I was haunted for hours after watching it. Not in a bad way—just deeply moved. And for me, that’s what defines a great film: when it makes you care about something. I haven’t followed all the films this year, so I’m not the best judge for comparisons. But Mikey Madison was incredible. Anora is a film that will stay with me forever.

We have often heard this saying that to understand life, one needs to face death. This movie engages you with this sentence..... Three sisters with complicated relationships gather in the house of their father who is dying of a death that can happen at any moment. A believable, strong and real drama that after watching it, when I was reading the opinions of people from all over the world about it, it seemed to be so real that it brought people back to common memories like this with a strong impact. The question is, when death comes, how does life change? Three sisters who each have their own different personality traits, they have their own separate personal lives, they have a past full of challenges and complicated relationships with each other, and at the same time, even though they have a common parent, it cannot be said that they all have the same experience with that parent, because each of us, at any special and sensitive age, we are faced with the age of personality, different thoughts and opinions from our parents compared to our other siblings. So you can't even say that siblings have the same parents because each of them has a different experience with that parent. And now these three sisters stand together and wait for their father's death and show us how a sad situation that maybe we all run away from can reveal to us the deepest human truths, the words that have not been spoken and the truths that have been hidden for a long time, how much we humans need to talk, and maybe sometimes we lose the complexity of relationships and the loss of depth that we can experience in that relationship by not talking and accumulating our own problems and misconceptions. His film "Three Daughters" shows that life that started in a family always separates us with the passage of time and sometimes only death has the power to bring us back home. Although it is a very bitter reality I really liked the experience of watching this movie The storyline progressed slowly, but you were ready to burst out of each character at any moment, and all the moments were correct, appropriate, understandable and, I emphasize, real. In a way, I felt like I was a part of this experience. Don't miss seeing it.

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