Nicolas A

Black Mirror Bandersnatch is a very interesting concept. It gives you choices that start out simple like choosing a cereal box for breakfast and steadily moves towards darker decisions. You find yourself choosing who lives and dies and what to destroy and what to save. If we take a look at todays society, most people have become desensitized to so many different things. You are either numb to the world or sheltered from it. And this is the real point I think Bandersnatch is getting at. I found myself choosing bad decisions because I wanted to see how it would turn out. And I'm sure many other people did the same. most of the Black Mirror episodes have a hidden meaning, a life lesson if you will. For example, in the episode titled "The Entire History of You" we see a futuristic world in which you can replay and fast forward any memory with a device called a grain. In this world a married man in what could be called a happy relationship having delusions that his wife is cheating on him and the episode proceeds to have the viewer believing he is delusional too. In the end it turns out everything he suspected was true and ends with the man alone and cutting out the grain after replaying his life. The point here is that some secrets are better off not being known. Black Mirror Bandersnatch takes a jab at the topic of desensitization by showing how the viewer can make snap decisions without thinking about the consequences. You dont want to think about what you are doing to this person, you only want to see the outcome. Some might call it sick, but that is the point. The creator is showing the dark side of entertainment by using entertainment itself.