Black mirror
Season 1, Episode 3 - The entire history of you
Year of release : 2011
Run time : 49min
Genre : Sci Fi / Drama / Thriller / Tv Series / Mini Series
Cast : Toby Kebbell
"The entire history of you" is the final episode of the first season of the British anthology series, Black Mirror.
The episode follows Liam, who has what they call a "grain", a piece of futuristic technology, a chip, inserted behind his ear, which allows him to see all he goes through, all his memories. This technology comes with a remote control, as people can play back their memories as much as they want, whenever they want and when they want, as they can see it in their heads or on screens ( they are even scanned through memories at the airport, and they even pay with the memory device for a cab!).
After a job interview he isn't sure went well, he goes to a dinner party,where he meets his wife. He replays through his memories to know the faces and names of the people he's meeting.
At the dinner party, people play their memories, as if a movie on screen.
Also, he sees the way his wife interacts with a man he doesn't know, Jonas, and starts getting suspicious. He analyzes the way she acts whenever the man speaks( she laughs at a stupid thing the man says although not funny) and how she reacts to him,her husband, as if she hates him, or as if she's trying to hide something.
This leads Liam a downward spiral .
The acting was good, especially from Toby Kebbell,who has to play obsession very well. So were the visual effects.
The episode ponders on the advancement of technology and how good is it for society and for the individual itself. Does it make life better or worse? To me the episode showed technology made life worse, as it didn't bring people together, but pushed them apart ( there's a scene with the couple making love while they play other s3xual encounters they had! So they are not in the moment, they are in the past,relieving it. Jonas says he had a beautiful woman, and instead of wanting to be with her, he replayed his past encounters with exes).
The grain was like a social credit score needed for the individual in a society to be able to use anything and work. Even at work, people needed to see the employees memories to know if they could "trust " them and hire them!?!
Even the police refuses to help the grainless ones,as if they don't matter!
Parents put the grain into their baby, so the kid has no privacy, and until they're old enough to understand and be told about it, they have no idea others are watching their memories, knowing everything they did !
This is a world without privacy in which everybody knows everything about everybody. It's awful!
I, personally, wouldn't want random strangers to see what I've done all day, as it's not their business! That's invasion of privacy.
The series are streaming on Netflix.
Rating : It's so money!