论《黑镜子》三部曲对当代影像文化的反思

Reflection of the Image Culture in the Trilogy of Black Mirror

《黑镜子》三部迷你剧每集都拥有相对独立的故事、角色和深邃的思想。第一集以惊世骇俗的故事为载体表现影像媒介制造的景观奇迹,隐喻奇观逻辑对现实生活的异化。第二集揭露电视节目的拟像世界迫使人们放弃理想,臣服于虚假性、欺骗性、娱乐性的叙事规则。第三集以现实中的科技进步为基础,展现"黑镜子"保存全部记忆给人心、人性和人际关系带来的戕害。三部曲基于影像媒介在现实中的种种可能,整体上呈现出一种黑色童话般的气质,隐喻传播过度、娱乐过度、镜像包围人生带来的后果,释放人们对于日新月异的科学技术、不断渗透的影像媒介带来的种种不安,集中体现了英格兰人对视觉文化、消费社会的质疑与忧思。

There are relatively independent stories,characters and profound thoughts in the trilogy of Black Mirror.In the first episode,the shocking story expresses the spectacles made by the image-media,and shows the logic of miracle dissimilated the realistic life.The second one discloses the world of imitating image in the TV programs that forces the audience to give up their thinking,and submit to the narrative rules of falsity,fraudulence and entertainments.The third one,based on the scientific and technological progress,shows the harm to the heart,humanity,interpersonal relationship caused by Black Mirror.It can preserve the entire memory now.The trilogy,based on the several possibility of the realistic world,presents a kind of style of black fairy tale on the whole.It exposes the disastrous effect of the excessive spreading,entertainments and ubiquitous images,releases the people′s anxiety about the quickly changing and permeating image-media,and reflects the rethinking and query of Englanders about the visual culture in the commercial society.