All episodes from the first season of Black Mirror are difficult to watch, not for being bad, but for being really dark and depressive. But this one made me lose my balance and almost cry.
We all had our hearts broken at some point in life, but not all of us experienced what the main character here experienced. Getting to discover with him all the things he comes to find out... only to imagine how it all would feel makes me die a bit inside.
About how to interpret this episode, some people might see this as: if he didn't have that perfect memory the guy would get jealous for a day but would drop that, would never find out everything and would live happy with his wife and daughter. So perfect memory is bad for that reason. Maybe that was the intention of the writers (remember that girl that says that she is happier without a chip). Well, I agree that the chip is bad, but not for that...
Be analytical, understand what's behinde people, that's a important thing to do, and that's what the character do, he is over the top a lot of times and do unreasonable stuff that he should not do even in this circumstances, but in the end he was right.
The important thing about memory that I interpret is that we really should not want to live in the past (like the main guy learns in the end), a lot of times I look to my past and laugh, some memories warm my heart and then I just get sad by thinking that those moments will never happen again. It's difficult, but we should look less to the past and make new memories, by living the future.
We all had our hearts broken at some point in life, but not all of us experienced what the main character here experienced. Getting to discover with him all the things he comes to find out... only to imagine how it all would feel makes me die a bit inside.
About how to interpret this episode, some people might see this as: if he didn't have that perfect memory the guy would get jealous for a day but would drop that, would never find out everything and would live happy with his wife and daughter. So perfect memory is bad for that reason. Maybe that was the intention of the writers (remember that girl that says that she is happier without a chip). Well, I agree that the chip is bad, but not for that...
Be analytical, understand what's behinde people, that's a important thing to do, and that's what the character do, he is over the top a lot of times and do unreasonable stuff that he should not do even in this circumstances, but in the end he was right.
The important thing about memory that I interpret is that we really should not want to live in the past (like the main guy learns in the end), a lot of times I look to my past and laugh, some memories warm my heart and then I just get sad by thinking that those moments will never happen again. It's difficult, but we should look less to the past and make new memories, by living the future.