According to my understanding of Black Mirror Season 1 Episode 3, its a story about
people having a memories pill called “grain” installed behind their ear. The features of this
“grain” are able for them to record what they have seen and able to replay their memories. As we know, “grain” is something like a recorder and it could help us to record everything. This sounds good for someone that has bad memories but it also brings bad things to some horny man. For examples, the main character, Liam in this movie aware that relationship of his wife’s and another man looks very unusual. He tries to use the “grain” to find out the problem even if his wife tried to stop him. In an incident, he found out that not only his wife cheating on him, even that his child also not related to him. At the end of the movie, Liam feels pain because he cannot forget his memories. Lastly, he decided to remove the “grain” behind his ear to be able to forget the painful memory.
From the movie, we can know that the main character, Liam is a person that extremely
insecure. He will frequently replay his memory to ensure that he did not make any mistakes ormiss anything. However, this caused him to magnify many details of his life. When he
replayed his memory once, he stumbled upon evidence of his wife's derailment. Not only this,he also found out some prove and started to doubt that his daughter, Jodie has no relation with him. This makes him felt terrible and ends up their relationship.
The second character in this movie is Liam’s wife, Ffion. She meets her ex-boyfriend,
Jones in her friends gathering and some movement of them made Liam get doubt about them. At first, she did not admit that she was cheating on Liam, but Liam found a lot of evidence base on his suspicious personality. It turned out that Liam was missing a few days ago, so Ffion got the opportunity to get along with Jones, had sex with him. Because she still loves Liam, so that she keeps this secret. At the final part of the movie, Ffion decided to leave Liam with her daughter even if Jodie is Liam’s biological daughter.
The third character in the movie is Jones. This was said so because he is the main
person that made Liam and Ffion broke up. Jones is one of Ffion’s old friends and also her ex boyfriend. Before the appearance of Jones, Liam and Ffion should be a lovely couple but
because of the incident he made with Ffion, this led to Liam's distrust of Ffion, and the
marriage of them came to an end.
The style of this movie is noir. Personally, this movie gives me an unexplainable feeling.
It was like struggling, making me feel very stressed when watching movies. In addition, I also
feel that this movie has a very subtle aura. Although it is not a horror movie, it can still bring a creepy feeling to the audience. The most disgusting part for me is the part that is about to end. Because of the memory pill, Liam could not forget the memories between him and Ffion, whether it was good or bad, it was a torment for Liam.
The genre of Black Mirror “The Entire History of Me” is philosophical. This was said
so because of this movie filled with many questions worth to think about. For example, the
relationship between Ffion and Liam; the relationship between Ffion and Jones; is Jodie a
daughter of Liam; is Liam overconfident and oversensitive? In addition, it also includes a lot
of moral values. For example, Liam should have more communication with Ffion and not just
doubt on Ffion. His distrust and over-sensitivity to Ffion may well be the reason for Ffion's
derailment. Of course, Ffion also has something wrong. Since she has been married to Liam,
she should not have derailed Jones when Liam disappeared. She should also communicate
with Liam to prove that Jodie is really his daughter. Not only Ffion and Liam, Jones was also
an important person in this relationship. As a mature person, Jones should not have been
involved in the relationship between Liam and Ffion. Because of his involvement, he broke a
family that was supposed to be in harmony.
After watching this movie, I felt that actually it is not necessarily a good thing to have
an eternal memory. From the movie, we can clearly see that Liam's family was broken
because of his sharp corners of memory, and this also makes him very unhappy. Although we don’t have an eternal memory, at least we are able to forget the memories that make us
unhappy.
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