Continuing the theme. Today I finally watched an episode of “The Twilight Zone” from 2019. And there, a quite sensible script (Alex Rubens). Exactly how I like it (see the attached post). According to the script, at the moment when the main character, Samir Wassan, steps on stage and jokes about someone, that someone disappears along with all their past. So, effectively Samir is transferred to a dimension where the mentioned person doesn’t exist and never did, and other details may also differ. Essentially, it appears that a person can influence what happens around them, but nothing, except his own brain, contains the old reality anymore. Interesting concept.
There is a moment in the episode that is unclear without googling, I assume not just to me. The comedy club where Samir performs and makes people vanish from the world is called eddies – just like that, without an apostrophe (eddie’s). It turns out as “eddies”, not “Eddie’s club”. But that’s trivial – what’s interesting is the “no apostrophes” sign, which Samir’s nephew pointed out. Apostrophe is not just a punctuation mark, but also an address to the absent or to inanimate and abstract objects, as if to the living. There are tons of references and nuances throughout the film that can be discussed if you speak the language and have the erudition to catch them as you go (I don’t).
In general, fans of “Black Mirror” will probably enjoy it. Each episode is independent and has entirely different setups.
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