24-25 P4 MMM Gül Ahsen

•Black Mirror:Fifteen Millon Merits 

•Character:Bing 

•Monologue text: I haven’t got a speech, I didn’t plan words, I didn’t even try to. I just knew that I had to get here, to stand here and I knew I wanted you to listen; to really listen, not just pull a face like you’re listening, like you do the rest of the time. A face like you’re feeling instead of processing. You pull a face and poke it towards the stage and la-di-da we sing and dance and tumble around and all you see up here, it’s not people, you don’t see people up here, it’s all fodder. And the faker the fodder is the more you love it because fake fodder’s the only thing that works anymore, fake fodder is all that we can stomach—actually not quite all. Real pain, real viciousness, that we can take.

Analysis: Bing is on stage, screaming his anger at the system that traps everyone. People in the system live almost the same day every day but nobody realizes it. we can say they are in a kind of prison. Bing understood this long ago. His final breaking point comes when the girl he loves gets taken by the system’s leaders. Bing makes his own plan. He joins a talent show which the only place where he can make his voice heard. On stage, he pulls out a knife and shouts his hate at the system and its leaders. But sadly, no one understand him and a completely unexpected ending waiting for him

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