Yeah, I agree with lauren, if he had been older it would have seemed REALLY suspicious that he still cared so much about people seeing him jerk off, but with the younger kid we spend the whole episode thinking the same thing as Bron, "You're a young kid, everybody does it, why are you so worried?" Until you find out at the end that he was actually rather rightfully freaking out, but he also wasn't really the "hero" of the story, apparently the people holding him hostage were.
Shut Up and Dance is one of their episodes that takes a while for everything about it to fully sink in because of the ending, at first I thought it was kind of weak that at the end they just leaked everybody's stuff regardless but I thought more about the troll meme picture they sent and the fact that trolling was all they were doing. It seems like with all of the instructions and time limits that they were doing everything they did for a reason, but in the end the reason was to just set the worst of those people up and make everyone face the consequences of their secretive actions and not get away with it.
That's why the two people who looked at child porn had to fight to the death and the winner was eventually thrown in jail, groups like Anonymous (ironically, I will admit) hate people who look at child porn so the use of the troll face that's usually associated with them was fairly appropriate.
I guess that's what made it so interesting, realizing at the end there WAS a point to everything but it wasn't what we thought. It seemed like everyone was simply being used as a pawn to get money or some other goal, but in reality the whole point was punishment of those people. GOD Charlie Brooker has his finger on the pulse when it comes to this stuff.
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laurendorward-990-190608
8 years ago
It was by far and away my favourite episode. There's few films/TV programmes that leave you thinking like this episode did. It's totally how society views pedophiles. Do we really feel that bad that one died in the hands of another and that he will end up being in prison for far longer than he would've done had it been just Internet viewings. You could also say that they potentially stopped him committing some awful attack on a kid too.
Extremely clever. I believe Chris Morris of brass eye Co wrote this episode which says a lot about the sinister atmosphere of the episode
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xrikou
8 years ago
You seem to regard these people as some kind of hacker vigilantes. But le'ts think about that for a second.
Apart from the child porn watchers, for whom they reserve the harshest 'judgement', so maybe they are actually doing it to punish them or prevent them from committing crimes in the future, they also target prostitution (in Bronn's case) and (in the scooter guy's case) homosexuality apparently. So unless they are some sort of extreme moral 'fundamentalists', it seems they are doing this just for the sake of trolling. Or just for the sake of seeing other people's life getting destroyed.
Which makes the story even more twisted and demented. And really this is what this show's all about.
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laurendorward-990-190608
8 years ago
Prostitution is disgusting. He had a wife and kids. She had a right to know and all he got was her finding out.
I don't believe the other guy was just gay actually as it doesn't fit with all the other storylines.
Imo they (think) they are doing good. Just my interpretation of events.
It's twisted anyway.
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Dauw
8 years ago
I got the feeling they were all pedophiles and Jerome Flynn's character was lying about meeting a prostitute, when he was in fact meeting an underage girl. Just a theory, though.
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laurendorward-990-190608
8 years ago
The "punishment" fit the crime. I doubt she was but seeing a prostitute when you have a wife is utterly abhorrent hence why he didn't fight to the death.
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