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So Much Love, Yet One-Night Stands | Narrative Gaps and Emotional Inconsistencies in Black Mirror’s “Eulogy”
How Paul Giamatti’s brilliant performance saved the episode
Paul Giamatti’s moving performance in “Eulogy” (Black Mirror, Season 7, Episode 5) shows how a story with narrative gaps and emotional inconsistencies can still work provided you cast a brilliant actor to play the protagonist.
In an age when hundreds of reviews pour in as soon as something is released/launched, it is impossible, as you might know, to not have read or learnt anything about a show/film before finally watching it. Naturally, I heard a few things about “Eulogy” as soon as the 7th season of Black Mirror became available on Netflix. And I was really looking forward to watching it.
A friend told me how fascinating the episode was — “A certain technology allows a man to revisit moments of his past relationship, and he realises that the breakup wasn’t entirely his girlfriend’s fault.”
‘Interesting,’ I thought to myself. After all, so many men and women I know might have benefitted from such an epiphany-inducing technology. At last, AI has been used to help people form a better understanding of themselves!
