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Black Mirror is a British television anthology series created by Charlie Brooker and shows the dark side of life and technology.

I'm going to use this material for my poroject.

I'll start with the first one: Black Mirror, Season 1 Episode 1

-"National Anthem"

Summary:

Princess Susannah is kidnapped, and Priminuster  Michael Callow  is asked to have a live sex show on TV with a pig so that the princess would be released. Priminister has strongly opposed to this and tries to catch the kidnapper. The video of the princess crying for help and the requirement of the priminister having sex with a pig has been posted on the Youtube and known by many people in England. The polls, royals and others tend to have the Priminister surrender to what the kidnapper asks him to do except from his wife. The priminister does that eventually. However, in fact, the princess is already released  before the live sex show and everyone's watching it. No one finds out that princess has been safealready.This is  ironic that everyone including the government and the public are all focus on the screen instead of what's going on in the real world.That's when the tragic happens. 

Here's the link of the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxHqK4lkAtg

Vocabulary:

perennial 長期的, 不斷的; 常在的
dyspotia 描寫反面烏托邦的作品
air hole : A hole or opening through which gas or air may pass
sniper 狙擊兵
dictatorship獨裁國家; 獨裁政府
amuse-bouche 消遣娛樂
airtight 無懈可擊的

 keep a lid on... 封鎖某件消息
squeamish 易生氣的

puts the onus on 把責任放在
eat up 消耗
anarchically  無政府狀態的