Housemaid Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) tends to a doctor's family with four children. Taking place in Mexico City in 1970, 'Roma' gives a panoramic view to an unassuming life. The only spoiler I will offer is this: There is no singular answer to what you're living through, much like life itself. Are you really being manipulated to make your choices? Are the outcomes going to be the same regardless of how you choose to get there? Or is the suspicion that you are being manipulated too conspiratorial, too indicative of your willingness to pass blame? Is this episode total chaos? Or is there order in this chaos?Īs time and reality begin to wrap around each other within your own viewing experience, you realize that the experience is the message more than the story itself. Other times, they seem to make a real impact on the way the drama moves along.īut as the story progresses, time and reality began to wrap around each other, alternatives bloom, as well as second chances, and you, the viewer, begin to question the idea of freewill and wonder if you are being presented with an illusion of it.

At times, these choices are used for some good laughs. Dick-style writer, who became obsesses with conspiracy theories and other levels of reality and whose life careened into a tragedy, making the choice to adapt the book a dark one that transgresses certain societal norms.īut to tell this story, the series presents it in a choose-your-own-adventure style that allows the viewer to decide the actions of game developer Stefan Butler (Fionn Whitehead), from what cereal he eats to somewhat more important decisions. The book, 'Bandersnatch,' was written by a Philip K. The story itself is about the early days of computer games and a young developer working to adapt his favorite book into game form. This movie-length new episode of the technological dystopian anthology series 'Black Mirror' is definitely designed for that - confusion, I mean.

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