Black Mirror (The Entire History of You)

This short was about how memories can corrupt our train of thoughts and make us focus on key details, posing the question is it better to have memories that can be rewound to see what happened or allow our memories to be embellished both pose it's positives and negatives and it's explored well by showing how much people dwell on memories as its but also how damaging it can be.

I say this because just alone the way they achieved the people looking at their memories convey that it can be a painful experience cutting to a close up of the face with a clouding mist that fogs their eyes. This often hinting towards blindness or a loss of vision which then is left up to interpretation of what happens to the character at the end with a cut to black after the chip is removed. 

The starting scenes reveals a fair bit about the main character. We start with a mid shot reflecting in the table indicating to the audience that he might not be doing so well in what he's doing at what he's doing, and this is backed up in the next few shows all being close ups of the character looking pretty worried with some of his words stuttering. Then in the taxi sequence we can see he's a pretty conscious person when it comes to reflection, quickly rushing to review the meeting and looking worried when reviewing. 

We also learn that he's a paranoid person, because when meeting at the party we get to see a pov shot focusing on his wife with another person and the next few shots we see of him are either wide shot or a mid shot of him zoning out trying to reflect. I think this piece does a good job of showing the memories being accessed as every time we get a close up expressing that character's feeling of that memory or situation.