Black Mirror Season 7 Episode 4: What young Cameron actor Gribben thinks the thronglets really did at the end

Black Mirror has always been that show which kind of warns us about the future. It explores our tangled relationship with technology through its twisted and brilliant storytelling.

Technology has made life easier but at what cost? The show constantly reminds us that the line between innovation and intrusion is dangerously thin. Every episode asks us the same question - what happens when machines shape us?

Episode 4 of Season 7 takes that question into something deeper and more emotional. It’s not just about technology. This one’s also deeply psychological. It is about Cameron who is a shy and socially awkward boy. He never really had friends in the real world.

He stumbles upon digital companionship. And those little beings called thronglets seem to give his life a meaning. But the episode makes us wonder what happens when you give everything to something that may not even really exist? It's unsettling and heartfelt.

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Black Mirror: Cameron Walker and the rise of the thronglets

Cameron Walker is shoplifting when we first see him in Black Mirror. Soon we realize there’s more to him than we see. Cameron opens up about his life after being taken into custody. He talks with the awkward honesty of someone who’s been overlooked all his life.

He was once a games journalist with real potential. But Cameron never quite fit in. He was intelligent but socially withdrawn. That is until a once in a lifetime opportunity landed in his lap. He was invited to meet the big shot genius, Colin Ritman. But Colin in Black Mirror wasn’t looking to give an interview. He had something bizarre for Cameron.

He introduced a digital world he’d created. They were populated by these tiny lifeforms called thronglets. These weren’t just pixels in motion. They were living beings who could understand language and even evolve. They had a sing-song speech and needed care like a human being. And then they would mutliply. Cameron found it fascinating and stole the game.

He became obsessed. He began feeding them and listening to them. He even started hallucinating that he could understand their language when under the influence of hallucinogens. It stopped being a game and started becoming his reality.

The reason Cameron had been arrested in the first place wasn’t for theft but for murder. A body had turned up in a suitcase that was unidentifiable. The interrogation involves one officer who plays good cop with a background in psychology and the other pushes hard for answers. But Cameron keeps repeating the same thing. He didn’t even know the victim’s real name. He just called him Lump. He was the dealer who supplied his hallucinogens.

Cameron begins talking about how the thronglets wanted to become one with him in Black Mirror Episode 4 of Season 7. He tells the officers how he implanted a device into his head so the creatures could feed off his brain and grow.

Things get more surreal when Cameron draws what looks like a QR code. Holding it up to the camera in the interrogation room, he smiles and tells that the thronglets now have access to the state’s computer system. Within seconds, people start dropping unconscious. But Cameron is calm.

He believes this is the singular event that will change the course of humanity. No more wars or violence. Just peace and harmony. Cameron looks on with pride as this episode of Black Mirror ends. He extends a hand to help the fallen officer. He’s not a criminal but a savior in his eyes.

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Black Mirror: What young Cameron actor Gribben thinks the thronglets really did

Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker said in an interview with Tudum by Netflix:

"I wanted it to be a tad more ambiguous as to whether you thought this was a good thing or a bad thing. We don’t quite give you that much information.”

Lewis Gribben is the actor who played young Cameron in Black Mirror Season 7 Episode 4. He thinks what Cameron did wasn’t an act of unifying humanity. It was more like taking away free will from the entire human race.

“It just feels like Cameron’s wiped violence from people. He’s taken their freedom and enslaved everyone to be peaceful and not have any bad tendencies. It’s like a dictatorship regime that he’s just created, that all these people are just mindless and listening to the Thronglets.”

Cameron wanted control. He was playing god. And maybe that’s what Black Mirror was trying to warn us about this time. It was not just the dangers of technology but the terrifying consequences of a single person deciding what’s best for the world. Cameron actually created obedience without consent. And that's kind of tyrannical.

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