Haunted by nightmares of the 1982 Lebanon War, documentarian Ari Folman questions his own involvement in the massacre as a 19-year-old Israeli soldier. This is an animated true-life tale of memory compartmentalization taken to the extreme. There’s little difference between Andrea Riseborough’s cold-blooded killer Mia and Patricia Arquette’s unhinged Harmony Cobel - both crave self-preservation at any cost.īlack Mirror is streaming on Netflix. However, it’s “Crocodile” that’s most akin to Severance in how it shows the lengths someone will go to bury and destroy potentially damning eyewitness recollections. Nowhere is this better seen than in the episode “The Entire History of You,” in which everyone has rewatchable access to all of their life experiences. This sci-fi anthology often explores the power of memory in mind-bending ways. Throughout Christopher Nolan’s masterpiece, there’s an increasing reliance on Polaroid pictures to guide the unreliable protagonist’s journey - much like how photographs provide Mark with shocking revelations in Severance’s nail-biting season finale.
Lacking the ability to form new memories would complicate anyone’s life, but it becomes a full-on dilemma for Leonard Shelby as he seeks vengeance for his wife’s death. Jarring images of beds on the beach or oil spilling from computers impart the same message to the viewer: Whether it’s romantic or professional, even the most difficult relationships are worth remembering.Įternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is available to rent on Amazon Prime Video. Both use surreal imagery in a mind-bending way that reflects the memory-addled minds of their protagonists. Severance is almost as visually stunning as Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine. Much like Severance’s bleak incentive offerings (finger traps, anyone?), Corporate nails the absurdity of everyday life under ruthless global capitalism.Ĭorporate is streaming on Paramount+. The pilot episode finds multinational corporation Hampton Deville bribing a suicidal employee with birthday cake.
This slept-on workplace satire tackles the soul-sucking drudgery of office politics in a bitingly dark way. A conspiracy of clones and mangled memories slowly unravels - putting Lunar Industries up there with Severance’s Lumon in terms of nefarious fictional corporations we love to hate. However, as his return date nears, he experiences a wave of hallucinations and injuries that cause him to question both his career and his identity. After almost three years in isolation mining helium on the moon for Lunar Industries, Sam Bell is excited to finish his contract and return to his family on Earth. If Severance took place in outer space, you might get something like Moon.
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