San Junipero: Heaven is the Place on Earth

San Junipero is one of the happiest Black Mirror episodes that uses technology in a positive way.

The strength of the beautiful and profoundly moving and almost astonishingly humane "San Junipero" comes out of the contrary. The line arrives fast, in the heated discussion of some very heavy things, but in a manner it transforms the entire hour, because her rightness, she is the way to the line.

Later in the episode a lady says to her spouse, "It is not a trap." San Junipero's delightful liberties are precisely what it is that enables visitors to enjoy the same ideal town throughout distinct times. Nobody plots against anybody. No strings, no dreadful revelations. Only once, things turn out all right.

The story - How did they meet?

The story is about the two visitors are Yorkie and Kelly, who can only visit for a couple of hours each week. Yorkie is a paralyzed homosexual in the true globe who had never had a true life because of a tragical accident and intolerant relatives. Kelly, however, is an elderly woman who has just lost a husband who refused to enter San Junipero, finding it essentially inhuman to praxis cheat death.

Yorkie meets Kelly in San Junipero - GIF by Camelon

It seemed that their love would end after Kelly quarreled with Yorkie when they thought they were too different in thought: Yorkie thought that if they lived in this city they would be free all the time later, bound by what is so harsh in the real world; on the other hand, Kelly became angry when talking about sacrifices and family affection, which Yorkie had lost since the accident and being quadriplegic.

As a fan of Black Mirror, I would agree with this:

I was expecting Kelly to decide last minute that she was indeed going to pass over, and tell Yorkie to wait for her and they both are really happy, but before Kelly had a chance to make it official, she dies a natural death, and Yorkie is just waiting for her at that house, day after day, for eternity.

(SawRub - a comment on Reddit post)

In heaven love comes first

However, what surprised us was when Kelly decided to transfer and choose an eternal future with Yorkie. It is also possible because she feels her true self while living in her favorite place and with the one she loves.

Heaven is a place on earth - Photo by Martisa

It's really true to the movie's theme song, Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven Is a Place on Earth” that heaven is where love comes first!

"Ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth? Ooh, heaven is a place on earth They say in heaven love comes first We'll make heaven a place on earth Ooh, heaven is a place on earth"

[Meaning of “Heaven Is a Place on Earth” by Belinda Carlisle]

Who ever thought about everything after death? Has anyone ever imagined a city where people are forever young and can party all days?

In San Junipero, people live in a different form of themselves, they can also do the things that once regretted in the past. They temporarily forget their real people, meet new people who are "real but virtual" and at some points they have courageously lived true to themselves more than the actual people they are.

If the real world has a place like San Junipero,

would challenge yourself?