I like to watch the Black Mirror series, one episode and one story. The story covers a wide range, which is thought-provoking and imaginative.
The fourth season of Black Mirror was released on 20 17. It has been four years now, and the plot is basically unclear. In order to answer this question, I watched this episode specially.
The version I saw in the third episode, translated into Chinese, is a deadly crocodile, and the title of the English version is crocodile. The word itself means crocodile, and it makes sense to translate it into deadly crocodile.
At the beginning of this episode, a man and a woman hit a man with a car, then put him in a sleeping bag and threw him into the lake. Is there a man who looks like a crocodile in this sleeping bag? I think it's quite similar.
When such an accident happened, the girl didn't agree at first, and she was a little hesitant. After a few years, the man and the woman broke up, the girl was married and had children, and the boy still didn't come out. She wanted to make up for it and killed him. Later, in order to cover up this matter, the girls continued to do evil, but the skynet was long and slow, and there was no windtight wall in the world. A lovely rabbit witnessed all this. In the background of this story, there are some technologies that can show people what rabbits see.
There seems to be no real crocodile from beginning to end except that my sleeping bag looks like a crocodile. In fact, it's just like we will use some things to express a meaning in China, such as red rock for letters, plum for gentlemen and so on.
This crocodile actually refers to the crocodile effect, which is a law in economics. It means:
Suppose a crocodile bit your foot. If you try to get rid of your feet with your hands, crocodiles will bite your feet and hands at the same time. The more you struggle, the more you get bitten. So, in case a crocodile bites your foot, your only way is to sacrifice one foot, which is a bit like a tiger getting angry.
In short, timely stop loss can save the overall situation.
The more the heroine tries to cover up, the more bad things she does. That is, she didn't stop the loss in time, so that she got deeper and deeper and finally couldn't struggle out.
The root of all this is human greed, and people can't easily lose what they have. These things are too precious for me, so I will try my best to cover them up. When a lie appears, countless lies need to be fabricated to cover up the previous one. This story is to express this truth.
To sum up, the title crocodile refers to the crocodile effect, a philosophy extended from economics.