BLACK MIRROR - Jordi Rojas

NOSEDIVE

Last days, in English class, we watched an episode of “Black Mirror” called “Nosedive”. It’s a film of science fiction directed by Joe Wright.

The protagonist is called Lacie, she lives in a world where people rate each other according to their interactions, publications in social media, etc.

Lacie wants to move to a luxury apartment, but due to the price, she needs to reach 4.5 to get a discount of the 20%.

She is a 4.2 so she needs a boost to reach a rating of 4.5. He decides to post a picture of her doll called Mr. Rags, to call the attenion of her old friend Naomi who is a 4.8. When Naomi saw the picture, she invited Lacie to her wedding, because she wants Lacie to deliver a speech. Lacie accepts because if she do a good speech all the people of the wedding, who are 4.6 or above, they are supposed to rate her with 5 stars.

On the day of the flight a lot of problems happen to Lacie, due to this she explodes, saying a lot of swear words causing her rate to fall down a lot. 

When she was arriving to the wedding, Naomi tells her not to come because Lacie now is a 2.8 due to a lot of missfortunes. 

Lacie decides to go, ignoring the advertisments of Naomi. When Lacie arrives, she makes a scene and the police comes to take her to jail.

There she meet a man, and both of them realize tha now they can talk and say wathever they want, without worring about their ratings.

I liked a lot this episode because it is a really good critic of our reality, because the social media, nowaday is similar to this. Also I loved the end because although she ends in jail, now she is free to say whatever she wants.

In conclusion it's and episode that I would recommend, because it leaves you with a different perspective of the social media nowadays.