Black Mirror: Nosedive review PDF

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Tran Nguyen ENG G099 (10:15-12:20) Black Mirror Summary and Response In “Nosedive”, Lacie Pound was a friendly 4.2-star ranked user on her social media and was living her normal life happily. When she met a lady in an elevator, instead of asking how each other’s day was, they only just looked on one another’s profile and talked about the events. People in the modern world are undesirably affected by technology that they would lose connection to each other. After that, a fancy apartment Lacie had ever dreamt of called Pelican Cove required her to be at least 4.5 stars for 20% discount. Her life changed when she decided to boost her score as she accepted her childhood friend Naomi’s wedding invitation. Despite her brother’s concern about how mean Naomi was to her, Lacie tried to ignore it because she was blind to all the benefits she was planning to earn from the wedding speech. However, she had two stars marked down for yelling at the airport as the start of her tragedy. Then, her rental car even broke down so she had to look for a ride, but everyone was absolutely freaked out of her score until she met an old woman. When she was on another ride, she received a call from Naomi and was asked to not come to the wedding because of her two-star ranking; nevertheless, she still struggled to try to get to the wedding. After arriving in a nice dress but with begrimed makeup, she gave a disturbing speech with foul language and got ranked even much lower. While being put in jail, Lacie finally felt free to scold a man without fearing of being lowranked. The point of this episode is we the modern people are so obsessed about how other people judge on social media. Moreover, to be liked more, people are always pretending to be nice and friendly to anyone who seems to be beneficial to them. Until we finally found our true selves, we will never know how it feels like to not be who others expect us to be but who we want to be....