Is this Nosedive or a picture of Real Life?
The Netflix’s series Black Mirror has done it again, with its season 3 premiere episode Nosedive, the 40 min. drama paints a wicked, superficial and downright unpleasant picture of the future of social media. A world we’re ever accepting of life of people’s life is social media, while one could argue that that’s life right now Nosedive presents our obsession with social media taken to little logical conclusion. I’m talking eye implants that let you see the world via stats, accounts to help manage your popularity and 5-star ratings used to judge … well … everything. Your ability to go in and out of places, your ability to take certain forms of transportation, yourself self-worth and how much you pay for things.
In fact, Our protagonist in this episode, Lacie many goals in the episode is to raise her rating above 4.4 so that she can get a discount on an apartment complex that from what I can tell is far too big for one person but according to the dealer agent it looks nice and photograph’s well. Unfortunately, Thru no fault of her own poor Lacie’s personal rating drops and then straight-up to Nosedive. However, without spoiling too much Lacie does eventually realize the pointlessness of it all and actually cries tears of joy at the freedom and beauty of the world once removed from the rating system. Albeit from a prison cell but the point still matters.
While I doubt anyone would be locked up from having to low a social media profile, many of the thing seen in Nosedive have already to some degree happened. How many times have we seen people lives turned upside down because of something they posted or did and got posted about. A Jobs, well how many times a week do you hear about some Facebook fool or twitter troll getting fired for put their foot in their mouth. As a student which dreams of a job in the film industry, I’ve already been told that the first thing people check is social media account rather than anything I’ve written.
Social Media is necessary to have a job in TV/Film, you’re not always judged by your ideas or work ethic but by what other people who you have 0 control over think of you. I have a twitter account but I never use it and whenever I go to delete my account that voice in my head whispers “what if you need it someday”.
Nosedive truly paints a picture of how a world of social media is unauthentic, unpredictable (Literally the whole nosedive thing started when she bumped into a woman jogging as she walked out of her house) and the extremely confining world.
The Wannabe Writer 