Film Review - Erik Giménez

Black Mirror, a sci-fi series released the third season in October 2016,  this season included one of the most blockbuster episodes of all time. This episode called "Nosedive" is directed by Joe Wright and broadcast by Netflix. The leading actress is Bryce Dallas as Lacie Pound and co-star by Alice Eve as Naomi Blestow.

What would happen, if one day all the people started rating everyone in order to make them behave well? That is exactly what this episode is about. The storyline is set in a dystopic future in which all people are rated constantly for their actions and behaviour. It tells the story of a young lady obsessed with improving her rating. Therefore, she will be able to afford a luxurious apartment and be socially more integrated. Willing to improve her rate she begins a relationship with an old friend, Naomi, a 4.7 out of 5. A week later, Naomi asks her if she can be her maid of honour because she is going to marry next month. Lacie does not think twice and agrees, but everything is going to fall apart as the date comes nearer.

The most enjoyable thing in this episode is the superb casting of all the actors and actresses that take part in. The protagonist makes an outstanding performance and the dialogue is also amazing and easy to understand for the non-English speakers.

The episode holds the spectator's attention until the end. However, I would have preferred a longer episode, I feel that they could have explained much more if it was not an episode, it would have been a better choice making film instead of an episode of one hour.

To conclude I think that it is a very good episode and I encourage everyone that has not seen it yet, to see it. One day what it is shown in the episode may come true, I expect I will not be there to see it.

FILM REVIEW - JÚLIA FELIUS

Black Mirror, a dystopic and British TV series created on 2011, released on its third season the chapter “Nosedive”. This chapter, directed by Joe Wright, has the participation of the American Bryce Dallas Howard, who is the leading actress.

How would we act if we were constantly expecting what do other people think about us? The storyline is set in a world where everybody shares on social media absolutely all they do in order to achieve as points as possible and increase their status. The plot will show us how dangerous this can be and how it affects at Lacie’s (the star) life.

The most enjoyable thing about the chapter is the great soundtrack, composed by Max Richter, and of course the great work of the whole cast. If they hadn’t played their roles this way, the chapter wouldn’t have seemed so real.

I find the chapter brilliant, so I don’t have any complain.

I think everybody must see this realistic chapter of Black Mirror to stop by a moment and think where will we arrive if we continue acting by this way on the social media.

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NOSEDIVE

This episode is the first one of the third season of Black Mirror and it's based in a story made by Charlie Booker, but it was directed by Joe Wright. 

It tells the story of Lacie Pound (the actress name is Bryce Dallas Howard) a young girl. The category of the film is Sci-fi. 

The plot is based on this girl Lacie Pound who lives in a world where you can rate people you meet on your daily routine. And every single part of your life depends on that mark. You can put between 1 and 5 stars. This girl is obsessed for her rating, and that make her get in a lot of troubles.

She wants to be a 4.5 stars to get her dreamt house, for that reason she wanted to go to her childhood friend weading party, but unless she can make some 4.8 friends there, she won't be able to buy her dreamt home. 

Unfortunately, when she discover that her "friend" it was just fake and that she never loved her, Lacie decide to ruin her wedding and lose all her mark for that.

The role of Lacie Pound is perfectly performed. I think it has to be really difficult to act like a crazy, desesperate and obsessed girl like she.  What I like best it was that moment when she was on "jail" and she started screaming with the other guy "Fuck you".

Even that, what I like least was when she was on the truck with the old lady, who was giving her some advices, but Lacie ignore her just because of her ranking, was of 2.3 stars. 

That make me feel so angry, because if she had listened to her, she wouldn't have been in a troubles.  

I found the chapter brilliant, fascinating, and a masterpiece. If i were you, I will watch it because it's really interesting because of the message it tries to tell us. 

I truely recommend it to all the people who love technology and the future, because it teach a lot about how it could be the future if we continue on this way of create new products.

FILM REVIEW - PATRICIA TOTUSAUS

“Nosedive”

 «Nosedive» it’s a episode of a series that every episode is not connected with the others, they are different histories so you can see it in the order you want. This history is written by Michael Schur and Rashida Jones, the director it’s Joe Wright, while the principal actress is Bryce Dallas Howard and roles Lacie. This chapter last one hour and three minutes, its original language is English and is about a failured future.

The plot is based on a world where people rate you from one to five stars depending their impression about you, and this rate has a direct impact on your socioeconomic status. People in this history are so correct, they try not to shout, to insult, to seem sad… because this can affect their punctuation. Especially Lacie, the protagonist, is obsessing with her mark and every single moment tries to grow up it, she is not natural, she doesn’t act as she would does, she does what other people would like and that makes her feel frustrated when her rating goes down or don’t increase. She wants to buy a luxurious residence, so she needs a high grade, she had a big opportunity to increase it, she is invited as the honour girl in the wedding of her childhood “friend” and she thought that this could increase her mark, but finally all goes from bad to worse and she has a fast reduction in her rating, maybe if she had done it from the heart, she would have a high grade.

Personally, I think that the most important part of this history is the message that gives, considering that we live in a world which we are surrounded of apps that people commend and talk about you or your things,  this episode helps you to see that we can’t be depending always of the others opinion because that can shatter you, If we were always caring about others opinion, we wouldn’t be ourselves.

All in all I recommended because is entertaining and if you see this episode you change your point of view about all that kind of things. 

FILM REVIEW - JUDITH RAJA

"NOSEDIVE"

"Nosedive" is the first episode in the third season of the British science fiction series, "Black Mirror".
This episode is directed by Joe Wright, through the Netflix platform.

The story is based in a world on all the persons can rates each other from one to five stars by minimum contact they having, and which can impact their lifestyle. 

The main character is a young woman, her name is Laci, seeks to rise her qualification for a discount on a luxury apartment. And this makes her overly obsessed with her ratings, and we can see how far people can go to get a high qualification.

In my opinion, the most important thing about the episode is the message it wants to convey, making us see that we don't have to obsess about what others think of us. The most of our society is obsessed with social networks and making us forget what is really important in our lives.

The only fault I can find is that the end is strange to understand because it happens very fast and it is very unexpected.

I think that this episode is witty, unusual and intelligent which I recommend to all.

FILM REVIEW - LAURA RUIZ

"NOSEDIVE"

"Nosedive" is a chapter of the British science fiction serie Black Mirror. The story is based on a story by Charlie Brooker and is located in Sudrafica. The film is directed by Joe Wright. The main character is starred by Lacie Pound.

The story takes place in a world in which people can qualify and be rated from one to five stars in each social interaction they make. Lacie, a young woman obsessed with her qualifications, is chosen by a popular childhood friend, Alice Eve, as the bridesmaid of her future wedding. During the trip to attend the link, Lacie has an encounter with one of the workers in charge of customer service. After an argument your personal qualification begins to reduce rapidly.

The most important thing in the episode is the message it conveys: we're obsessed with social networks and forget our lives to try to please others. It's striking because of the amount of technological advances there are and easy to understand because the vocabulary is simple.

The only fault I've found is the end, since, it's a bit strange and it's a radical turn to the whole chapter.

I find the episode unusual, awful, brilliant and imaginative, I heartily recommend. The chapter holds the spectator's attention until the end. See and enjoy it!