On 12/22/2017 at 5:36 PM, Hanahope said:
Ugh, the mere thought of my entire life subject to the whims of others is horrifying. And anyone with a disability or different in some way, overweight, plain, whatever, and strangers can ruin your life even worse than now. Very disturbing episode.
I'm late, been watching Black Mirror episodes off and on and I got to this one. This isn't really the future, it's today. Lives are subject to the whims of others. If want a job/home/relationship, you are subject to the whims of others.
The little things got me in the episode. Everybody has an implant in their eyes, so they can see everybody else's ratings. When Lacie is put into the cell, the implant is removed, now she can't see anybody else's ratings.
The end scene with Lacie and the man screaming at each other was interesting and scary. To me, it suggests that this society has gone so off the rails that the only reason people are nice to each other is because they want good ratings and once that is taken away, there's no reason to be nice and decent. The society doesn't allow people to be human.
The scene in the airport was funny and painfully real. We practically live in a society where people aren't allowed to be human; sometimes humans have meltdowns, but a lot of times they don't last long. Lacie was having a meltdown and instead of compassion, she was treated as a problem.
OT a bit, 12 years ago I was on an Amtrak train. The train left from Virginia, I was going back home to NY. I had a seat in the "quiet car." A man got on the train and was a bit upset that most of the prime spots to store luggage had been taken. He was trying to figure out where to put his luggage. To me, he wasn't annoying, just thinking out loud. Suddenly the conductor looked at him and said, "you're getting off this train NOW." Everybody froze, stunned. The man couldn't believe it. The conductor called the police. The man protested, he had a meeting in Richmond. Then we all heard the siren of a police car. The conductor told the man if he didn't get off the train he'd be arrested, so the man got off the train.
And that's what Nosedive reminded me of.
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