Nomedive Evaluation Of The Black Mirror's Nosedive?

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Black Mirror’s Nosedive Evaluation Paper Black Mirror. Black. Dark. Empty. You can’t see anything. The title of the series gives off that vibe. It’s kind of useless to have a black mirror since you can’t see yourself clearly. At some point, it hit me that it describes the black screen of our phones. From that, I got that it’s a show somehow related to technology and the black part signifies the dark side of that technology. I expected the visuals of the episode to be dark but it’s the opposite. Black Mirror currently has three seasons and each episode is independent from one another, so you can literally start anywhere. So I started with season three episode one titled “Nosedive.” The episode starts off by showing Lacie’s life. She seems content and happy with her current life. The society looks like it was copied from a fairytale book, colorful and light. It seemed all too perfect for me, but as the story continued, the flaws of this seemingly perfect world surfaced. I noticed that people were very cautious with their actions, because if a person didn’t like what he or she did, he gets dinged down meaning a person rated him down. I was bewildered on how Lacie took bites of the free cookie, then realized why when she put it next to the coffee cup and took a picture of it to upload on her feed. This relates to how people nowadays care too much for good pictures and the likes rather than actually enjoying the food. It effectively portrayed how the current society depends too much on social …show more content…

Yes, that is true to a certain extent. However; in this context, they used the lighter color scheme to create a sense of contrast between what is fake and real, which sets it apart from other dystopian sci-fi films such as the Blade Runner, The Matrix, and the

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