![]() ![]() ![]() So when Lacie’s childhood friend Naomi ( Alice Eve) - a premium user with a sterling 4.8 rating - asks her to be the maid of honor at her wedding, Lacie sees it as an opportunity to give a speech in front of a entirely premium crowd - which, if it goes well, would boost her rating to that coveted 4.5.Īs directed by Joe Wright - the man behind the sweeping romances Pride and Prejudice and Atonement - this world is drenched in pastels, its edges smoothed, a smile fixed on its face. She practices her determined, manic grin in the mirror, then plasters it on before marching into her version of battle: being as pleasant to everyone as possible in exchange for precious points.īut Lacie’s plateaued around a 4.2, and with some hard work and skillful sucking up to “high-quality people,” she just knows she could tip herself into the 4.5 “premium user” range that comes with perks, discounts, and, maybe most importantly, prestige. ![]() The higher your rating, the more perks you get the lower your rating, the harder you have to work to keep yourself afloat.Īnd holy shit does Lacie ( Bryce Dallas Howard) work for her stars. Phones firmly in hand, everyone rates the interactions they have with one another and the photos they post on their profiles - no matter how banal - on a scale from one to five stars.Įvery rating affects a person’s overall standing. “Nosedive” would have you believe that it’s about what it might look like if Pinterest, Instagram, and Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle site Goop took over the world. This article is a recap of Netflix’s Black Mirror episode “Nosedive.” There are spoilers and discussion regarding the episode’s plot. ![]()
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