In Future, Personality Rating Affects Your "Wealth" & Status - YouTube

Hi, Mystery Recapped here.

Today, I'm going to explain an episode called "Nosedive" from the British science fiction

series "Black Mirror."

Spoilers ahead!

Watch out and take care!

The movie sets in a possible near-future scenario, in which society is dictated by a rating system

ranging from 1 to 5 stars.

In this kind of society, each individual gives a "rating" to one another, depending on their interactions.

The social and economic position that one has in this kind of society, is determined

by that person's overall rating, there are benefits for those with 4 and 5 overall ratings.

On the other hand, those with 1 to 3 overall ratings, receive little to no benefits.

For this reason, inside this society, one must always act positively, or else they will

get a low score.

The episode begins with a woman jogging in a suburban village, while holding a phone.

The woman, Lacie Pound, is looking at her phone, inspecting what seems to be postings

from other people, which she gives a rating of 5 stars each.

After jogging, she looks at the bathroom mirror and practices all kinds of giggles and laughs.

In her eyes, a faint light can be seen, indicating some sort of technology.

Lacie lives with her brother Ryan, who has a lower approval rating than her, and she

is eager to move out.

Lacie then leaves the house to have lunch.

Outside, she buys a coffee with a cookie.

As a response, she gives the clerk and everyone else around her a 5-star rating; everyone

else in turn gives her a 5-star rating as well.

Lacie can see each person's overall rating and information through her eyes, and other

people can see it as well, including her overall rating of 4.2 stars and other information.

She tries the cookie and coffee—which she did not like—and takes a picture of it afterwards,

which she posted online, despite her not liking both.

The picture receives multiple 5-star ratings, and her overall rating goes up slightly.

She goes to work after that.

In the elevator, she meets a woman that she frequently interacts with.

However, the details of their conversation are based only on each other's posts and information,

which they could access through their phones and eyes.

After that, Lacie goes to her table to work.

There, she meets a co-worker whose overall rating is low; her co-worker is giving off

free smoothies to raise his rating.

Upon taking one and drinking it, she receives low rating.

She notices this and decides not to interact with him anymore.

Soon, she learns that her house is being bought, so she decides to look for a new, more expensive

house to live in.

She goes to "Pelican Cove" in an exclusive neighbourhood.

It is an expensive place, but she learns that she needs to raise her 4.2 rating to 4.5 for

a discount on this luxury apartment.

She also learns from a consultant that she has to socialize with people outside her circle,

particularly those of higher ratings, to raise her ratings quickly.

She tries at first to act friendly to all people, but only receives average ratings.

She then sees her co-worker with a low rating, but he cannot enter the building this time

because his low rating does not qualify.

Lacie's co-worker asks for her help, but Lacie ignores him to preserve her rating.

Later, Lacie uploads a photograph of Mr. Rags, a ragdoll that she and her childhood friend made together.

Her childhood friend, Naomi, sees this picture, which prompted her to contact Lacie.

Naomi informs her that she is getting married, and she wants Lacie, her oldest friend, to

be her maid of honor, which Lacie delightedly accepts.

Naomi has a rating of 4.8, and has many upper-class friends and lives on an exclusive and idealistic island.

Lacie believes if she nails a perfect maid of honour speech, she will be flooded with

enough 5-star ratings, to pull her approval up to the 4.5 she needs.

Her brother finds it strange that Naomi is asking Lacie as her maid of honor, when their

relationship was not that great in the past.

Lacie insists that Naomi is her friend, and that her being the maid of honor would definitely

raise her overall rating.

Because of this, Lacie prepares for her speech at the upcoming wedding, even practising one

last time before leaving for the wedding.

Her brother stops her, wanting her to think about this obsession with ratings, but Lacie

already made up her mind.

This leads to an argument between them, ending in giving each other a low rating.

On the way to the airport, Lacie receives low ratings from two incidents, dropping her

rating from 4.2 to 4.1.

First, she accidentally bumps into a woman holding a cup of coffee, spilling her coffee;

and second, the taxi driver gives her a low rating for being so loud while talking in

the phone.

What is worse however, is that her original flight has been cancelled, and she needs 4.2

rating to get a seat on another.

She insists on taking the seat, causing a scene that results in her overall rating going down.

As a precautionary measure, the airport security guard turns her overall rating to 3, which

would last for 24 hours.

Additionally, she also receives, as punishment, a devastating "double damage" effect on her

rating, which means that all downvotes will incur a double multiplier.

Because she is going to be late to the wedding, she decides to rent a car.

However, she has a low rating and cannot avail of a higher quality car, so she has no other

choice, but to rent a car of a much older model.

While driving, she practices her speech as the maid of honor, but her trip is cut short

when the car needs to be charged.

She learns that the car, being an old model, needs an adapter to charge.

Because she cannot charge it, she leaves it, deciding instead to walk and hitchhike.

Because she has a low rating of 3, cars avoid her, but eventually, a truck stops by and

offers to help.

At first, Lacie is hesitant, seeing that the driver has a low rating, but she agrees later on.

While driving, the truck driver, an older woman, asks Lacie where she was going and

why she was going there.

Lacie tells her that she is the maid of honor in an exclusive wedding.

The truck driver tells her that she was once like her: she had an overall rating of 4.6,

and she was always aiming to receive a high rating in the belief that it will lead to a good life.

However, her husband got cancer, and she did everything for her husband, even taking him

to an exclusive hospital, but he was rejected because his rating was deemed not high enough.

After her husband died, she decided to become honest with everything, learning in the process

that her so-called "friends" did not like her honesty that much, so she ended up having a low rating.

However, she says she feels much freer without obsessing over ratings.

Lacie replies that unlike the old woman who got nothing to lose, she still got something to live for.

The trip takes all night, and in the morning, Lacie is awakened by the truck driver, telling

her that they must part ways because she is heading in another direction.

As a parting gift, the truck driver informs Lacie that she placed alcohol in her bag.

Then Lacie goes to a nearby toilet and practices her speech again.

She overhears two women talking about a convention; to Lacie's surprise, the convention is near

the wedding reception.

After pretending that she is heading to the same convention, she takes a ride with some

cosplayers in a van.

Soon after, Naomi contacts her again, telling Lacie not to go to the wedding anymore.

She has heard that her overall rating had gone down to 2, and that she cannot have someone

like that at her wedding.

The only reason she invited Lacie was that it would add her ratings exponentially.

Lacie, surprised and heartbroken by this, learns that she is just a number to Naomi;

likewise, Naomi responds that she knew Lacie's intention all along, and that is just to accumulate

high ratings in the wedding.

In actuality, both of them never saw each other as a friend, but rather as a tool to

gain higher ratings.

However, despite this, Lacie still wants to go to the wedding and deliver her speech,

to which Naomi responds with a stern "no."

This doesn’t stop Lacie; she decides to trespass and crash the wedding reception.

The cosplayers left her behind after she tells them that she doesn't know about the convention at all.

She drinks the alcohol that the truck driver gave her and stops a few cars, but eventually,

she sees a four-wheeler bike and borrows it.

She finally reached the reception by sneaking at the back, but not before falling into a

swamp and getting dirty.

After dressing up, Lacie—all dirty and drunk—delivers her speech to the audience, who in response,

all gave her a rating of 1.

She reveals that she wants to be like Naomi: someone beautiful, with high ratings, a good

circle of friends, and a good life.

She is forcefully removed from the reception and is afterwards put in jail.

The technology in her eyes is removed, and, for the first time, she sees the world without

any rating of any kind.

In the adjacent cell, a man is looking at her; Lacie tries to check his information

out of habit, but of course, she sees nothing as the technology has been removed from her.

The man insults her, and Lacie replies with an insult as well.

Without any fear of rating, they insult each other to their hearts' content.

The episode ends with both of them shouting at each other, their anger and frustration

eventually turning to happiness at this newfound freedom.

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