MOVIES
Nosedive
review
What triggered me to write this?
The internet is full of positive reviews for this episode of Black Mirror. You can say a separate movie, which reveals the problem of society's obsession with social networks. Many people recommend Black Mirror just because of this episode, considering it the best.
The episode is good, but it struck me that so many reviews with sympathy for the heroine and blaming the system. I got a ton of negativity both from the main character's behavior and the way people perceived this movie.
First of all.
The rating idea and success
What is success? It's being honest with yourself. Do what makes you happy, perceive yourself adequately and strive to be in harmony with yourself. If you know what makes you happy and go for it without paying attention to imposed desires - you are a truly strong and successful person. There is wealth, health, family happiness. What is most important to you that makes you happy? Making a choice to achieve success in one area, you sacrifice another (and this is the decision of a strong personality), and not making a choice and working on all areas, a person should realize that you do not reach super heights in any of the spheres, do not lie to yourself and do not dream of super success, and enjoy those achievements that are.
Once a person is in harmony with himself, he begins to look at others differently. He is unlikely to lose his temper and yell at strangers. He is unlikely to be hypocritical or engage in sycophancy and blame everyone around him.
Wouldn't you agree?
Once a person is in harmony with himself, he begins to look at others differently. He is unlikely to lose his temper and yell at strangers. He is unlikely to be hypocritical or engage in sycophancy and blame everyone around him.
Wouldn't you agree?
Secondly
So what the rating in the movie means?
In the movie we see 3 types of people
1. People with low to average ratings and in harmony with themselves (the barista, the heroine's brother, the trucker)
2. people with low or average ratings and chasing high ratings (the protagonist, her coworker with the smoothie)
3. people with high ratings, shown to us as satisfied with life and the benefits of their ratings.
And if we consider the definition of success above, I believe that the people under point 1, as well should have been highly rated in this movie because we don't see hypocrisy in them like we see in the behavior of the people under point 2. One can be a barista and be a happy good person. However, this is not the case in the movie and the main claim of many characters is that the high rating is a trap of not expressing your negative emotions, although as we see a. expressing positive emotions (when the heroine took a smoothie from a colleague) is not a guarantee of a high rating in the movie and b. Expressing negativity (the friend who tells the heroine "don't you dare show your face at the wedding") doesn't really affect her rating either.
So what is the rating in this movie then? And it's nothing more than an imposed definition of success that many people believe in, and the worst part is that it's true without a rating system. People try to live richly, expensively, engage in facial acting, some more natural, some less, and get very angry when they don't succeed. Just like in ordinary life.
1. People with low to average ratings and in harmony with themselves (the barista, the heroine's brother, the trucker)
2. people with low or average ratings and chasing high ratings (the protagonist, her coworker with the smoothie)
3. people with high ratings, shown to us as satisfied with life and the benefits of their ratings.
And if we consider the definition of success above, I believe that the people under point 1, as well should have been highly rated in this movie because we don't see hypocrisy in them like we see in the behavior of the people under point 2. One can be a barista and be a happy good person. However, this is not the case in the movie and the main claim of many characters is that the high rating is a trap of not expressing your negative emotions, although as we see a. expressing positive emotions (when the heroine took a smoothie from a colleague) is not a guarantee of a high rating in the movie and b. Expressing negativity (the friend who tells the heroine "don't you dare show your face at the wedding") doesn't really affect her rating either.
So what is the rating in this movie then? And it's nothing more than an imposed definition of success that many people believe in, and the worst part is that it's true without a rating system. People try to live richly, expensively, engage in facial acting, some more natural, some less, and get very angry when they don't succeed. Just like in ordinary life.
Thirdly
Что не так с главной героиней?
The whole movie I wanted to shout to this heroine to stop and rethink what she is doing. Many reviews, sympathized with the heroine blaming the rating system, but let's look at the situation from a different angle:
1. The heroine lives in a rented apartment with her brother and blames him for her lack of a relationship!
2- She seems to be looking for a new apartment, but not because she is trying to solve her problem and mend her relationship, but because they are being evicted from another apartment.
3- She makes the choice to go to an apartment she can't afford, dreaming that it will make her happy. Although, let's be honest, it is possible to live separately and build a relationship in a less grandiose apartment.
4. By choosing these apartments, she's making herself dependent on the rating to get a discount.
5. She starts hypocritizing people she doesn't care about, putting a rating behind a rating. Tries to get a high rated person to notice and appreciate her by making cupcakes, which is out of character for her. Considers it a victory and an honor to be invited to a childhood friend's wedding. Closes her eyes that this is not really a friend and even defends her bad behavior towards herself. In this way she is lying to herself.
6. Next, she takes it out on her brother and the employee at the airport. Yes we all have our down moments, and here I agree, 0.12 points short of her getting on the plane is stupid. But on the other hand, look at the stewardess, she holds the bar and her boundaries, and our heroine about her boundaries in this movie seems not to have heard at all.
7. Not getting on the plane, she acts absolutely irresponsible not informing the bride that she is late, putting the other person in a position to solve the problem later. And the bride asked in advance "tell me if you can't, I'll find a substitute" Yes, it's a shame to miss such a chance, but is it not a sign of weakness realizing with common sense that you are late.
8. Having rented a car, in such a super futuristic life, I doubt the car wouldn't have an adapter provided. But okay, anyone can get unlucky. Special kudos to the speaker employee in this scene. The phrase "We have nothing to talk about" is the phrase of someone with a very high level of assertiveness and personal boundaries. It's his choice not to help her, but she can't stand it and snaps again.
9. Her look at the end of the movie clearly tells us that she is just a loser who is trying to achieve something without knowing how to take care of herself or having any personal respect for herself. At this point, I decided she had already lost her mind.
10. Her "freedom" to say whatever she wants makes her happy. However, I see some parallel between what she says sincerely and where it is appropriate. The more toxic and negative the thoughts, such is the place. And the more favorable the thoughts, the more genuinely happy and content we are, the better the environment around us.
1. The heroine lives in a rented apartment with her brother and blames him for her lack of a relationship!
2- She seems to be looking for a new apartment, but not because she is trying to solve her problem and mend her relationship, but because they are being evicted from another apartment.
3- She makes the choice to go to an apartment she can't afford, dreaming that it will make her happy. Although, let's be honest, it is possible to live separately and build a relationship in a less grandiose apartment.
4. By choosing these apartments, she's making herself dependent on the rating to get a discount.
5. She starts hypocritizing people she doesn't care about, putting a rating behind a rating. Tries to get a high rated person to notice and appreciate her by making cupcakes, which is out of character for her. Considers it a victory and an honor to be invited to a childhood friend's wedding. Closes her eyes that this is not really a friend and even defends her bad behavior towards herself. In this way she is lying to herself.
6. Next, she takes it out on her brother and the employee at the airport. Yes we all have our down moments, and here I agree, 0.12 points short of her getting on the plane is stupid. But on the other hand, look at the stewardess, she holds the bar and her boundaries, and our heroine about her boundaries in this movie seems not to have heard at all.
7. Not getting on the plane, she acts absolutely irresponsible not informing the bride that she is late, putting the other person in a position to solve the problem later. And the bride asked in advance "tell me if you can't, I'll find a substitute" Yes, it's a shame to miss such a chance, but is it not a sign of weakness realizing with common sense that you are late.
8. Having rented a car, in such a super futuristic life, I doubt the car wouldn't have an adapter provided. But okay, anyone can get unlucky. Special kudos to the speaker employee in this scene. The phrase "We have nothing to talk about" is the phrase of someone with a very high level of assertiveness and personal boundaries. It's his choice not to help her, but she can't stand it and snaps again.
9. Her look at the end of the movie clearly tells us that she is just a loser who is trying to achieve something without knowing how to take care of herself or having any personal respect for herself. At this point, I decided she had already lost her mind.
10. Her "freedom" to say whatever she wants makes her happy. However, I see some parallel between what she says sincerely and where it is appropriate. The more toxic and negative the thoughts, such is the place. And the more favorable the thoughts, the more genuinely happy and content we are, the better the environment around us.
It all starts in your mind and working on ourselves, and the rating system has nothing to do with it.
I only agree that mentally weak people who are not able to reflect on their actions and work on their thinking really become hostages to anything, because their brain can't handle that kind of pressure.
And also it is well shown that there is nothing in common with the real attitude between people and your representation in society.
And also it is well shown that there is nothing in common with the real attitude between people and your representation in society.
