NOSEDIVE Questions:

1.- How are physical and digital worlds combined in this society?

They are combined through contact lenses that the people are wearing and these are connected to a
globalized database, where anyone is rated and receives all the information about the people around, so the
other person can know all about your life. Although people can evaluate you all the time while they interact
with you, it depends of your behavior or performance with them. If you obtain a higher score you will live a
better life.
2.- How does the rating system and digital technology impact individual lives?

The rating system allows you to get access to everything in your life, while the ratings are higher more
benefits you will obtain, even discounts on products that are available on the market. If your rating is low you
won’t buy a good car, house or service to the point where others ignore you for having a bad rating. However,
if you have for example 4.5 and above of in a scale of 0 to 5, it means that you belong to the high class society.
Even your job could be affected due to a low rating. Imagine that you could lose your job even though you are
an excellent employee.
3.- What are the psychological effects of the rating system and technology in this world?

People are affected in many ways. They suffer a high level of stress, low self-esteem, depression, expectation
of instant gratification, narcissism and the frustration feeling for not enjoying their life as well as they want.
As a result, people forget to share good moments with their real friends, they keep the best rated “fake” ones
4. - In what ways is cyberbullying evident represented and dealt with in this film?

People were discriminated and judged just for having a low rating because they were poor or black and this
made their life a horrible experience while interacting with everyone in all places, instead of a physical
aggression. One example is not being able to travel by plane or charge a rented car battery.
5. - What is the morale of the cancer story? (“My husband was a 4.3; they gave the treatment to 4.4”)

Lacie, out of options, ends up getting a ride from a truck driver named Susan with a 1.4 rating. When Susan
shares the story about how she was obsessed with her rating, even though she used to be a 4.6 her husband
got terminal cancer and all the stars in the social media world couldn’t cure it. Her husband was completely
discriminated by the rating system because his planned treatment was given to someone who had a higher
rating than him. After Susan’s husband died of cancer however, she stopped caring about her status and
decided to strip herself away from the attitude of looking for five-star ratings. Then, she started speaking her
mind and encouraged Lacie to do the same. What is frustrating about this episode is how everybody knows
that this world is full of BS. There are people who develop friendships just to receive the ratings and yet they
don’t seem to care about creating change. Those people can be identified as fake friends.
6.- What was in the red thermos? What significance does it have at the end of the episode?

When Lacie is leaving, Susan says that she has left Lacie a good bye gift and an escape plan. She later finds out
that there was alcohol in the red thermos. At the end of the episode, after Lacie drank the alcoholic beverage,
she freed herself and saw reality as it is and became so indiscreet that she ended up saying what she finally
had in mind, confessing her honest feelings with a speech full of insults at the wedding and disrespectful
words in jail.