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Lacie's False Reality In The Film 'Nosedive'

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The short film Nosedive exposes how social media causes a constant need for validation and a lack of genuine human interaction by manipulating our perception of reality. Joe Wright represents this through Lacie’s disingenuous nature throughout the first part of the film as she desperately tries to raise her social rating, her mind is clouded by the false reality of a utopian society. The target audience of this short film is young people, who commonly overconsume and are manipulated by social media. This dystopian future is inarguably more likely to happen as technology progresses, finding new ways to integrate social media into our daily lives. Social media presents us with a false reality, distorting our perception of the public sphere as …show more content…

Non-diegetic sound, music in the form of light sombre piano is used. This music displays the idea of Lacie having a bittersweet moment because it is slow, yet soft and relaxing, as the pitch gives off an air of joyfulness contrasting with a sombre tempo. This is bittersweet as her world seems to have fallen apart, yet she is finally free from the constraints of her dystopian society and the false reality she strived to maintain. The producer Joe Wright uses this as irony as the moment she is put in a cell she finally gains freedom from the false reality of the society she was trapped in. This links to the Low-key lighting used in the scene as it represents society’s disapproval of Lacie as she refuses to give up her freedom and conform. This links to paragraph one as it contrasts with an earlier scene. Lacie’s emotion is also projected through the lighting which goes from light to dark as she grows more miserable as her rating falls. This relates to young people as they can become depressed over likes and followers. Their perception of reality leads them to believe their life has to look a certain way to be meaningful, as shown by Lacie as she tries to attain a 4.6 rating. The purpose of this was to use visual and oral techniques from the behind-bars scene to illustrate how social media negatively impacts our perceptions of

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