Black Mirror Analysis

I recently watched an episode of Black Mirror and I thought it was very interest. It was a season three episode called ‘Nosedive’. This episode was about a girl named Lacies who lived in a world where everyone had this instagram-like application chip installed inside their brain and that everything was based off of your rating. The higher the rater, the better someone’s life is. Lacies wanted to move into this expensive apartment, but her rating was too low for a discount. So, in order to increase her rating, Lacies tried to contact her childhood friend who had a very high rating and hopefully the high rating friend’s status will help her increase her rating. The high rating friend invites Lacies to her wedding. On the way to the wedding, Lacies …show more content…
When arrived at the jail, he discovered that the ‘jail’ was basically a fancy apartment. He uncuffed and was allowed to enjoy the ‘jail’. He was confused but the guard said that they value human rights. He was given lavishing food and expensive machinery. Then, one day, the guard brought in a female prisoner and said she was his new company. As they spent more time together, he started to have feelings for her. Because the jail valued human rights, they were allow to be wed. After a while, the female prison was pregnant and they had a baby together. However, the female death during childbirth. The once heartless and emotionless serial killer started crying. This was when, it was reveal that the judge and the family of the victims he murdered were behind all this and that the female prisoner and baby were just robots. They thought that this was his punishment, to feel the lost of a love, but they did not think this was enough so the decide to do the altonment punishment. The judge hit a button and the baby in the arms of the serial killer died. After watching this, it made me wonder that if the criminal justice system should become like this. But, then it made me realize since the US has such mass incarceration,