- I think its called general unskilled because people don't think he is actual using any skill. Mikey seems like a generally good guy who likes to help people but also wants to get good ratings for his job. In the story Mikey mention how he toke a psychology class but he didn't complete. He still feel that the little information he got is enough to help people. In his job he meets a lot of different people and he talks to them. He hold many conversation with his custermers in order to leave a good impression. Though he only get paid 19 dollar an hour he acts as though he is also a therapist, Yet real get paid way more.
- After seeing the picture of this delicate item that Mikey was taking care of I thought this item was so overly protected. I think the writer wanted to relate the saluki to people. How delicate people can be and how easily they can be broken. Because of the ending we don't find out if he ever makes the safe deliver. I believe that he does, He cares so much about customer and want to make sure earthing goes well.
- After watch the black mirror episode it did relate to story. Both thing were about ratings and making other people happy. But in black mirror it felt more in-genuine compare to Mikey in unskilled. In black mirror people faked everything in order to get better rating.
-I feel like the episode said a lot about our world today. We are so invested in how we look and want to make good impression on people just to be liked. We want to be able to post something on instagram and get a bunch of likes and comments. I feel that we search for other people to see the beauty in ourselves that we just can't see.
-In the the end we see the main character end up in jail and get in the argument with this man across from her. I think this was to her actually expressing her true feeling and wasn't something to take as negative. It was to show that there's nothing wrong with giving ur true thought.
I agree with the statement on black-mirror episode noise dive it showed how people view others in the world today. especially with social media its a upkeep on how people look and present themselves rather than genuine interaction and who they are.I also like your view of the ending i also believe its who she really was or wanted to be through out the story and she finally got to express it now that the points are out of the picture.
ReplyDeleteI like both of your readings of the ending to "Nosedive." There is so much joy in that moment of rage. It's funny and pleasurable to watch.
ReplyDeleteAlso good reading of the significance of the Saluki in "General: Unskilled" Elizabeth. I hadn't thought about that, but it's a sound interpretation.