Nerve
By LifestyleMK's Film writer, Tremayne Miller
Nerve , directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, written by Jessica
Sharzer.
Starring Emma Roberts, Dave Franco
and Juliette Lewis.
The Hollywood Reporter writes ‘visually
engaging if not very convincing,’ and I would happen to agree.
Nerve is based on the 2012
debut don’t putdownable novel by Jeanne Ryan.
For fans of The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games was originally a series of three
adventure novels written by the American novelist Suzanne Collins. The series
set in ‘The Hunger Games universe’ follows the young characters of Katniss
Everdeen and Peeta Mellark. The novels – The Hunger Games (2008), Catching Fire (2009), and Mockingjay (2010) have all been developed into
films, with the adaptation of Mockingjay split across two parts.
The universe, a dystopia, is set in
Panem, a country consisting of the wealthy Capitol and twelve districts, each
in various states of poverty.
Every year children are selected from
each district to take part in an annual televised “death match” called The
Hunger Games.
Another comparison can be made with 1988
film, Heathers, where two high school
students (Winona Ryder and
Christian Slater) unintentionally make suicide popular.
‘A
high-stakes online game of dares turns deadly.’
Nerve
tells the story of high school senior "Vee" (Roberts) who enters an online reality video game of “truth or dare”
(minus the truth) called "Nerve" along with other player (Franco),
and it isn’t long before the game escalates to the point where the series of
levels become dangerous, at the same time each move they make is manipulated by
a community of anonymous “watchers.”
“Nerve” interestingly raises the question of
‘the obsession of social media’ within society, and teenagers who become so
lonely that they remain penned up in their rooms, unable to properly develop
much needed social skills in order to fully thrive in today’s world. Gradually,
it would seem that social media has managed to change the course of DNA in our
friendships, as the film proves to be the case.
Vee (Roberts), at first finds the game
exhilarating but just how far will she go before she loses her “Nerve”?!
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PR9MOPTI7g
Out 11 Aug 2016
© Tremayne Miller
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