CINEMA The online madding crowd: Nerve
“Are you a watcher or a player?” So asks the stuttering synthesised voice of NERVE, the antagonist of the neon-lit youth-oriented Nerve, a film that sparkles with such cinematic cleverness that its more eyebrow-raising moments are less problematic than the serious issues it raises about human beings in the digital age. NERVE is an online-reality game like “truth or dare – minus the truth” – where Players compete for “money and glory” by completing dares set for them by Watchers – their anonymous, paying fans. Nerve stars Dave Franco and Emma Roberts As a cybervillain, NERVE is different from such…
