"Nightcrawler" revolves around the theme of "media immorality" to tell the story of a loser who has achieved nothing and has a depressed life, who accidentally witnesses the work scene of a photojournalist, and has since found business opportunities and embarked on the peak of his life.
The whole movie looks smooth, tightly paced, logically closed, and the editing is sharp.
The plot goes up step by step, becoming more and more thrilling, and finally the theme of the film and the image of the protagonist are perfectly integrated and presented to the audience.
The film focuses on the operation of the news industry, and on the skeleton of the thrilling crime story, it covers a layer of the skin and flesh of the moral degeneration of media people, making the whole story brilliant.
Overall, there are not many surprises, but the texture is really good.
Pulitzer, a newspaper giant in the United States, has made maintaining media independence a lifelong goal, and will expose social ills through newspapers as a lifelong mission.
Pulitzer strives to create a personality for the media industry, namely combativeness.
He said, "What is the specialty of a newspaper?" It is the struggle, the exposure of evil, the welfare of society, the publication of exclusive news. Our newspapers should have at least one unique piece of news every day; every issue should have one explosive news. "
In Pulitzer's view, the dark side of society is the biggest enemy of news coverage.
Lu, the male protagonist of Nightcrawler, pushed the media industry into the enemy's camp.
Lu is full of human feelings, no family, no friends, no money.
He wanders through the dark neighborhoods all day long, like a lone ghost outside of social life.
Anyway, there is nothing, and even the bottom line is not needed.
The female director of the television station demanded of him, "Violent, bloody, think of a screaming woman running into the street with her neck cut." ”
Lou didn't feel like he was touching the bottom line of law and morality, but was pleasantly surprised to find himself finally finding the job that suited him best.
Subsequently, with Lou's "entrepreneurship" as the main line of the story, the film completely blackened the American media and the American people.
Compared to the melons, fruits and vegetables common in the streets and alleys, people may be willing to spend money to try canned herring that stinks.
In psychology, the reverse psychological phenomenon of "can't help it, the more forbidden it is", is called the "Pandora effect" or "forbidden fruit effect".
People's pursuit of excitement and their penchant for the shocking news are precisely the result of curiosity and rebellious psychology at the same time.
There is a Chinese saying called "the road does not pass, the small road passes", which is also this phenomenon, people have limited contact with things in life, so they have a stronger desire to explore the unknown.
In "Nightcrawler", the news media clings to this mentality of the audience, abandons professional ethics, blindly pursues violence and bloodshed to attract the attention of the audience, and uses people's curiosity to increase ratings.
Several drug dealers were killed in the shooting in the rich area, but in order to gain the attention of the white audience, the female supervisor took a different approach and fabricated the illusion that the white man was wiped out.
At the same time, demand determines supply.
Why do female supervisors ignore the truth and insist on showing bloody and violent news shots?
Why did Lu run in the dark, just to shoot the scene of the casualties at close range as quickly as possible?
Because some people love to watch.
The male protagonist in the film, Lou, is a complete villain, from the outside to the inside.
In him, the audience does not feel any warmth.
Even in the most impoverished and down-to-earth time on the streets, Lu's eyes were filled with lust and fierceness.
From a career perspective, Lou's methodological pursuit and his own "self-motivation and diligence" seem to be considered merits, but because he sold his soul and conscience to the devil in exchange for money and fame, his remaining advantages were also scandalized into "lustful hearts" and "bottomlessness".
Lu, who has strange behavior and no bottom line, can break through the bottleneck of life in the news industry, sublimate his evil behavior to the realm of business opportunities, and use his experience and connections to copy, paste and model the road to success, which is enough to make the audience stunned.
What surprised the audience even more was that such a conscienceless loser actually succeeded in realizing his "American Dream".
At the end of the film, Lu is at large.
He stood in the darkness of the night and became the last person to laugh.
No matter in any industry, the outcome of success and defeat is not a minority.
The ending is ironic and realistic.
This is not sin, this is human nature.
Society seems calm and peaceful, but there are always foul-smelling garbage dumps and gray sewers.
Lou is a grass that grows in the cracks of social ugliness, he is full of vitality and knows how to get "sunshine" and "water".
If you pull out one such weed, thousands and thousands will grow.
What really needs to be done is to eliminate the soil that breeds weeds, such as the power of capital that pursues profits, such as the industry environment that has lost its integrity.
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