How can I express my first impression of the movie "Nightcrawler"? In my eyes, there are original stories and pictures, which are concrete. But I decided to use an abstract "feeling" to describe it. The reason I say this is because the movie itself offers such wonderful things on its own initiative.
If you are curious, you may wish to open the movie and listen carefully to the 2 minutes and 20 seconds opening sequence. There is no knowledge of music theory. The melody is like a talking wizard, which can clearly lead your feelings. This soundtrack is like a candidate standing in front of the interviewer. When it hits the eardrum, it reveals the ups and downs of anxiety, and is then covered by the repeated swirling clouds and water, sometimes changing the course, injecting the ethereal thread, and then using the dangerous aura of fighting for life. Towards the end, it came to an abrupt end, as if it had rained and cleared.
What I want to spoiler is that the movie did not use the character "Lu" played by Jack Gyllenhaal to commit naked and bloody brutality and injury. You can completely relieve your worries when watching the movie. But it cannot be denied that, instead, it shows the image of a terrifying figure with a long-term intimidating effect. He will linger in your head and become notorious faces. In addition to the law, there are third types of court punishments and ethical trials. These are aimed at terrorists who kill people without seeing blood.
Putting aside serious psychopathological problems again, since hiding the pathology is still plundering survival resources in normal social life, then treat it as a normal person. For the careerists who steadily climbed to the apex of the pyramid, there must be such a sentence in the "malicious" mark of the successful ones: "All the process of primitive accumulation of capital is a history of blood and tears, and their hands are covered with blood. ".
Unfortunately for the world of justice, Lu in "Nightcrawler" is such a winner, a winner who is still climbing step by step. You can block anything, but you can't block his wealth, cannot block his fame and fortune, and unscrupulously satisfy his own "desires". This is "morality." I suddenly thought of Truman Capote, the American writer, and the "Cold Blood" that made him soaring, and also thought of Bei Dao's saying, "Despicable is the pass of the vile, and the noble is the epitaph of the noble."
However, returning to the characterization of the movie "Nightcrawler", it is not difficult to find that at the beginning "Lu" was portrayed as a low-level person with personality defects. Good and evil cannot be generalized, and Lu's role needs to be analyzed layer by layer. He lives by stealing steel bars, picking locks, and robbing him. He has a burrow, a broken car, and a TV. This shows that he is not the bottom at the bottom. The deputy he hired is a homeless blind streamer. He interviewed an eyewitness who did not have a TV at home. Compared with them, Lu had an absolute sense of superiority.
What can produce dramatic conflict is that Lu has another face, first-rate eloquence, strong learning ability, clear mind, meticulous logic, high-level planning ability, and anti-reconnaissance criminal high IQ. The most important thing is He is like a snake swiftly or crawling in the jungle, and the screenwriter has given him a high sense of news. He will become what he wants to be because of this. He drove his private interview car through the feasting Los Angeles night city. The unstable temperament exuded by the characters made the dark sky look mysterious and unpredictable.
80% of the night scenes, 80% of the scenes in the car, and 80% on the road. The dilapidated and off-white Toyota, to the red Mustang, to the two fully equipped super interview vehicles. One person, to hire an assistant, and then to a four-person studio team. The movie progresses step by step within a neat and orderly frame, and uses a similar expression of "play in play" to adjust the boring atmosphere of the story. This movie doesn't look crazy at all, but the too gentle and introverted narrative rhythm reflects the disturbing restlessness of the protagonist Lu's words and deeds.
I have to mention that in the first 20 minutes of the movie, there is a low-key sense of joy that cannot be ignored at all. Jack, who has lost 20 pounds, can't see the appearance of falling to the bloody street, but in the dark circles under his eyes, he can indeed feel a nervous man suffering from insomnia, mentally and physically hungry. Jack also showed good acting skills. From the beginning, wearing sunglasses, squinting at the targeted target, then wearing a funny domineering big back, wearing a disproportionate white shirt and gray jacket, and playing slick jokes, walking in the TV station like a full TV station boss. . . . . . It's better to use a word wow to express it.
In addition to the protagonist Lu, his assistant and Nina, the head of the evening news of the TV station, these two supporting roles also play a significant role in the movie. The rivalry between Lu and the assistant pushes the plot to a climax. In the last interview operation, the "bargaining" scene was rehearsed in the interview car. This passage is worth pondering. No matter what the antecedent is, the assistant was finally influenced by Lu, and he also walked into the fuzzy zone where good and evil are indiscriminate. Step by step. But once the goal is reversed, the winner can also be distinguished. Lu, who has long transformed into a monster from the inside out, his viciousness is the ultimate, victory, ambition. Lu's assistant is a rookie halfway through, with inexperience and human weaknesses, and is destined to be a backstop.
If you carefully analyze the warning that Lu said to his assistant at the end, the formation of his personality seems to be a reason why the society cannot get rid of the relationship. If you take into account the attitude of others to work harder than others, it is absolutely judgmental. It seems sloppy. This happens to be the director's sublimation theme, a deliberately designed bug, which requires viewers to find loopholes and make up for them through thinking.
To create a god or a demon, to make them an absolute hero or an absolute scum, to embody the reality of human differences, the powerful posture of the "main theme" is completely blurred into the infinite power of the "savior" in the bloody hormones, This kind of routine was highly respected in Hollywood blockbusters of the 1970s and 1980s. The so-called fashion has something to do with the era it belongs to. When downturn, decadence, and hesitation prevail, the way to alleviate over-worry is to put a shot of blood.
After entering the new economic era in the 1990s, various Hollywood commercial films began to admire the lofty connotations of "skepticism". Before Heath Ledger's role as a clown, there were people like V geeks. The classic image of the class, they made the vague concept into a symbol, like a wall that was pushed down between the front and the back. It can fall on the positive side or on the reverse side.
However, this type of film mainly focuses on the big theme of saving the world, setting up a society, system, environment, and humanistic background that cannot be worse than dying, and then uses alternative methods to deny, reorganize, and maintain. Dan Gilroy, who is a screenwriter, also has such ambitions in his new film "Nightcrawler", which he wrote and directed, but he put the foundation of suspicion on the soil of "existentialism". Coupled with the background of the news industry, which itself is the center of the topic, the story has a high-definition effect that replicates real life. The truth and the truth in the plot seem to be closely related to ordinary people.
Think about it, not only need to be divided into two, but the world needs to be divided into N. Scarlett, the widow’s red-hot widow sister, pointed her middle finger to some “paparazzi” because of the nude photo turmoil, but it does not mean that those entertainment reporters who took her to be a goddess with a telephoto lens did not invite her to see her and act as her guardian. Roman Darek, the prospective husband of the Flower Messenger, is an ordinary reporter, which is enough to illustrate the multiple interpretations of a problem.
In the world of drama, there is never a lack of shots aimed at the complex identity of the "Uncrowned King". In the past, it existed in the form of a foil. In recent years, there has been an obvious trend of "noisy guests over the main", the astonishing development speed of the information age, the sudden emergence of self-media, and the dissemination of various information is no longer a single output behavior. Because the people have absorbed the information, all their feelings will be transmitted back to them through various platforms. The media’s arbitrary and arbitrary free era is over. Then, they must accept and endure the surging participation in discussions, information feedback, and even the Control the direction of the media's speech and play the role of a rocker.
The media-led public opinion orientation in "The Lost Lovers" is a typhoon that blows from level 3 to level 8 to level 10. "Supporting role" has been elevated to a position that cannot be underestimated. And the Korean drama "Pinocchio" simply stationed in the press center building, using news media as a carrier, not only to discuss morals and laws, to be sentimental, to be ruthless, but also to witness a love, which is a realistic theme of Drama. "Night Crawler" is a news documentary that belongs to the shortened version of the film, and various issues related to the news media are mentioned in the film.
Many years later, when you mention the Pulitzer Prize winner Kevin Carter, people will remember the famous news event that caused a chain reaction with his photographic picture "The Hungry Sudan". After the topic of "the eagle seized the little girl" was swept into disaster by the storm of public opinion all over the world, his life fell from the highest point of his career to the lowest point of eternal misfortune, and because he could not escape the confusion of moral kidnapping, he could not escape from the spiritual shackles. Finding the key to liberation, 3 months later, Kevin Carter chose to end his life. His last words "really, really sorry everyone, the pain of life far exceeds the level of joy", the result of his suicide, all this has completely intensified a small incident that tortures industry ethics and human morality into uncontrollable The big event, the scene is like the ruins of the war, it is unbearable to look back.
Kevin Carter is naturally similar to Lu Fei, a journalist in The Nightcrawler, and they have fundamental differences on life and value. Kevin's thoughts when facing the torture of inner purgatory are precious information. He once said to people, "When I put the camera on all this, I was saying "God!" "I have to work first. If I can't work as usual, I shouldn't be here. Kevin kept his professional ethics, but he surrendered in the face of secular scolding. I understand that the "bottom line" of Kevin's life has collapsed. The
same situation is not a problem for "Lu" here, because Lu is not restricted by morality, he is allowed to gallop under morality, and he has no "bottom line" obstacles to cross. On the contrary, the lower limit of show is just to allow He seized the opportunity to find himself, the best way to achieve success. If he is not an observer of the mean, he must make an attitude. The above is my understanding of the characters and events in the movie "Nightcrawler".
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