It just so happened that I just watched the latest issue of "People" a few days ago. In addition to the amazing "Pang Mai Lang", it is the article "Jianghu Breaking the News" that is the most attractive. The protagonist of that article is the same as this film, a freelance journalist who sells breaking urban news. The focus of that article is on the arena of the people who broke the news. How hard their lives are and how fierce the competition is. "Nightcrawler" also mentions these things, but the focus is not on this, but on how unique and perverted Gyllenhaal is.
This profession, working as a reporter, but without the treatment of a reporter, can also be said to be the result of the division of labor. It is a new industry outside of the 360 industry, for reporters to go deep into the cruelest scene, allowing the audience to satisfy the darkest desires. In this story, most of the good people in the traditional sense died or failed, such as the TV station staff who respected professional ethics, the conscientious police, and the Indian Asan who wanted to find a job to do well; and the bad people all succeeded. , Such as male lead, female lead. So, this is a dark story, a success story that walks at night without seeing the light.
Comparing it with the other two movies, there will be some interesting comparisons. Perverted daughter-in-law, perverted teacher, perverted journalist are all paranoid. In this world where only paranoia can survive, they all succeeded in a certain sense: they succeeded in killing people, successfully ruined and became a musician. , Successfully became an "entrepreneur". They all embodied an aspect of the original sin of success, and they were all metamorphic versions of success and failure. Their metamorphosis and success can be analogized to entrepreneurs, politicians, and artists, and they have certain common characteristics.
In this movie dominated by night scenes, the depressed Los Angeles appears blurred and charming, and Gyllenhaal's face is also filled with this feeling. On the TV station, Gyllenhaal said to the background wall: "It looks so real on TV." But in fact it is just a painting. The content we see through the screen is not real. It is art that has been edited, selected, and processed, and can be viewed. The truth that has not been edited, selected, or processed appears so cruel and bloody, such as The male protagonist’s birth and death are just like the female protagonist’s song.
This is the magical story of a street gangster turning into a big business man. The morality he abandoned is a stepping stone on the road to success. In the primitive accumulation stage where every pore is full of blood, crossing the single-plank bridge between morality and law is a process that all people who work hard must go through. Some people fall, some lose, and some succeed.
The plot advancement of this movie is not in line with the standard setting of genre films, but the beginning, the succession, and the transformation have their own logic. The awesomeness of this script is that the male protagonist’s transformation stems from the mutual promotion of his own personality and his surrounding environment. He was not a good person at the beginning, but he was by no means a pervert. It was he himself and the people around him who turned him into a pervert. . He can defend himself that the society has turned him into this way. He never considers himself a heinous villain, but an inspirational model who has gone through hardships to succeed.
This protagonist reminds me several times of the bosses I have experienced. They are good at drawing cakes and passion, and firmly believe that they are awesome and will continue to do so. Their paranoia and willfulness are the most aura of their personal charm. The source of the greatest tragedy of Yiye Biaozhi.
Of course, no one wants to have a boss like this.
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