For Chinese audiences, "Nightcrawler" is especially worth watching. At least, through this film, we can know what news is and how news is made. I have worked for two portals in China for many years, and it is in the news center that belongs to the core department. Understand a little bit of insider information, now I can talk about it. At that time, in the front page of the portal’s more than a dozen news items, if there were three to five negative news items, they would quickly receive relevant instructions from the relevant departments. The instructions were often not specific to a specific piece of news. He did not say that the news was The question is, "What do you want to do?" After one sentence, it's over. I don't want to explain it, but let you figure out the holy will and then judge yourself. This method is really dark and chilling. It is a typical official style, powerful and oppressive. The subtext is "Are you afraid that the world will not be chaotic?" "Are you trying to smear society? "Do you want to be a reactionary?" Waiting for meaning, poor commercial websites, how dare they bear the guilt of accumulating negative and instigating social sentiments recognized by the regime, so they hurriedly adjusted and quickly controlled the so-called negatives within the three rules, and kept the existing ones. Adjust the sequence of negative news headlines, or quickly add more positive reports to synthesize the sentiment of the next page. For readers, if you want to be curious, want to see the negative, I'm sorry, you can open your eyes to find it, anyway, I can't give it to you happily.
Relevant personnel in relevant departments always follow the training courses held for editors and reporters, saying with all their heart that they should not only see the dark side of society. The overall order in China is good, and they must be good at discovering the sunny side. To assume the responsibilities of a media person, one must be good at discovering positive models, and be good at conveying positive energy, and so on. In fact, they are all right. With such a big society, there are always few bad things, the sun is always bright, and the shadows are always small. And people who work in the media can't always look at society with colored glasses, can't just see social negatives, and so on. But under this guidance, what exactly is news will confuse editors and reporters. Telling everyone the good side to the greatest extent is good news? Passing positive energy is fulfilling social responsibility? Do not take the initiative to report negative, these are the values of socialist news?
"Night Crawler" tells us why there are always negative news in the American news, always killing people and overstocking, always robbing and killing, always car accidents and fires. Watching the news in the United States, after reading it, my heart will get stuck. I feel that the United States is really too dark, and I can't wait, and it's full of darkness. But is this true? Is American society really a cloud of darkness? "Nightcrawler" tells you directly, because American society has been around for a long time, it is too comfortable. There are not too many killings, but too few things. There is even a fire in the city. A car accident, if there are casualties, will become a major event, because people in a peaceful society simply lack the opportunity to see the flesh and blood. Rare is more weird. Therefore, as long as the TV station broadcasts such news, it will immediately cause a frenzy of ratings, and the ratings will continue to rise. And the American media are all private media, which are calculated for ratings and revenue. Of course, such news will be broadcast first. It's not that the media likes to broadcast, but the audience is rarely seen every day, so I really want to watch it. It's not that the society is bad, it's that the society is too good. Therefore, once there is news of casualties, media practitioners will swoop in like flies, do everything possible to dig, and they want to get their own exclusive shots to attract viewers to watch. We must know that the United States has an area of 9.3 million square kilometers at any rate, which is not much less than China's land area, and more than 300 million people live on it. With such a large area and such a large population, there are always some accidents and cases according to the probability. To support the negative reports on American TV. However, even so, it cannot support the TV station to have materials to process all-weather. For the rest, I had to make jokes on politicians, so all kinds of talk shows and celebrities were used to support another major category of TV programs, so that the TV stations could be filled with time.
The story of "Night Crawler" tells how news paparazzi works, and how those cases of casualties were filmed and produced. The news paparazzi here is not like Yuji, as long as it stays guarded and keeps track of specific people. The news paparazzi needs to be equipped with eavesdropping equipment so that they can simultaneously intercept the communication signals of the police station. As long as the patrol officer receives the police information from the headquarters and informs that there is a new case there, the news paparazzi needs to set off immediately, and it is best to be in front of the police. Arrive at the scene of the crime so that you can grab the first-hand information before the police protect the scene, and then quickly send it to the TV station, and then broadcast it to the audience.
Lou Bloom, played by Jack Gyllenhaal, was originally a street gangster who lived by petty theft. At one time, he wanted to find a normal job and live a normal office worker, but there was no one in the society. The company took him in. Wandering frustratedly on the street, he accidentally discovered the business of news paparazzi, so he started by renting a cheap machine and became a news paparazzi, that is, a "nightcrawler." Because most of the criminal cases occur at night, the news paparazzi who travels through the night to make a living have the title of "Night Crawler". Because American TV stations implement a complete separation system between production and broadcasting, production can be completed by social organizations and then sold to the TV station. Lu Blumu started a news production business by himself. In order to capture the first-hand news material, he will not hesitate to do whatever it takes, even for the good-looking shots, to change the scene of some accidents. This kind of behavior that violates professional ethics is not enough for training, but Bloom, who was originally a punk, has a very low bottom line, so he didn't use any taboos.
And because of his unique perspective, he will approach the scene of the incident as much as possible, and there are many exclusive shots, which makes him slowly open the situation. As a result, he officially regarded the news of paparazzi as his profession, and then developed a strong career ambition, planning how to make it bigger step by step. Under his ambition, he was not only a recorder of news, but even started to make news. As long as he could make his filming career bigger, he would not hesitate to do anything. For this reason, the police could die for his career and the pedestrians on the road were also You can die anywhere. Even, he clearly discovered the murderer of the serial case, but also concealed it. He wanted to create a sensational news, and he was the only recorder. Such terrible ambitions, and dissatisfied appetite, trapped Lou Bloom and became a terrible news maker, a news monster. Just like the oil tycoon played by Daniel Day Lewis in "Blood is Coming", in order to develop oil and expand his career, he did not hesitate at all costs and at all costs, so that he finally achieved his career and completely lost himself. Lu Bloom is exactly the same, eventually becoming a conscientious news tycoon.
The whole "Nightcrawler" is about how a news gangster is made, from a street gangster, from ignorance of news, to a resume of a news interview tycoon, Lou Bloom's growth can be seen People were terrified, gritted their teeth, and couldn't stop. For Chinese audiences, not only the movies are good-looking, but there are more fun and interesting things conveyed behind the movies, so they should not be missed. It's a pity that, except for Jack Gyllenhaal's superb acting skills, the actors are relatively inferior, so that the lonely tree is difficult to support, weakening some of the good-looking scenes, what a pity!
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