This sentence has also become the best commentary for the movie "Nightcrawler". As a horror masterpiece that can be compared with "The Lost Lover" in 2014, "Nightcrawler" has brought us more surprises and more shocking thinking.
Unlike ordinary movies, there is almost no positive image in "Nightcrawler": the male protagonist Louis is unscrupulous to achieve the goal, the female protagonist Nina does not hesitate to use her body to trade with Louis to keep her job, and Louis's assistant Rick several times to increase her salary. The threat of Louis. Throughout the whole movie, it is difficult to find a relatively lovable character.
In the screenwriter "Save the Cat", Blacksnyder once put forward the concept of "saving the cat". In short, it means that the character who is the opposite side does some very pleasing things to improve the character's favorability. And this moment of saving the cat can be seen almost everywhere in the Hong Kong movie "Slaying the Wolf". For example, Sammo Hung plays the gangster Wang Bao. Although he is a gangster and full of evil penalties, he will become a good husband and a good father whenever he faces his wife and children.
But "Nightcrawler" does the opposite, each time the character of the main character is displayed more, it makes the audience even more annoying. Of course, the brilliant performances of actors headed by Jack Glyinhal are indispensable, especially the protagonist Louis, portrayed by Jack Glyinhal, who is almost terrifying. There does not seem to be the word "pity" in the world of Louis: he is indifferent to the injuries of his colleagues. When facing the corpse, he can freely manipulate the corpse in order to make the shooting more beautiful. In the face of the threat of the employee, he directly designs to kill it. . Unexpectedly, Jack, the Sunshine Boy, can also score three points when playing a bad guy, which is chilling.
Although the movie "Nightcrawler" tells the story of a freelance photographer, it criticizes the shortcomings of the entire media industry. Although there are still many movies that take the news industry as an example, the perspective of "Nightcrawler" is still relatively new. By describing the "growth" of a freelance cameraman, it gives us a real sense of what shameful behavior a journalist can do for ratings and high rewards.
As a journalist, he should be a messenger who ruthlessly exposes evil and darkness, upholds justice, and upholds justice. But with increasingly brutal competition, more and more journalists have become nasty and despicable demons. When the news anchors in "Terror Live" learned of major news, the first thing they thought of was not justice, but the opportunity to turn themselves over. Louis in "Nightcrawler", in order to film the police arresting the gunman. The breaking news even set up a bureau to directly exchange fire between the police and the gangsters, resulting in numerous deaths and injuries to the police.
Compared with Louis in real life, reporters are absolutely inferior. One of the most shocking is undoubtedly the "Bai Xiaoyan kidnapping case", the daughter of Taiwanese actress Bai Bingbing. On April 14, 1997, 16-year-old Bai Xiaoyan was kidnapped by a kidnapper on her way to school. The kidnapper demanded a ransom of 5 million U.S. dollars. In the case of isolation and helplessness, Bai Bingbing chose to call the police. However, Taiwanese media who are more acquainted with the police also got the news and began to report on it. When Bai Bingbing paid the ransom, there were even news interview cars and reporters to follow. After learning the news, the kidnappers brutally killed Bai Xiaoyan and threw her body into the wilderness. At Bai Xiaoyan's funeral, media reporters still did not let Bai Bingbing's helpless mother go. Although Bai Xiaoyan did not die in the hands of the news media, can these news media that are racing to report on the "Bai Xiaoyan kidnapping case" really get rid of their involvement?
I remember when I was a student reporter at the university, an senior asked me what would you do if a female athlete fell while shooting a sports meeting? My answer is to lift her up. And the standard answer given by the seniors was: take pictures of the scene of her falling and help her when there is no one to help her after shooting the material. And when I was an assistant director of an entertainment program after work, I was going to film the show’s highlights. During the recording of the program, an actress ran to the women’s bathroom and vomited after drinking a "drink" mixed with various spices. more than. When I followed her to the women's toilet, I stopped because of scruples. At this time, another male director grabbed the camera in my hand and rushed into the women's toilet without hesitation.
After being an assistant director for about a year, I saw that many program groups were simply exhausted because they captured the audience's attention. So I completely left the industry and haven't watched any entertainment show in 2 years. I did this not because of how noble I am, but because I found that this industry inspires evil in me. When I was shooting the highlights, despicable thoughts such as "Why don't you run out, so that I have to shoot the highlights" and other despicable thoughts appeared in my mind. So while I still had a choice, I decisively chose to leave.
Xiao Cui is right, the reason for all this is the ratings. But what is behind the ratings? Isn’t it an audience waiting to see the world’s best news? If the audience is not interested, will the reporter sneak into the hospital pretending to be a doctor to sneak pictures of the female singer's body? If the audience is not interested, will the reporter report on "the kidnapping of the daughter of a well-known actress"? If Taiwanese media reporters indirectly caused the tragic death of Bai Xiaoyan, can we also get out of the way, hiding in front of newspapers, news, and computers waiting for major news?
Many people don't know that the original title of Chen Kexin's movie "Martial Arts" is actually "The Conspirator". In the movie, Xu Baijiu (Take Jincheng) once explained a point of view to Liu Jinxi (Yen Zidan): If a person kills someone, everyone is guilty, and everyone is an accomplice.
In "Night Crawler", Louis's biggest competitor bought an additional news report car, expanded his business and suffered a car accident, and became the subject of filming and reporting. At the end, Louis also bought a new interview car. This ending seems to imply that Louis will linger on the ambulance bed one day, becoming a major news in the lens of others.
After watching "Nightcrawler", I have been thinking: If one day Louis is also the subject of being photographed by others because of an accident, what exactly is in his mind (or in our mind)?
View more about Nightcrawler reviews
