1. It is an inspirational story, the entrepreneurial history of a video news company. The protagonist is free from the fetters of secular morality, does not care about the opinions of ordinary people, and is maverick and succeeds in the end.
2. But he is also a very secular person, and he takes the success learning courses on the Internet as his code of conduct. There are too many examples around us. They're good teachers and obnoxious, think about the fat guys you've interviewed.
The above two points are contradictory and not contradictory. The paradox is that success science requires you to be maverick, but believing in success science is not maverick at all. No contradiction means that there are many people who practice successful learning. Before they succeed, they will inevitably conflict with mainstream values, be disapproved of, and suffer abuse. Most people give up, and there are very few people who are crazy and extreme. Only they can succeed. When these people succeed, the impression they give people becomes positive.
3. It is also a moral allegory. In order to achieve success, a person only asks for the purpose, not the means. But this is not the same as the usual irony. In "The Godfather," Mike Corleone's success comes at the cost of being brutal and betrayal, whether for his family's interests or his personal ambitions. But "Night Walker" Louis, just like the emperor Machiavelli praised, like Napoleon, like Hitler, they are above all human beings, treating others as worms, not bound by emotion, so they can look at other people's life and death indifferently. He didn't lose anything because of success, everything was as he originally envisioned.
4. It also criticized journalism for perversion. Audiences are curious, journalism caters to their desires, or we just look at how a celebrity scandal is passed and received between supply and demand, and we feel a little perverted. However, we have turned a blind eye to this, and even participated in it. When these things that are not worth the fuss in reality happen on the screen, we obviously feel that they are perverted because the film emphasizes the intrusion of journalists into the private lives of citizens, and shows the blood and death one after another, and--
5. Louis looks like a monster, his looks, his way of speaking and a philosophy combine to make him a neurotic. There are quite a few such roles, "True Detective", "Silence of the Lambs", "Psycho", "Taxi Driver" (even "The King of Comedy") and so on. What they have in common is not murder, bloodlust, but loneliness, whether that loneliness is because of their character disorder or because they despise everyone. In terms of shape, except for Hopkins, who is a fat man, most of them are thin, pale, and have sunken eyes. There is a vampire influence in it, and we can also find the shadow of Hitler.
Summary: We might as well regard this film as a story of recruiting security. Lewis was outside the mainstream society and outside the mainstream news system, and was eventually included in the mainstream. Strangely, he showed us a non-mainstream appearance, and the method he used from beginning to end was the mainstream method he learned from the Internet. So, there is no boundary between mainstream and non-mainstream.
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