news & reporter & human nature
movie is the news video. A Korean drama I watched before, "Pi Ruo Cao", except for the part about love, I think there is still a part of it that describes this point of the news, especially the female anchor in this drama, the heroine's mother and the movie's mother. Like Nina in China, in order to attract attention, they have forgotten the news itself. News in their eyes becomes 70% of the story and 30% of the authenticity. As a result, news has lost its original principle of truth-telling broadcasting, but has become a means of making money for news and TV stations.
When Lou drags the corpse, in order to make the picture more "good-looking", in order to gain more fame and fortune, and sacrifice innocent people, you may feel that because someone died, so this is a big deal It's wicked, it can't be done. But the Korean drama I mentioned earlier was about small folk things. For example, when the female anchor was a reporter before, in order to have a good appearance on the camera, when she broadcasted the news of flooding, she knelt down in the water and broadcasted it, just to let the water at that time watch it. It gets deeper, or, in order to photograph the icy situation in winter, to photograph the icy road surface and let pedestrians (the elderly, students, passers-by) slip and fall, for news people, this kind of picture is more Jia can attract attention. But why can you stand there indifferently and watch people fall, but don't remind, but don't warn, things are different, big and small, but the reaction is indeed the same, that is, today's news is actually not news anymore , but story news, no story, it is just a piece of information that is easily forgotten, if there is a story, it may be remembered by others.
What is a reporter? Literally, it is a person who records events. A reporter who can broadcast from a neutral perspective is a good reporter, because only the news brought by such reporters is subjective. good news. "Good" news of any kind is inferior to a piece of real news. The male protagonist can be said to be a camera reporter. In his perception, he, like Nina, believes that "news with a story" is a piece of "valued" news, but in their eyes, this value is not news value. , but the naked value of money.
When we watch TV, movies and books, we always like to distinguish between good people and bad people, but it is obviously not appropriate to define the protagonist from the perspective of good people or bad people, because everyone is a complex individual , if you say that a person who is willing to struggle and is positive is a good person, then Lou in this movie is not such a person. In a big and prosperous city like Los Angeles, he lives at the bottom, but not the most Downstairs, he had his little home, at least better than the Rick he hired later. He is very good at using his talents, he knows how to do online learning and even negotiation skills, whether it is dealing with Nina's you or me, or the trap of giving Rick a raise later, you can say that he is a person who is good at exerting his ability, He is a person who is dedicated to his career. Aside from the incident itself, a person who works so hard, we always think he is very good? But judging from the incident, what he did has no bottom line at all. It is not something a good person would do. After all, we cannot judge a person by good and bad people.
Human nature may be sunny, dark, or gray. I don't want to look for a glimmer of light from Lou, even if he is positive in a sense, but I don't have a shred of affection for a person who has no bottom line. The bottom line is like underpants, it is not to be shown all the time, but it must be there. A person without a bottom line is like an exhibitionist who is not mentally normal.
Actors & Media
When it comes to the media part, my opinion is a lot shallower, and I didn't think about it further down the line, but when I talked to Uncle Roy at the dinner party, his point of view really caught my eye. The news, Journalists, television, and online courses are all media, some are traditional media, some are new media, and the media has penetrated our lives in every aspect. A freelance journalist in the movie, you can't describe this profession with good or bad, just like we can't judge a person by good and bad, the Pakistani reporter in "Little Lolita's Uncle Monkey God" also does it It's the same thing as Lou, but the ending is different. The self-media era brings us our desire to find out the truth, but it also brings us not seeking good understanding of the truth. We only want to believe what we see. , what we think is right. We also lose our thinking and passively accept the "useful" or "useless" information from these media.
In the background of the movie, the prosperity of Los Angeles contrasts with the people's desire to live a better life after the financial crisis in the economic background. The desolation of prosperity suddenly arises, and everything seems to be for survival. When listening carefully to the dialogue between Lou and Nina, or Lou and Rick, one feels a deep sense of dogma. These words are like a complete copy of the suspended book "How to Make Money in 30 Days" on the Internet. To 1 million", so impetuous and without connotation. It looks so bright and decent, but it only has a gorgeous shell. And Lou succeeded with this gorgeous shell, even if the gorgeous shell was wrapped in a rotten heart.
Actor Jack's acting skills are very good. He played a somewhat paranoid and distorted Lou. From his actions to his eyes, to the way he speaks and his laughter, there is a sense of paranoia. When he suddenly laughed while watching TV, the laughter was impressive. I don't know how to describe this scene in words, but that laugh made me terrified. It was a smile that had lost some kind of soul. And his roar, breaking the glass, is already telling you, yes, I am such a paranoid person.
Lou, interpreted by actor Jack, is a person who is slowly corroded by online media, and he will be unreal and eye-catching, and the videos that get high ratings day by day will be sent to TV stations, using the same video news that belongs to the media, Corrupting others. All causal cycles form a circle, in which there is an infinite dark quagmire. And the darkness quietly expanded and spread, and the excellent performance of the supporting characters made the darkness even more powerful. Rick's cautiousness and which news worker who tweeted every day didn't hold the bottom line. It's like being absorbed by the black hole-like quagmire. Slowly penetrates little by little, and corrodes little by little until the end, without a trace of light.
Laughing and watching movies has a unique flavor, laughing in a witty or threatening way of flirting with girls, laughing at the time when Lou was alone in the house, a group of people brushing a thriller together, they will laugh and watch After all, such a night is so special, like eating spicy strips with Sprite. Even if we were watching a dark thriller together.
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