Nightcrawler destroys the world by challenging or subverting mainstream American values at every turn, completely blackening our United States of America from start to finish.
At first, since the main character, Louis, is played by Jake Gyllenhaal and he makes himself look skinny as a ghost, I expected him to be a sympathetic character like Matthew in Dallas Buyers Club. I was disabused of this by Louis’ behaviour three minutes into the film, a complete loser who looks at a security guard’s watch and snatches one in passing. All indications are that he needs no sympathy at all. It’s not unusual for an American film to make a film about a villain with no vices, but here the ruin is inspirational, an inspirational story that has no bottom line and forces a restructuring of the world view, an inspirational story, an inspirational story. All his actions are a personal struggle for the American dream.
The film’s protagonist, Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal), is a humble, arrogant, cold-blooded, playfully working and calculating loser of a photographer. In order to play this sleazy nature to perfection. The lead actor, Jake Gyllenhaal, lost a whopping 18 pounds. With his deep-set eye sockets and slimmed-down face, he gives the Black American Dream a satanic appeal. I repeat, this is an inspirational story.
There is no shortage of crime in the American Empire; the question is how to learn where a case has been committed and get to the scene in the first place. With ratings at stake for the station’s clout and real money in advertising dollars, Nina, the only female character in this film as the curator of the evening news team, is under immense pressure for ratings and peer competition. Once legal counsel gives an opinion that no law has been broken, our perverted protagonist provides the restricted video and accepts it as is, big deal, it is broadcast with a mosaic.
When you find the crime, the killer, do you call the police first or do you take a sneak peek, or do you go even more bizarre and take a self-fearing picture? Bloom, a bandit by trade, is only interested in news that will sell, and is not bothered by professional ethics. If the angle is bad, move the bodies of the victims and that’s it. The media feeds its audience with violent news for years, and the more the latter’s appetite grows, the more Bloom is fed. If the media feeds a bloodthirsty audience and allows unscrupulous freaks like Bloom to flourish, shouldn’t the audience, the ultimate determiner of ratings, take the blame? Not for me, anyway.
News, that is, is a live action movie, and the violence and gore make the play all the more gripping. Lou played hard to get the footage he wanted. At first he drags the corpse to make a more impactful picture, then he swoops in ahead of the police to film the bleeding victim, until he tricks his base into being a live target for a straightforward murder, from which he becomes a rich man, marries a rich woman, and is on his way to the top of his life.
The American Dream, or more accurately, the “success story” of purpose, is the hardest part of The Night Stalker, the idea of coming to the rescue or pressing the shutter in the face of disaster.
As the old saying goes, it’s not the hooligans who are afraid to be bold, but the hooligans who are educated.
In films, these anti-human and anti-social perverts abound. The advantage of these perverts is that they never have any feelings for the outside world, so there is no inner turmoil at all, because they are already prepared for anything.
The horror of this type of pervert is that you can’t guess anything at all from their eyes, because what they are thinking is completely beyond your imagination. “One man’s kink is another man’s everyday.” These people are kinky on a daily basis! Just ask if you’re scared.
The funny thing is, even if these people are “slutty” every day, they all have foul faces and unbelievable acting skills, so do you think we should kneel down and pay tribute to them? If you say you haven’t seen it? Find the time to watch it and fight fire with fire.
It’s because of those dark, nasty, vile, greedy and cold-blooded people that we get to know what’s scary and what’s horrible. I just want to say, “Don’t know me, you perverts.