Nightcrawler

Rating: 8/10 (28 February 2017)

Nightcrawler is an impressive satire reflecting the dark side of press media in the city of New York. The hero Louis incidentally became an independent press-photographer. He bought a whole set of equipment and bugged the police wireless radio to get first-hand information about news such as crime scenes. He formed a analogical-cooperative relationship with a producer at a news station. Gradually, as his business became larger and more profitable than before, he was no longer satisfied with normal car accidents or scenes of fire. He lost his humanity by degrees, becoming brutal and unscrupulous. This motion picture directly and cruelly revealed evil side of human nature which depicting the process of depraving caused by desire. Audiences can be stunned by the contrast between the hero's totally different characters at the beginning and the end. I can deeply feel the enormous influences induced by human desire. Also, the darkness in media indicated the inevitable competition in certain fields which leads to notorious social phenomena.