Nightcrawler | Official Red Band Trailer | Global Road Entertainment In 2014, a film came out that was widely praised, but not seen by that many people.
In the decade since Nightcrawler first came out, the specifics of its story feel less applicable to the world we live in. That story, which is basically one about the endless hunger news stations have for violence and gore, feels less essential than it did in 2014. Local news is not as central to American life as it used to be, and the critiques of media today are much less about its unrepentant interest in violence.
Even as the specifics of Nightcrawler resonate less than they once did, though, Nightcrawler as an object has not lost any of its potency. Part of that is because of Gyllenhaal’s central performance, which is almost undoubtedly the best of his career. He creates a protagonist so unlikable yet so endlessly watchable that you end up hating yourself for spending time with him. You become complicit in his immoral activities.
“I’m a hard worker,” he says. “I set high goals, and I’ve been told that I’m persistent. Now, I’m not fooling myself, sir. Having been raised with the self esteem movement so popular in schools, I used to expect my needs to be considered. But I know that these days, our culture no long caters to the job loyalty that could be promised to earlier generations. What I believe, sir, is that good thinks come to those who work their asses off.
It’s about the ways that video can obscure the truth One of Nightcrawler’s most trenchant observations is that video of a crime can obscure as much as it reveals. Even as we see every detail of a car crash or a murder that hasn’t even been reported to police yet, we don’t understand the context of how these things occurred, or how frequently these kinds of things happen more generally.
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