Nightcrawler (2014)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 118m
Director: Dan Gilroy
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Rick Garcia, Bill Paxton
Synopsis:
An amoral sociopath turns his own detachment and nocturnal lifestyle to his advantage by filming local crime as it happens and selling the footage to competing news networks. As the demand for increasingly raw and emotive material rises, he browbeats his employee, eliminates his competition and ultimately stage-manages his own crime scenes.
Review:
A wholly unsavoury, if well-intentioned, take on a growing phenomenon, itself an inevitable consequence of TV deregulation and the age of the instant newsfeed. The way in which the need for ratings tends to lead to a downward spiral in standards is eloquently conveyed by the look on the news editor's face, but the only checks in this story are of the monetary kind. All of which makes for a downbeat finish, and quite rightly so, but one which is itself therefore 'uncommercial'.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 118m
Director: Dan Gilroy
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Rick Garcia, Bill Paxton
Synopsis:
An amoral sociopath turns his own detachment and nocturnal lifestyle to his advantage by filming local crime as it happens and selling the footage to competing news networks. As the demand for increasingly raw and emotive material rises, he browbeats his employee, eliminates his competition and ultimately stage-manages his own crime scenes.
Review:
A wholly unsavoury, if well-intentioned, take on a growing phenomenon, itself an inevitable consequence of TV deregulation and the age of the instant newsfeed. The way in which the need for ratings tends to lead to a downward spiral in standards is eloquently conveyed by the look on the news editor's face, but the only checks in this story are of the monetary kind. All of which makes for a downbeat finish, and quite rightly so, but one which is itself therefore 'uncommercial'.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 118m
Director: Dan Gilroy
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Rick Garcia, Bill Paxton
Synopsis:
An amoral sociopath turns his own detachment and nocturnal lifestyle to his advantage by filming local crime as it happens and selling the footage to competing news networks. As the demand for increasingly raw and emotive material rises, he browbeats his employee, eliminates his competition and ultimately stage-manages his own crime scenes.
Review:
A wholly unsavoury, if well-intentioned, take on a growing phenomenon, itself an inevitable consequence of TV deregulation and the age of the instant newsfeed. The way in which the need for ratings tends to lead to a downward spiral in standards is eloquently conveyed by the look on the news editor's face, but the only checks in this story are of the monetary kind. All of which makes for a downbeat finish, and quite rightly so, but one which is itself therefore 'uncommercial'.