This movie really disturbed my soul.
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wordswork02 — 10 years ago(August 30, 2015 05:12 PM)
It disturbed my soul as well. For me, it's because it didn't end the way that I, as a justice-loving person, thought it should end.
As someone who lived in L.A. for many years AND work in a TV station for a short period of time, I loved looking at the West Coast scenery. The familiarly with how news stations choose stories both appalled and fascinated me. This film was like a luxury car wreck and I couldn't look away.
I was loving this movie until the last 10 minutes. That's when I realized I'd have to relegate it to the list with "The Departed," "Matchpoint," "The Player," and "Crime and Misdemeanors." These are movies I ended up hating because the endings contained no (poetic) justice.
As Lou was crossing the street after leaving the police station, I wanted SO BADLY for him to be struck and killed by a car. I really needed that to happen to be satisfied with this movie. But there's no ambiguity about what happened to Lou - at least not for me. HE GOT AWAY WITH IT - and that sucks. -
mmserrano4 — 10 years ago(January 01, 2016 06:49 PM)
Why does the justice have to be poetic? In The Departed, every corrupt character died. Granted, most every uncorrupted character died too,
but Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson, serving as the antagonists, died, and were brought to justice, Nicholson by Damon, and Damon by Marky Mark. Everyone who deserved it, got it.
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movielover2011 — 10 years ago(September 06, 2015 11:26 AM)
Yes, from the larger perspective it shows the moral decay of society.
It shows just how sociopaths manipulate and how they lack empathy and ethics and only serve their own selfish goals (i.e. Lou). Even worse, it shows how that behaviour is condoned and encouraged by others who have a common goal yet have just enough ethics to not do the things the sociopath is doing yet not enough ethics to try to stop it when it benefits them (i.e. Nina).
I agree, this film definitely leaves a bad taste. The thing that got me through the film is that I was waiting to see how Lou would get his comeuppance, but unfortunately that didn't materialize. -
Gothic_Maniac — 10 years ago(November 16, 2015 04:42 PM)
Exactly. I think the intention of the movie was to give this message, because that's how the media works. Corruption, ambition and bribery rules the world and why should they have made a happy ending and punish the "bad guy", when nothing is being made against those hypocrites in real life..?
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Gun_Murat_Ilban — 10 years ago(December 12, 2015 12:44 PM)
How is Lou a bad guy? He didn't have the obligation to report what he saw to the police, that's his story. He just saw a good opportunity in it. About his partner, he threatened him and tried to take half of Lou's share. They were by no means friends, he didn't have to save him, he's not responsible of his partner's death in any way.
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KingCobra686 — 9 years ago(January 18, 2017 06:15 PM)
How is Lou a bad guy?
-Hurting the security guard at the start of the film
-Stealing watch from security guard
-Stealing a bike
-Stealing cable tv from neighbors
-Cutting brakes on competitors van
-Breaking into house where crime occurred(the one where he messed with the fridge magnets)
-Breaking speed limits and driving recklessly
-Moving bodies at car crash scene
-implied sexual abuse against Nina and coercing her into things
-no respect for privacy of others in vulnerable situations (guy bleeding out in street and dying)
-Not helping the guy in the rich murder house who was still alive
-Withholding information from police
-Setting up the capture of the criminals in a dangerous situation just to cause more dramatic footage
-Putting Rick in danger of getting shot -
hernandez_harold12 — 10 years ago(January 20, 2016 08:45 PM)
In a way it was a happy ending for the bad guy. "An insane person, doesn't KNOW they're insane". Just how a bad guy doesn't know they're bad. It's why an "Evil laugh" always appears corny and fake. This was the "happy ending" of a man very determined to get to the top. He's the main character, had he doe, it wouldn't be a happy ending. That's what's cool about movies, you can root for the bad guy. Your sense in morality doesn't changes, it's a movie doing what it's suppose to do
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fullmoon7461-908-439866 — 9 years ago(August 01, 2016 10:57 AM)
that was the whole point of this film I felt that way too. which is what made it so good.. I think the writer and director (not sure it was the same person) set out to make us feel like we should take a shower after watching this
Sadly we live in a world where this type of behaviour exists and for sure in LA
the only way Lou getting his comeuppance would have worked is if a new Nightcrawler was there to film it
the whole point is that this seedy lifestyle goes on and on and on
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cargolot — 9 years ago(January 05, 2017 01:38 PM)
This is not a disney movie. In real life, people who use people, look mainly for their own interests, know how to play the game and how to "behabe properly", as fake as needed, in any given situation, use to have more possibilities for economical growth, more specially when media is involved in the equation.
If he's the right monster for the job, the news and what people watches with more interest on them, are doctor frankenstein.
Isn't advertising mostly fake fantasies, and big part making people feel bad about theirselves?
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