The actor is actually South Asian, but I'm sure the character was purposely left ambiguous. I don't think it's a coincidence that he wasn't white though.

Or that Lou's exploited assistant, Rick, is latino-looking, in a state that exploits hispanics to the end in agriculture.
Pretty sure Rick was clearly Arab/Middle Eastern and portrayed as such. If they wanted a Latino looking actor, they could've gotten one.

Topics like this always makes me think the OP is writing a topic about the movie and either wants our help with it or just wants to bother us with it.

I think you were spot on. I found this to be a Libertarian's mindset in Lou.
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I'm a person just like you
But I've got better things to do

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Cop can't be that smart. She couldn't bust Mickey Donovan.

The assistant was Indian or thereabout, not latino.
Applied Science? All science is applied. Eventually.

There were a lot of stereotypes being thrown around. Rick was not only "minority" looking (I thought Near East Asian), he was one of the truly innocent people caught up in Lou's mania. Not a mere incidental victim, but the one character who lost the most as a result of "crossing" Lou.
I think, in it's way, it is an indirect critique of unconstrained capitalism. Lou is not some multi-billionaire out to gather as much wealth as possible. He is a victim of it himself. Lou is a sociopath forced into a career path that he is more than willing to exploit no matter what it takes.
The entire film is chilling. Despite the fact that Lou will do literally anything to make money on other people's misery, the people he supplies footage to are little better. He get's his hands dirty; they profit from his dirty work.
Though he does not start out causing the misery he films, it doesn't take much for him to become more directly involved in that misery.
There were other little revealing bits in the film. Like Nina telling her production assistant that his job is to get the weather girl to stand sideways. Like Lou pointing out that crime is actually going down so the station has to concentrate on violent crime in white suburbia. The overt manipulation of the viewing public, all for the precious ratings points, was perhaps the most chilling aspect of the film. Rating points that allow the station to charge advertisers more dollars for a minute of air-time.
In it's way, I think Nightcrawler is a horror film in the same vein as "Sunset Boulevard."
Watta ya lookn here for?

Just to add a bit to your point: Toward the end, when Nina and Louis are discussing the car chase footage, there is a blatant allusion to sexuality. The way Nina praises the footage ("It's simply amazing.."), combined with how close they are too each other, and finally concluding with her saying "Obviously, I want it" is obvious. Clearly shes talking about how bad she wants him at that moment and his sexual dominance over her. They are, after all, still bargaining for the "price" and she melts at his feet.
Point is, the movie is more than the story and clearly has hidden meanings throughout.

delusional SJW alert

This is pretty true for the most part.
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ummm ? he isnt espanic he is asian and he picks on everyone so only person being casual racist is you lol.

Yeah. I didn't like as a Hispanic how he has no problem picking on latinos as generic minority criminals. Clearly, he's too beep terrified to portray blacks that way. So we make an easy target. beep this Dartmouth beep who wrote/directed this? Also, this movie seems to take place in an alternate universe where people are unable to recognize a very obvious sociopath who pretty much tells people TO THEIR FACE that he's using them for personal gain (!). Weird, but interesting movie. Casually racist, instead of just touching on the issue of racism (how it wishes to be perceived).

Interesting comment, but Rick was clearly South Asian, not Hispanic.
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Put a sock in it.

TxMike, read the full post. The OP doesn't talk about just race. The OP discusses gender and capitalism as well. I think it's a brilliant analysis. Nice try on reading comprehension though; maybe you'll do better next time.

Nice interpretation

If you honestly think the movie didn't have a clear message about social injustice/racism and sexism/rape culture, then you didn't pay attention.

It's scary to me how many gullible fools have drank the progressive koolaid.

Absolute nonsense. Racism is defined as treating somone differently based on his skin colour, ethnicity, ect. This is the official definition used by United Nations worldwide. What you are using is a lunatic made up definition touted by morons that never experienced racism in their life.
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Uhh no. Racism is defined as words or actions by the majority race against an oppressed minority. If you're the oppressed minority, you can't be racist. You can be prejudiced, but not racist; those two things are very different.
It would be better if everyone understood the difference between racism and prejudice.

Sure. But that is not dependent on race. Its possible for a white person to experience worse racism than a black person, depending on the situation.
Resistance is impolite, Friendship is mandatory.

Thing is, the kind of racism that you encounter might be a world different compared to what someone else is forced to live through 24/7. Just saying. The difference could be described as having a strict father compared to having a father that beats the ever-living s**t out of you every single day. And both can be called a tough upbringing. Ya, right

since ALL people are PoC (well except albinos i guess, but thats a rare medical condition) and all people, regardless of thier skin colour, has experienced racism, this is aboslutely nonsensical statenet.
Applied Science? All science is applied. Eventually.

Eh, easy to say when you're not a PoC who isn't experiencing racism in their life.