Gender + ethnicity in Nightcrawler
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SmartBlonde0 — 10 years ago(December 01, 2015 12:28 AM)
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.
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hiitsmewutsup-953-300236 — 10 years ago(December 23, 2015 10:20 PM)
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).
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punkofsu — 10 years ago(January 21, 2016 09:03 PM)
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. -
Jonny_B_Lately — 10 years ago(January 22, 2016 07:07 AM)
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."
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RealOne01010 — 9 years ago(September 26, 2016 05:39 PM)
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.