《时代周刊》：2014十大最佳电影

7.Nightcrawler

7.《夜行者》

“Think of our news,” says a producer at an L.A. TV station, “as a screaming woman running down the street with her throat cut.” Lou Bloom, a freelance news cameraman played by Jake Gyllenhaal with the smiling stare of a deranged Boy Scout, takes that advice and shoots video of grieving widows, home-invasion casualties and human roadkill. You want to see this stuff, up-close and purple, do you not? Lou’s the guy who gets it for you. Imagine Travis Bickle fromTaxi Driverworming his way into Paddy Chayefsky’sNetworkand you have writer-director Dan Gilroy’s ’70s-going-on-right-now mix of psychological portrait and media satire. Prowling an after-dark L.A. brought to gorgeous, menacing life by ace cinematographer Robert Elswit, Gyllenhaal ratchets down his usual fretful-puppy winsomeness to create an ornate, eloquent vessel for Lou’s hollow charm, careering zeal and pestilential value system.

“想想这个新闻”，洛杉矶电视台的一个制片人说道，“一个被割喉的女人一边尖叫，一边在马路上狂跑”。卢·布鲁姆(杰克·吉伦哈尔饰)是个自由摄影师，他看着制片人，脸上浮现着空想家般的微笑，同意了这个提议，开始报道洛杉矶地下犯罪活动，像是悲伤的寡妇背后的故事，入室盗窃的伤亡情况以及路边杀人案。你想看看这种体裁的故事吗？卢·布鲁姆给你提供了这个机会。导演兼编剧丹·吉尔罗伊混合了70年代的心里描绘手法和对媒体的讽刺，一流的摄影师罗伯特·艾斯威特带你去看夜晚的洛杉矶是怎样的危险刺激，而吉伦哈尔不同于通常的迷人形象，诠释了一个充满职业狂热、有这瘟疫般价值观的空洞灵魂。