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This film is one of the greatest formal achievements at the level of craft I've ever seen. It solves the exact problem that its subject is about. Does it so well in fact that the strongest qualities are almost entirely unsung from what I've seen. It's literary naturalism that follows the logic of the protagonist through and through and has the restraint to not add to it, which follows exactly at the level of narrative structure and formal presentation that Lou himself performs with his nightcrawling. It's an exceptionally *logical* film that shows the natural unnaturalness of nature. The progression of his activity makes perfect sense and proceeds from encounter to reaction to prediction to causation. People see it as a thriller with a good performance but miss things like him keeping a plant, a slight glitch in the clinical sociopath read. That reframes his developmental trajectory because it's a conscious deliberate choice to tend the needs of another living being. The mirror rage, the cartoons, the mimicking old films. He wasn't always like that. Somewhat alien, but not necessarily cold. And these are the few moments where Lou is *unedited*, he edits all his presentation and interaction. These moments perform nightcrawling on Lou himself, and the film achieves exactly the kind of framing that Lou himself talks about, the dissolution between the viewing subject and the surrounding frame. The critique is that there is no critique, only naturalistic presentation. It *is* a success story. He is a self-made (he barely has any coherent prior self) American businessman and whatever horror emerges comes simply for clear recognition of what that can mean. Very intelligent and precise film.

I still think nightcrawler is the best portrayal of sociopathy in a major film, at least in my experience with sociopaths. Seems like serial killers are the minority.

Notably, the data centers have also not staged antifa false flags (?) in response to this. Eddington is about as "prophetic" as one of those SVU episodes where they throw darts at a newspaper and cast a guy who looks like Clavicular as "The Strait of Hormuz Pedophile".

mamdani Socialistly balancing the budget is some truly son of the century-tier bullshitting because what he's basically doing is ransoming hochul for state funds with the threat of a primary challenge. very based, but not a very replicable form of fiscal politics