Conversely, Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler (October 2014) offered the antidote to the fantasy. Set against the neon-lit, desperate boulevards of Los Angeles at 3 AM, it presented Vice as labor. Jake Gyllenhaal’s Lou Bloom is a vampire of the gig economy, feeding on car crashes and home invasions. The film’s most disturbing vice wasn't sex or drugs; it was the algorithmic optimization of human tragedy for broadcast ratings. Nightcrawler accurately predicted the "if it bleeds, it leads" philosophy of 2014’s local news, where the city's suffering became its most popular entertainment product.
2014 films treated city vices with either glossy nostalgia or grim realism. The film’s most disturbing vice wasn't sex or
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