Morality In The Film 'Night Crawler'

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“When an individual experiences certain journeys, one’s personality as well as their outlook on life can change for better or for worse, within the prescribed text as well as a text of your choice, outline the journeys incorporated, and describe the influences it may have had on the character or the impact on the story as a whole”
Within the film Night crawler, Lou Bloom struggling to find work, discovers his hidden talent of crime reporting in which he sells the footage to News departments as his form of income. Throughout the film bloom recognizes his talent and pursues it as his fulltime job in which he establishes a partnership to assist him and changes as a person as the stress and demand for work and footage overcomes his sense of morality
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Resisting she pulls away, and says “How do we do this again?” The couple’s six-year-old daughter, the title character, vanished whilst crossing their cul-de-sac within a suburban street to visit her grandmother and are still trying to come to terms with their loss. The idea that ruby moon may have been kidnapped evokes suspicion within the neighborhood and the series of events allows the viewer to question the existence of the characters and then goes in further for the reader to determine whether ruby ever existed in the first place, The mental journey incorporated within the play encompasses Ray and Sylvie to reach a stage in which even they start to question ruby’s existence which allows the character to fall into a state of denial and hence evident to this; the couple ship limbs of a doll to their house and as the story progresses the doll adopts the characteristics of the supposed long lost daughter; ruby moon. During the play Ray and Sylvie visit people within the neighborhood searching for answers linking to Ruby’s disappearance, During these visits readers are suddenly given the impression that these neighbors are ludicrous representations of the couples fears and preconceptions, though it seems that Ray and Sylvie allegedly visit each of them, in reality Ray nor Sylvie leave the plagued world of their imagination forever

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