The Art in Artificial

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Dan Gilroy and Robert Elswit’s 2014 film, Nightcrawler, is a slow-burn hyper-focused character study of the degradation of one man’s psyche that most likely wasn’t that stable to begin with, as he delves deeper and deeper into the Los Angeles 24 Hour News Cycle. Gilroy’s dedication to his highly unlikable character and the damage that his actions cause to those around him is reflected in Elswit’s dark, grimy, and absolutely lived-in vision of the…