Nightcrawler is a gorgeous film for its wonderful cast, impeccable shot composition, and sociopathic story. Our main character, Louis Bloom, is played by Jake Gyllenhaal. Louis is out on a mission, I mean at first he is selling scrap metal to make ends meat, but when he sees a small film crew on the scene of a car crash he realizes there's prosperity in sorrow. "If it bleeds, it leads" is his prime directive, but while other 'Nightcrawlers' seem to film the scene as is, Bloom decides more often than not to break all ethical and moral boundaries in order to get the most money.
It's a strange profession - listening to police frequencies and becoming exited at key words like murder, fatal, crash, and homicide. It's pretty clear from the beginning in fact that Gyllenhaal's character is clearly not like the rest of us, he constantly banks on the sorrow of others and even uses people closest to him as news fodder.
Nightcrawler is clearly a movie worth a watch.
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