baal666
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Before the movie :
Nightcrawler is Dan Gilroy's first work as a director, i didn't know much about the movie and didn't intend to watch it but a friend of mine saw the movie and told me i might really like it.
Movie Plot :
Lou Bloom is nobody, he is an awkward man who earns money by stealing construction sites and sell his loot at a scrap yard. He has no job, no family and no friends.
At night, as he drives back home he passes by a car crash and stops to take a closer look : two cops are trying to get a woman out of her burning car, a van stops behind Lou and a film crew shoots footage of it, this interests Lou who will get a caera and radio scanner to listen to cops frequencies.
At first, he is having issues to get good footage until the day he shoots bloody images of the victim of a carjacking, the video will be bought by a local channel and broadcasted during the morning news.
Lou will keep providing footage of violent incidents for the channel and become more methodic, altering crime scenes and moving corpses to get better footage. Lou hires an assistant, Rick, to work for him, their footages are loved by the channel but how far can the man go to have the best footage ?
My impressions :
+ Jake Gyllenhaal does a great job and carries the movie. His weight loss gives him a ghostly face, his eyes and his facial expressions accentuate the weirdness of the character.
+ The cynical depiction of local TV news, where only crimes by poor minorities against rich white people are the only interest because it concerns more viewers. Scare them so they want to know what's next, they will stay to know the end of the story.
+ An honest look at our morbid curiosity. We all slow down when we drive by a car crash to take a look at it, the movie explains it with the fact that shocking pictures draw viewers.
+ Criticizing the job industry. The way Lou answers to Rick when he complains about his job are premade sentences, like those letters we get when we apply for a job that are a generic copy/paste of a model.
- Sometimes the character seemed completely nuts, yes he is weird but 2 or 3 times it went a bit too far and looked stupid.
To conclude, Nightcrawler is a great movie. It's depiction of the medias and the fact that it shows us how twisted we are, craving for shocking images, it's main character and the way things turn out are interesting. Some people might get bored by the slow pacing of the movie but i think it's worth giving it a shot.
<big><big>8/10</big></big>