Nightcrawler
One weekend my friend Mackenzie and I were deciding what movie we
wanted see in theaters. We decided on Nightcrawler because it looked very good
and interesting. In nightcrawler Jake Gyllenhaal's character, Lou Bloom, is a
man looking for a job. One day he comes across a scene of an accident and sees
men come in with cameras and start recording the accident. He asked them what
they were doing and he said shooting footage that they would sell to news
stations. Lou very soon became interested in this and bought a camera. He soon
made a career into this. He started off with a crappy camera and car, but as he
started getting good footage throughout the movie he started making good money
and had a really nice camera and a nice car. He had one employee that worked
for him and one news station that he would only give footage to. He really
liked the woman that worked there and was saving their news station with his
very good footage. He would always make it to the crime scene before anyone
else. He made it to a crime scene before the police and got very good graphic
footage that would save the news station. He used this as an advantage and told
the woman at the news station she had to have a sexual relationship with him
and many other order he gave her or else he wouldn't give them footage anymore.
Lou Bloom definitely had some sort of a mental illness in this movie. It does not say that he
does, but I could tell because Gyllenhaal's character was crazy.
I think that the most important scene of the
most important scene of the movie is when he goes into a house that had been
robbed before the police because everything else that happened in the movie
after this happened because of the footage he got in this house. (Spoiler
Alert) The person who worked for him died because of the footage he got when he
was in the house. He got footage of the
people in it. He followed them and told the police he found them which caused a
big chase scene. None of the ending would have happened if he would not have
gotten footage of the people who murdered that family in the house.
Jake Gyllenhaal did a great job acting in this
movie. He lost 20 pounds for his role as Lou Bloom. Gyllenhaal said that when he first read the script he thought of
Bloom as someone who was always hungry, practically starving, and behaved “like
a coyote that comes down from the hills at night.” In one scene Gyllenhaal's character is breaking a mirror and Gyllenhaal actually broke his hand on the glass because he got really into the scene.
This movie 95% score on Rotten Tomatoes. It is a very long movie, but i was never bored while watching it. I highly recommend this movie. I give it a 5/5.