Myst Post #4: Nightcrawler

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.