The Creation of Louis Bloom

Rating: 6/10 (14 February 2015)

Why a person like Louis Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) exist in a modern society? Is it him who likes to act like this or the society itself turns him into a monster-like person? In the beginning of Nightcrawler, we see him as a criminal-like, he steals, he has any regret to knock-out a police officer but the people like Louis Bloom does the things for improve their own lives and for aiming this target, they follow the instructions. Once in the movie, when Bloom give his first film to Nina Romina (Rene Russo) she advises him and gives him some instruction. She says what they looking for is "a victim, or victims, preferably well-off and white, injured at the hands of the poor or a minority," and continues "The best and clearest way that I can phrase it for you, to capture the spirit of what we air, is think of our news cast as a screaming woman running down the street with her throat cut." Well, Bloom takes his lessons well. He learns everything necessary for doing his job and at a point, the "capture" of what the studio needs, is not enough, so when he has an opportunity he starts to "build" a scene, a real and excellent scene that make him a real manager and a successful man in his business. There are lots of people like Louis Bloom who build their scenes and they don't care if this takes them beyond morality lines. I think we should blame the structure of our society and try to fix its bugs and holes that allow the creation of the personalities like Bloom.