Gyllenhaal in His Best

Rating: 8/10 (5 February 2015)

While everyone is making a fuss about their new obsession, Benedict Cumberbatch, and while his less than average movie 'The Imitation Game' is being considered for several Oscars, Nightcrawler silently does ten times a better job. I have seen almost every movie that Gyllenhaal did, and I was thinking, lately, may be he is not that good. I was lowering my expectations because he was not delivering lately. But Nightcrawler proved again, that my first hunch about this actor was right. Without any pretentious manner Gyllenhaal embodies, almost in most humanely way possible, the vicious and 'every men for himself' world of media. There is a cold, detached and almost determinist way about this movie. In this, the movie becomes a perfect replica of what it is trying to represent: a cold and immoral attitude towards the suffering of others. And this is not the whole story. Media and its workings, how standards are being lowered in a self-perpetuating way, the shiny but bullshit titles of business management and human resources, violence and its banality are all possible starting points for discussion based on this movie. This is not a masterpiece, but it is a good one.