NIGHTCRAWLER - The Crime-Thriller Behind-the-News, with Gyllenhaal's gripping performance

Rating: 7/10 (5 July 2015)

An urban, pulp-fiction theme of a messed-up, yet enthusiastic account of the world of freelance crime journalism of-sorts, venturing into the night to get catchy and juicy pieces of salable crimes to news channels with the highest bids.
Things start turning up twisted when a once petty-thief (played outstandingly by Jake Gyllenhaal), in his over-ambition and surprisingly impressive marketing skills to make it big at anything starts to, by-and-by not just film crimes in- action and but, construct the pieces in a more dramatically-suitable manner. While walking the fine line of creating more fiction than news, he almost successfully turns the game in his favour by playing a diminutive intern, and an experienced news director by sheer connivance. Nothing can surely stop him because he beats competition - fair or unfair - whatever it takes to be ahead in his game.
Writer-Director Dan Gilroy makes it a little disgusting, at times with the heartlessness involved in the complete lack of empathizing, sympathizing spirit of the protagonist (or the antagonist). This film speaks about the human nature's selfishness taking one to the limits of what one is truly capable of doing, or not doing; for inhumane is not just the action, but initiating and supporting the same.