A Poignant Reminder

Rating: 8/10 (1 July 2015)

Louis Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a self educated man who desperately seeks work that he can immerse himself in and excel. After he witnesses a man film the aftermath of a car accident with the purpose to sell to any local news station, Bloom makes moves to enter the field. He quickly learns that the more violence he captures the more interested the news stations are.
It doesn't take long for Bloom to become and expert at capturing disturbing footage and make his presence known to morning news director Nina Romina (Rene Russo). After finding a taste for the work and seeing the threats of competition, Bloom starts to take the news into his own hands and blurs the lines between what is moral and what is the law.
The story reveals from the beginning how Bloom treats people in a dehumanizing way and will do anything, to anyone to get what he wants.
Nightcrawler is a film that holds your focus for the entire film. Louis Bloom even explains how local violence and crime is more of an attention grabber on the news than politics and global happenings. The story depicts a dark side of the violence humans seek and that dark side is personified by Louis Bloom.