Its so good that it should not have been made

Rating: 8/10 (10 April 2015)

We often encounter Machiavellian characters in film noir. Sometimes they are far off, distant, villainous characters which serve as an antithesis to the hero. I like to watch noir because that takes me off the usual 'hero wins at the end' zone of films to a more 'sometimes the hero is not enough' zone. Nightcrawler is a fantastic film, to the point that it is dangerous. I would not recommend this to my friends not because I fear that they would turn into dubious characters such as Jake Gyllenhaal in this film but I fear that it convinces me enough to show this to them as a preview of what I can do to them. Nightcrawler's premise may be quite well understood by everyone in the cut throat media industry and a little bit of Lou is inside every one of them. I am afraid that this movie validates it and in fact justifies it with logic. I agree with every word of Lou Boom from start till finish and that is a deeply troubling thought. This movie is one more reason to boycott mainstream media.