Nightcrawler
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo,
Bill Paxton, Riz Ahmed
Nightcrawler was a directorial debut for Dan Gilroy (brother
of Tony Gilroy- Michael Clayton) and is one of the low budget movies like Man
from Earth where most of the movie was shot at midnight before sunrise. The
main tone of the movie is not to let its visuals take over but to show it as
close to reality as they could which is why you would see a wide-angle lens camera
is being used.
Jake Gyllenhaal is a gem of an actor who has showed his
versatile acting skills from Brokeback Mountain to Donny Darko to Source Code
to Nocturnal animals but I think Nightcrawler was the one where he was truly
snubbed by Academy for not nominating him. He was acclaimed by every critic for
his acting skills shown in this movie specially the scenes with Rene Russo.
The movie starts with a thief lou (Jake) who is caught
stealing from a security guard in Los Angeles. While looking for a job and
getting rejected from the places Lou on one night sees a car crash where
photojournalist (Freelance) are trying to record the entire proceedings. On
conversing with one of them, Lou finds out that they are selling this footage
to local news stations and earning money.
Lou gets into the same profession by stealing a bicycle and
exchanges it for a camcorder and police radio scanner. After few unsuccessful
attempts Lou gets his hands on the footage of carjacking and sells the same to
a news channel (KWLA6). The news director Nina (Rene Russo) tells him that she
is interested in such violent news accidents. This is where story gets
interesting where Lou to gain popularity starts tampering the accident scenes
for creating a good footage. With all the money, he buys better equipment and
car to cover more areas.
He gets into a sexual relationship with the director who when
not getting a good footage reprimands him for getting more footage. Lou to
keep his reputation he sabotages another freelancer Rick’s (Riz Ahmed) van by
getting into a tussle with him and records the accident. The movie gets further
interesting when Lou gets the chance to record a footage of gunman leaving in
SUV and of victims in the house (Case of home invasion) and Nina plans to show
the footage even though the staff is anxious over the ethics of the footage.
The story gets further interesting when but Lou and Rick plans to catch hold of
gunmen who killed the family in the home invasion. We will leave it for you to see what becomes
of Lou on the dark path he has taken. The story is all about betrayal, struggle
and survival in the city of fallen angels. Riz Ahmed and Rene Russo have portrayed
their character’s to perfection and Gyllenhaal has been compared with Robert D
Niro of Taxi driver by some critics for his portrayal as Lou in this movie.
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