The initial Nightcrawler Movie Review is in.
The movie has garnered good reiews from critics after it's initial premiere. This is great news, considering lead actor Jake Gyllenhaal lost a whole lot of weight, almost thirsty pounds to be exact, for his role in this movie. In it, he plays a desperate journalist trying to make ends meet as he finds a niche out of covering underground crime scenes in the city.
Taken as an excerpt from a Nightcrawler movie review via The Guardian,
"Jake Gyllenhaal is Louis, a thief, a liar, an American success story. Lou roams night-time LA. He's a magpie, a neon-lit survivalist mugging and mauling his way across the city. He finds his calling when he happens upon a burning car and a badly injured woman. A freelance TV crew is attending the wreckage. They shove the camera into the bleeding woman's face, tustle with the police as they drag her from the car. They get their footage. Then, as the ambulance pulls away, they celebrate the killing they'll make selling their film to the morning news. Lou sees an opportunity. He pawns a stolen bike, buys a camera and starts profiting from tragedy as an ambulance-chasing freelancer.
From a subdued start Nightcrawler unfurls into a ghoulish and wickedly funny satire on journalism, the job market and self-help culture. Lou is a retro creation: a strange, real character lurking in a moral grey area. Gyllenhaal, slimmed down and bug-eyed, looks like Nosferatu, but has the manic vulnerability of Andy Kaufman. Lou's like a Wes Anderson character who's ambition has warped into a realm of violent sociopathy."
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