Nightcrawler – 2014
Your Next Blessing May Be Hidden in Your Despair
This is another great movie that eloquently catches the seedier side of LA that is often not revealed to moviegoers but it is to anyone who takes a drive at 3 am in the morning. Jake Gyllenhaal who plays Louis Bloom is unemployed and a thief, he comes across a horrible car wreck and sees photographers taking pictures of the scene. He asks one of the photographers what they are doing and the photographer tells him they sell the footage.
This is a HUGE business in LA and the right image can get the photographer hundreds of thousands of dollars. Louis decides to take the seeder route and get images of gruesome crimes. He builds his business very fast and becomes a successful entrepreneur but the job is dangerous. There are many interesting twists to this film that you should see for yourself. In this scene an aging newscaster and news director needs his help but she thinks he’s desperate too so she tries to play him. He leet’s her know he KNOWS his value and he gets that he wants. How many of us have been through this. Where in our youth we are controlled by older people who make us feel that we should be glad to have a job when in reality, they need us as much as we need them?
