Nightcrawler (2014)

I stumped upon this film after watching a number of video essays on Youtube about films and screenplay tricks used by writers when I discovered one on Nightcrawler. Immediately after watching the video I had to go buy a copy of the film, and so, I did go out and buy a copy.

The film essentially follows Louis Bloom an edgy sociopath who sees the world as an outcome and tries to bend the world around him to fit into his organised and casual life. We see him starting off as smalltime thief stealing building materials. However on the journey back home he is confronted with the profession known as nightcrawling. A role which involves heading over to gruesome incidents of car crashes, murders, robbery and extra crimes as the main goal of the job is too capture live video action of the events seen and then to sell the footage as quickly as possible to the highest bidder.

Now that all seems easy but for Louise he doesn't only want to become part of this new profression for him, but he wants to conquer and dominate the whole marketplace. A very bold move.

From this perspective, he goes so far to get a new worker (Exramly underpaid) to do all his dirty work to increase their efficiency, bribe and blackmail work colleagues, hide murder evidence from the police and eventually lead a valued employee to his untimely death.

The whole story is about Louse and his unstoppable ambition and that's why I love this movie. Your eyes are glued to the screen watching this obviously troubled man turn into the king of the industry, seeing how his level of influence power and corruption heads up through the market and seeing him turn more ambitious by the second. It's intense, shocking and damn brilliant.