The film's sardonic extremity makes an impression but also restrains it from achieving a more resonant commentary and investigation on modern news.
Dan Gilroy's directorial debut Nightcrawler offers up its shell of a human being, the insatiable opportunist Louis Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal), as a symbol of the new social media-powered society that's unafraid to cross any moral boundary in order to sensationalize, exploit, and defile for personal profit. In essence, the film draws a sociopathic portrait of Los Angeles' news crews who are perfectly willing to broadcast the most visceral ima