Dark is the night and so is this movie!
This film has a masterpiece for script. No wonder it has been nominated for the Oscars in the category of Original Screenplay. What was a disappointment to me was the fact that this was the only nomination this movie got when, in my opinion, Jake Gyllenhaal was more deserving of a nomination in the Actor in a Leading Role than Steve Carrell and perhaps, even Michael Keaton.
The movie, as a whole, was also more deserving than the soon forgettable Boyhood. I predict that Nightcrawler will become a cult movie. But back to its highlights:
Gyllenhaal, in his role as Louis Bloom, impeccably offers all the personality nuances of an anal functional sociopath with very questionable entrepreneurial and work ethics, but ethics nonetheless, whose development occurs right in front of your eyes at a tense pace.
As the roach he is, he understands the low life that crawls after dusk. He quickly grasps the media business competitiveness and understands that although audiences are afraid of walking alone at night, they crave, as critters do, to taste a bit of the horror.
Louis has found a career that suits his soul! Isn’t that wonderful? Macroeconomics! Where there is a buyer, there will always be a seller!
I simply adored this movie because, and after all, sociopaths do walk among us. Witty, well acted, greatly paced, haunting, dark, but mainly, plausibly real!