FILM REVIEW:
Nightcrawler
By Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
If Rupert Pupkin and Travis Bickle, the demented characters essayed by Robert DeNiro in King
of Comedy and Taxi Driver, raised
a son, he might grow up to be
something like Lou Bloom, the sociopath portrayed with a chilling
zeal by Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler, the stunning directorial
debut of screenwriter Dan Gilroy.
When we first meet Bloom, he’s
beating up the security guard who
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interrupts his theft of construction site materials, taking his victim’s watch for good measure. It’s
quickly established that Bloom is
a petty thief, not averse to using
violence, but he’s looking to move
up in society, even offering his
services for free to a site foreman
who dismisses him with the cutting jibe “I’m not hiring a thief!”
While driving through night time
LA, Bloom stumbles across the
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