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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 414627" data-attributes="member: 8">December is Film Month and we&#039;ve got to move fast before the awful Christmas movies take over the WWTLFYW thread.NIGHTCRAWLER (2014)[ATTACH=full]55011[/ATTACH]A very apt title because it&#039;s about modern-day vampires looking for blood to be consumed by the viewers of competing TV news broadcasts.Jake Gyllenhaal plays a quirky, fast-talking, self-educated small-time criminal desperate to land a steady job, and his ultimate career choice happens by chance rather than something that&#039;s been planned from the very beginning.It&#039;s all about opportunity and to take those opportunities without hesitation, and I guess it could be seen as a satire on the actual news vultures who are always ready to poke their cameras in to the misery of other people.The story becomes more of a story when TV news honcho Nina (Rene Russo) pressures him to deliver what he promised, and it is also from that point on that the story becomes a little bit more predictable but nonetheless very exciting.In a funny way, the film imitates the story and the joke is on the viewer because we&#039;re basically in the same position as the bloodthirsty Nina.Nightcrawler&nbsp; shows, once again, that it is possible to have a villainous protagonist but it usually only works in a more cynical, guilty-pleasure kind of context.It&#039;s not a game changer and it doesn&#039;t reach the heights (or depths) of films like American Psycho or Nocturnal Animals, but if you&#039;re looking for a fun and well-made B movie then this film is a good choice. Jake Gyllenhaal and Riz Ahmed are a very entertaining duo.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 414627, member: 8"] December is Film Month and we've got to move fast before the awful Christmas movies take over the WWTLFYW thread. NIGHTCRAWLER (2014) [ATTACH type="full"]55011[/ATTACH] A very apt title because it's about modern-day vampires looking for blood to be consumed by the viewers of competing TV news broadcasts. Jake Gyllenhaal plays a quirky, fast-talking, self-educated small-time criminal desperate to land a steady job, and his ultimate career choice happens by chance rather than something that's been planned from the very beginning. It's all about opportunity and to take those opportunities without hesitation, and I guess it could be seen as a satire on the actual news vultures who are always ready to poke their cameras in to the misery of other people. The story becomes more of a story when TV news honcho Nina (Rene Russo) pressures him to deliver what he promised, and it is also from that point on that the story becomes a little bit more predictable but nonetheless very exciting. In a funny way, the film imitates the story and the joke is on the viewer because we're basically in the same position as the bloodthirsty Nina. [I]Nightcrawler[/I] shows, once again, that it is possible to have a villainous protagonist but it usually only works in a more cynical, guilty-pleasure kind of context. It's not a game changer and it doesn't reach the heights (or depths) of films like[I] American Psycho[/I] or [I]Nocturnal Animals[/I], but if you're looking for a fun and well-made B movie then this film is a good choice. Jake Gyllenhaal and Riz Ahmed are a very entertaining duo. [/QUOTE]

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