Huda R Mohammad
Professor Jeff Ambrose
Eng 112
20 November 2017
Nightcrawler- The Power of The Psychopath
Entering into writer-director Dan Gilroy’s world of Nightcrawler, the audience has an uneasy feeling about its off-killer anti-hero. It is a thrilling movie that paints an image of “the world of crime journalism”, where every police siren is converted into an opportunity to earn cash. Lou Bloom, played by Jake Gyllenhaal in a performance of quirk and creepy smiles, speaks with a precise, businesslike confidence. Lou surveys the Los Angeles streets for crime, the bloodier the better, and hopes to catch them on video. Armed with a handheld digital camera, he listens to the police band and speeds to the scene of a crime or accident to capture …show more content…
He also has a natural eye for framing and angles. And afterward, he hires a paid intern, the homeless Rick (Riz Ahmed), who serves as navigator and assistant. Everything he learns, he learns online, absorbing information like a sponge, retaining and applying it. What’s strange is that Lou doesn’t seem to sleep or eat, nor does he have any kind of meaningful human interactions. He looks thin, emaciated even, and his intense eyes carry dark circles. He watches a lot of television, and he regularly waters his …show more content…
He doesn’t have relationships, he has transactions. He maneuvers people and crime scenes to gain the advantage. It never occurs to Lou that things won’t work out for him because he’s smarter than other people. After all, Lou is unquestionably a psychopath of sorts. But sometimes psychopathy is what one requires to be successful, and Lou certainly is that. Psychopaths are common in the workplace and often result in prosperous, charming individuals whose disorders are not immediately apparent. The workplace psychopath is “impulsive and irresponsible” and lives a “predatory lifestyle” that nonetheless produces results. This is Lou Bloom, and beneath Nightcrawler’s outward critique of the media’s desperate need to see and record human crime for mass ratings, there’s a more disturbing character study about Gyllenhaal’s fascinating and fantastically played “psychopath” who’s carved out his very own world and mastered
Professor Jeff Ambrose
Eng 112
20 November 2017
Nightcrawler- The Power of The Psychopath
Entering into writer-director Dan Gilroy’s world of Nightcrawler, the audience has an uneasy feeling about its off-killer anti-hero. It is a thrilling movie that paints an image of “the world of crime journalism”, where every police siren is converted into an opportunity to earn cash. Lou Bloom, played by Jake Gyllenhaal in a performance of quirk and creepy smiles, speaks with a precise, businesslike confidence. Lou surveys the Los Angeles streets for crime, the bloodier the better, and hopes to catch them on video. Armed with a handheld digital camera, he listens to the police band and speeds to the scene of a crime or accident to capture …show more content…
He also has a natural eye for framing and angles. And afterward, he hires a paid intern, the homeless Rick (Riz Ahmed), who serves as navigator and assistant. Everything he learns, he learns online, absorbing information like a sponge, retaining and applying it. What’s strange is that Lou doesn’t seem to sleep or eat, nor does he have any kind of meaningful human interactions. He looks thin, emaciated even, and his intense eyes carry dark circles. He watches a lot of television, and he regularly waters his …show more content…
He doesn’t have relationships, he has transactions. He maneuvers people and crime scenes to gain the advantage. It never occurs to Lou that things won’t work out for him because he’s smarter than other people. After all, Lou is unquestionably a psychopath of sorts. But sometimes psychopathy is what one requires to be successful, and Lou certainly is that. Psychopaths are common in the workplace and often result in prosperous, charming individuals whose disorders are not immediately apparent. The workplace psychopath is “impulsive and irresponsible” and lives a “predatory lifestyle” that nonetheless produces results. This is Lou Bloom, and beneath Nightcrawler’s outward critique of the media’s desperate need to see and record human crime for mass ratings, there’s a more disturbing character study about Gyllenhaal’s fascinating and fantastically played “psychopath” who’s carved out his very own world and mastered