“If it bleeds, it leads.” This adage concerning newsworthiness proved inspirational for Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal), the bottom-feeding sociopath lead (it just doesn’t seem right to call him the protagonist, somehow) of Nightcrawler. It seems that this was one of those movies that people hadn’t quite gotten around to seeing. “Under the radar”, as Norris noted in making yet another successful recommendation. When I first watched it, I felt a bit like I’d been punched in the gut, and was disinclined to show it to you gentle folk, for fear that you might squeam out. Ha! No such thing. Even on a brutally cold evening, you came, you stayed, you loved it. Gyllenhaal was magnificently creepy, and creepily skinny. Perfect.

Also… I’m not one to be easily fascinated by a car chase (there have been few on our screen) but this one was really effective and unusual. Perhaps we need to have a classroom deconstruction some day. ?

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