Nightcrawler | Cinema's Most Chilling Character

What's YOUR favourite "psychopathic" (heavy quotation here) character? Anton Chigurh? Lou Bloom? Annie Wilkes?

An analysis so thorough you’ve unintentionally rekindled my love for the movie

This was a very wanky video essay

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I found the music perfectly fitting in the film. I think I may be a psychopath...

I think this is such a lame surface level reading of this film. Night crawler is a film with more to say about the world than “psychos are a thing”. Night crawler is very easily read as a critique of capitalism and the kinds of people that succeed in capitalism. Lou is a hard worker and a motivated person, he’s also a liar, and he’s slick and focused. He’s only motivated by his own desires and he’s willing to step on those beneath him and sabotage anyone in his way. These are the attributes that lead anyone to succeeding in business. Lou is very motivated by money. Something you don’t acknowledge. He has a reason to do the things he does. He wants to make money, be his own boss and grow his business. He will completely ignore his humanity for money. Now you could say his obsession with money is the result of psychopathy, but ignoring the parallels to our world and how people that ignore their humanity are the kinds of people that manage to make boat loads of money and build massive empires is silly I think. The movie is making a statement about our world. Lou kills his first employee when he asks for more stake in the company, he pursues Nina because she has a job that benefits his business, he moves the body’s and creates dramatic crime scene’s because drama sells. Saying it’s just cause he’s crazy is doing the film an injustice. It’s easy to say that Lou is bad and does the bad things he does because he’s a psycho. But it’s much more accurate to say that Lou is a good businessman and simply knows how to make and sell a good product. And of course Lou wins in the end. He crushes his competitors uses his employees and gets his empire and the film implies that it will continue to grow.

This movie was superbly acted all around but I only watched it once. Some movies make me feel like I have slime all over me afterwards. In this case it was because I had participated in Louis's sick journey and I felt repulsed by it while recognizing that I have some of Louis's psychopathic and voyeuristic characteristics. It never feels good to realize that such darkness is in you too, but there it is, "calmly licking it's chops."

That movie really is a good description of people who work in the media.

I'm not really sure 'evil' is the right term to use here, particularly regarding Lou. He's sickening at times, and a very bad person on paper - but just like his made-for-paper speeches, it's not the right way to describe him in real life.

One of my favorite movies of all time.

So glad i watched this in the theatres. Shit was so haunting. Jake plays it sooo damn good

deffo one of my fav characters

Lou speaks in a monologue way even in conversations supposed to be an equal exchange.

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Bro, don’t ever give up on life. You are surrounded by people who love and support you and you shouldn’t ever hesitate to ask for help. No matter how bad life may seem, it will get better. Trust❤️

Good job.

You know about that comfy movie everyone has? Well this is the exact opposite

Jake Gyllenhaal has an absolute knack for playing borderline, if not entirely psychopathic characters. It's believable, understandable, even sympathetic at times. He's too good of an actor.

People water their plants at the same time to keep them alive

You misspelled T A R G E T I N G

Insane performance by Jake Gyllenhaal, his eyes/look and those starring were balanced between chilling and scary, intense and deep movie!
Thanks for your work :)

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Brilliant movie.

Can you do a video about a japanese film called “The face of another”

AWESOME video essay

Those critics who complained about the musical score per scene, are the literal definition of not getting it...the whole point is that everything is perceived and shown in the skewed and warped mind of Lou. Biggest moment of whoosh if I ever heard. I know Hanz Zimmer heard that and was like "these fking idiots".

Amazing analysis

Eh, 4/10 on the creepy scale. Not Jakes fault, just not enough crazy to put him in the top ten for film. Cuts brakes, has no boundaries, gets partner killed.

Great essay dude—love the editing. very interesting

love this movie. hook line and sinker

I recall seeing the trailer and one of the blurbs stating that this movie was Jake Gyllenhaal's "Opus", which left me jaded and thinking "Yea, ooook critic guy." Then left the theatre like "Damn... well played." Due to hearing how great his performance was before going in and was still impressed.

Not to mention the plant is fake.

I am a person with high functional psycopathy and Lou Bloom is one of the characters I can actually relate to in TV. A difference is that I am much more good at adapting different behaviours wich will benefit me while Lou don't quite understand how to act and will try to copy others to communicate better.

Bruh I think Lou is just autist maxxing 😂😂😂 the scene with his boss at dinner is so fucking cringe

Fascinating video essay about an even better film with a magnificent performance by Donny Darko himself. (There is no Jake Gyllenhaal. There is only Donny Darko. This is largely because I'm congenitally incapable of spelling his actual name. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ )

I've been watching thrillers featuring psychopaths for decades, but few have gotten under my skin as much as Nightcrawler did. The scariest thing about the movie is that people like this absolutely exist in real life, but since they're smart enough to take advantage of the loopholes in the justice system at every step, they hardly ever face any real consequences for their actions.

Detective is losing herself in his eyes. Wow.

It's 3am and my dad is taking a shower. It seems far louder than it actually it.

What the narrator calls "an unfitting to it;s mood" is the exact intent that it is going for. A hugerly uneasy feeling with the protagonist/psychopath winning in his ideals. to him he might as well be watching the brady bunch

This was fascinating and insightful. I do think it's important to note, though, that BPD and psychopathy really don't go hand in hand, as Borderline shows an excess of emotionality and empathy. The sensitivity arises from an overactive amygdala (the fight/flight/freeze/fawn mechanism in the brain.) People with Narcissistic Personality Disorder are also not always the same as your garden variety narcissist. NPD can be a way that someone survived extreme emotional abuse in childhood, for instance.
So, comorbidity can happen, but generally people with BPD in particular are not going to be sociopathic/psychopathic/antisocial. If untreated, they'll just be passionate and unstable.

I have BPD and I suffer with constant urges to manipulate and control peoples perceptions of me.
I often come off as very friendly but I'm always reading other people and chances are if you fuck me you wont know that I'm fucking you.

lu always wants every interaction and work he does to be perfect as possible .he is always alone. he is not a completely an empty vessel he is fielled with anger frustration and loneliness.when he doesn't like anyone he say he physicaly wants to hurt them but by doing so it will not benifit his goals or him in any way.the only thing he cares about is his reason towards success but he himself sees and knows by showing his true face ,personality will be considered bad for success .that is why he acts the way he acts .

Is it targeting or tageting

First time watching this I had stop part way through
I asked my brother about how it ended
He described it the best way "The film peaked on his creepiness"