Nightcrawler - Lou Bloom crawl into your head

                   I usually wonder on how we get so much news to be shown on TV for 24x7, when that was not the case during my school/college days. Initially I thought TV channels go and hunt the news for themselves, but thanks to outsourcing and freelancing, the news are getting sold to the TV channels from individuals. Nightcrawler is a story of one such freelancer. As the name of the movie gives it out, he hunts news on the night time and sells it the next morning as BREAKING NEWS.       

                  The story revolves around an intelligent (I dare say, because of his dialogues) sociopath, Louis(Lou) Bloom. Lou decides to be a video freelancer after meeting Joe in the profession and sells it to Nina, a struggling news director for her 6AM show on a not-so-famous news channel. Within few days, he learns the mantra, "if it bleeds, it leads".  The movie is about how far he goes by that line.

                   Jake Gyllenhaal is simply awesome as Lou, the antagonist. I was never a fan of Jake before this movie, though he has acted in a few big hits like,  'Donnie Darko', 'Zodiac', 'Source Code' (my least favorite among this list). However, he is pretty impressive in 'Prisoners' which was well written and he delivered a solid performance as a detective.

                   I read he shed around 30lbs (~14kgs) for the character Lou in this movie. He justified it with brilliant performance and excellent body language. His thin frame suits the character, when Nina says, " I like your eyes".  The movie touches upon the news hungry channels, for whom, "the bleeding blood"  is  a breaking news, but not the cause of it. Also, Lou shows how the employers make use of and treat the apprentices. It is by no means a fast paced movie, but the thrilling element is there throughout the movie.

                   The confrontation between Nina and Lou is gripping and so it is between Lou and Rick. It is good to see less cussing from Lou, that actually makes an impact with the audience, who otherwise might start hating his intelligence.

                 One of the best movies in 2014 and sad to see that Jake did not get nominated for the Best Actor category at the academy awards. Slowly and steadily this nightcrawler will crawl into your head to stay for a while.