Oscar, Golden Globe, Emmy, .... All are for sale, lots of people in the business know that, Ricky Gervais even bluntly mocking it during live stream of Golden Globe in front of them all & millions people
It's a testament to either the acting or the editing, that I don't ever remember Lou Bloom blinking during his scenes or dialogue. Like he's an animal constantly on the prowl. Real chilling performance.
@@OFFICIALMOEJOSE The blinking twitch in particular was something he mentioned developing specifically for the role. He wanted the character to seem as though he was stressed and exhausted for consistently overworking with long hours, as many police officers and detectives do, and he wanted to show it physically by giving the character a visual tick.
@@JTMConceptionsSome accounts also mention that his character is supposed to have tourettes syndrome, albeit a much milder version. Jake is such a genius tbh
Absolutely love this film. Gyllenhaal manages to make Bloom, despicable, narcissistic and show absolute zero empathy, but also unintentionally hilarious at times. When he's badgering people for a job, or his motivational speeches to his colleagues (and eventually his new employees) just make me chuckle. I can't put my finger on it?! He's one of those characters I cannot imagine any other actor adopting the role...
I rewatched this movie with a friend one time, and he waited for the inevitable goodfellas-helicopter-moment for the last forty minutes straight. His "WAIT HE JUST SERIOUSLY GOT AWAY WITH IT?" was the highlight of the evening.
That is the most common reaction. At the time I saw this with my wife, it was one of three movies with this kind of end that we'd watched.By the time we were finished with number 3, she was like, "I'm done...this is too much"😮💨🥺
When people talk about “literally me” movies this one often gets passed over. I think it’s the best example of a broken human not only surviving in society but thriving.
i think its because he is shown more in a judgemental sense than other films that take a more subjective personal sense like patrick bateman in american psycho or homelander in the boys.
@@ActuallyHoudini True, although it would be hard to imagine the movie trying to humanize Bloum and show his tragic backstory or sad upbringing lol. I love that the movie took a risk and just made a movie with an Evil Protagonist as a thought experiment. "Here's an evil guy, lets show how his lack of moral compass leads to him becoming successful with a wake of bodies of people he betrayed or got killed along the way".
@@ActuallyHoudini If you think that Patrick Bateman and Homelander are not portrayed in a judgemental framing by their stories I can't believe you watched either of those works with your eyes open
I still can’t believe how many people haven’t seen this masterpiece of a film. I saw it in theaters on opening night and it was one of the best risks I’ve ever took. My friend was convinced the movie was going to suck for some reason but I can’t tell you how dumb he felt after watching it.
This movie and Jake Gyllenhaal in it are chilling. Someone like Lou Bloom certainly exists out there. Most frightening horror outside of a horror movie.
It changes across the film, when he begs the foreman for a job he blinks constantly, but when he's putting other people in that situation, he doesn't at all.
@@alexterieur5060 Anton Chigurh i think is a more sophisticated character and you would find less of him in the real word comparing to the type of people like lou bloom
Hats off to Jake for capturing the distilled essence of soulless corporate America in a single drop. His performance is both captivating and repulsive all at once.
When I saw this movie, I immediately thought of Robert DeNiro’s performance in Taxi Driver. Definitely one of the best individual performances of that year in Cinema.
Nightcrawler is not just a depiction of the sociopathic achievement of the American Dream, but also how we feed that sociopath through our consumer demands. We mold the monster.
I watched this film only once yet it leaves a hollowing mark. I felt empty and baffled by how this is the society we live in. And it really benefits every Lou out there. Every "Business Owners", "Life Coach", or "Self Starters" who only gained their successes from stepping on others and shoved them away. The media that praises those successes without revealing the method.
I see a problem in the argument, that this is a typical behaviour in capitalist cultures, its not. A lot of Sociopaths and Psychopaths in communist societies and pretty much any societal system. An intelligent maniac who understand how a society works, can get higher in the ranks anywhere. Its sad but true.
Behind and beneath every "self-made man" is a mountain of ruined lives. The wheel of capitalism treads on the common people, and will continue to do so until we stop it rolling.
@@thetribalist6923 I think they’re pretty similar. I’d say the only big difference besides the time they lived is that bloom is a complete sociopath and devoid of emotion while Plainview seems to have emotions but he is extremely selfish
@@gggallin8279 fair point. I think Plainview has more couth, though. He’s more of a dignitary, where as Bloom is outwardly slimy. One is a snake in fancy dress, the other is a snake in plain sight. Conversely, don’t see Bloom succumb completely to madness like with Plainview. Daniel has more extremes and a character transformation, whereas Lou is quick drying cement.
I've watched this movie several times. It's so amazingly good. Everything about the movie making process is done to the highest degree. The cinematography, the editing, the sound track, the mixing, the lighting, the color. Almost every scene is at night and yet the subject is clear without looking overlit. And then the performances. Jake Gyllenhaal is so good. Just a masterpiece of a movie.
I liked the part of the movie where one reporter asked if they could show this Nina answered that the lawyer sayed it would be fine The one reporter then stated: "I mean morally!"
Jajajja, yeap. The worst thing in the world is when a Charismatic psychopath has success, and people around him tries to imitate him to get some of that.
Prisoners was a good film. I was so pissed in the end. I hope Jake heard the whistle and saved Hugh Jackman. The dude with the snakes 🐍 was a trip. Im still kinda confused on what the snakes were for? Then again I have not seen the film in years. I look for it on cable / Netflix from time to time. Semi spoiler warning ⚠️ On a side note: I recently saw Jake’s new film Ambulance 🚑 and it was a long drawn out “action movie” about a stolen ambulance that miraculously drives /handles like a nascar at Talladega. Top it off a critical patient is of course fighting for his life in the back of the ambulance. One dedicated talented paramedic gives her all to keep him alive. So Hollywood for that part… It was not very believable at all and the entertainment wore thin after 40 min of the same thing on repeat. I kept thinking is it over yet… My biggest WTF moment in the film was : Painting the ambulance a bright ass neon green in the middle of the chase. Spray gun the ambulance in a car wash stall in order to disguise it.. Lol. What, how? Impossible to pull off with about 10-15 cop cars behind you. The plan was to paint it sky blue, but Jake’s bumbling idiot employee (I forgot what his actual business was, cuz you probably will too if u see it😂) Just like a Bugs Bunny cartoon or something, I swear. The cops r still on the ambulance regardless of it’s color. Like Dah Hollywood.
Ohh, men. I saw that movie and instantly saw Locky as a totally different person than Jake, but I couldn´t put my finger at the reason why. Only with many rewacthes I have seen the details Jake putted on his acting, such as the eyes (he also has great eyes performance in Nightcrawler) with the way he is always blinking as Detective Locky, you can sense he is always with poor sleeping habits and anxious.
Coincidentally I just watched Nightcrawler (for the 3rd time) last night. It's a great film on many levels, and one of Jake's best (creepiest?) performances.
Yo I absolutely loved your analysis of this film, had to subscribe after 👏🏾. The point of yours that resonates with me so deeply is the parallel you make between him accomplishing his goals and how our current system's ideals taken to the extreme could look like that. The fact that we as viewers can see Jake's behavior being nearly mirrored in the lives of those in power/those who achieve powerful positions is chilling. This is one of those great moments where art has the potential to expose a hideous aspect of our reality. More people should watch this film and analyze the relationship between their desire to succeed and who it may harm. I can't blame anyone for participating in this "dog-eat-dog" world. I can only hope they don't take it to this character's extent. But anyway, sorry for the rambling, I'm a bit baked. To anyone reading, have a splendid day 😄
Far too many people don't realize that this is how the majority of society works. It's not pretty, it's not right, for whatever my opinion is worth, but it is reality unfortunately. If you're not willing to at least somewhat act like Lou to a great degree, it is exceptionally difficult to get ahead. Not impossible, but rare. The world is transactional and based on what you can leverage. Coming to terms with this will help people experience less misery in life. Jake really nailed this role, much like he does his other roles.
That's not how the majority of society works imo, but the minority. Only if you want to be disgustingly rich or succesful. You can make a perfect living while also being a moral upstanding citizen who takes pride in his work. No need to be a rotten person to make a decent living.
Great video on a great film. I've been obsessed with Jake Gyllenhaal's performance in the movie, the mirror scene being a standout. One of the movies that made me consider writing as a career choice, no regrets.
Ironically, breaking the mirror was a spontaneous choice from Jake, and he was genuinely injured in the process. Also unscripted - he was never directed to smile. Sometimes, over 7 or 8 takes, a smile burbled out of him. And that take was invariably chosen. Do you need the writing, but also the casting and directorial serendipity.
@@JustanObservation Never change your voice tone...I have seen channel like yours who r now popular...but their voice now sounds like computer generated, initially it was good....your voice is soothing and good to listen , please maintain this way
Thanks for doing this. I usually don't lean into movies where the main character is a sadistic disgusting villian, but Nightcrawler is different. As you say, the problem is with our system, and Nightcrawler shows this every second by highlighting the people and environments in the society governed by this system. It hits close to home because the people and scenarios are familiar. But while the people are filmed intimately, the scenarios are horrific. When you have horrific and intimate showcases throughout the entire production, it really makes a powerfup statement that this epidemic is undeniable! Because of the flaws in the system, everyone in the story is isolated and alone, getting together only for work-related reasons. This shouldn't always be the case in a 1st world country, ...but it is a lot of the time as shown in the film. Hard work should lead to a sort of success, sure, but not when every event is horrific and horribly tragic. Then there's something wrong. It was fascinating to think how it was all about how the skilled, hard workers are so easily manipulating society's more complacent and inefficient. And how no one can call them out on it, because the ones who should care are that complacent and inefficient majority! It would be so easy for someone in the story to say, "Lou, I've known you for a while now, and I noticed... you're just not right in the head!" But like the guilt every character is willing to accept, like the manipulating of lazy society they all profit from, and like the protection the all recieve from authorities for being a part of a productive system, Lou's "working relationship status" exempts him from encountering any form of natural justice. This all feels very familiar, like a very real problem that we all feel and yet never identify as we'd be treated with more inhumane behavior simply just for standing up to the big system. The style that's filmed seems to be desperate in its search for some semblence of human decency, which it never finds. I love Nightcrawler.
@@tristan4175 depends on what you mean by "narcissist". If you're talking about NPD, then narcissists are not self-aware / self-reflecting, their narcissistic deeds are reactive, as in: they internally feel inferior to people around them, and react to compensate whenever their ego feels attacked (ego defence). Their selfish actions are very very rarely the result of strategic planning. They have a sense of ethics and morality, but it gets overwhelmed during ego defence. They do feel guilty, but ego defence shifts the guilt and blame onto other people. They lie, deny, rationalize and project a lot as a result. Lou Bloom however is very self-aware. He realizes he's different, he reflects that it's because he dislikes people. He hurts / gets people hurt not because they hurt his ego, but because he sees them as a means to an end. And he plans his actions strategically, he's pro-active not reactive. He shows no signs of moral struggle, and he does not shift the blame on his victims, does not lie, deny or project or rationalize, like a narcissist would. A person can ofc have both traits (extreme narcissism and be a High Mach). But in this case, I really don't think that narcissism fits.
Attaining success and lots of (fake) friends aka popular is so easy 1. Give up all notions of self respect. 2. Don't have any core values. 3. Put family/social relations always second. 4. When something goes wrong always blame the ones underneath you 5. When your boss wants someone underneath you disciplined, always do it with relish (being innocent or guilty matters little) 6. Truth or efficiency matters very little, do what you are told no matter how idiotic it is. Do these things and you will be successful. A spinless, soulless, human cockroach but, a successful one
I watched a movie out of boredom some late night. Ah, Jake Gyllenhaal, I like this dude. *click Didn't regret. Loved the movie. He was great in it. Convinced me he was an egotistic intelligent psycho for the duration.
An utterly chilling performance/character. Believable and realistic. It feels sickening watching Jake G playing this sociopath. An excellent film, very disturbing.
I loved this move I think the only thing I would change is the very last crane shot. they should've cut to black when lou says "I would never ask you to do anything I wouldn't do myself" that line alone is so scary, and the landscape shot at the end undermines it still 9/10 tho
Cool analysis and breakdown like usual man, would love to see some videos on Better Call Saul or Barry sometime in the future, i think you'd get alot of depth and content with those shows and characters.
Hey, I really love this video and I want to add something that the video made me think of. In a video game called "Red Dead Redemption" they made a satirical version of someone selling a self help book and if the player buys it it roughly tells to steal one mans grain and sell it to another and how the victim and customer get poorer, while the thief gets richer. Very perverse...
Calling the company Video News is a fairly deft touch that sets the story a few years earlier. We all know that the modern cellphone can replace his initial start-up costs. Suggesting it’s done on video dates it a bit, in a good way, because I suppose it’s even easier to enter this line of work when your phone is a sophisticated camera.
Great performance by Jake Gyllenhaal. And not even a nomination for an Oscar. It would be interesting to see a movie called "Nightcrawler v. American Psycho". Or maybe not. But that would be a very twisted evening of cinema.
"Lou views the world as purely transactional" as he turns into an American flag - I unsarcastically love the lack of subtlety here. I love the US, and our biggest threat is exactly this type of cynicism (embodied by the current republican candidate; when they say "You don't pay enough taxes" he says "That's because I'm smart", and 1/3 of the country cheers him on)
> Competition, any competition spawns evil. I'm inclined to agree with you. I won't say ANY competition, but certainly, in video-games, human-vs-human games are often described as 'toxic', etc.
@@rabbitcreative And I agree with you, that my statement 'any' is to radical, to harsh. I guess I'm trying to get to the root of the problem, which I see as 'value'. The concept of 'because I can create a microwave oven, I must be "better" than a beaver who cannot; better than an ant, who cannot; better than a rock who cannot'. It is my ego, my thoughts, saying stuff like that. Not important even the reason why anymore, it was my upbringing, it was my school, it was this or that book. Now I know about my ego involving himself in these kind of games, whenever he does that kind of comparing I just give my ego a hug and put him to sleep with the thum in his mouth. I just reboot him with a different OS every time. Maybe hundreds of thousands of times a day. Whatever that means. Since - the passing of - time is an illusion ;)
To think Jake didn’t receive even a nomination for his performance is just further proof how pointless an Oscar really is.
Oscar, Golden Globe, Emmy, .... All are for sale, lots of people in the business know that, Ricky Gervais even bluntly mocking it during live stream of Golden Globe in front of them all & millions people
@@nakedbean6649 Leo Tolstoy never got a Nobel Prize for Literature. And that's all you need to know about how legitimate the Nobel Prizes are.
Yeah, but not even the actors seem to gaf about awards anymore. They even admit how they know it's who you know, not how good of an actor you are.
Only pretty and crowd-pleasing roles get nominations at the Oscars. He didn't get one because he portrayed a weirdo.
Amen - he was outstanding in this role.
It's a testament to either the acting or the editing, that I don't ever remember Lou Bloom blinking during his scenes or dialogue. Like he's an animal constantly on the prowl. Real chilling performance.
7:22 Blink.
has to be the acting. in Prisoners, Jake’s character has an eye twitch and plays it perfectly
@@alexm264 I think that’s his own problem twitch , he’s had it since Danny
@@OFFICIALMOEJOSE The blinking twitch in particular was something he mentioned developing specifically for the role. He wanted the character to seem as though he was stressed and exhausted for consistently overworking with long hours, as many police officers and detectives do, and he wanted to show it physically by giving the character a visual tick.
@@JTMConceptionsSome accounts also mention that his character is supposed to have tourettes syndrome, albeit a much milder version. Jake is such a genius tbh
Absolutely love this film.
Gyllenhaal manages to make Bloom, despicable, narcissistic and show absolute zero empathy, but also unintentionally hilarious at times.
When he's badgering people for a job, or his motivational speeches to his colleagues (and eventually his new employees) just make me chuckle.
I can't put my finger on it?! He's one of those characters I cannot imagine any other actor adopting the role...
American Psycho protagonist comes close
@Randall Seager
Wonder what Bloom's business card would look like..? 🤔
@@LoverOfManyArts
"I have to return some videotapes..."
Good writing. Then good acting. Then good directing. Then good editing. And VOILA!! peace out!!
It's people like Bloom who show that sociopathy desperately NEEDS a cure developed. It makes certain people inherently evil
I rewatched this movie with a friend one time, and he waited for the inevitable goodfellas-helicopter-moment for the last forty minutes straight.
His "WAIT HE JUST SERIOUSLY GOT AWAY WITH IT?" was the highlight of the evening.
That is the most common reaction. At the time I saw this with my wife, it was one of three movies with this kind of end that we'd watched.By the time we were finished with number 3, she was like, "I'm done...this is too much"😮💨🥺
@@TheGhostRises oi mate tell us the other two
@@TheGhostRises The Other Two movies, bro. What are they?
the morale of the story is that shit floats, or gets splattered.
@@TheGhostRises Give us the list !!!
When people talk about “literally me” movies this one often gets passed over.
I think it’s the best example of a broken human not only surviving in society but thriving.
i think its because he is shown more in a judgemental sense than other films that take a more subjective personal sense like patrick bateman in american psycho or homelander in the boys.
@@ActuallyHoudini True, although it would be hard to imagine the movie trying to humanize Bloum and show his tragic backstory or sad upbringing lol. I love that the movie took a risk and just made a movie with an Evil Protagonist as a thought experiment. "Here's an evil guy, lets show how his lack of moral compass leads to him becoming successful with a wake of bodies of people he betrayed or got killed along the way".
@@ActuallyHoudini If you think that Patrick Bateman and Homelander are not portrayed in a judgemental framing by their stories I can't believe you watched either of those works with your eyes open
I still can’t believe how many people haven’t seen this masterpiece of a film. I saw it in theaters on opening night and it was one of the best risks I’ve ever took. My friend was convinced the movie was going to suck for some reason but I can’t tell you how dumb he felt after watching it.
OOOOOOO SUCH A “RISK” Clown
@@trollwithoutcontent2788 🖕
@@trollwithoutcontent2788 You good?
@@tahlas no I bad
Wow man! You risked it all
This movie and Jake Gyllenhaal in it are chilling. Someone like Lou Bloom certainly exists out there. Most frightening horror outside of a horror movie.
Let's not forget No Country for Old Men
It changes across the film, when he begs the foreman for a job he blinks constantly, but when he's putting other people in that situation, he doesn't at all.
@@alexterieur5060 Anton Chigurh i think is a more sophisticated character and you would find less of him in the real word comparing to the type of people like lou bloom
One of the best films of the 2010s. It’s criminally how under-awarded it was
Hats off to Jake for capturing the distilled essence of soulless corporate America in a single drop. His performance is both captivating and repulsive all at once.
When I saw this movie, I immediately thought of Robert DeNiro’s performance in Taxi Driver. Definitely one of the best individual performances of that year in Cinema.
Nightcrawler is not just a depiction of the sociopathic achievement of the American Dream, but also how we feed that sociopath through our consumer demands. We mold the monster.
I read the perfect description of this film a few days ago: Taxi Driver meets Network (both 1976).
I watched this film only once yet it leaves a hollowing mark. I felt empty and baffled by how this is the society we live in. And it really benefits every Lou out there. Every "Business Owners", "Life Coach", or "Self Starters" who only gained their successes from stepping on others and shoved them away. The media that praises those successes without revealing the method.
I see a problem in the argument, that this is a typical behaviour in capitalist cultures, its not. A lot of Sociopaths and Psychopaths in communist societies and pretty much any societal system. An intelligent maniac who understand how a society works, can get higher in the ranks anywhere. Its sad but true.
Behind and beneath every "self-made man" is a mountain of ruined lives. The wheel of capitalism treads on the common people, and will continue to do so until we stop it rolling.
I couldn't help thinking "TMZ" the whole time I was watching.
They reveal the method, but most normal people won't do it because it's obviously fucking evil and inhumane.
It benefits these people because those are the people who created our society.
One of the best movies, I rewatch this movie every few years
Lou Bloom seems like the modern version of Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood - would be interesting to see a comparison of the two.
Good comparison. They’re very different but both are insane.
Excuse my childish input here but maybe a Epic Rap History would be in place..
@@bacht4799 that sounds fire.
@@thetribalist6923 I think they’re pretty similar. I’d say the only big difference besides the time they lived is that bloom is a complete sociopath and devoid of emotion while Plainview seems to have emotions but he is extremely selfish
@@gggallin8279 fair point. I think Plainview has more couth, though. He’s more of a dignitary, where as Bloom is outwardly slimy. One is a snake in fancy dress, the other is a snake in plain sight. Conversely, don’t see Bloom succumb completely to madness like with Plainview. Daniel has more extremes and a character transformation, whereas Lou is quick drying cement.
"On TV it looks so real."
We consume the image and the image consumes us, purely transactional.
This movie is the American Psycho for the 2010s
Been few years and I still don't understand how he wasn't nominated for this role.
I've watched this movie several times. It's so amazingly good. Everything about the movie making process is done to the highest degree. The cinematography, the editing, the sound track, the mixing, the lighting, the color. Almost every scene is at night and yet the subject is clear without looking overlit. And then the performances. Jake Gyllenhaal is so good. Just a masterpiece of a movie.
I fully agree with you - but I don’t think I could watch it again! It left a very strong impression on me.
@@lornarettig3215 no one cares
@@yutikoo And yet here you are, caring enough to comment. Grow up.
@@yutikoo Get some help
What he went through to embody the character- lost 25 pounds he didn’t have in the first place, went hungry all through the shooting process.
And Lou does it with the makeup and imaged, frequently, as a vampire. Phenomenal.
Nightcrawler was phenomenal, thank you for making this awesome video.
I liked the part of the movie where one reporter asked if they could show this
Nina answered that the lawyer sayed it would be fine
The one reporter then stated:
"I mean morally!"
Jajajja, yeap. The worst thing in the world is when a Charismatic psychopath has success, and people around him tries to imitate him to get some of that.
Morally? This isn't Hartford
Jake Gyllenhaal was also incredible in Prisoners. And could you do a video on Lord Shen?
Prisoners was a good film. I was so pissed in the end. I hope Jake heard the whistle and saved Hugh Jackman. The dude with the snakes 🐍 was a trip. Im still kinda confused on what the snakes were for? Then again I have not seen the film in years. I look for it on cable / Netflix from time to time.
Semi spoiler warning ⚠️
On a side note: I recently saw Jake’s new film Ambulance 🚑 and it was a long drawn out “action movie” about a stolen ambulance that miraculously drives /handles like a nascar at Talladega. Top it off a critical patient is of course fighting for his life in the back of the ambulance. One dedicated talented paramedic gives her all to keep him alive. So Hollywood for that part… It was not very believable at all and the entertainment wore thin after 40 min of the same thing on repeat. I kept thinking is it over yet…
My biggest WTF moment in the film was :
Painting the ambulance a bright ass neon green in the middle of the chase. Spray gun the ambulance in a car wash stall in order to disguise it.. Lol. What, how? Impossible to pull off with about 10-15 cop cars behind you. The plan was to paint it sky blue, but Jake’s bumbling idiot employee (I forgot what his actual business was, cuz you probably will too if u see it😂) Just like a Bugs Bunny cartoon or something, I swear. The cops r still on the ambulance regardless of it’s color. Like Dah Hollywood.
Jake Gyllenhaal picks really interesting dark roles generally... which I love.
How is it that people can't see that Hugh Jackman has zero acting talent?
@@henryclamore4791 Give it up, Hank.
Ohh, men. I saw that movie and instantly saw Locky as a totally different person than Jake, but I couldn´t put my finger at the reason why. Only with many rewacthes I have seen the details Jake putted on his acting, such as the eyes (he also has great eyes performance in Nightcrawler) with the way he is always blinking as Detective Locky, you can sense he is always with poor sleeping habits and anxious.
It's very easy to follow your video as you analyzed the character in a chronological order. Good content.
Excellent analysis, congratulations on the video! Watching you from Brazil.
Such great writing for this essay i loved it
This movie is so amazing, I'm so glad to see JaO make a video on it :)
Lou Bloom is a master of the 48 Laws of power
This channel deserves to blow up one day. Great commentary.
Time to watch nightcrawler again :) thanks
This film is a masterpiece and so is your analysis of this film and character.
Coincidentally I just watched Nightcrawler (for the 3rd time) last night. It's a great film on many levels, and one of Jake's best (creepiest?) performances.
If you want money, morality is your biggest barrier.
One of my favourite films. Always sticks in my mind after viewing.
Fantastic vid as always🤙🏼
Yo I absolutely loved your analysis of this film, had to subscribe after 👏🏾. The point of yours that resonates with me so deeply is the parallel you make between him accomplishing his goals and how our current system's ideals taken to the extreme could look like that. The fact that we as viewers can see Jake's behavior being nearly mirrored in the lives of those in power/those who achieve powerful positions is chilling.
This is one of those great moments where art has the potential to expose a hideous aspect of our reality. More people should watch this film and analyze the relationship between their desire to succeed and who it may harm.
I can't blame anyone for participating in this "dog-eat-dog" world. I can only hope they don't take it to this character's extent.
But anyway, sorry for the rambling, I'm a bit baked. To anyone reading, have a splendid day 😄
This video was fantastic. Very well written and to the point.
Amazing analysis on one of my favorite movies. Just an Observation you are amazing!
Network, They Live, and Nightcrawler..
These are the best films about mass media 🙌
6:00 to the bottom
8:00 worse behaviour, better reward
8:40 incentive structure
11:05 Quote
Far too many people don't realize that this is how the majority of society works. It's not pretty, it's not right, for whatever my opinion is worth, but it is reality unfortunately. If you're not willing to at least somewhat act like Lou to a great degree, it is exceptionally difficult to get ahead. Not impossible, but rare.
The world is transactional and based on what you can leverage. Coming to terms with this will help people experience less misery in life.
Jake really nailed this role, much like he does his other roles.
That's not how the majority of society works imo, but the minority. Only if you want to be disgustingly rich or succesful. You can make a perfect living while also being a moral upstanding citizen who takes pride in his work. No need to be a rotten person to make a decent living.
Great video on a great film. I've been obsessed with Jake Gyllenhaal's performance in the movie, the mirror scene being a standout. One of the movies that made me consider writing as a career choice, no regrets.
Ironically, breaking the mirror was a spontaneous choice from Jake, and he was genuinely injured in the process. Also unscripted - he was never directed to smile. Sometimes, over 7 or 8 takes, a smile burbled out of him. And that take was invariably chosen. Do you need the writing, but also the casting and directorial serendipity.
Fantastic work as always man, really glad to see your channel grow
Thanks, really appreciate it Pablo!
@@JustanObservation
Never change your voice tone...I have seen channel like yours who r now popular...but their voice now sounds like computer generated, initially it was good....your voice is soothing and good to listen , please maintain this way
Thanks for doing this. I usually don't lean into movies where the main character is a sadistic disgusting villian,
but Nightcrawler is different. As you say, the problem is with our system, and Nightcrawler shows this every second by highlighting the people and environments in the society governed by this system.
It hits close to home because the people and scenarios are familiar. But while the people are filmed intimately, the scenarios are horrific.
When you have horrific and intimate showcases throughout the entire production, it really makes a powerfup statement that this epidemic is undeniable!
Because of the flaws in the system, everyone in the story is isolated and alone, getting together only for work-related reasons.
This shouldn't always be the case in a 1st world country, ...but it is a lot of the time as shown in the film.
Hard work should lead to a sort of success, sure, but not when every event is horrific and horribly tragic. Then there's something wrong.
It was fascinating to think how it was all about how the skilled, hard workers are so easily manipulating society's more complacent and inefficient.
And how no one can call them out on it, because the ones who should care are that complacent and inefficient majority!
It would be so easy for someone in the story to say, "Lou, I've known you for a while now, and I noticed... you're just not right in the head!"
But like the guilt every character is willing to accept, like the manipulating of lazy society they all profit from, and like the protection the all recieve from authorities for being a part of a productive system, Lou's "working relationship status" exempts him from encountering any form of natural justice.
This all feels very familiar, like a very real problem that we all feel and yet never identify as we'd be treated with more inhumane behavior simply just for standing up to the big system.
The style that's filmed seems to be desperate in its search for some semblence of human decency, which it never finds. I love Nightcrawler.
This , among other things, was a scathing indictment on television news. That's the rub. This movie deserved much more recognition than it received.
“In Lou’s mind, this is fair” Lou doesn’t care about fairness bro he cares about himself
He’s narcissistic. He cares.
@@tristan4175 nah, he's textbook Machiavellianism
@@augustaseptemberova5664 he’s also a textbook narcissist.
@@tristan4175 depends on what you mean by "narcissist". If you're talking about NPD, then narcissists are not self-aware / self-reflecting, their narcissistic deeds are reactive, as in: they internally feel inferior to people around them, and react to compensate whenever their ego feels attacked (ego defence). Their selfish actions are very very rarely the result of strategic planning. They have a sense of ethics and morality, but it gets overwhelmed during ego defence. They do feel guilty, but ego defence shifts the guilt and blame onto other people. They lie, deny, rationalize and project a lot as a result.
Lou Bloom however is very self-aware. He realizes he's different, he reflects that it's because he dislikes people. He hurts / gets people hurt not because they hurt his ego, but because he sees them as a means to an end. And he plans his actions strategically, he's pro-active not reactive. He shows no signs of moral struggle, and he does not shift the blame on his victims, does not lie, deny or project or rationalize, like a narcissist would.
A person can ofc have both traits (extreme narcissism and be a High Mach). But in this case, I really don't think that narcissism fits.
Attaining success and lots of (fake) friends aka popular is so easy
1. Give up all notions of self respect.
2. Don't have any core values.
3. Put family/social relations always second.
4. When something goes wrong always blame the ones underneath you
5. When your boss wants someone underneath you disciplined, always do it with relish (being innocent or guilty matters little)
6. Truth or efficiency matters very little, do what you are told no matter how idiotic it is.
Do these things and you will be successful. A spinless, soulless, human cockroach but, a successful one
I watched a movie out of boredom some late night. Ah, Jake Gyllenhaal, I like this dude. *click
Didn't regret. Loved the movie. He was great in it. Convinced me he was an egotistic intelligent psycho for the duration.
An utterly chilling performance/character. Believable and realistic. It feels sickening watching Jake G playing this sociopath. An excellent film, very disturbing.
Basically, he is Travis Bicle with ambition to be rich. Great analysis 👍
Jake Gyllenhaal plays this role a little too well ⚆ _ ⚆
The same would be said for Heath Ledger as the joker so…
I was searching for this movie on your channel just yesterday 😉🙂
Having just seen this movie for the first time: thanks for the video.
So well said ❤. This is what our system promotes.
I loved this move I think the only thing I would change is the very last crane shot.
they should've cut to black when lou says "I would never ask you to do anything I wouldn't do myself"
that line alone is so scary, and the landscape shot at the end undermines it
still 9/10 tho
I guess the landscape shot was there to let it really sink in that he got away with it.
American Psycho feel without being an outright serial killer haha
I absolutely loved this movie, highly underrated imo.
Thanks! Great video!
Great thorough observation. Good job.
My dad brought this movie home one day, he used to know the CD burner back in the day with all the smash hits.
Loved this movie
Cool analysis and breakdown like usual man, would love to see some videos on Better Call Saul or Barry sometime in the future, i think you'd get alot of depth and content with those shows and characters.
I’ll be doing both!
@@JustanObservation awesome! Looking forward to those for sure.
This is one of my top 20 films, it is awesome.
Sociopaths & psychopaths is why we all (including them) can’t have the kind of awesome society that will bring us awesome things
Great video covering the complexities of this movie!
Fantastic video as always, keep it up man.
Lou is that weird quiet kid's final form
he just like me fr fr
@@kaggapu real
@@kaggapu real
Hey, I really love this video and I want to add something that the video made me think of. In a video game called "Red Dead Redemption" they made a satirical version of someone selling a self help book and if the player buys it it roughly tells to steal one mans grain and sell it to another and how the victim and customer get poorer, while the thief gets richer.
Very perverse...
He's such an inspiration.
This movie will Always be MY American Psycho
I love this movie... Love ur essays on my favorites thinga even more
LOVE THIS MOVIE AND LOVED YOUR ANALYZATION
Calling the company Video News is a fairly deft touch that sets the story a few years earlier. We all know that the modern cellphone can replace his initial start-up costs. Suggesting it’s done on video dates it a bit, in a good way, because I suppose it’s even easier to enter this line of work when your phone is a sophisticated camera.
Great content and breakdown, glad the algorithm sent me this way
Disturbing movie.
Great analysis… as usual! 🙌🏻
Great video.
This movie is fantastic. Definitely underrated.
Great performance by Jake Gyllenhaal. And not even a nomination for an Oscar. It would be interesting to see a movie called "Nightcrawler v. American Psycho". Or maybe not. But that would be a very twisted evening of cinema.
Interesting analysis of a great film 🎬
Your channel produces interesting content
I think you did fantastic speaking on hear, good job 👏🏼
This movie taķes place after the 08 recession for anyone too young. It was a very hard time.
This is brilliant.
"Lou views the world as purely transactional" as he turns into an American flag - I unsarcastically love the lack of subtlety here. I love the US, and our biggest threat is exactly this type of cynicism (embodied by the current republican candidate; when they say "You don't pay enough taxes" he says "That's because I'm smart", and 1/3 of the country cheers him on)
fucking great analysis man, no one does it quite like you honestly
Thanks bro looking forward to your next one!
Here in Grrmany you'd just get afrested if you showed up with camera to an accident scene.
nicely done, haven't even finished the video yet but your talking facts.
My communication art teacher gave me a assignment about this movie 2 weeks ago and now I found this video nice
How did you do?
Very nice. Hope your channel grows
Great video. I'm going to have to rewatch this movie.
Mans straight out of Hustlers University 😂
This movie was great almost perfect. Jake nailed this out of the park with his acting. Guy understands phsyco paths =]
There's no ethos in 'the american dream'. Competition, any competition spawns evil.
> Competition, any competition spawns evil.
I'm inclined to agree with you. I won't say ANY competition, but certainly, in video-games, human-vs-human games are often described as 'toxic', etc.
@@rabbitcreative And I agree with you, that my statement 'any' is to radical, to harsh. I guess I'm trying to get to the root of the problem, which I see as 'value'. The concept of 'because I can create a microwave oven, I must be "better" than a beaver who cannot; better than an ant, who cannot; better than a rock who cannot'. It is my ego, my thoughts, saying stuff like that. Not important even the reason why anymore, it was my upbringing, it was my school, it was this or that book. Now I know about my ego involving himself in these kind of games, whenever he does that kind of comparing I just give my ego a hug and put him to sleep with the thum in his mouth. I just reboot him with a different OS every time. Maybe hundreds of thousands of times a day. Whatever that means. Since - the passing of - time is an illusion ;)
Damn son, this hits on all cylinders
Lou's a fuckin' inspiration
great video once again!
You mean this movie isn't a manual on how to get ahead?! Oh my.
I literally saw the movie first time hours ago and didn’t relise until now that he stole the bike
Channeling some Travis Bickle throughout his performance....Very inspired!!
Night crawler could renamed as American Sociopath.
Great Video. Great Movie
Greatest jake gyllenhaal performance and one of the Greatest performance of all-time.