Nightcrawler

I have a rule while watching a film in a swedish cinema screening.  Try and avoid swedish films that looks like another Stockholm Skärgården smör blaska. Like the new christmas comedy Micke och Veronica. I realise that 3 million swedes will run and see films like these,  just because you are supposed to like them, because we are swedish. Thankfully i am one of those swedes who avoid shit films like this. Am i rude and say bad words?  Yes, and i dont care, someone needs to stand up and say the truth. Instead i look outside this predictable genre and look for more quality. If there is one actor who proves himself to choose great characters, Jake Gyllenhaal have really proved himself to be professional actor. At a very young age,  he got me hooked up by his perfomance in Donnie Darko, a cult film that everyone should see. He continued to delivered in Zodiac , lately in both Prisoners and Enemy. Speaking about Enemy,  such a shame more people have not seen this one. A very intelligent and well made motion picture that take a completely different turn than most cinema releases. So now Jake Gyllenhaal is back with a new film, simply titled Nightcrawler. This is the directorial debut for director Dan Gilroy, who worked as a screen writer on several films in the past. When i heard of Nightcrawler,  what kind of film this is and read all the positive reviews,  i was really excited to check it out. The trailer got me even more crazy,  i simply jumped all over the living room like a japanese girl,  overdosed on coffeine pills. Is Nightcrawler as good as everyone is saying or is this hype way to big to be true? 

Lou Bloom ( Jake Gyllenhaal ) is a thief and criminal, selling stolen material and merchandise. With no luck and trying to find a way to make money, he suddenly stop at a Highways watching a traffic accident, while a tv news team led by Joe Loder ( Bill Paxton ) who is a professional news camera filmer. He film all accidents, murders, anything that tv news stations are willing to pay for. Lou Bloom loves the idea of making money on other peoples misery, so he begin to start his own fake company. Not licensed or having permission to film crime scenes or accidents, Lou continue to learn to become a camera man. He visit the news office of Channel 6, where he shows his material to morning news director Nina Romina ( Rene Russo ). She can tell that Lou might bring good material so decides to pay him for every video, if he delivers more brutal material. Lou decides to hire an assistant, Rick  to help him for navigation, with the help of police radio and Gps. But for every crime scene that Lou visit, he is willing to go over any line or rule, to get the best video material, even if it may end his future. 

There is a saying here in Sweden that fits right in to the feeling of Nightcrawler,  and that saying is :- Hårda bud i Mellerud.  So what does this have to anything about Nightcrawler?  This is a film that simply hit you straight in your face,  just like the people of Mellerud does if you visit their town. The difference is that Nightcrawler is even more powerful,  with a very dusturbing image of the tv news broadcasting world. Jake Gyllenhaal is absolutely fantastic as the sociopath Lou Bloom, who does not care about human life,  as long as he get the best footage from crime scenes,  including terrible accidents. When you actually see how far Lou Bloom is ready to go for the best news footage, its not hard to belive that there might actually be some truth in this portrait. When he begin to loose his sense of reality,  Jake Gyllenhaal explodes and delivers one of his best perfomances ever.  This man is a very talented actor,  maybe one of the best with Ryan Gosling included. Director Dan Gilroy have a very dark vision of how cruel this world can be. The beautiful night scenes in the big city looks gorgeous,  while Lou Bloom drive around looking for new victims to to capture on camera. Nightcrawler looks really good and feels very dusturbing, and this combination makes Nightcrawler feel so intensive. Rene Russo is back on screen, and i can honestly say this might be her best perfomance ever in a motion picture.  I was hoping that this would be the masterpiece i hoped for, still this is so damn good i still want to applaude and hug everyone in the cinema. I cant wait to see what director Dan Gilroy delivers next time, as his first directorial debut,  Nightcrawler will crawl under your skin, and make you feel a sour taste of how evil people can be. Jake Gyllenhaal best male actor at the Annual Oscar Academy Awards ? Hell yeah, this guy is a fantastic actor, and Nightcrawler delivers all the way. 

Rating: DDDD