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Nightcrawler [Blu-ray]

Jake Gyllenhaal (Actor), Bill Paxton (Actor), Dan Gilroy (Director) Rated:
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Genre Drama, DVD Movie, Crime, Reporter, Blu-ray Movie, Journalism, Action & Adventure/Thrillers, Murder, Mystery & Suspense, Universal Blu-ray See more
Format Blu-ray, Color, Digital_copy, Ultraviolet, Widescreen
Contributor Marco Rodriguez, Rene Russo, Michael Papajohn, Bill Paxton, Dan Gilroy, Jake Gyllenhaal
Language English
Runtime 3 hours and 56 minutes
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Nightcrawler is a thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling - where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are converted into dollars and cents. Aided by Rene Russo as Nina, a veteran of the blood-sport that is local TV news, Lou blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.40:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 3.2 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 31820665
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Dan Gilroy
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray, Color, Digital_copy, Ultraviolet, Widescreen
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 3 hours and 56 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ February 10, 2015
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Jake Gyllenhaal, Bill Paxton, Michael Papajohn, Marco Rodriguez, Rene Russo
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ French, Spanish
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English (DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00Q3DMJZW
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
  • Customer Reviews:
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Draws you in, the further the movie continues. Awkward start and pace, but really grips on to you until the finish.Not my normal movie, but glad I have it.
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Christina Reynolds
5.0 out of 5 stars Unnerving, Unassuming, Unusually Profound
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2021
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My review is more of a 4.5
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𝑰'𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆.

𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒓 is a 2014 American neo-noir psychological thriller film written and directed by Dan Gilroy in his directorial debut. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Louis "Lou" Bloom, a stringer who records violent events late at night in Los Angeles and sells the footage to a local television news station. Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed, and Bill Paxton also star.

The tradition of ‘night-crawling’ has long been inspired by the work of Arthur Fellig (‘Weegee’): a photographer active in the 1930s whose publications featured grotesque and borderline controversial portrayals of crime, death, and significant injury. Fellig’s particular style was developed secondarily to his tendency to prowl the streets looking for emergency services for a lead: with his arrival at some scenes occurring before the necessitated personnel.
Fast forward to today, and few people have procured as much attention as the Raishbrook brothers: the owners of Raishbrook Media Group who also work in Los Angeles. Having worked as advisors during the production of 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒓, Gilroy and Gyllenhaal were taken on ride-alongs to get a general feel for the scenarios they willingly and enthusiastically engage with: emphasizing the lack of disregard for personal safety required for this line of employment. In need of licenced footage for any of the newsroom related scenes, the Raishbrook Brothers also unsurprisingly made their own available for use.
(Sidenote; A mini-series about this group can be found on Netflix entitled 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒓𝒌; it’s extravagantly self-worshiping at times, but it’s also insightful in spurts)

No stranger to roles requiring a transformation, nothing comes close to Gyllenhaal’s metamorphosis into the likes of Lou Bloom. Physically speaking, Bloom’s gaunt appearance was achieved through a loss of approximately 30 pounds (and maintaining an obsessive gym regime while filming): making for a terrifying demeanor when paired with his enormously large and dramatically expressive eyeballs. On paper, Lou is a textbook psychopath, with Gyllenhaal’s performance upping the ante in terms of unnerving suspense and vitriolic pizzaz. Despite some casting choices making for predictable interactions - since social inequity seems to play out thematically as a discreet way of setting the mood - the delivery of 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒓’s thrills and conclusions supersedes the perceived inevitability of them.

Self-aware and aloof, 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒓 refuses to go into detail as it concerns Bloom’s particular backstory, with the omission of this information being far from a coincidence. Interestingly enough, Gilroy has stated previously that an explanation of sorts was originally included in his script, but it was removed with the intent of allowing viewers to project their own thoughts onto the screen with little concern as to whether or not they force a connection with the subject matter in a significant way.
To call 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒓 an impractical or inefficiently equipped character study would be negligible at best, however, as the narrative is less about who Lou is and more about the domain he inadvertently becomes tethered to. On one hand, there is validation in the complaints that could be made about the exaggeration of Bloom’s pathology as potentially distracting, but when thought of as an illustration of characteristics needed to succeed amongst ethically dubious circumstances (Adjectives like 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆, 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕, and 𝒉𝒚𝒑𝒐𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 come to mind, to name a few). . . much of Loui’s behavior starts to make the tiniest bit of sense.

In a self-referential way, it’s equally easy to forget that Bloom is far from acting on his own: speaking simplistically, he’s double-dealing in a line of employment that also depends on a perverse manifestation of supply and demand.
The implications are more than capable of forcing some viewers (and, spoiler alert, I’m one of them) into a vector of self-reflection regardless of their relationship with questionable sources of entertainment or news.
There’s simply no way that my morbid curiosity (in lieu of being cognizant of my own surroundings) has an effect on a journalist’s own sense of objectivity or integrity.
I hope so, anyway.
I say this while I doomscroll into the oblivion on a regular basis. I say this while I casually use 𝑨𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒓: 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂 𝑼𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒆 as background noise while I write the very review you’re reading now.
On standard devices, the literal space between the buttons used to 𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅 and 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 are kept to a minimum, and sometimes even one in the same; It is perhaps in the same way that the metaphorical gap between bystanders and content creators may be codependently attached.
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Frank the Tank
5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting movie, I liked it!
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2024
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At first I thought this movie was about earth worms, but it turned out to be really great!
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Patrick Christensen
4.0 out of 5 stars Movie
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2024
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Robert
5.0 out of 5 stars Well done, fast-paced, thought-provoking
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2019
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This is an excellent film about two very driven people trying to succeed in the LA local news business. Lou is a sociopathic loner who by accident discovers a way to make money that fits his cold, dispassionate character:  he listens to the police scanner then rushes to the scenes of shootings and car accidents and films the bloody victims. Then he hightails it to a local TV station and sells his videos to Nina in time for the 6 am news. Nina is not really a sociopath, but at this point in her flagging career as a news director, she is hard-bitten and desperate to increase her ratings in order to preserve her job. She quickly recognizes that Lou has a knack and lacks a conscience. She encourages him to bring her the most graphic footage he can.  

Over time it becomes clear that Lou has romantic/sexual feelings for Nina. When he makes this plain, he is so clearly an out-of-control sociopath that any normal woman would be creeped out and run away. But Nina  badly needs higher ratings to preserve her job, and is willing to play Lou along to get what she wants. She pays him well for his footage, and introduces him to the news anchors. Lou is so energized by all this attention and success, he goes to crazier and crazier lengths to get the most extreme footage he can. One night he gets hits the jackpot: three white people in an upscale neighborhood are murdered in their home. This is exactly the scenario that Nina has told him she wants: stories of  white, affluent viewers suffering random violence in their homes. When Lou gets arrives at the scene before the police, he does wildly illegal things to increase the drama and value of his footage. The death toll goes up but Lou and Nina get what they want - sky high ratings during sweep week.

To me this is not so much a parodic takedown of the sensationalist local news business as it is an allegory of how superachievers in all of corporate America abandon moral considerations in their drive for success at all costs. The things small-time nutcases like Lou do are bad, but how far do we have to look these days to find corporations that abandon morals in their quest for higher profits, sometimes at the expense of of innocent lives?  Nightcrawler is saying it's not just the news business; it's a culture-wide moral decay in a country that values success over all else.  For instance, the newscasters and  VIPs in the newsroom like and approve of Lou despite his disturbing, disconnected personality - to them,  he provides the footage that's the key to their ratings blowout, so he's AOK.   Only Nina's co-worker Frank, as a stand-in for sane, decent Americans, objects to the insane immorality of showing some of the footage, but she quickly brushes his objections aside.

I found Nightcrawler to be much more interesting in this context than simply an indictment of tabloid local news. Gyllenhaal plays a convincing sociopath and Russo is excellent as an over-the-hill news producer whose failure to succeed eventually drives her to ignore all bounds of decency.   I was worried this film might be creepy and sadistic, but it is so intellectualized that it really isn't. It's a clinical, fascinating look at what some people will do when they're driven to succeed in a highly competitive world. Especially sociopaths like Lou, who utterly lack any emotional connection to people. Studies tell us that corporate board rooms are full of these types. 
 
Quick notes: While there are some bloody victims, this is not gore porn. They are shown quickly to make the point, but the camera doesn't dwell.  Bill Paxton and Riz Ahmed do a great job in their supporting roles. It is well-paced; the plot is aways moving forward and there is never a dull moment. Sure to be thought-provoking.
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Alexandre
5.0 out of 5 stars Good
Reviewed in Canada on October 9, 2022
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Reviewed in Sweden on August 28, 2023
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Javier Méndez
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente película
Reviewed in Mexico on May 14, 2020
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Vale mucho la pena tenerla, además es difícil conseguirla. La adquirí en Blu-Ray, se ve y escucha excelente. Solo tiene audio en inglés pero cuenta con subtítulos al español
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente película
Reviewed in Mexico on May 14, 2020
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Laurence Duchauffour
2.0 out of 5 stars Cher pour ce que c’est 😒
Reviewed in France on April 3, 2021
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Produit acheté soit disant “neuf” et reçu sans film de protection comme si c’était un produit d’occasion très déçu..
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5.0 out of 5 stars Das Auge der Nacht....
Reviewed in Germany on April 8, 2015
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Dan Gilroy trat bislang als Drehbuchautor in Erscheinung. Auf sein Konto gehen die Skrips der Filme "The Fall" (Tarsem Singh), "Real Steel" (Shawn Levy) und "Bourne Vermächtnis" (Tony Gilroy, Dans Bruder). Für seine neue Arbeit nahm er auch gleich Platz auf dem Regiestuhl. Gut so, denn mit "Nightcrawler - Jede Nacht hat ihren Preis" lieferte er eines der überzeugenden Regiedebuts des vergangenen Kinojahres ab. Dan Gilory konnte sogar eine der begehrten Oscar-Nominierungen für sein Drehbuch erlangen. Hauptdarsteller Jake Gyllenhal wurde immerhin bei den Golden Globe mit einer Nominierung berücksichtigt. Bei der ehrwürdigen Academy ging er aber leer aus. Das mag vielleicht damit zusammenhängen, dass er seine Filmfigur Louis Bloom vielleicht in manchen Szenen zu künstlich, zu überzeichnet oder gar grotesk angelegt hat. Bei näherer Betrachtung ist diese Eigenheit aber auch eine der großen Stärken des Films. In diesem Momenten erkennt man den Soziopathen, der sich bislang als erfolgreicher neuer Geschäftsmann getarnt hat. Natürlich ist der Film in seinen besten Momenten ganz Thriller, aber er übt auch Kritik am Sensationsjournalismus. Filmisch steht er dabei als Nachfolger der Klassiker "Reporter des Satans" (Billy Wilder, 1951) oder "Network" (Sidney Lumet, 1976 in bester Verwandtschaft und Gesellschaft.

Die wohl bislang heftigste Kritik über den Sensationsjournalismus kam mit der verhängnisvollen Fahrt durch Paris in der Nacht des 31. August 1997. Um 0 Uhr 25 verunglückte der Wagen von Lady Di und Dodi Al-Fayed in der Alma Unterführung. Der Mercedes Benz prallte mit hoher Geschwindigkeit gegen einen Tunnenpfeiler. Der angetrunkene Fahrer und Dodi starben noch am Unfallort, Lady Di Stunden später im Krankenhaus. Immer wieder wurde im Zusammenhang mit dem Unfall auch die rasende Meute der dem Mercedes folgenden Paparazzi erwähnt.
Auch beim immer noch sehr aktuellen Flugzeugabsturz des Germanwings Flug 9525 am 24. März 2015 hörte man immer wieder auch in den Nachrichten von diesen Sensationsreportern, die aufgrund ihrer Suche oder besser sogar Sucht nach dem spektakulärsten Foto auch die Bergungsarbeiten der Einsatzkräfte behindert haben sollen.

Gilroys Film ist ein Beitrag zu dieser immer fataleren Entwicklung in unseren Medien, die Geld und Quote machen müssen.
Und Jake Gyllenhals Louis Bloom ist deren Handlanger. Er ist vor seinem Leben als "Nightcrawler" ein Typ, der sich mit kleinen Gaunerein über Wasser hält und mit seinem rostigen Wagen durch Los Angeles fährt um irgendwas zu klauen. Bei einem seiner Fahrten kommt er zufällig zu einem Autounfall und bemerkt dort einen Kameramann (Bill Paxton), der keinerlei Skrupel hat seine Kamera auf die Verletzten und Sterbenden auf der Straße zu halten. Fortan ist eine Geschäftsidee geboren. Er tauscht sein gestohlenes Rennrad ein, um eine Kamera und ein Funkgerät zu bekommen. Mit Letzerem kann er den Polizeifunk abhören, was ungemein erleichtert, wenn man sehr schnell an eimem Ort sein muss, wo man gute Fotos machen kann. Und was eignet sich dafür am besten: Brände, Unfälle, Katastrophen, Schießereien...die Exklusiv-Fotos und Filme lassen sich jedenfalls immer gut verkaufen. Langsam etabliert der harmlos wirkende Louis sich als besonders rücksichtsloser und findiger Kameramann, beliefert mit seinem exklusiven Bildmaterial von Unfällen und Gewalttaten den Nachrichtensender KWLA in Los Angeles, bei dem die unter Erfolgsdruck stehende Journalistin Nina Romina (Rene Russo, Ehefrau von Dan Gilroy) das Sagen hat. Die Frau agiert auch häufig skrupellos und erkennt, dass Louis sie die Erfolgsleiter weiter aufsteigen lassen könnte - daher fördert sie sein Kaltblütiges Talent.
Immer mehr wird aber hinter der höflichen Fassade der Psychopath sichtbar. Louis ist aber auch ein Kind seiner Zeit, er will Erfolg und Geld um jeden Preis - als Geschätsmann weiß er, dass er rücksichtslos am stöärsten mitmischen kann.
Im Internet hat er sich Wissen über Management und Betriebswirtschaft angelegt, das er in Verhandlungen anzuwenden weiß. Und ja...er expandiert und stellt sogar einen Praktikanten an. Der leichtgläubige Rick (Riz Ahmed) braucht dringend einen Job und so wird er zu Louis Navigator, der ihn durch die Straßen von Los Angeles am schnellsten zu den täglichen Katastrophen führen soll...

Und der Zuschauer wird von Dan Gilory auf eine höchst interessante Fahrt mitgenommen, die sich auf dem Höhepunkt in einer Szene gipfelt, die zu den spannendsten Film-Sequenzen der letzten Jahre gezählt werden darf. Louis und sein Assistent sind in dieser Szene sogar vor der Polizei an einem Tatort. Die Gangster sind sogar noch in dem Haus, in dem sie gerade mehrere Menschen kaltblütig erschossen haben. Louis wittert trotz des lebensgefährlichen Risikos die Chance mit diesem Film ganz nach oben zu kommen. Grandios auch die Kamerafahren von Robert Elswitt (Kameraoscar für "There will be blood") durch das nächtliche Los Angeles, die Straßen wirken immer seltsam bedrohlich. Somit weißt "Nightcrawler" eine visuelle Stärke auf, was die düstere Aussage noch bedrückender werden lässt.
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