Nightcrawler

**scavenger hunt 85** My god what a great commentary on the ethicality of media consumption and production. A thriller that both effectively communicates an important message to its audience and manages to be aesthetically flawless whilst doing so. This film deserves awards based on cinematography alone, every frame is composed so artistically. The awe-inspiring music tricks you into empathising with Lou, the same way our biggest systems of authority lure you in under false pretence while under the surface a money-hungry desire resides. Gyllenhaal is the perfect antihero, his blank stare and manipulative smile insinuating a corruption so concealed that the transition from lost freelancer to unhinged megalomaniac is seamless. He represents every high up corporation that didn’t gain their success without leverage and exploitation, even bloodshed. He embodies the wickedness so well, it’s genuinely scary to take a step back and evaluate the character you rooted for. Literally unreal. A film where I just wanted to rewatch it as soon as it had finished.