Night Crawler (2014)
An incredibly fun watch, Nightcrawler follows sociopath Louis Bloom as he breaks into the world of if-it-bleeds-it-leads local news coverage.
Nevermind that much of the footage he captures in the movie is way too graphic to show up in a real news broadcast: Nightcrawler is a propulsive look at the sometimes blurry line between news and voyeurism. Is Louis a journalist, or a ruthless self-promoter?
You could ask the question of many so-called journalists, especially those who, like Louis, come at it with no professional training. They aren’t so much journalists being jerks as jerks posing as journalists.
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