Night Crawler

CAST: Jake Gyllenhall as Lou Bloom Rene Russo as Nina Riz Ahmed as Rick Bill Paxton as Joe Loder Michael Papajohn as Security Guard Ann Cusack as Linda Michael Hyatt as Detective CREW: Directed by Dan Gilroy Music by James Newton Howard Cinematography by Robert Elswit Editing by John Gilroy Synopsis of the Film: This movie revolves around a guy who steals things to make a living named “Lou Bloom”. He tries to leave stealing and tries to get a permanent job but he doesn't get it. One fine night while he is going back to his house he sees an accident and news reporters covering the accident. He sees the news reporter making money just by covering the accident and giving it to the news channel. He sees a good scope for this job. He decides to buy a camera to start the job but he doesn’t have money for it. He steals a bicycle from a beach and sells it to a pawn shop owner and buys a camera out of it. He goes to a crime scene and tries to take coverage of it but the police tell him to back off. So he goes to an accident scene and he starts shooting it. He takes the clip and goes to a news channel and gives it. The head likes the clip and gives him 250 dollars for it. Lou starts to love the work and does it very sincerely and seriously. He goes to many places and covers many things. He hires a guy as an intern to mainly navigate him to places. Lou’s lifestyle increases slowly. Money starts to flow in Lou’s pocket. A competitor in the same field gets jealous and gets afraid seeing Lou’s growth in the field. So he gives Lou a chance to work with him but Lou refuses it and leaves from there. Lou tries to flirt with Nina. Nina cuts it off and she tells that she is not interested in it. Lou asks Nina out but Nina refuses to do it but later they go to a restaurant. Lou proposes to Nina. Nina tries to say no. Lou tries to convince Nina but Nina doesn’t really get convinced. Later that week Lou misses to cover a main breaking news and instead covers a lesser important news. Nina gets very angry and yells at Lou and she tells him to get important news. That important news would have been covered by Lou’s competitor. So he decides to kill him. He goes to his house and removes his brake chain in his truck. As per his plans his competitor loses control and hits on a pole and dies and on that same day he gets another important news to cover. Home burglary news. He goes there very fast even before the police arrive. He goes inside and shoots everything and comes out and leaves from there. He edits some footage and goes to the news channel and gives it to them and gets 15000 dollars from them. He goes home after that. 2 Detectives come to his house and investigate what he did inside the crime scene while shooting. He tells the detective that he heard an alarm that was why he went inside the house. The detectives knew that he was lying but they couldn’t do anything because they didn’t have any proof. Detective asks for the footage and Lou gives the edited footage. Lou realises that if he covers the footage of the killers dying then he would be rewarded a lot. So he plans and executes the plans with the help of the internship guy. As per Lou’s plan the killer and the internship guy dies. He goes to the news channel and gives the recording that they did. The detective tells to stop airing the footage because she says that is all evidence of the shootout which was between the killers and the policemen but Nina refuses to do so. Detectives take Lou for an investigation. Detective guesses Lou’s plan which he did for the murder but Lou refuses it. Detective gets angry and leaves from there and Lou walks from there and comes out of the office. Lou recruits 3 new teenagers and starts a new company and starts working with them. This is a small synopsis of the film. If you guys want to hear a detailed explanation about this film you guys search for “hadhidoespodcast” in Spotify, Anchor and in Pocket casts app to hear my podcast about this movie. Don't forget to follow me in spotify and my insta page for further updates. @hadhidoesblogcast (My insta id)