Oh. My. God. What a movie! That was definitely my first ever reaction when the movie ended. I would say it was a creepy and thrilling movie yet so entertaining and smart that kept you at the edge of your seat.

Nightcrawler was a movie about an ambitious young man who, I would say, was dying to have a job. He craved for it, he would do anything to get it. Then one day, with a camera he bought himself, he didn't only find a perfect job, but also let himself trapped in between ambition and obsession. Or, it had actually been all about obsession from the very beginning.

If I were to give a standing ovation to a particular person, I'd like to give it first to Dan Gilroy, and then Jake Gyllenhaal is to go. For Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler was his directorial debut. He's also the man behind the brilliantly-written script. Well, what a debut! Congratulations! Dan Gilroy successfully brought up the ambition-obsession issue, particularly in television and news business. The plot was well-paced, not too slow but not too fast. It got creepier and creepier every minute. The character development was another thing I loved. The way Gilroy developed his characters was like peeling and coring an apple carefully until we could finally see its core in a gorgeous shape. The further the movie went, the more I could see who the characters really were and what they actually wanted. And, again, it was all well-paced.

And for Jake Gyllenhaal...., are you kidding me??? God. Jake Gyllenhaal's portrayal of Lou Bloom made the movie much more spectacular than it had already been. He did a fantastic job in portraying a Hitchcock-like character; a polite and innocent psychopath. It was like, he could stab one's back with a knife calmly and then be able to talk to the police like, "yeah I did that, what's wrong with that, Sir?". Well, Lou Bloom was not literally a murderer, but that's how I summarize his character. Just go see the movie to get what I'm saying. :)

An Oscar-worthy performance by Jake Gyllenhaal.

The other thing I found clever about the movie was the way it captured the "behind-the-scenes" of news showcases. It was an interesting thing realizing that what we see on television, even if it's a news, is not 100% true. I mean, they can change some part or even the whole news into a story they think audiences might want to see, and therefore raises its rating. Or, they can hide some parts of the news to make it more dramatic. Okay, it was not that clever though, I mean we all might had known all the dramas and lies in television. But, I loved how Gilroy explored it. There were some scenes that weren't intentionally made to show us the lies behind a news showcase, but still made me go like, "what? So that's how they delivered a news? They can't do that, that's not how the actual event went! That's cruel!".

It's a review (or should I refuse to call it that way?) from an amateur, I know. All I wanted was to praise this movie for its directing (and it's a debut!), writing, and excellent performances by its cast. I forgot to mention that Riz Ahmed delivered such an unforgettable performance portraying a true innocent and kind-hearted side-kick. This movie was a very worth-to-see. If it wasn't too early to compare it with Hitchcock, then I'd say that Nightcrawler was like a modern-Hitchcock, and Jake Gyllenhaal pretty much represented a Hitchcock-like character.

My final rating: 9/10.