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Nightcrawler exposes the predations of TV news
“On TV It Looks So Real,” Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) says admiringly of an “If it bleeds, it leads” scene of carnage on the local news. A petty thief who steals barricades from work sites to sell wholesale–basically, he’s a fence fence–Lou finds a more lucrative line of work and, more important, a calling: shooting video of grieving widows, home-invasion victims and human roadkill for Los Angeles TV stations. …
This appears in the November 10, 2014 issue of TIME.