Could never get "into" this movie (also called suspend disbelief). The name Nightcrawler refers to freelance photographers that listen to police call at night . . . and speed to the scene of an accident or killing to get a good video tape of the gore . . . so they can sell it to local TV stations.
The message of the movie (I suppose ) was to show how TV plays to killing and gore. Just watch CNN during the recent plane flight into the Alps. That what people want to see and that is the stuff increases ratings.
To increase the strength of the message, the screenwriter made the main character (a nightcrawler) of this movie absolutely crazy and totally without moral grounding. But this was really unnecessary because just average and mental stable photographers take this sort of job to make a buck.
From the promo in Rotten Tomatoes: (100% different from my review)
NIGHTCRAWLER is a pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling -- where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are converted into dollars and cents. Aided by Rene Russo as Nina, a veteran of the blood-sport that is local TV news, Lou thrives. In the breakneck, ceaseless search for footage, he becomes the star of his own story.
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