Jake Gyllenhaal ‘s superb performance as a morally challenged TV news cameraman is pure minimalist intensity. His character Lou Bloom is fascinated by true crime and haunts scenes around LA. Bloom takes his cues from the news videographers he sees vying for the most graphic footage at crime and accident sites. He realises that taking up a camera for a local TV newsroom is lucrative and puts him in the eye of the LA underworld. He’ll stop at nothing to get his footage; he crosses over the professional threshold and becomes a news predator, taking what he wants, incapable of de-escalating. We spoke with Gyllenhaal at the Toronto International Film Festival.
I did a lot of research on that world, but to me it’s about how we’ve created this person and how he is our creation. All day people have given Bloom different names, creep, sociopath or psychopath and what’s interesting, the reason I want to do the movie is because it was a way of exploring a piece of myself, connotes 50% of me that is like this guy and that is intriguing in the same way he is and would be driven in a similar way. He puts forth this character so we can all face a piece of ourselves that is fascinated with the tragedy ....
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