Nightcrawler
Movie • 2014 • Crime
ReportWhen Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.
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Abuse
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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someone is manipulated into having sex with the main character, while being forced into a long-term business deal with him. she then eventually begins defending him and seems to be okay with the whole deal (he is earning the station and her a lot of kudos etc)
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Is someone stalked?
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The main character searches up details about a woman online and uses them to pressure her into sex, its not explicitly stalking but its creepy
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Not on screen, though over the police radio scanners you do hear them call out a DV incident.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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It's hard to say that he was gaslighted, but there is an employee who is taken advantage of in an abuse of power.
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Addiction
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Is there addiction?
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The main character does show telltale symptoms of addiction, but not to substances. There are signs of euphoria, withdrawal, and manipulation to fulfill his habit.
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
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Is rape mentioned?
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A character asks why he and the main character aren't going to film at the scene of a rape.
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You don't see a physical assault, but someone is extorted into having sex on a regular basis in future.
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Bodily Harm
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Are there dislocations?
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TheD0ggyD13s
At a crime scene, a man is run over with a car (scene isn’t shown, just the aftermath) and his broken and dislocated legs stick out from under the car. Scene lasts about 5 seconds
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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spoilers: a character is shot to death and gasps for air as he is dying
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Is someone crushed to death?
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there is an image of a person killed by a drunk driver, consisting of two bloody legs under a vehicle.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Someone is being taken away he is burned & filmed, he isn't dead
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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a character is seen choking and gurgling on blood
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Does someone break a bone?
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You don't see it happening, but you see someone lying all twisted after an accident, indicating that bones have been broken.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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no, but offscreen an injured person struggles upstairs while fatally wounded. onscreen you see the blood swipes and footprints.
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Is there excessive gore?
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Aftermath At the crime scene there's gore
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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no, but there is concern about the idea for a moment when a crib is found empty.
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Does a kid die?
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Theres a scene where the main character walks into a crime scene and a childrens bedroom, several characters ask if theres a dead child in the bedroom but its revealed its empty.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Does someone die?
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multiple people die onscreen and offscreen in the film, and corpses are filmed and the film shown multiple times.
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Disability
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Family
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a family (husband, wife, and housekeeper) are shot in a conflict in their house. no family members of a character die.
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Fear
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Are there jump scares?
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HankT
no, but theres several scenes where people scream suddenly and yell so even if theyre not exactly jumpscares it may startle viewers
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Gross
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Is there audio gore?
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it is rather mild compared to other audio gore you might see in movies, but there are gasping noises and blood involved in those.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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cops are shown but theyre shown as neutral at best.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
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Not explicitly mentioned, but the main character speaks in an unnatural way the whole film and mentions 'understanding people, but not liking people' as a whole. It points to psychopathy, or a violent personality disorder.
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Louise Bloom does have a lot of autistic traits and can be perceived as a misrepresentation of autism but I don't think that's what the creators intended. He was just supposed to be a "sociopath" and sadly the era (2010s) tends to mistranslate that sort of thing into autism
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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not traditionally-- the main character causes violence to happen by manipulating people, and while not named as mentally ill, it is likely this character has something akin to ASPD.
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brief mention of a suicide having taken place, not shown or talked about again
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Man breaks the mirror with his hand
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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brief mention of a suicide having taken place, not shown or talked about again
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Noxious
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Is there shakey cam?
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The camera shakes when they get quick to film
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Does a baby cry?
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There is only audio of a baby crying and very briefly
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Is there screaming?
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Screaming from afar (in restaurants, etc) while they watch scenes from the background
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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There are police sirens several times throughout the film
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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mentioned but never explicity shown
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Race
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Relationships
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The main character pressures a older woman into a relationship/sex. They are both adults but she mentions the age gap
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Sex
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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the main character manipulates and blackmails someone into sex.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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Nothing explicitly sexual occurs on screen, but the main character insinuates he'd like to start trading his footage for a sexual relationship with the news director. Additionally, a scene occurs later where there's definite sexual tension in a conversation, but nothing comes of it.
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Sickness
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Social
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Is someone homeless?
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a character mentions having been homeless and currently living in a garage, his conditions of living are not described in length.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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***MAJOR SPOILERS*** It's a little hard to categorize this film's ending as strictly happy or sad. If you consider a "happy" ending to be based on the *protagonist* being happy with the ending, then it's definitely not a sad ending, as Lou gets pretty much everything he wants without consequence to himself. But he's also not the kind of protagonist you really root for and is pretty definitively a terrible person and terrible things happen because of him so from that perspective it is a sad ending.
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Does a car crash?
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**SPOILERS***Apart from a major chase sequence at the film's end where several cars violently crash, a big chunk of the film's overall plot involves the main character going around to the sites of car crashes and getting footage of the wreckage. The images of the wrecks are quite graphic and dead bodies are seen several times.
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Does a plane crash?
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You don't see it, but there's a news story about it just having happened.
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Is someone hit by a car?
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8BitMonkey
Near the end, multiple car collisions are shown and deaths occur, but no pedestrians outside of a vehicle are hit by cars.
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Is there blood/gore?
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8BitMonkey
Gun violence is shown, but the most bloody parts of the film are the aftermaths of violence that occurred offscreen. Mostly gunshot wounds, but multiple victims of car accidents are shown as well.
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Is there gun violence?
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there's a shootout between drug runners/dealers and cops, as well as a family gunned down in their home by aforementioned runners/dealers.
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