Nightcrawler

The movie Nightcrawler came out in 2014 and didn't recieve too much critical acclaim, even though it was starring Jake Gyllenhaal. The movie is very different from the trailers released. I feel like the movie has a menacing, fantasy setting to it. If someone told you it was based on a true story and then you watched it, you would be very quick to doubt them. Although Gyllenhaal's pyschopathic personality is probably similar to someone in real life, the director of this movie did an amazing job carving it into a fictional story.

The movie is about a lonely, OCD crazed guy who is looking for something to occupy him. The first scene of the movie describes what the next two hours will be perfectly. Gyllenhaal's character breaks into a junkyard and robs it of all this cheap, garbage copper. Someone comes by in a security uniform, they argue, and the next scene is Gyllenhaal driving away with a smirk on his face and the watch worn by the guard. He basically goes about the whole movie, in LA, just taking what he wants, and trying to resell it or make some profit from the steal he just made. The following scene after is him trying to sell the cheap copper to a junkyard owner- and Gyllenhaal trying to negotiate him to upper prices.
Eventually, he drives by a car accident, where news reporters just arrived on the scene. Police pull up, and you can see how the reporters are closer to the accident than the policeman. The "nightcrawler" takes a great interest in this and asks really detailed questions to the reporters. The movie takes flight after this and you see this character just repetitively gaining obsession with getting to crime scenes before anyone else. He rushes to film every type of crime heard on the police radio, even before the police come, making him the Nightcrawler.