Who Is Lou Responsible For Nightcrawler

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Nightcrawler showed an insight about a man named Lou Bloom and his job about being a tabloid paparazzi journalist. Before filming about urban crimes, Lou was a thief and lived his life that way. One day, he stole a bike in exchange for a film camera. From there, it marked the journey of Lou as a cameraman who films gruesome crimes. This sick and terrible job symbolizes the sickness of our society. When the word success is used, one of the factors that most people will think of is money. Money is what motivates most people and what they wish to strive to earn more. In the movie, the more repellent crime scenes that Lou films, the more money he earns. As a result, it was unstoppable for him to film such scenes. Little did he know, the job was he doing was abominably affecting people and possibly killing them.

The movie, Nightcrawler, displayed a character named Lou with a strong ambition about the new findings …show more content…

One question that can be asked after the movie is, “Which deaths is Lou responsible for? List the people. Explain why.” As part of Lou’s job, he was responsible to find any interesting and violent crimes in wealthy areas. The deaths that Lou was responsible for was mainly the people that were dining in the restaurant at the time of the murderer’s arrest along with the police who were killed to arrest them. He was also the one responsible for Rick’s death, his assistant. It was Lou to blame for the deaths of the people and the police who were in the restaurant at the night of the arrest because it was all the result from his plan to get money and for the success for his business. Before the night of the arrest, a murder occurred which Lou happened to film everything about it. However, even though Lou filmed the part where the police can identify the murderers, he decided to cut it off to use it for

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