The Writer-Director Of "Nightcrawler" Explains Its Disturbing Sexual Coercion Subplot

BuzzFeed - Dan Gilroy breaks down the upsetting relationship between Jake Gyllenhaal’s and Rene Russo’s characters for BuzzFeed News. WARNING: All of the spoilers ahead! Chuck Zlotnick/Open Road Films Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) begins Nightcrawler as a poor, thieving sociopath and ends it as a thriving, entrepreneurial one. "The character of Lou has no arc," Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler's director and writer, told BuzzFeed News. "It's almost like the bough of a ship cutting through water. Rather than the world bending the character, the character bends the world." Nightcrawler is about Lou's unlikely rise as an ambulance-chasing videographer who learns how to both film tragedies and help create them. He has only two sustained human connections that we see, and both are disturbing. One is with his intern, Rick (Riz Ahmed), whom he lectures with self-help speak; the other is with Nina (Rene Russo), the news director at the Los Angeles station where he peddles his (at first) am