As the third act of Nightcrawler begins, Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) screams at his reflection within a bathroom mirror, then shatters it. It’s a scene that toes vertiginously close to cliché, but never, thanks to both Gyllenhaal’s performance and Gilroy’s script, crosses that fatal line. And I think the reason lies in who Lou Bloom … Continue reading More, Italicized, and More, Sans Italics: Nightcrawler and the Two Kinds of Need