![]() ![]() Sensing a golden opportunity, Lou feeds Nina footage that's more artless than the stuff offered by other local crews, but much bloodier. At one point she flat-out tells Lou that the newscast's aesthetic could be boiled down the the image of "a screaming woman running down the street with her throat cut." The newscasters' warning "These are extremely graphic images" is not, of course, a warning it's a come-on. (She has no idea how kindred: soon enough he'll cajole, pressure and even scare her into unleashing her own inner Lou.) Nina tells him to avoid covering crime in poor or nonwhite neighborhoods because nobody cares about it the sexiest crime stories are ones involving affluent white folks. Any idealism she had was ground out of her years ago only desperation remains, and she speaks frankly to Lou from the moment she meets him, sensing a kindred spirit. This leads him to a local station whose news director, Nina Romina ( Rene Russo), has been up and down the dial, as a certain sitcom's theme song once sang, and needs to raise her newscast out of last place to keep from getting fired. The rates aren't great, but they're better than what Lou is used to, so he buys a camera and gets in on the action. He asks the lead cameraman ( Bill Paxton) what TV station they work for, and learns that they're freelancers who monitor police radios, chase down wrecks and fires and homicides, and sell their video footage to the highest bidder. While driving late at night, he happens upon cameramen filming a car wreck. He's first seen trying to cut through a chain-link fence to steal scrap that he can sell for pocket money. The movie's hero, Lou Bloom ( Jake Gyllenhaal), is a man living on the fringes. ![]()
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