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328. Frame Rate: Nightcrawler (Feat. Jason Pargin)
🕑 Added 2020-10-19 13:01:03 +0000 UTC
Jason “David Wong” Pargin joins Abe and Michael to discuss 2014’s Nightcrawler. Jason brings his knowledge of working for local news affiliates and the boys discuss the finer nuance of the sociopath Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal). Written and directed by Dan Gilroy, the film takes a snapshot of pure ambition, opportunism, and ultimately how they benefit abusers and destroy those in their wake. Also, Jake Gyllenhaal is a “hungry little coyote.”
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Jason Pargin: https://twitter.com/JohnDiesattheEn
Michael Swaim: https://twitter.com/SWAIM_CORP
Abe Epperson: https://twitter.com/AbeTheMighty
Comments
James Crosslin
I saw Nightcrawler a few years after it came out, and I was honestly disturbed. I thought it was a great movie but never talked about it or watched it again. I thought my tolerance for disturbing movies had grown since then, but I just tried to watch Ichi the Killer and had to shut it off.
Philip Reinhardt
I just saw it a few weeks ago because its on Netflix (or was then at least). I heard Tom and Dave bring it up a few times so I had always been curious.
Patrick Sullivan
You were wondering how familiar your listeners were with Nightcrawler. For my part, I've been aware of it for a while, and it has been on my watchlist for most of that while. My brother raves about it.
