I rewatched Nightcrawler with a friend and noticed something new in the movie (spoilers obviously)

I've seen it three times now. First was years ago. The second time was a couple weeks ago, and the third when a friend said they hadn't seen it.

The movie makes it obvious that Lou is withholding footage from the police of the killers at the mansion. As soon as he gets the video and leaves the premises with Rick, Lou edits the footage to a cut that he sells to Nina. The police come to visit him the next day and he gives them this footage.

Later on his scheme works out and he gets the footage of the movie's climax. He's taken for interrogation and gives the alibi that after the cops took the footage, he claims to have noticed an SUV with the killers stalking him, and called 911 at the restaurant. This gets him off, and he puts on his sunglasses.

The trick is, Lou had constructed this alibi the moment he cut the footage, right after the mansion murders. He goes to Nina, demands not only the highest price he's ever demanded, but to also get into contact with station bigwigs. The key thing here is that one of his demands is to get credited within the broadcast with the name of his company Video Production News, a professional news gathering service.

This was the critical moment to his alibi. I used to just think he used that alibi because it was unverifiable and he wouldn't have anyone to say otherwise, but by making public that the footage came from his company, there is a plausibilty to his claim that the killers found him and stalked him. Where would they find out about him? From the fact that Video Production News, a professional news gathering service, sold the footage to the station and that company would have to be registered to Lou Bloom at such and such address, and this can be found out the exact same way that Lou just went online to search the license plate.

His insistence on the the news team giving the on air credit to Video Production News, a professional news gathering service, isnt just an exercise in branding, it serves specifically to give him a believable alibi. And it worked on me, because I didn't even notice it until the third time I watched the movie.

Submitted January 26, 2021 at 01:11AM by kawhi_2020 https://ift.tt/2LTJkwj