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                                   Found another intriguing film noir, out of Netflix. I was familiar with this film out of Jake Gyllenhaal, a few years back but personally I didn't know what to make of it at that time. Now having seen it on streaming services I got to say this was a real fascinating look into the underbelly of capturing crime in the city that never sleeps, for local news stations and how desperate you need to be to survive while living LA. Furthermore, when you add those concepts together well you my friend got yourself a very interesting idea for a movie. Now I'm not say that all of Jake Gyllenhaal's movies are great I just look at some of his work as a bit on the meh side of things, but this one I must admit I'll at least make in exception. So, let's talk about this latest film noir epic.

                                  Petty thief Lou Bloom tries to make ends meet by scavenging whatever he can find in the streets of LA, but everything soon changes when he stumbles into a career of freelance photojournalists, guys who can get coverage of major crimes around the streets and sell them to the highest TV network in town. Unfortunately finding the good footage of a crime is a real fight to the finish when your living in Los Angeles. As competitors keep looming in on Bloom's action and getting the perfect crime footage is on the line, Bloom will do whatever it takes to stay on top of the game.

                                  Here's a few reason's as to why this film alone is considered a film noir, one you always have a anti-hero whether or not you like him or not he's not all goodie, goodie when it comes to the hero and Jake Gyllenhaal's character really is that anti-hero whose a bit of a nut-job but will do whatever it takes to survive and Gyllenhaal does a great job at that. The second film noir reason you got to at least have in shadowy places where crime is consumed everywhere you go moreover must at least be in night time for majority of the film. And since this film is set in LA where you have to be extremely careful otherwise you’re going to be dead or robbed no matter what the reason is, moreover writer/director Dan Gilroy (related to Tony Gilroy whose famous for the Bourne movies) does a tremendous job in embodying the darkness crime ridden alleys of LA. Lastly there's never any happy endings when it comes to film noir, moreover you better keep that in mind when you indulge yourself into the world of film noir because this film defiantly has one of those bad endings where you are in a severe state of shock.  So all and all, this was one of those good film noir's that I would recommend watching now is this film in my top ten of best film noir's, well to be truly honest no because Gyllenhaal is a good actor but I still have bad memoires of him in the Prince of Persia film where he tries to be a awesome action star but really is not, though he does a good job in this film I'll give him that and that's the truth. Now is this one of the best modern day film noir's well it's kind of hard to say because really the Coen brothers are the kings of film noir's with films like Fargo and Blood Simple and this film alone doesn't go up to par with those two movie greats, but if I can find more modern day film noirs so far for now this one does rank up in the top five best film noirs. So, if you’re looking for something to watch during this chaotic world/year we are living in, then I would defiantly check this film out.