why is Jake Gyllenhaal so perpetually underrated? Despite his leading-man looks, he works incredibly hard in complex and often defiantly uncommercial movies
the film is being marketed as a thriller, but it's more of a character piece, exploring the mindset of someone who is at best a misanthrope and at worst a sociopath
the drama feels heightened and overwrought, and yet it works; you can see Nina’s cold-eyed desperation, and Lou’s creepy rapture as he realizes that he can get a shot that nobody else has
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