20 Unsympathetic Characters You Sort Of Understand

Louis Bloom is creepy, predatory, and almost impressively empty. He films human suffering, manipulates crime scenes, exploits employees, and treats ethics like a weakness in the business model. Yet he also feels like the perfect product of a culture that rewards hustle without conscience. He repeats corporate self-help language with dead-eyed sincerity because he has absorbed the lesson too well. Louis is not outside the system. He is the system with the smile removed.