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3.08 AVERAGE
3.08 AVERAGE
Definitely closer to a 4.5.
"If your description of a friend is someone who will die for you then you don't have any friends."
Unsurprisingly, McCarthy writes another incredible narrative, this time breaking the rules of a different format. This was a vicious Neo-Noir that contemplates human nature and where we're all headed compared to where we've been as most of McCarthy's work does. Can't wait to watch the movie.
"If your description of a friend is someone who will die for you then you don't have any friends."
Unsurprisingly, McCarthy writes another incredible narrative, this time breaking the rules of a different format. This was a vicious Neo-Noir that contemplates human nature and where we're all headed compared to where we've been as most of McCarthy's work does. Can't wait to watch the movie.
Es la primera obra de McCarthy que leo y me dejo encantado. Tiene una forma tan cruda y elegante de redactar que resulta hipnotizante desde las primeras páginas. La frialdad de los personajes y las situaciones, sobretodo por la temática crean un relato que bien pudo ser basado en hechos reales. Una lectura que recomiendo a cualquiera; corta, sencilla pero a la vez con unos personajes tan completos e interesantes en las que la trama queda en segundo plano a las interacciones entre ellos. Una excelente obra!
My rating in no way reflects the quality of this book. It is merely a preference issue and I'm not really a reader of this type of book. I found some sections extremely disturbing and some of the themes covered were gruesome. However, it reminded me a lot of 'Fight Club' and I think fans of that may enjoy 'The Counsellor'.
I'm not sure if screenplays are the best or most optimal way for this author to come across to a reader. For sure, they suit his spare, concise style but they also eliminate the narrative to a degree, and you're left filling in many blanks. There are just too many blanks to fill in with this. Nonetheless, there's a gripping and dirty story here, short and sour, but I think it would've been better served with a novel.
“Truth has no temperature.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Counsellor
This is one of those movies (watched today, after reading said screenplay) where you definitely need the book/screenplay to maximize the message. 'The Counselor' is like a road-map through Hell, if Hell looked like Juarez, moved like Cameron Diaz, and smelled like Javier Bardem's hair gel.
Here is my takeaway:
You are responsible for your own world by the choices you make. The things you consume, the things you watch, your desire, your greed, the people you screw ... you own a chunk of that world, because you are complicit in its creation by your choices. You will ultimately find you can't escape the reckoning of fate or chance because the world created by your choices isn't concerned with anything but extracting from you the ultimate payment. It is a noose that was placed over your head the day you were born son. All you can do is accept it and, occasionally, try and make the world just a little bit better for those you come into contact. Bud don't worry, your entire world will end the day YOU end and in the end your grief bought you absolutely nothing.
Or to quote the JEFE: "I have no wish to pain the world in colors more somber than those it wears, but as the world gives way to darkness it becomes more and more difficult to dismiss the understanding that the world is in fact oneself. It is a thing which you have created, no more no less."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Counsellor
This is one of those movies (watched today, after reading said screenplay) where you definitely need the book/screenplay to maximize the message. 'The Counselor' is like a road-map through Hell, if Hell looked like Juarez, moved like Cameron Diaz, and smelled like Javier Bardem's hair gel.
Here is my takeaway:
You are responsible for your own world by the choices you make. The things you consume, the things you watch, your desire, your greed, the people you screw ... you own a chunk of that world, because you are complicit in its creation by your choices. You will ultimately find you can't escape the reckoning of fate or chance because the world created by your choices isn't concerned with anything but extracting from you the ultimate payment. It is a noose that was placed over your head the day you were born son. All you can do is accept it and, occasionally, try and make the world just a little bit better for those you come into contact. Bud don't worry, your entire world will end the day YOU end and in the end your grief bought you absolutely nothing.
Or to quote the JEFE: "I have no wish to pain the world in colors more somber than those it wears, but as the world gives way to darkness it becomes more and more difficult to dismiss the understanding that the world is in fact oneself. It is a thing which you have created, no more no less."
Well this screenplay just does not have the depth of Cormac's other works, which is understandable yet.....