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A review by darwin8u
The Counselor: A Screenplay by Cormac McCarthy
3.0
“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."