This film has a rating of 5-6 in Imdb. I may understand why, but that doesn't matter now. This is one of the strongest and most meaningful scenes I have seen in a movie, and I have watched a lot. This "Counselor" is an interesting character. Unique one. Rich. Greedy. Good heart. Done bad things. Naive. Educated and stupid. All of those at the same time. Admirations to the creators, to the writer especially of this movie and thank you!
@szs voc yea but imbd was right. It is an ok movie. A little 2 long and diaz accent kept going from the accent back 2 american. Lol but i liked it but it was just a good movie at best. This scenes was great tho imo.
@@barbarapaparella2282 imdb is not right in this case at all, there are much worse and less accessible movies to the mainstream audience that still managed to get much higher rating. The Counselor's imdb rating is an anomaly, it's criminal how low it is.
They made a lot of errors with the movie. McCarthy gave them a blueprint, they changed it and made it weaker. Even Diaz's Malkina was changed from Argentine to Jamaican, her accent was so bad that they had her dub over almost her entire performance. Still, it deserves a higher rating for both the Ferrari scene and Brad Pitt's demise if nothing else!
People hated on this movie. I loved it. Mostly because McCarthy is an amazing author. This phone call scene was what really made me love the movie, it's so dark and so true, like you say, it's the ultimate reality check. True nightmares and absolute hell definitely exists on this earth, just that the average person has such a low chance of ever being exposed to it all the way.
This movie was underrated. this scene MADE the movie. it underscored the whole theme. You can not exist in this world and not be a part of it. you can not just dip your toes in for a quick buck. Consequences dont discriminate.
I swear a god this scene. What he's saying is simple life logic but the way he explains it hits so deep. I keep coming back to this clip. My fave quote "Reflective mens often find themselves at a place removed from the realities of life" nah the whole clip is my favourite
After watching the film it was this scene that turned me into a Cormac McCarthy devotee. This scene underscored the entire film. The prose was terse but concise and even brutal. There are few writers of this calibre, fewer still who can write so eloquently about the frailities of the human condition.
Although string theory has been disproven it is still a great monologue. Emotions, specifically rejection, makes people do revolutionary behavior hastily.
If that's all you got from it, I don't think you actually understood anything. Reductionism is not understanding, in fact, it is the opposite. You can reduce anything to anything else if you really try, but you understand nothing by doing that. Telling myself the Mona Lisa is just dyes on a piece of paper doesn't actually explain anything about it, even though reductively, it's true.
@tylerchambers6246 lol what was that quote from Richard Feynman, “true genius is the ability to simplify, not complicate. Simple is beautiful.” This is a useless monologue.
This film and this scene in particular strongly reminds me of McCarthy’s books and in particular words in his work ‘The Crossing’ where Billy is wandering through the mountains and a man is giving him advice about loss, grief, pain page 134 reads “ He said that the world could only be known as it existed in men’s hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them..” or page 146” Such a man is like a dreamer who wakes from a dream of grief to a greater sorrow yet” . Beautiful work thank you !
The film is shite. Missed all the marks through no fault of the writer. This monologue is sad, true, deep, honest, all the things that resonate. In my opinion if there was ever a scene in a film worth watching this is it.
There is something positive to be learn from his speech, in substance he says that our actions and inactions yesterday created the world we are living in so for those who are not in a situation beyond repair like the counselor we need to stop living in remorse and act for a better world, everyday we are at a crossing...
@@ruthbooth7914 I see you really enjoy the thoughtful dialogue and commentary to this movie. I'm sure you will for this classic as well... m.ua-cam.com/video/xKyp9rGzZ20/v-deo.html Enjoy. 🙂
The most Intimidating thing is when Jefe asks the counselor if he would give his entire life for his wife. Jeff seemingly is showing some empathy but really he asks in order to be sure that the counselor would be suffered that much as they wanted him to.
Im in my own personal hell cause of similar but smaller mistakes and one must admit misfortunes that both I and others brought to bare on me. But all could have been a lot better had I not dwelled so much on it, reflecting back and forth, wanting to undo things instead of moving forward,and nowI Think its too late. Sucks to be me I guess.
1st time I saw this scene it got stuck in my head "reflective men tend to deny their realities" .."the choosing was a long time ago"...he is a lawyer working for the devil in somany ways ..and still denies it
Ruben Blades needs a movie based on this character. He is the absolute most understanding yet unnerving and absolute definition of understanding that a heart in that world has no place. Just the knowledge that people in that work in that world has only 2 places that they are headed death or imprisonment.
"Would you take her place upon the wheel? And I don't just mean dying, because dying is easy." He is more than likely implying that she didn't die an easy death. She was probably tortured and/or mutilated before they finally killed her.
The cross on her necklace when he talks about finding a place that can accommodate all of the tragedies of life. WOW!! That was pretty cool. You get what he’s implying I hope
'You are now at the crossing!' ...the person who wrote this specific part of script, I'm convinced he/she was in conversation with a higher form not from this world. 'No Country for Old Men' & 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy are on MY reading list because of this very scene derived from.
This speech encourages acceptance of the calculable outcome is for the whole world facing extinction. We're dead already. Without Unity it will g as they are planning.
This is the most beautiful, "you're fucked, bro" in human history. Of a magnitude of which can not be surmised lmao. The poetry of it all though, just exceptional...
...it's his sing-song, lilting prose though 🎵🎶🐦 The guy is crowing, mental and far-gone - casually describing the depths of a true despair with such a callous nonchalance 😮
Cormac McCarthy is brilliant with his dialogue! Both "No country for old men" and "The Counselor" have outstanding dialogue and thats what i look for in movies in the dialogue so i enjoyed Cormac's movies and i enjoy Ridley Scotts movies because it amazing dialouge
Even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
@@Vivaldi1Dvorak2 It is a great quote, and it’s from Aeschylus, a translation that Robert Kennedy quoted during the 1968 presidential campaign. He was speaking to a largely African American audience in Indianapolis on the night Martin Luther King was assassinated, and was trying to console them. His remarks are at www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/rfkonmlkdeath.html. The text and the audio (although not the video) capture the quote from Aeschylus.
So unfortunate. He didn’t even do anything or cause any of the problems that led to his wife’s death. But Westray warned him and he took a gamble and lost.
You missed the whole point of the movie...he was greedy and was willing to play ball with unscrupulous druggies in the hopes of an "apple-pie in the sky payoff". He literally sacrificed his wife to his greedy aspirations...She didn't have a clue as to what possible fate awaited her and unless he was totally clueless, he did too. The world he created out of greed killed them both.
@@patrickbass3542 This is one of the brutal truths of this movie. He put his wife in a horrific situation and she had no clue, the way that she must have died is too terrible to think about, he completely screwed her over and she didn't have a chance of knowing, just brutal. When that kid finds him at that ghetto hotel with that DVD, that is so dark.
@@russellphotos195 she was not a victim. She chose this world for herself as well. Not sure if you remember, but when Malkina asked her if she knew how much that ring cost, she said she didn't want to know, which means she knew it was way above the counselor's means, but didn't want to look into what sort of dirty business he was involved in. Denying reality, same mistake.
@@eduardobarboza9499 I understand what you're saying. Do you think she specifically knew he was getting himself involved with the Mexican cartel? I don't. I do agree that she knew he was messing around with stuff he shouldn't have and she didn't ask questions.
@@russellphotos195 she knew it was something very bad based on how scared she was when they were trying to run away, despite the counselor not telling her the specifics. Maybe she only realized how actually bad it was at that point, but still...is that really any different than the counselor himself, who completely underestimated the situation he was getting himself in?
I'm back watching this great scene on actions and consequences to see which lines to steal as I give it to my bully boss whose balls are now firmly in my hands because of abusive emails he sent me. Up the worker. Finally.
You are now at the crossing And you want to choose, but there is no choosing there There's only accepting The choosing was done a long time ago Chetta: (Ayy)
Actions create consequences which produce new worlds, and they're all different. And all these world, heretofore unknown to us, they must have always been there, must they not? You have to acknowledge the reality of the world you are in. There is not some other world. I would urge you to see the truth of the situation you're in, Counselor. That is my advice. It is not for me to tell you what you should have done or not done. The world in which you seek to undo the mistakes that you made is different from the world where the mistakes were made. You are now at the crossing. And you want to choose, but there is no choosing there. There's only accepting. The choosing was done a long time ago. I don't mean to offend you, but reflective men often find themselves at a place removed from the realities of life. In any case, we should all prepare a place where we can accommodate all the tragedies that sooner or later will come to our lives. But this is an economy few people care to practice. When it comes to grief, the normal rules of exchange do not apply, because grief transcends value. A man would give entire nations to lift grief off his heart. And yet, you cannot buy anything with grief, because grief is worthless. You continue to deny the reality of the world you're in. You are at that crossing. At the understanding that life is not going to take you back. You are the world you have created. And when you cease to exist, this world that you have created will also cease to exist. But for those with the understanding that they're living the last days of the world, death acquires a different meaning. The extinction of all reality is a concept no resignation can encompass. And then, all the grand designs and all the grand plans will be finally exposed and revealed for what they are.
alan357319 all he is trying to do is explain to this man that he can't undo his mistake. Most people do refuse to acknowledge reality. They only reason he said this to him is because he knows he will never see his wife again but he refuses to accept her fate as well as his own. She will die because of his greed. And he cannot change that reality.
No, they don't. But great writers can put it in the mouths of characters on film as we delve into the human condition - which is what movies are for, for some of us. Those of us that enjoy 'Pretentious rubbish' anyway.
Blades speech was a very eloquent way of saying that the counselor had made choices that led to his predicament. Choices have consequences and he is about to face them and unfortunately he will literally lose everything and everyone in the process. And its SO tragic that Jefe had to go take a little nap so he could make some phone calls later….
More than theat: he will be responsible for these choices who will reveal him for what he truly is : a lonely overeducated man, over his head in a evil World he doesn't really understand, unable to face the harsch realities of the other of the law, a coward unable to process them correctly.
Imagine having a conversation like this. Imagine trying to beg a cartel boss to help you get the love of your life back but he nonchalantly tells you she’s already dead and there’s nothing you can do about it. That’s so fucked up 😓
@@brightonbackgammon7802 Completely sure she's dead after being horribly tortured. All her ordeal caught on film and shipped to The Counselor on a DVD.
One would think that a man with such profound insights into the suffering of the human condition would have enough merciful compassion to give the man his wife back intact. But, no.....
Remember what Westray said: "you may think they do it out of some deep seated hatred, but to them, it's just business. Gotta keep the appearances" or something like that.
This is a masterpiece , in reality psycopaths have a unconscious widsom superior that acts more of as an impulse but if the psycho would have the power of being instrospective and could manage the use of words , we would experience this masterpiece , is like a wolf explaining to a sheperd dog , that he only has power in the barn where the owner lets him guide the sheep but out of this barn is the forest where we the wolves will kill you if you come to us with your goody goody rules of the barn...
"You should move to a small town, somewhere the rule of law still exists. You will not survive here. You are not a wolf, and this is a land of wolves now." (Sicario)
This movie still confuses me. Was it Cameron Diaz character that sent those guys to kill the guy on the motorcycle? All the switching of trucks & barrels, dead bodies, not a clue.
Interesting scene… he says “sooner or later we should find a place that accommodates all of the tragedies of life”. Then the camera goes to the servant and very clearly you can see the light shining off of a Cross that she has around her neck.
@@meherenow793no… servant. Christ is the “suffering servant”. She’s wearing a clearly visible cross. Also, don’t get gummed up on terms. It’s petty and, in time, your desired term (maid) comes to hold as much acrimony (among the simple) as servant does for you.
@@carolinafine8050 you might just be _regarded;_ she is 100% performing the function of a maid, and the dictionary defines a female "servant" as a maid. 🤣
How do you tell someone whose mind is so disturbed by what is about to happen to him, that he cannot go back in time and undo decisions from his past? Well, you just turn this simple concept into an elaborated string of sentences that demand his full attention, drawing him off of his numb state of mind into awareness. Just saying "you can't go back in time" is so trivial that it would slip right through his ears, because in the end he already knew it and just wouldn't accept it.
This is the best acting I have ever seen from Fassbender.
This film has a rating of 5-6 in Imdb. I may understand why, but that doesn't matter now. This is one of the strongest and most meaningful scenes I have seen in a movie, and I have watched a lot. This "Counselor" is an interesting character. Unique one. Rich. Greedy. Good heart. Done bad things. Naive. Educated and stupid. All of those at the same time. Admirations to the creators, to the writer especially of this movie and thank you!
Well said. Most people need entertainment spoon fed. They are stupid
@szs voc yea but imbd was right. It is an ok movie. A little 2 long and diaz accent kept going from the accent back 2 american. Lol but i liked it but it was just a good movie at best. This scenes was great tho imo.
@szs voc i know. Enjoying himself a little 2 much
@@barbarapaparella2282 imdb is not right in this case at all, there are much worse and less accessible movies to the mainstream audience that still managed to get much higher rating. The Counselor's imdb rating is an anomaly, it's criminal how low it is.
They made a lot of errors with the movie. McCarthy gave them a blueprint, they changed it and made it weaker. Even Diaz's Malkina was changed from Argentine to Jamaican, her accent was so bad that they had her dub over almost her entire performance. Still, it deserves a higher rating for both the Ferrari scene and Brad Pitt's demise if nothing else!
Long story short:
Counselor: Can you help me?
Ruben Blades: No.
THANK YOU!
But he did, just not as he wanted
@@J3N2 exactly :)
😂
“The world in which you seek you undo the mistakes you made is different from the world where the mistakes were made.”
...on a scientific level, a possible reference to the multiverse theory?
@@waynejovis the opposite, actually
@@user-ju6zx3rm8d can you elaborate?
@@waynejovisbingo !!
Multiverse/ alternate timelines
😢
The biggest reality check of all time.........
Million dolla Machine Yes indeed!!!
Absolutely
People hated on this movie. I loved it. Mostly because McCarthy is an amazing author. This phone call scene was what really made me love the movie, it's so dark and so true, like you say, it's the ultimate reality check. True nightmares and absolute hell definitely exists on this earth, just that the average person has such a low chance of ever being exposed to it all the way.
TRUTH ❤
And then we die
This movie was underrated. this scene MADE the movie. it underscored the whole theme. You can not exist in this world and not be a part of it. you can not just dip your toes in for a quick buck. Consequences dont discriminate.
I swear a god this scene. What he's saying is simple life logic but the way he explains it hits so deep. I keep coming back to this clip. My fave quote "Reflective mens often find themselves at a place removed from the realities of life" nah the whole clip is my favourite
Yes this is soooooo fuckin deep. I keep coming back to this 😢
“Your wife’s dead because of you. Now I’m going to take a nap.”
That is an EPIC speech! And no one knows it unfortunately.
That's exactly what I was going to say!
Because it's too preachy. People get turned off.
@@user-tv1kw4wl7t No, it required thought. Most people are turned off by that.
I quote this daily.
Unbelievable and it made the film.
After watching the film it was this scene that turned me into a Cormac McCarthy devotee. This scene underscored the entire film. The prose was terse but concise and even brutal. There are few writers of this calibre, fewer still who can write so eloquently about the frailities of the human condition.
Although string theory has been disproven it is still a great monologue. Emotions, specifically rejection, makes people do revolutionary behavior hastily.
@@okayokay3860 it hasn't been disproven at all
Man, the eloquence in this scene to tell a man that he's a dead man is profound!
Not just that he's dead but that woman he loves, mother of his unborn child, is dead as well because of his actions.
He won’t die physically. He will die inside. Which is worse.
@@LuisCarmezim yeap it's worse.
is all bull shite.......... it is what it is........................................
I can loop this over and over again and feel like I know exactly the emotions the counselor is going through.
I truly hope not. But, yes, Fassbender is doing a great job, in conjunction with Scott's direction
That's because Fassbender is a fabulous actor.
four years later I'm back again to watch this. At another crossing seeking to undo the mistakes that I've mnade. :) Epic speech.
FK the counselor, what a self involved rat he was
"You Made Your Bed Now Rest In It." Loosely Translated
....Yes....basically that's it.
If that's all you got from it, I don't think you actually understood anything. Reductionism is not understanding, in fact, it is the opposite. You can reduce anything to anything else if you really try, but you understand nothing by doing that. Telling myself the Mona Lisa is just dyes on a piece of paper doesn't actually explain anything about it, even though reductively, it's true.
@@tylerchambers6246 This is a great comment.
@@tylerchambers6246 Damn, the level of discourse in the comment section of McCarthy movies is something else
@tylerchambers6246 lol what was that quote from Richard Feynman, “true genius is the ability to simplify, not complicate. Simple is beautiful.” This is a useless monologue.
Counselor: Can you help me?
Ruben Blades: Nah Brah, she dead.
...life is not going to take you back...WOW!!! Those are POWERFUL WORDS!!!!!!!!
This film and this scene in particular strongly reminds me of McCarthy’s books and in particular words in his work ‘The Crossing’ where Billy is wandering through the mountains and a man is giving him advice about loss, grief, pain page 134 reads “ He said that the world could only be known as it existed in men’s hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them..” or page 146” Such a man is like a dreamer who wakes from a dream of grief to a greater sorrow yet” . Beautiful work thank you !
My favourite one of his books!
@@architchaudhary1285 McCarthy wrote the script for the movie
The film is shite. Missed all the marks through no fault of the writer. This monologue is sad, true, deep, honest, all the things that resonate. In my opinion if there was ever a scene in a film worth watching this is it.
There is something positive to be learn from his speech, in substance he says that our actions and inactions yesterday created the world we are living in so for those who are not in a situation beyond repair like the counselor we need to stop living in remorse and act for a better world, everyday we are at a crossing...
and if you are in a situation beyond repair?
@@user-ju6zx3rm8d acceptance of the situation
@@user-ju6zx3rm8d accept that no matter how bad. ultimately, your world will die with you and become meaningless in the end.
Absolutely
@@ruthbooth7914 I see you really enjoy the thoughtful dialogue and commentary to this movie. I'm sure you will for this classic as well...
m.ua-cam.com/video/xKyp9rGzZ20/v-deo.html
Enjoy. 🙂
I’ve never forgotten this scene
how can you ever forget it it's stunning
"The extinction of all reality is a concept no resignation can encompass."
The best monologue of all time.
I come back to watch this scene whenever I want my perception about life to be more realistic. 😂😢😂😢😂
The most Intimidating thing is when Jefe asks the counselor if he would give his entire life for his wife. Jeff seemingly is showing some empathy but really he asks in order to be sure that the counselor would be suffered that much as they wanted him to.
what a masterpiece this movie is.. so underrated at the same time...
I wish they would've made the movie like an hour longer for more character development. Very underrated!
The maid was phenomenal in this scene!
One of my favorite monologues- and one that most people need to listen to. Powerful.
Prolly the most scariest movie of all time...if you can relate.
Go on...
Yep agreed. A philosophical depth to it only the discerning will take heed of.
I agree.
That speech was inherently sad.
Im in my own personal hell cause of similar but smaller mistakes and one must admit misfortunes that both I and others brought to bare on me. But all could have been a lot better had I not dwelled so much on it, reflecting back and forth, wanting to undo things instead of moving forward,and nowI Think its too late. Sucks to be me I guess.
I am obsessed with this speech
1st time I saw this scene it got stuck in my head "reflective men tend to deny their realities" .."the choosing was a long time ago"...he is a lawyer working for the devil in somany ways
..and still denies it
A long time ago, you made your choice. Now it's too late to go back
Beautiful scene, thank you!
Ruben Blades needs a movie based on this character. He is the absolute most understanding yet unnerving and absolute definition of understanding that a heart in that world has no place. Just the knowledge that people in that work in that world has only 2 places that they are headed death or imprisonment.
Cormac McCarthy at his best. Amazing monologue, so dry and honest.
The counsellor is like a lamb trying to negotiate his way out of a field full of Hyenas.
like the grass imploring the impending rain not to fall
I like the irony here. He is in role of counselor but in fact he is the one being advised throughout the movie.
Literally EPIC speech! And no one knows it, good movie. I was actually looking for this exact scene only. Ha
Chilling speech 💯.
The conversation alone should've won a Grammy
A what? Lmao
Yes
"Would you take her place upon the wheel? And I don't just mean dying, because dying is easy." He is more than likely implying that she didn't die an easy death. She was probably tortured and/or mutilated before they finally killed her.
They made a snuff film of the wife
El Jefe is a horrible, mocking, muff 😥😠
Significant and profound scene. I remember it still while the rest of the movie barely left an impression. Well written Cormac
This speech is the real crossroad. We've all been at the crossroad in our lifetime
The wording in this scenario is so cold ❄️,just amazing,and everything he says sounds so true
This is THE BEST Speech !!
The cross on her necklace when he talks about finding a place that can accommodate all of the tragedies of life. WOW!! That was pretty cool. You get what he’s implying I hope
Since the end of 2019 this scene means more then the movie itself
Ruben Blades is too 🔥
Love his accent. Great speech!
That was the deepest and coldest way of saying your wife is dead due to your decisions without directly saying it or having known. WOW
Memoriable speach !
This may seem a small thing ... until annihilation occurs... love that line
'You are now at the crossing!' ...the person who wrote this specific part of script, I'm convinced he/she was in conversation with a higher form not from this world. 'No Country for Old Men' & 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy are on MY reading list because of this very scene derived from.
This speech encourages acceptance of the calculable outcome is for the whole world facing extinction.
We're dead already.
Without Unity it will g as they are planning.
This is the most beautiful, "you're fucked, bro" in human history. Of a magnitude of which can not be surmised lmao. The poetry of it all though, just exceptional...
...it's his sing-song, lilting prose though 🎵🎶🐦 The guy is crowing, mental and far-gone - casually describing the depths of a true despair with such a callous nonchalance 😮
Fantastic advice ❤
So much power in such a soft speech......love it and its content
Pretentious in the best sense....he tells him your partner is being tortured "dieing is easy" & you can't replace her - hard.
My favourit scene and dialogue which reflects in reality
Cormac McCarthy is brilliant with his dialogue! Both "No country for old men" and "The Counselor" have outstanding dialogue and thats what i look for in movies in the dialogue so i enjoyed Cormac's movies and i enjoy Ridley Scotts movies because it amazing dialouge
Wow! I feel kind of messed up after this. The extinction of all reality
this is a beautiful dialogue and i see why ridley scott is so amazing
greatest monologue ever!
Im telling all my buddys about this cool movie. Top of the line
We feel it and relate to it because it’s the Truth
Even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Did you make that up or is that someone elses quote? It's really good either way.
@@Vivaldi1Dvorak2 It is a great quote, and it’s from Aeschylus, a translation that Robert Kennedy quoted during the 1968 presidential campaign. He was speaking to a largely African American audience in Indianapolis on the night Martin Luther King was assassinated, and was trying to console them. His remarks are at www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/rfkonmlkdeath.html. The text and the audio (although not the video) capture the quote from Aeschylus.
Salsa King's cruel but correct advice. Love you Ruben!
So Ruben Blades is actually The Counselor..........
So unfortunate. He didn’t even do anything or cause any of the problems that led to his wife’s death. But Westray warned him and he took a gamble and lost.
You missed the whole point of the movie...he was greedy and was willing to play ball with unscrupulous druggies in the hopes of an "apple-pie in the sky payoff". He literally sacrificed his wife to his greedy aspirations...She didn't have a clue as to what possible fate awaited her and unless he was totally clueless, he did too. The world he created out of greed killed them both.
@@patrickbass3542 This is one of the brutal truths of this movie. He put his wife in a horrific situation and she had no clue, the way that she must have died is too terrible to think about, he completely screwed her over and she didn't have a chance of knowing, just brutal. When that kid finds him at that ghetto hotel with that DVD, that is so dark.
@@russellphotos195 she was not a victim. She chose this world for herself as well. Not sure if you remember, but when Malkina asked her if she knew how much that ring cost, she said she didn't want to know, which means she knew it was way above the counselor's means, but didn't want to look into what sort of dirty business he was involved in. Denying reality, same mistake.
@@eduardobarboza9499 I understand what you're saying. Do you think she specifically knew he was getting himself involved with the Mexican cartel? I don't. I do agree that she knew he was messing around with stuff he shouldn't have and she didn't ask questions.
@@russellphotos195 she knew it was something very bad based on how scared she was when they were trying to run away, despite the counselor not telling her the specifics. Maybe she only realized how actually bad it was at that point, but still...is that really any different than the counselor himself, who completely underestimated the situation he was getting himself in?
Such a nice way to tell someone to deal with their problems
This is one of the most powerful movies scenes ever ‼️‼️‼️‼️
Counselor you've become the diamond least likely to be damaged but most likely to be the cause...
I'm back watching this great scene on actions and consequences to see which lines to steal as I give it to my bully boss whose balls are now firmly in my hands because of abusive emails he sent me. Up the worker. Finally.
your comment is so funny lol
😂👏🏽
soooo. how did it turn out?
@@BigJ0 his boss gave him the Bolito
3 years later: I hope you washed your hands after handling his balls
Exceptional delivery and truly moving speech simply because its heart-breaking and true
Stone cold reality. one of the few scenes I was jaw to the floor on the couch.
Incredible scene.
You are now at the crossing
And you want to choose, but there is no choosing there
There's only accepting
The choosing was done a long time ago
Chetta: (Ayy)
poor man
makes me cry 😭😭
That was poetry. All these actors wanted to do this movie drugs still people from our lives
TUFF LOVE helps you GROW. I fucking love this monologue. Amazing
Now I will go and take a small nap 😴😴
Actions create consequences which produce new worlds, and they're all different. And all these world, heretofore unknown to us, they must have always been there, must they not? You have to acknowledge the reality of the world you are in. There is not some other world. I would urge you to see the truth of the situation you're in, Counselor. That is my advice. It is not for me to tell you what you should have done or not done. The world in which you seek to undo the mistakes that you made is different from the world where the mistakes were made. You are now at the crossing. And you want to choose, but there is no choosing there. There's only accepting. The choosing was done a long time ago. I don't mean to offend you, but reflective men often find themselves at a place removed from the realities of life. In any case, we should all prepare a place where we can accommodate all the tragedies that sooner or later will come to our lives. But this is an economy few people care to practice. When it comes to grief, the normal rules of exchange do not apply, because grief transcends value. A man would give entire nations to lift grief off his heart. And yet, you cannot buy anything with grief, because grief is worthless. You continue to deny the reality of the world you're in. You are at that crossing. At the understanding that life is not going to take you back. You are the world you have created. And when you cease to exist, this world that you have created will also cease to exist. But for those with the understanding that they're living the last days of the world, death acquires a different meaning. The extinction of all reality is a concept no resignation can encompass. And then, all the grand designs and all the grand plans will be finally exposed and revealed for what they are.
Pretentious rubbish. Nobody talks like this.
+alan357319 no, you just don't.
nihilism in a nutshell. though i could condense it into "you're gonna die anyway so everything you do and think is garbage". he does drone on a bit.
alan357319 all he is trying to do is explain to this man that he can't undo his mistake. Most people do refuse to acknowledge reality. They only reason he said this to him is because he knows he will never see his wife again but he refuses to accept her fate as well as his own. She will die because of his greed. And he cannot change that reality.
No, they don't. But great writers can put it in the mouths of characters on film as we delve into the human condition - which is what movies are for, for some of us. Those of us that enjoy 'Pretentious rubbish' anyway.
Blades speech was a very eloquent way of saying that the counselor had made choices that led to his predicament. Choices have consequences and he is about to face them and unfortunately he will literally lose everything and everyone in the process. And its SO tragic that Jefe had to go take a little nap so he could make some phone calls later….
He seems more like a lawyer than a Jefe.
More than theat: he will be responsible for these choices who will reveal him for what he truly is : a lonely overeducated man, over his head in a evil World he doesn't really understand, unable to face the harsch realities of the other of the law, a coward unable to process them correctly.
Reflective men
Cormac McCarthy is a master of writing.
A very poetic use of the English language for a man with a Spanish accent.
well, it's because some of us speak in this manner in our native tongue, and them clumsily translate as best we cant into English, our 2nd language.
it is either the best speexh i have ever heard or the most BS i have ever heard in my life 😊
A fade to black ending before the speech was done would have been amazing.
Imagine having a conversation like this. Imagine trying to beg a cartel boss to help you get the love of your life back but he nonchalantly tells you she’s already dead and there’s nothing you can do about it. That’s so fucked up 😓
Are you sure she was already dead? Wasn't there an offer to swap places?
@@brightonbackgammon7802 yeah when they already snatched her up they was gonna kill her anyway
@@brightonbackgammon7802 Completely sure she's dead after being horribly tortured. All her ordeal caught on film and shipped to The Counselor on a DVD.
the amazing song "A'Jerome - Angels & Ghosts"" brought me here.
overwhelming...
One would think that a man with such profound insights into the suffering of the human condition would have enough merciful compassion to give the man his wife back intact. But, no.....
Remember what Westray said: "you may think they do it out of some deep seated hatred, but to them, it's just business. Gotta keep the appearances" or something like that.
Westray warned him, but he was blinded by greed and paid a horrible price.
I would hate to be the on the other end of the phone....
Absolutely im so glad it's not me
Old boy is deep and hold all the power.
This is a masterpiece , in reality psycopaths have a unconscious widsom superior that acts more of as an impulse but if the psycho would have the power of being instrospective and could manage the use of words , we would experience this masterpiece , is like a wolf explaining to a sheperd dog , that he only has power in the barn where the owner lets him guide the sheep but out of this barn is the forest where we the wolves will kill you if you come to us with your goody goody rules of the barn...
Your words, they move me.
@@ImuriTheHahn thanks my friend
"You should move to a small town, somewhere the rule of law still exists. You will not survive here. You are not a wolf, and this is a land of wolves now." (Sicario)
Ruben blades you absolute Monster 😂
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This movie still confuses me. Was it Cameron Diaz character that sent those guys to kill the guy on the motorcycle? All the switching of trucks & barrels, dead bodies, not a clue.
Yes, she hired the Wireman, his fellow truck thief, the lipreader, and the hotel honeytrap.
Interesting scene… he says “sooner or later we should find a place that accommodates all of the tragedies of life”. Then the camera goes to the servant and very clearly you can see the light shining off of a Cross that she has around her neck.
Interesting.
maid, i believe the word is maid
@@meherenow793no… servant. Christ is the “suffering servant”. She’s wearing a clearly visible cross. Also, don’t get gummed up on terms. It’s petty and, in time, your desired term (maid) comes to hold as much acrimony (among the simple) as servant does for you.
@@carolinafine8050 you might just be _regarded;_
she is 100% performing the function of a maid, and the dictionary defines a female "servant" as a maid.
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This is a very poetic way of saying you’re fucked.
Judge Holden gets in the backseat and asks, politely, are you my Uber? That may be in the Director's Cut... Maybe.
Friendships transcend value,
Sounds like something that was written by one of the greats and he is Cormac McCarthy
How do you tell someone whose mind is so disturbed by what is about to happen to him, that he cannot go back in time and undo decisions from his past? Well, you just turn this simple concept into an elaborated string of sentences that demand his full attention, drawing him off of his numb state of mind into awareness. Just saying "you can't go back in time" is so trivial that it would slip right through his ears, because in the end he already knew it and just wouldn't accept it.
What happen the part about where th bodies are left to be found vs not.
I wonder if he delivers the speech on behalf of clients at a DWI hearing.