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''The Counselor'' (spelled ''The Counsellor'' in some markets) is a 2013 British-American crime thriller film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Cormac McCarthy. It stars Michael Fassbender as the eponymous Counselor—who gets in over his head in a drug deal around the troubled Ciudad Juarez, Mexico / Texas border area—as well as Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt. The film deals with themes of greed, death, the primal instincts of humans and their consequences. ''The Counselor'' was chosen as the closing film at the 2013 Morelia Film Festival and also played the Cork Film Festival. The London premiere was held on October 3, 2013 in Leicester Square. The New York City premiere was held on October 9, 2013. The film was theatrically released on October 25, 2013. It is dedicated to Scott's brother, Tony, who died in 2012. ==Plot== A man, known only as "The Counselor", and his girlfriend Laura are talking sexily in bed. Meanwhile, somewhere in Mexico, cocaine is packaged in barrels and concealed in a sewage truck, driven across the border and stored at a sewage treatment plant. After the Counselor goes to Amsterdam to meet with a diamond dealer to purchase an expensive engagement ring for Laura, he proposes and she accepts. He drives expensive cars and wears elegant suits. At a party thrown by Reiner and girlfriend Malkina, the Counselor discusses a nightclub he and Reiner intend to run, as well as an upcoming drug deal, which would be his first. The Counselor meets with Westray, a business associate of Reiner's. He hears of the deal's four-thousand percent return rate, but Westray warns the Counselor about becoming involved, saying that Mexican cartels are merciless. Just before this, Reiner describes an execution device called "the ''bolito''" which gradually strangles and decapitates the victim. Reiner later describes how disturbed he was from an incident where he witnessed Malkina masturbate with his Ferrari California's〔2009 Ferrari California in The Counselor, Movie, 2013 http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_644600-Ferrari-California-2009.html〕 windshield. The Counselor visits a client, a prison inmate named Ruth who is on trial for murder. Ruth's son is a biker and a valued cartel member known as "The Green Hornet" recently arrested for speeding. The Counselor agrees to bail him out of jail. Malkina, a ruthless criminal herself, employs "The Wireman" to steal the drugs. The Wireman decapitates the biker with a wire stretched across the highway. After collecting the component that will allow the sewage truck to start, the Wireman steals the truck containing the cocaine. Learning of this incident, Westray meets with The Counselor to notify him that The Green Hornet is dead and that the cocaine has been stolen, bleakly intoning The Counselor's culpability. Westray says he is leaving town immediately and suggests The Counselor do the same. Westray explains that the cartel's ruthlessness extends to creating "snuff films" where murder victims are filmed having necrophilia performed on them on camera. The Counselor makes an urgent call to Laura, arranging to meet her in another state, where he will explain. The cartel has learned that The Counselor bailed out The Green Hornet, which appears as suspect timing and fully blameworthy for the punitive purposes of the cartel. In Texas, two cartel members pretending to be police officers pull over The Wireman and his accomplice. The accomplice shoots and kills one of the imposter police officers and wounds the other. The wounded cartel member manages to kill the accomplice and The Wireman, also gunning down an innocent driver who comes upon the scene. Reiner is accidentally killed by cartel members while they are attempting to capture him. The cartel then kidnaps Laura. In a last-ditch effort, The Counselor contacts Jefe, a high-ranking cartel member, for suggestions on what to do next. Jefe philosophically advises The Counselor to live with the choices he made long beforehand. The Counselor goes to Mexico, hoping to find and rescue Laura there. A package is slipped under the door of his hotel room and in it he finds a DVD with "''Hola!''" written on it, breaking down in heavy sobs at the awareness that the disk likely contains a Snuff film of Laura sent by the cartel. The next shot shows Laura's headless body being dumped into a landfill. The cartel is unable to track Westray or Malkina. Malkina's failed effort to steal the drugs means that she is out of the money she wants. She tracks Westray to London where she hires a woman to seduce him and steal his bank codes. She then hires accomplices to steal Westray's laptop, and in the process they kill him with the "''bolito''" device that Reiner had previously described to The Counselor. The movie ends with Malkina meeting her banker at a restaurant, coolly explaining how she wants her accounts to be handled and discussing how exciting it is to see a predator elegantly catch its prey, then ordering lunch. The only flaw in her victory is an admission that she misses her pet cheetahs, a stark contrast to her earlier claim that she would never feel such emotions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Counselor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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