I guess the plot is like this

Jovanny 2021-12-19 08:01:11

Fassbender and Baden paid the money and sold the drugs in the dung trucks of Mexican drug dealers to their next home in Chicago through Pete's intermediary. The drug dealer receives the money and is responsible for transportation into the United States. The delivery method is to deliver the truck starter module.

The truck launch module should be handed over to Pete by the motorcycle speeding man. But the speeding man was detained by the police for speeding. At this time, Diaz bought the police and allowed Fassbender to contact the mother of the speeding man in the name of legal aid. Mother persuaded Fassbender to bail the speeding man. After the speeding man was released on bail, he got the start-up module, which he should give to Pete. But the speeding man was followed by Diaz's men and beheaded. Diaz got the drug truck.

The Mexican drug dealer did not deliver the goods, and suspected it was on Fassbinder. Fassbender began to go crazy. He found Pete. Pete was old and cunning with the intention of scaring Fassbender away, saying that I was going to run, so you should run away too. At the same time, Pete finds someone to arrange to take back the truck from Diaz with the intention of monopolizing drugs. Pete finds someone to pretend to be a policeman on the highway, seizes the truck, transports the truck to Chicago, and gets a payment of 20 million yuan (in the form of electronic money). (People who are not drug dealers grab the truck. The dealer's deal is to give the drugs to Pete's gang. Only Pete's three are sold to Chicago).

In the meantime, the drug dealer intended to control Baden, but missed his head. Although the drug dealer has no economic losses, he must never allow others to rob him. As punishment, the drug dealer kidnapped his girlfriend, Oh and Klutz, killed and recorded a video, and gave it to Fassbinder. Fassbender has a mental breakdown.

Pete did a real fake show, and went to London with all his plans. The truck that Diaz snatched was robbed by Pete and wanted to take it back again. So he arranged a scene in London. The scene was designed to deceive Pete's password and other information, and then he killed Pete and grabbed his computer and other file packages. Get 20 million, find a financial adviser to launder money, change identity to go to Hong Kong.

(Although the plot is very simple, there is no direct account in the movie. The story I understand is like this, for reference)

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  • Dennis 2022-03-26 09:01:06

    4/10. RS obviously doesn't understand legal subjects, and his previous [Lover's Bodyguard] is also ridiculous. As for McCarthy pretending to be a hero, how should I put it? This film consists of a series of endless dialogues. The dialogues are filled with a lot of metaphors (it can be regarded as a complete collection of sexual conversations), but it is difficult to hide the paper-thin story and depth of characters. . The rhythm has no tension, the narrative has no purpose, and poor Bardem and Diaz sacrificed their images. They should have gone to the wrong [American Hustle] crew.

  • Gage 2022-04-21 09:02:23

    Writers write scripts without thinking about structure

The Counselor quotes

  • Westray: The point, Counselor is that you may think there are things that these people are simply incapable of... There are not.

  • Reiner: Women like you.

    Counselor: All right.

    Reiner: Do you know what they like about you?

    Counselor: I'm a good fuck?

    Reiner: Right! No, they can sniff out the moral dilemma. The paradox. "Moral dilemma." Yeah, they're drawn to it. Not sure why. Maybe it's just that lacking any moral sense themselves, they're fascinated by it in men. Men are attracted to flawed women, too, of course, but their illusion is that they can fix them. Women don't want to fix anything. They only want to be entertained. The truth about women is you can do anything to them except bore them.