Opening shot: The Counselor

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The Counselor ***

So, here you have a straight path, Route 54. But if you turn from the straight path, you wind up in Juarez, Mexico. What's in Juarez? Why drugs and drug violence, of course. And what does Proverbs 4 remind us? "Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established. Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy foot from evil." Ayup. The Biblical reference ain't accidental, neither. Not for this film.

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