"Digital Noir Prophecies in The Canyons and The Counselor"

“The Canyons and The Counselor represent an America unmoored from its own self-aggrandizing mythologies — the capitalist dream as nightmare of anxiety and violence. The films are haunted by symbols rather than subjects, made nowhere clearer than in McCarthy’s naming The Counselor’s title protagonist (played by Michael Fassbender) after his profession — he is a nameless intermediary, a metaphor.”


Read my essay "Digital Noir Prophecies in The Canyons and The Counselor" at In Review Online.