Nothing makes me feel the way the end of Michael Clayton makes me feel.
Who is Michael Clayton?
I’m not a miracle worker, I’m a janitor.
You’re not a lawyer, you’re a bagman.
Michael, the secret hero, the keeper of the hidden sins.
He’s been there 17 years and he’s not a partner?
You’ve got all the cops thinking you’re a lawyer and all the lawyers thinking you’re some kind of cop.
I’m not the guy you kill, I’m the…
This movie rocks.
Overall it was one of my favorite moviegoing experiences in a while. I was repeatedly gut punched by the images this movie made. There are sequences that made me physically tense up in a way that few movies can.
I also loved the manner with which Garland approached this premise. A modern American civil war seems ripe for social commentary but Garland prefers to do something else here. The premise naturally provokes questions as to how america…
