I was not a fan of what I think of as the early Matthew McConaughey but his later stuff really speaks to me. Mud (2012) and Dallas Buyers Club (2013). Top of my list is his portrayal of Rust Cohle in the first season (2014) of the HBO series True Detective. In the scene above (with Woody Harrelson) Rust shares his view of the cosmos.
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was the wealth of conversation-halting nihilist philosophy Matthew McConaughey s Rust Cohle liked to chew on. His highly meme-able musings ranged from deep, dark and worrisome to hilariously overwritten nuggets of ponderous pap. Few fans of the first season imagined that the latter brand of dialogue would be one of the only elements of consistency in the terminally tumultuous season two.