The Sunset Limited

R 7.3
2011 1 hr 30 min Drama , TV Movie

A deeply religious black ex-con thwarts the suicide attempt of an asocial white college professor who tries to throw himself in front of an oncoming subway train, 'The Sunset Limited.' As the one attempts to connect on a rational, spiritual and emotional level, the other remains steadfast in his hard-earned despair. Locked in a philosophical debate, both passionately defend their personal credos and try to convert the other.

  • Cast:
    Tommy Lee Jones , Samuel L. Jackson

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Reviews

Steinesongo
2011/02/12

Too many fans seem to be blown away

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SunnyHello
2011/02/13

Nice effects though.

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Tedfoldol
2011/02/14

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

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AnhartLinkin
2011/02/15

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

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samvelgasparyan
2011/02/16

I'm speechless, never been into movies like this. I mean I'm into comedy, action, adventure, suspense and mystery type of movies. This movie grabbed me from first minute. Use your imagination and pay attention, this movie is insane and one of the greatest and hardest acting I've seen. BRAVOOO my boy Samul the best as always. If you use your imagination this movie will be one of the greatest movies ever.

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serkesche
2011/02/17

This for me best movie of all times... This for me best movie of all times.. This for me best movie of all times.... This for me best movie of all times......

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Ahmed Farrag
2011/02/18

Liking or hating a movie can have many factors that lead a viewer to develop an opinion upon the whole, without paying attention to the subtle technical details; but finding a film such as TSL, with all its components, scenes and fading moments, a piece of collective brilliance, an ensemble of great writing, cinematography, directing and acting — it is extremely difficult to list the the reasons for how this film cuts deep into the soul of the human condition.I find myself searching in vain for the most proper way of reviewing such a film — a way that could capture the message of an artist par excellence like Mr. Mccarthy — but to review a film of this standard is to encapsulate a myriad of feelings and observations into one hopelessly unfair critique.One can view this movie as trying to show the incommensurability of two drastically incompatible world views. This is a reading that greatly undermines the depth of the film's theme, and shows a lack of insight that cannot even penetrate the outer skin of the onion like scheme of the film."Whatever Happened?" is the question that Peter Wessel Zappfe asked in his famous article The last Messiah; but the answer was obvious. It was "A breach in the very unity of life, a biological paradox, an abomination, an absurdity, an exaggeration of disastrous nature. Life had overshot its target, blowing itself apart."That life has not the meaning — the teleological sense that humans desperately crave — has been known from the times of the ancient Greeks, and echoed by clever artists through the centuries to our present day. The problem of existential nihilism had never any resemblance to other animal problems; this is because it is not a disease that is seen as having its origin in anything other than being human. And if a cure to human angst, to our the essence — the absurdity of the overdeveloped animal — can only be in death, it does not mean that there are no palliatives that can mask the problem.So, what will happen if anchoring oneself to a "foundational firmament" does not work anymore? "Depressions, excesses, and suicides result." But is going back a viable option? that is what the movie tries to answer. We cannot but anchor ourselves to something, be it a religion, or a cause, or the aspects of our own culture; for unleashing yourself from them will only lead to a horrific fall into the soul crushing abysm of being an intelligent animal in a not so intelligent world.

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earl-bosch
2011/02/19

Seems atheist hates the movie and believers don't, yet the movie does not choose either side. It tries to show both as hopeless cases of being converted to the other. Yet in the end, if you take the sum of their lives, who's live would you choose: The easy, rich, intellectual who only looks after himself and has no reason to live. Or the very dramatic, traumatic, poor person who spends all his time looking after other totally useless people, but enjoys every moment of being alive. From that point of view its easy to understand why atheist would hate this movie. But if an atheist ever wants to know why he can't convince a true believer, he should watch this movie.

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