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Sunset Limited

Posted on August 18, 2012August 19, 2018 by Village Vidiot

”Sunset Limited,” 18 August 2012 (2011), DVD.   Produced, directed, and staring Tommy Lee Jones as Mr White, a philosophy professor saved from committing suicide by Mr Black (Samuel L Jackson) an ex-con cleaning man who is told by God/Jesus to be on the track at a specific time. This Cormack McCarthy play/movie is a dialogue/conversation about meaning and existential emptiness. What happens when the fragile things of our culture/life fail us and we enter the void?. What is left for us if we lack faith?. Two very strong performances and crisp dialogue, but where does it get us?. Interesting, and not surprisingly, the impoverished has faith while the intellectual has neither faith, nor hope, nor the joy of creating his own meaning. Depression is a black hole. See Styron on this.

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