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* AesopCollateralDamage: Black recounts his story of finding God after being being shivved in the jailhouse and includes a part where he busted open the head of his attacker and gave him permanent brain damage. White is unimpressed.
-->'''White:''' You don't think this is a strange kind of story?
-->'''Black:''' Yeah, I do think it's a strange kind of story.
-->'''White:''' No, what I mean is that you didn't feel sorry for this man.
-->'''Black:''' You're getting ahead of the story.
-->'''White:''' The story of how a fellow inmate became a crippled one-eyed halfwit so that you could find God.
-->'''White:''' You don't think this is a strange kind of story?
-->'''Black:''' Yeah, I do think it's a strange kind of story.
-->'''White:''' No, what I mean is that you didn't feel sorry for this man.
-->'''Black:''' You're getting ahead of the story.
-->'''White:''' The story of how a fellow inmate became a crippled one-eyed halfwit so that you could find God.
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* NearDeathExperience: Black had one long ago while serving time in the jailhouse. He was shivved and nearly died from the blood-loss. The event led him to find God.
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* WrongSideOfTheTracks: Black's apartment is in a rundown slum in a dingy part of town full of drug addicts and thieves. White doesn't understand why Black chooses to live there, but Black says he has to be where there's trouble in order to help people in trouble.
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-->'''White:'''Show me a religion that prepares one for nothingness, for death. That's a church I might enter. Yours prepares one only for more life, for dreams and illusions and lies.
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* ReligionIsWrong: What White believes about religion in general.
-->'''White:'''Show me a religion that prepares one for nothingness, for death. That's a church I might enter. Yours prepares one only for more life, for dreams and illusions and lies.
-->'''White:'''Show me a religion that prepares one for nothingness, for death. That's a church I might enter. Yours prepares one only for more life, for dreams and illusions and lies.
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The hilm involves only two nameless characters, designated "White" (played by Creator/TommyLeeJones) and "Black" (played by Creator/SamuelLJackson), their respective skin colors. Just before the film begins, Black saves White from throwing himself in front of a train. The title "The Sunset Limited" is derived from the name of a passenger train that travels from New Orleans to Los Angeles. All of the action takes place in Black's sparse apartment, where the characters talk after their encounter on the platform. Black is an ex-convict and an evangelical Christian. White is an atheist and a professor. They debate the meaning of human suffering, the existence of God, and the propriety of White's attempted suicide.
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The hilm film involves only two nameless characters, designated "White" (played by Creator/TommyLeeJones) and "Black" (played by Creator/SamuelLJackson), their respective skin colors. Just before the film begins, Black saves White from throwing himself in front of a train. The title "The Sunset Limited" is derived from the name of a passenger train that travels from New Orleans to Los Angeles. All of the action takes place in Black's sparse apartment, where the characters talk after their encounter on the platform. Black is an ex-convict and an evangelical Christian. White is an atheist and a professor. They debate the meaning of human suffering, the existence of God, and the propriety of White's attempted suicide.
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The film starts out with Black (Creator/SamuelLJackson) and White (Creator/TommyLeeJones) conversing about White's attempted suicide. What follows is a night-long discussion between the two men about the nature of life, death, society, culture, and faith.
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The hilm involves only two nameless characters, designated "White" (played by Creator/TommyLeeJones) and "Black" (played by Creator/SamuelLJackson), their respective skin colors. Just before the film starts out with begins, Black (Creator/SamuelLJackson) and saves White (Creator/TommyLeeJones) conversing about from throwing himself in front of a train. The title "The Sunset Limited" is derived from the name of a passenger train that travels from New Orleans to Los Angeles. All of the action takes place in Black's sparse apartment, where the characters talk after their encounter on the platform. Black is an ex-convict and an evangelical Christian. White is an atheist and a professor. They debate the meaning of human suffering, the existence of God, and the propriety of White's attempted suicide. What follows is a night-long discussion between the two men about the nature of life, death, society, culture, and faith.
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[[caption-width-right:350:You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn’t mean anything. You’ve become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn’t mean anything. You’ve become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn’t mean anything. You’ve become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.]]
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The Sunset Limited is a 2011 television film based on the play written by Creator/CormacMcCarthy. The film stars Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson.
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The Sunset Limited is a 2011 television film based on the play written by Creator/CormacMcCarthy. The film stars Tommy Lee Jones Creator/TommyLeeJones and Samuel L. Jackson.
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->'''White:'''Maybe it's not logical. I don't know. I don't care. I've been asked: didn't I think it odd that I should be around to witness the death of everything and I do think it's odd, but that doesn't mean it isn't so. Somebody has to be here.
->'''Black:'''But you don't intend to hang around for it?
->'''White:'''No I don't.
->'''Black:'''But you don't intend to hang around for it?
->'''White:'''No I don't.
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->''Maybe it's not logical. I don't know. I don't care. I've been asked: didn't I think it odd that I should be around to witness the death of everything and I do think it's odd, but that doesn't mean it isn't so. Somebody has to be here.''
->''But you don't intend to hang around for it?''
-> ''No I don't.''
-->-- '''White and Black'''
->''But you don't intend to hang around for it?''
-> ''No I don't.''
-->-- '''White and Black'''
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-->-- '''White and Black'''
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->''Maybe it's not logical. I don't know. I don't care. I've been asked: didn't I think it odd that I should be around to witness the death of everything and I do think it's odd, but that doesn't mean it isn't so. Somebody has to be here.''
->''But you don't intend to be hand around for it?''
-> ''No I don't.''
-->-- '''White and Black'''
->''But you don't intend to be hand around for it?''
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-->-- '''White and Black'''
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* HopeSpot: Towards the end, Black gives a very compelling argument that White could have happiness and it almost looks like White is willing to accept it... until he shoots it down.
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* InterruptedSuicide: The film opens in the aftermath of White's attempted suicide where Black tackled him and stopped him jumping in front of a subway train.
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* TheAtoner: Black is an ex con who served his time for murder and found God, and now wants to help people.
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* StartingANewLife: Black suggests this to White as an alternative to suicide once he runs out of other ideas to help. He tells White that he could just walk out on his life and start over from scratch in some other place doing something else and choosing to be a new person. White just can't bring himself to do it.
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* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: White is a brilliant college professor who shares a mutual loathing with his colleagues and is generally a misanthrope. He has no friends, except for one man he has lunch with sometimes.
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* DrivenToSuicide: White was ready and eager to check out at the film's beginning.
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* DespairSpeech: Throughout the film, White indulges Black as best he can and tries not to offend or upset him. By the film's conclusion, Black demands to know how White really sees the world and White obliges, giving him a speech about the futility of life that's so hope-destroying that it nearly breaks Black.
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The film starts out with Black (Samuel L. Jackson) (Creator/SamuelLJackson) and White (Tommy Lee Jones) (Creator/TommyLeeJones) conversing about White's attempted suicide. What follows is a night-long discussion between the two men about the nature of life, death, society, culture, and faith.
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* AllStarCast: Starring only two people, and they just happen to be acting powerhouses.
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* CrapsackWorld: Both Black and White see the world this way, the difference being that Black still chooses to believe it's redeemable.
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* HopeCrusher: White becomes this to Black once he feels pushed too far as Black insists that he describe the world as he sees it.
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* LockedInARoom: The film takes place entirely in Black's apartment. Black has White locked in until he can convince White to keep on living.
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* DownerEnding: For Black.
* HappyEnding: For White.
* HappyEnding: For White.
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* PreacherMan: Black, and he believes it with all his heart. While he does try to suggest belief in God as a way for White to want to go on living, he doesn't try to force it down his throat. Black is much more concerned that White simply find a reason to live and be happy.
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* StrawNihilist: White claims to see the world as it truly is "without dreams or illusions" and suggests that anyone who sees the world in the same way should wish to die as soon as possible.
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* {{Protagonist}}[=/=]{Deuteragonist}: Black and White. It is up to the audience to decide which is which.
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The Sunset Limited is a 2011 television film based on the play written by Creator/CormacMcCarthy. The film stars Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson.
Two men with opposing beliefs confront each other in an apartment.
The film starts out with Black (Samuel L. Jackson) and White (Tommy Lee Jones) conversing about White's attempted suicide. What follows is a night-long discussion between the two men about the nature of life, death, society, culture, and faith.
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!!This film provides the following examples:
* TheNameless: The two main characters are identified in the credits only as ''Black'' and ''White'' with no names given.
* {{Protagonist}}[=/=]{Deuteragonist}: Black and White. It is up to the audience to decide which is which.
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Two men with opposing beliefs confront each other in an apartment.
The film starts out with Black (Samuel L. Jackson) and White (Tommy Lee Jones) conversing about White's attempted suicide. What follows is a night-long discussion between the two men about the nature of life, death, society, culture, and faith.
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!!This film provides the following examples:
* TheNameless: The two main characters are identified in the credits only as ''Black'' and ''White'' with no names given.
* {{Protagonist}}[=/=]{Deuteragonist}: Black and White. It is up to the audience to decide which is which.
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