Sunset Limited (2011)
This drama may not be appealing to all as the setting is uninspiring. The whole 1h 30m movie happens in the confines of an apartment room involving two men arguing about God! The two actors who happened to be favourites are the only characters in the show - White (Tommy Lee Jones) and Black (Samuel L. Jackson).
As the conversation progresses into high gear, the story unfolds. Sunset Limited is the subway train into which White had supposed to have jumped into to try to kill himself, only to have fallen into the arms of by Black who just happened to be there.
Black brought him to his apartment in the poor side of town to knock some sense into him and perhaps pass the divine word of the Lord. What ensued later was a philosophical argument about life, God, death and suicide!
Black is ex-convict who grew in the bad side of the town, was incarcerated and almost committed murder in prison just to find God and chose the path of the Divine. He is a pastor now finding peace in helping the downtrodden.
White is a college professor who seem pessimistic and nihilistic about everything around him. He feels that there is no meaning in life. He leads a lonely life. Everyone, he thinks, just go through life waiting for their time to die.
Black tries to persuade him to look at the brighter side of things with the promise of eternally blissful after life. White, an atheist and a thinking man, does not buy into his promises.
It appears that things are easier when one does not over analyse life and the purpose of life. The more you try to understand life and its intricacies, the higher the chance of one flipping over to side of the loonies.
Their discussion intensifies and both men put their side of belief. The dark pessimistic argument of White some how makes the Pastor rather unsure of his direction of life. He questions the silence of God to give him the wisdom to argue the bleak outlook of man's life.
The movie ends with White leaving the apartment unimpressed with Black's argument.
Beliefs and callings are from within, it cannot be forced upon. If you believe in something, you accept and rationalize everything which happens around that belief. It simplifies things and one can concentrate on doing other things in life, like enjoying life (maybe not to the fullest as you may be wary of the after life!).
As the conversation progresses into high gear, the story unfolds. Sunset Limited is the subway train into which White had supposed to have jumped into to try to kill himself, only to have fallen into the arms of by Black who just happened to be there.
Black brought him to his apartment in the poor side of town to knock some sense into him and perhaps pass the divine word of the Lord. What ensued later was a philosophical argument about life, God, death and suicide!
Black is ex-convict who grew in the bad side of the town, was incarcerated and almost committed murder in prison just to find God and chose the path of the Divine. He is a pastor now finding peace in helping the downtrodden.
White is a college professor who seem pessimistic and nihilistic about everything around him. He feels that there is no meaning in life. He leads a lonely life. Everyone, he thinks, just go through life waiting for their time to die.Black tries to persuade him to look at the brighter side of things with the promise of eternally blissful after life. White, an atheist and a thinking man, does not buy into his promises.
It appears that things are easier when one does not over analyse life and the purpose of life. The more you try to understand life and its intricacies, the higher the chance of one flipping over to side of the loonies.
Their discussion intensifies and both men put their side of belief. The dark pessimistic argument of White some how makes the Pastor rather unsure of his direction of life. He questions the silence of God to give him the wisdom to argue the bleak outlook of man's life.
The movie ends with White leaving the apartment unimpressed with Black's argument.
Beliefs and callings are from within, it cannot be forced upon. If you believe in something, you accept and rationalize everything which happens around that belief. It simplifies things and one can concentrate on doing other things in life, like enjoying life (maybe not to the fullest as you may be wary of the after life!).
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