Cormac McCarthy’s second screenplay “The Sunset Limited” was written back in 2006 that was then adapted for film. The HBO film was executive-produced, directed, and starred by the greatest Tommy Lee Jones with Samuel L. Jackson as his co-star. These big three names were enough to easily grab anyone’s attention and drove everyone curious to watch it.
Ideas-driven movies are much harder to perfect. They are harder to pique the interest of viewers, yet, Mr. Jones managed to fit the dialogue to the big screen successfully to create this underrated masterpiece. People who are fans of action or thriller movies might find this one to be a bit boring because it's mostly static. The movie starts with a single scene of the oldest named train in the US “The Sunset Limited”. It’s solely focused on the opposing ideologies that the characters relentlessly defend throughout their conversation that is carried out in a small room that Jackson lives in as he leads a very minimalistic and spiritual life. Without any names given, Jones is referred to as “White” which is a nihilistic professor who tried to jump in front of the Sunset Limited train. Jackson, on the other hand, plays a god-fearing ex-con named “Black”.
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