By Cormac McCarthy. View All Photos (9) That watching it as a television series asks of it things the play can not deliver (and is not supposed to deliver). Based on Cormac McCarthy's play, The Sunset Limited arranges the conditions necessary for two drastically different points of view to clash in a rather engaing discussion, where their intellectual and philosophical limits are simultaneously put to the challenge and strengthened with the hopeless purpose to arrive to an impossible point of metaphysical agreement. The contest between the two men can be painful -- but is it meant to be laughable too? I have a big interest in movies, music, photography and such. The Sunset Limited study guide contains a biography of Cormac McCarthy, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. It means you walk away. Still, McCarthy devotees will adore it. If The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada didn't already convince you that the man can direct, Jones' take on Sunset Limited proves his directorial skill. The Sunset Limited is a play by American writer Cormac McCarthy, first produced at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago in 2006 and published in the same year. At first, The Sunset Limited purports to be a clash between belief (in God) and skepticism. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. August 6, 2020 Shy away if you need action. 74/100 Sunset Limited book.

Excellent. August 6, 2020 Tommy Lee Jones is White: one of the thousands of men on this rotten Earth governed by the devil with alarmingly nihilistic, Nietzschean and self-destructive behaviors that have finally fully materialized into acts that nearly drove him to a suicide, represented by the Sunset Limited, a violent and material means which immediacy is ultimately attractive for an atheist that envisions the terms "suffering" and "human destiny" to be mutually explainable between each other.

The cover suggests that "nothing is ever black or white", a statement that obviously couldn't be farer from the truth, because even if the world is composed by an infinite number of grey tones in a very big number of human themes, the terms of "good" and "evil" for God are definitely absolute, and as long as humans refuse to see that, their lives will never make sense, not even for the hypocritical, religious persons like "Black".

August 7, 2020 At times the lines come across as having been written (as with the Counselor) but many other times the delivery is excellent in spite of the "written" quality of the lines. Binge Central

By creating an account, you agree to the The Sunset Limited doesn't work. The Sunset Limited is a 2011 American television film directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones.The film co-stars Samuel L. Jackson.It was the duo's second collaboration, after the 2000 film Rules of Engagement.The screenplay was written by Cormac McCarthy, based on his 2006 play of the same name. Thus the dialogue remains elegantly balanced, poised between forceful articulations of opposing views of life and human nature, giving ascendancy to neither. 135 of 181 people found this review helpful. However, the two veteran actors are superb and more than justify the material being brought to the screen. It is more about the interaction between the individuals (and brings up an obvious comparison to My Dinner With Andre). I rate The Sunset Limited up mainly on the acting performances since the material does not strike me as being very easily portrayed as being the natural and spontaneous thoughts of the characters.