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The Sunset Limited

208 statements
40 feature instances
15 referencing feature instances

The Sunset Limited	type	TVTItem
The Sunset Limited	label	The Sunset Limited
The Sunset Limited	page	TheSunsetLimited
The Sunset Limited	comment	The Sunset Limited is a 2011 television film based on the play written by Cormac McCarthy. The film stars Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson.The film involves only two nameless characters, designated "White" (played by Tommy Lee Jones) and "Black" (played by Samuel L. Jackson), their respective races. Just before this 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.
The Sunset Limited	fetched	2023-03-30T07:28:08Z
The Sunset Limited	parsed	2023-03-30T07:28:08Z
The Sunset Limited	isPartOf	DBTropes
The Sunset Limited / int_191e0d45	type	Preacher Man
The Sunset Limited / int_191e0d45	comment	Preacher Man: 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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The Sunset Limited / int_2104e7d4	type	Powerful and Helpless
The Sunset Limited / int_2104e7d4	comment	Powerful and Helpless: All of Black's arguments wind up falling flat and his sincere and powerful belief in God, Jesus, heaven and love do absolutely nothing to convince White that life isn't a cruel futile joke and that death isn't a sweet release. Black is presented as a Magical Negro who has to come to terms with the fact that his wisdom is completely useless in helping White.
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The Sunset Limited / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Sunset Limited / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: 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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The Sunset Limited / int_31578d72	type	Hates Everyone Equally
The Sunset Limited / int_31578d72	comment	Hates Everyone Equally: White is an unashamed misanthrope, and implies that he can't wait to die to finally be free from other people.
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The Sunset Limited / int_32cb267a	type	Magical Negro
The Sunset Limited / int_32cb267a	comment	Magical Negro: Subverted with Black who not only fails to give White any hope, but nearly loses all hope himself after White's Despair Speech.
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The Sunset Limited / int_4a0f839d	type	Cessation of Existence
The Sunset Limited / int_4a0f839d	comment	Cessation of Existence: White positively longs for this. He wants to die and have it be the end.
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The Sunset Limited / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Sunset Limited / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: White leaves the apartment, unconvinced by Black's arguments, while the latter breaks down and begins to ponder his powerlessness even with his faith in God.
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The Sunset Limited / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
The Sunset Limited / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Black is an ex con who served his time for murder and found God, and now wants to help people.
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The Sunset Limited / int_545d100b	type	Intelligence Equals Isolation
The Sunset Limited / int_545d100b	comment	Intelligence Equals Isolation: 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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The Sunset Limited / int_5b4573b1	type	Near-Death Experience
The Sunset Limited / int_5b4573b1	comment	Near-Death Experience: Black had one long ago while serving time in prison. He was stabbed and nearly died from the blood loss. The event led him to find God.
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The Sunset Limited / int_61c2f627	type	Break the Motivational Speaker
The Sunset Limited / int_61c2f627	comment	Break the Motivational Speaker: Throughout the whole story, Black tries his damnedest to provide White with a motivation to keep on living. White breaks Black so thoroughly with his unrelenting nihilism that by the time he walks out of the room (presumably to try to kill himself successfully), Black is such despair that he rages at God.
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The Sunset Limited / int_6a42ef	type	Cynicism Catalyst
The Sunset Limited / int_6a42ef	comment	Cynicism Catalyst: Black tries to get White to confess or perhaps realize that such an event happened to him that made him this way, but White says he's felt this nihilistic all his life.
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The Sunset Limited / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Sunset Limited / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Just before the film begins, Black saves White from throwing himself in front of a train. From White's point of view, no matter how great someone or something is, all that is created eventually fades away. Black feels that he can persuade White from committing suicide. He still wants to by the end, apparently leaving intending this.
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The Sunset Limited / int_7815ba15	type	N-Word Privileges
The Sunset Limited / int_7815ba15	comment	N-Word Privileges: Black says it all the time, to the point where White finds it offensive.
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The Sunset Limited / int_7a4013f3	type	Deuteragonist
The Sunset Limited / int_7a4013f3	comment	Deuteragonist: Or The Protagonist: Black and White. It is up to the audience to decide which is which.
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The Sunset Limited / int_80eb641c	type	Straw Nihilist
The Sunset Limited / int_80eb641c	comment	Straw Nihilist: White claims to see the world as it truly is, "without dreams or illusions", and suggests that anyone who doesn't "eat up with the dumbass" should also see the world in the same way and wish to die as soon as possible.
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The Sunset Limited / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
The Sunset Limited / int_81ae2774	comment	Evil Matriarch: White hints that his mother was one.
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The Sunset Limited / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Sunset Limited / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Par for the course with Samuel L. Jackson. It's particularly noticable during Black's "jailhouse story" where he aggressively gets into the retelling.
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The Sunset Limited / int_87572663	type	Wrong Side of the Tracks
The Sunset Limited / int_87572663	comment	Wrong Side of the Tracks: 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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The Sunset Limited / int_8bcfcc7	type	Hope Crusher
The Sunset Limited / int_8bcfcc7	comment	Hope Crusher: White becomes this to Black once he feels pushed too far when Black insists that he describe the world as he sees it.
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The Sunset Limited / int_8e3b5b4d	type	Minimalist Cast
The Sunset Limited / int_8e3b5b4d	comment	Minimalist Cast
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The Sunset Limited / int_92163e88	type	Locked in a Room
The Sunset Limited / int_92163e88	comment	Locked in a Room: 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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The Sunset Limited / int_a0edf122	type	Good with Numbers
The Sunset Limited / int_a0edf122	comment	Good with Numbers: Black learned to do arithmetic with big numbers in his head while in prison.
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The Sunset Limited / int_ad118ed1	type	Aesop Collateral Damage
The Sunset Limited / int_ad118ed1	comment	Aesop Collateral Damage: Black recounts his story of finding God after being being stabbed in prison, and includes a part where he busted open the head of his attacker and gave him permanent brain damage. White is unimpressed.
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The Sunset Limited / int_b10f0160	type	Starting a New Life
The Sunset Limited / int_b10f0160	comment	Starting a New Life: 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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The Sunset Limited / int_b82ca416	type	Rage Against the Heavens
The Sunset Limited / int_b82ca416	comment	Rage Against the Heavens: After White finally leaves, evidently to carry out his suicide, Black rants and raves at God for not giving him the wisdom to help White before breaking down in tears.
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The Sunset Limited / int_c0961831	type	Interrupted Suicide
The Sunset Limited / int_c0961831	comment	Interrupted Suicide: 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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The Sunset Limited / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Sunset Limited / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: 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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The Sunset Limited / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Sunset Limited / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The two main characters are identified in the credits only as Black and White, with no names given.
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The Sunset Limited / int_cbf5c04	type	Insult of Endearment
The Sunset Limited / int_cbf5c04	comment	Insult of Endearment: Black calls White "Honey" all the time, much to White's irritation. When questioned about it, Black says he doesn't mean anything bad by it, he just uses it with anyone to let them know they're in a safe place with a friend.
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The Sunset Limited / int_d03fc3f1	type	Good Shepherd
The Sunset Limited / int_d03fc3f1	comment	Good Shepherd: Black is a man of God, but he truly is a good man first, and works hard to help the many drug addicts in his part of town.
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The Sunset Limited / int_d0c563ad	type	Religion Is Wrong
The Sunset Limited / int_d0c563ad	comment	Religion Is Wrong: What White believes about religion in general.
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The Sunset Limited / int_da46a2c0	type	Hollywood Atheist
The Sunset Limited / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: White is a depressed, suicidal atheist who thinks life is meaningless due to it ending in death. He hates people generally and religion in particular.
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The Sunset Limited / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
The Sunset Limited / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Black always calls prison "the jailhouse", and White questions him on it. Black says it's something that rural black people say, as it's a more honest term to use.
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The Sunset Limited / int_e8491efa	type	Don't Fear the Reaper
The Sunset Limited / int_e8491efa	comment	Don't Fear The Reaper: White feels warm and fuzzy inside when thinking about the peace and silence of death.
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The Sunset Limited / int_e8878c29	type	Despair Speech
The Sunset Limited / int_e8878c29	comment	Despair Speech: 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 Sunset Limited / int_e905c892	type	The Heretic
The Sunset Limited / int_e905c892	comment	The Heretic: Black considers himself one despite being a devout Christian, due to not believing every single word in the Bible is literally true, and saying the Bible is really for the sick at heart and that a whole person wouldn't even need it to begin with.
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The Sunset Limited / int_fd86da63	type	Crisis of Faith
The Sunset Limited / int_fd86da63	comment	Crisis of Faith: White's final Despair Speech and departure causes Black to have one.
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The Sunset Limited / int_fec2b522	type	Happy Ending
The Sunset Limited / int_fec2b522	comment	Happy Ending: Black tries to insure one. He fails.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

The Sunset Limited	hasFeature	Aesop Collateral Damage / int_66b144ad
The Sunset Limited	hasFeature	Cessation of Existence / int_66b144ad
The Sunset Limited	hasFeature	Despair Speech / int_66b144ad
The Sunset Limited	hasFeature	Don't Fear the Reaper / int_66b144ad
The Sunset Limited	hasFeature	Films of 2010â€“2014 / int_66b144ad
The Sunset Limited	hasFeature	Good with Numbers / int_66b144ad
The Sunset Limited	hasFeature	Hollywood Atheist / int_66b144ad
The Sunset Limited	hasFeature	Hope Crusher / int_66b144ad
The Sunset Limited	hasFeature	Intelligence Equals Isolation / int_66b144ad
The Sunset Limited	hasFeature	Interrupted Suicide / int_66b144ad
The Sunset Limited	hasFeature	Powerful and Helpless / int_66b144ad
The Sunset Limited	hasFeature	Rage Against the Heavens / int_66b144ad
The Sunset Limited	hasFeature	Sinister Subway / int_66b144ad
The Sunset Limited	hasFeature	Straw Nihilist / int_66b144ad
The Sunset Limited	hasFeature	Locked in a Room / int_66b144ad

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