Saturday, September 22, 2012

The Sunset Limited (R) 6.5

The Sunset Limited (2011): Two men in an apartment with their opposing beliefs. (7.3)

Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Writers: Cormac McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy (play)
Stars: Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones

This movie gets an A for good intentions, but misses the whole point of why someone wants to commit suicide. The opposite of taking your own life is not "finding god." The opposite of wanting to kill yourself is wanting to live; loving life; enjoying the every day; etc. etc. etc. It has nothing what-so-ever to do with a belief or non-belief of a fantasy god. The constant bible-thumping god-references at the beginning were so off-putting, I almost stopped watching it. The end of the movie was quite good in that the Jones' character explains what it is that he is so sick of about the life, the living and the society and I can certainly relate/empathize. Given that (IMHO) flawed script, the acting was superb. The conversation, the dialog, the mannerisms, everything was right on the money. (Mind you, the whole movie is just the two characters sitting, mostly, in a room and talking, so I have to rate the movie on the substance of that conversation, mostly.) My Rating: 6.5

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