Creator Title Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) Theme
Director: Canet, Guillaume Tell No One (aka Ne le dis à personne) Life is sad, and controlled by mysterious corruption.
Screenwriter: Chopra Vidhu Vinod 3 Idiots Life can be fun and productive and exciting. As is true in some other Bollywood features, this story and the ideas behind it about pursuing the good life, has an honesty and clarity and benevolence that is not part of the U.S. movie scene.

Be what you want to be; follow your passion in life
Director: De Felitta, Raymond Two Family House Feelings of benevolence and optimism about life. Happiness comes from making choices for your own good.

Going after what you want in life; Don't be stopped by conventional standards of the people around you. It takes courage to be selfish.
Architect: Anonymous Sainte-Chapelle The world is brilliant, light, colorful, orderly.

The world is brilliant, light, colorful, orderly.
Director: Daldry, Stephen Billy Elliot Life is dirty but one can clean up.

Go after what you love.
Director: Hallstrom, Lasse Chocolat Pleasure is good; religion and conventional thinking is bad.

Follow your dream and disregard convention.
Designer: Sullivan, Louis Henri System of Architectural Ornament, A The world is a place of infinite, ordered, geometric, fluid possibilities.
Sculptor: Buonarotti, Michelangelo Pieta Resignation in the face of tragedy.

Recognition and acceptance of a great personal loss.
Singing Group: Soviet Army Chorus and Band Sports March Happiness triumphs.

The power of joy to motivate action.
Author: Shute, Nevil Far Country, The Life can be bright, happy and successful, but hard decisions must be faced and dealt with.

A good and happy life is made up of self-directed actions, self-chosen goals.

A less important theme is:
Freedom from government control.
Whether the government control results from devastating wars, or from socialist control of medical care, freedom is to be sought and prized.
Designer: Otar, John Covered Box Fun; complexity made from simplicity
Playwright: Rostand, Edmond Cyrano de Bergerac Life can be exciting. Life can be grand, literally.
There is also some great sadness about consummated love, since it is portrayed as unreachable.

The importance of independence and independent thought. Compromise is deadly to one's soul.
Sub-themes: a) Doubt of one's goodness because of an incidental fact (physical feature) is terribly damaging and tragic. b) Helping someone by faking reality is damaging and can come to no good.
Director: Luhrmann, Baz Romeo + Juliet Tragedy is central to life.

Romantic Love is doomed and we don't control our own lives.
Composer: Warren and Dubin Boulevard of Broken Dreams Weariness & Sadness

Life is loss of dreams and sadness
Director: Hudson, Hugh Greystoke Life is Loss -- life is grim and culture is grim and the jungle is grim. All is grim.

The other important feature of the film emotionally is that Tarzan has been crippled by his circumstances of being brought up in the jungle -- he cannot live as a man, so the great tragedy of the story is that he has to return to the jungle, which is below primitive -- it is an isolated hell in which death is at every corner, and at best the companionship of apes. Given that the story partly portrays civilized men as brutes who relish killing animals, perhaps the emotional intent is to make the choice to return to the jungle as positive, but for this reviewer it is unutterably tragic and ugly.

Loss, Loss, Loss. Man as metaphysically alien from human culture.
Sculptor: unknown Niobe Human action is beautiful.

Life is movement.
Author: Webster, Henry Kitchell Real Adventure, The Life is wonderful as long as you realize that life has to be earned the hard way.

Creating your *self* is the only way to live.
Composer: Catalani, Alfredo Ebben? Ne andrò lontana (aria from La Wally)

Longing is the overall emotional tone of the music. The lyric gives reason to this overall tone.

Sadness at having to leave forever the place where you were happy once.
Screenwriter: Coward, Noel Brief Encounter Passionate love. Tragic choices.

High romance is possible. Such love is unlikely to survive.
This film manages to embrace two contradictory themes, leading to a major bittersweet outcome.
Draftsman: Boscoli, Andrea Horse Seen from Behind Not much except perhaps stylistic -- confident, strong drafting style, and a vibrant, alive, horse.
Classical Persian School Ardabil Carpet sumptuous eye candy.
Sculptor: Fedi, Pio Rape of Polyxena, The Strength and complex beauty are central.
Vitality, passion and action are hallmarks of this work.

Life is complex strife, entwined with strong god-like characters.
Director: Stanton, Andrew Wall-E The world is garbage, and more garbage and humans have destroyed the earth, because of their wanton consumerism.

Mankind is a blight on the universe, and only cute robots (as opposed to evil robots) can save the earth from human degradation.
Maugham, W. Somerset Of Human Bondage Life is a fearful gray spread of actions and in-actions without genuine values. We are all deformed in mind or spirit and should accept convention as demanded by those around us.

Man's life is outside his control. Conventionality is the final ideal.
Miron - Parish Tzena Tzena Tzena Joyous celebration

Joyous celebration