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Creator | Date | Era | City | Country | Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) | Theme | |
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| Black Stallion | Director: Carroll Ballard | 1979 | Sardinia | Italy |
Everything is possible between boy and beast, between an innocent human and mother nature. |
Man and nature in harmony. At least this is the theme of the first half of the movie. See "Description" and "Context" info below for more on this comment. |
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| Biviel Shoe BV2773 | Biviel Design: | 2010 | 2000s | Germany |
Feeling: texture and line create a sense of elegance and beauty. |
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| Billy Elliot | Director: Stephen Daldry | 2000 | 1991-2010 | United Kingdom |
Life is dirty but one can clean up. |
Go after what you love. |
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| Attila (live performance) | Composer: Giuseppe Verdi | 2010 03 03 | 1851-1900 | New York | United States |
Life is a mix of strength, heroism, romantic passion. The work is a long complex opera, so it has many other lyrical emotions as part of it, but this covers the basic sense of life. |
Loving a heroic woman leads to death |
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| Atlas Shrugged | Author: Ayn Rand | 1957 | 1951 - 2000 | New York | United States |
Life can be good; Men are competent to live happily; The world can be a shining, happy place to exist, if one is free. But novel also presents a dark, dystopian world to help make real that positive view. |
The crucial value of the human mind. |
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| Are You Lonesome Tonight? | Composer: Lou Handman | 1926 | 1900s |
Sensuality and bitterness |
The remembrance of past love. |
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| Ardabil Carpet | Classical Persian School: | 16th century CE | London | United Kingdom |
sumptuous eye candy. |
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| Anthem | Rand, Ayn: | 1938, revised 1946 | 1900 - 1950 |
The book starts out psychologically dark and disorienting because of the protagonist struggling with the radically collectivist world he was born into. But what shows even in the early pages, and grows to the climax is the triumphant struggle of a rare few who break free of the yoke of total mind control and become free to live a life as a conceptual human and rediscover what it means to be an individual. Thrilling and emotionally satisfying (unless the reader is a committed determinist.) |
Ego and using one's individual mind is the core of being human. |
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| American President | Director: Rob Reiner | 1995 | 1991-2010 | Washington, D.C. | United States |
Romance is fun, funny and important. |
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| A Few Good Men | Director: Rob Reiner | 1992 | 1991-2010 | United States |
Justice should be fought for, needs to be fought for and can be fragile. |
Commitment to a moral code is central to a good man's life. |
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| 3 Idiots | Screenwriter: Chopra Vidhu Vinod | 2009 | 1991-2010 | India |
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 |
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| Ebben? Ne andrò lontana (aria from La Wally) | Composer: Alfredo Catalani | 1892 | 1851-1900 | Milan | Italy |
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. |
