Sentences with phrase «existential life crisis»

Co-written by Glenn German and director Adam Rodgers, the movie puts a pleasantly bewildering spin on existential life crisis, tossing lighthearted adult romance, slightly goofy pre-college ensemble comedy and something a bit more barbed and bittersweet into a blender, and hitting puree.

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The work of my hands and my body pauses any existential crisis, the daily work of living redeems, and I feel the acedia fading with each day of right choices, one after another, each step of pushing back the darkness with fabric softener, veggies, backyard camping, laughter seeking, and newly - white bookcases in the fading sun.

Much needed is research beyond that already completed which will develop guidelines for improving the church's many roles in community health — from meeting the existential crises of being human and belonging to social groups and facing anxiety and dread, to providing more efficiently the «learning atmosphere» for a religious style - of - life.

The existential anxiety from such a crisis can motivate a much - needed reformulation of our life investment plans.

As I gradually emerged from this existential crisis, I recall how precious life felt.

If you believe in the existence of doomed teams that live in a permanent existential crisis, then you must be fascinated with the 2016 Chicago Cubs.

Phoenix plays a philosophy professor troubled by existential crisis until he strikes up a relationship with one of his students (Stone) and, as he says in the trailer, «the dark clouds part» and he begins enjoying life again.

Joaquin Phoenix stars as a philosophy professor who's suffering from an existential crisis: he can't write, he can't breathe, he «couldn't remember the reason for living,» as he says in the promo.

Your films have always portrayed characters at pivotal emotional moments in their lives — whether that's the postcollegiate existential crisis of My Sex Life or the familial unraveling of A Christmas Tale.

In his earlier films, such displacements are made to seem characteristic of Taiwan itself — a country in an existential crisis, not knowing how much its identity belongs to other countries that have occupied or otherwise dominated it, such as Japan, China, and the U.S. — but here they seem a more general condition of contemporary urban living.

2017 GGA NEW DIRECTORS (NARRATIVE FEATURE) COMPETITION Duet, Navid Danesh, Iran (North American Premiere) After a Tehran musician instigates an encounter with his college girlfriend in an attempt to address the poor end their relationship suffered, their lives and the equilibrium of their spouses are thrown into existential crisis.

The existential crises of college - educated Renton may be the most arresting, but Welsh treats all of them with care, accomplishing the remarkable feat of giving even his dimmest characters rich interior lives.

A life of cubicles, traffic, and existential crises?

It's a way to break out of the existential crisis and think about what character you're going to be in your own life.

Through battling across various worlds and attempting to stop the main villain from ending all life on the planet, the game really dives into an existential crisis that all of the characters share in their own way.

Firewatch throws players into the existential crisis of protagonist Henry, a middle - aged man looking to restart his life as a park ranger in a national forest.

He seems to want something more universal and transcendent than a picture from life, and he has a fondness for titles with an air of existential crisis, like that Vigil from 1948.

And I think there is an existential crisis in being a conscious and responsible person in the world and having an awareness of the moral issues involved in living a comfortable life in the face of the horrendous conditions of so many people who live on this planet.

These larger than life characters were portrayed as isolated and tormented, imprisoned in the cages of their own existential crisis.

Here the scene, and its small market, is made buoyant by state funding; the political project of art is not an existential crisis of meaning based on capital flows, but a lived reality built on recreational consumption.

Anger, confusion, fear and defiance, all triggered by the artists» existential situations and the emergence of a culture which was forming as a response to the crisis, have immensely changed the dominant self - reflexive art practices, bringing art closer to politics and life.

These may arise from either the «normative crises» of the family life cycle and / or existential dilemmas of job loss, alcoholism and chemical dependence, chronic and severe potentially life - shortening illness, natural disasters and societal violence.