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G. TESTING LIMITS, ADVENTURE, EXCITEMENT

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Content:
- threat; friendship; lonelyness; facing new, frightening reality
- learn something new
- to become more courageous
- to have bigger & better tolerance
- to be able to live more safely
- immorality; omnipotence

Use base on presumption:
- life is a continual ropedance
- growing is like a benji jump - we can do it or we can't
- living means keeping death far away
- Andy Warhol said: "Only one breath separates life from death"
- we all are afraid of dying
- if we want to live and grow we must be able to take risks and step into unkown are, walk on a thin ice
- adventure gives us more willpower

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MY TOP HINTS:

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Stanley Kubrick 1968 2:23 drama ?
BLACK HAWK DOWN Ridley Scott 2001 2:19 war USA
CARRINGTON, Director: Christopher Hampton, 1995, UK, 1:57, drama
CROUNCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON Ang Lee 2000 1:55 adventure China
FIFTH ELEMENT, THE Luc Besson 1997 2:07 science fiction ?
FIGHT CLUB David Fincher 1999 2:14 action USA
LEGENDS OF THE FALL Edward Zwick 1994 2:22 drama USA
MATRIX Wachowski Brothers 1999 2:11 cyberthriller USA
PLANET OF THE APES Tim Burton 2001 1:56 scifi USA
ROAD TO PERDITION Sam Mendes 2002 1:52 thriller/drama USA
SLEEPY HOLLOW Tim Burton 1999 1:42 horror USA
USUAL SUSPECTS, THE Bryan Singer 1995 1:42 thriller USA

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AND SOME MORE:

007 - THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH Michael Apted 1999 2:04 action
12 MONKEYS Terry Gilliam 1995 2:05 scifi/thriller
APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX Francis Ford Coppola 2000 3:14 war
BASIC INSTINCT Paul Verhoaven 1995 2:03 thriller
BRAVEHEART Mel Gibson 1995 2:51 adventure
BREATHLESS Jim McBride 1983 1:37 thriller
CITY HALL Harold Becker 1995 1:47 thriller
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND Steven Spielberg 1977 2:12 science fiction
EASY RIDER Dennis Hopper 1969 1:35 action
ENTRAPMENT Jon Amiel 1999 1:53 action/thriller
FARGO Joel & Ethan Coen 1996 1:34 drama
FROM DUSK TILL DAWN Robert Rodriguez 1996 1:42 action/horror
L.A.CONFIDENTIAL Curtis Hanson 1997 2:12 thriller
LETHAL WEAPON Richard Donner 1987 1:43 action
L'OURS Jean-Jacques Annaud 1989 1:31 adventure
MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN Kenneth Branach 1994 2:03 horror
MIDNIGHT EXPRESS Alan Parker 1978 1:59 action
NINTH GATE, THE Roman Polanski 1999 2:08 thriller
ONE, THE James Wong 2001 1:24 action/sci-fi
OTHERS, THE Alejandro Amenabar 2001 1:40 horror
PANIC ROOM David Fincher 2002 1:47 thriller
PAPILLON Franklin J. Schaffner 1973 2:24 adventure
PEKING OPERA BLUES Tsui Hark 1986 1:46 action
PERFECT MURDER Andrew Davis 1998 1:43 thriller
PUSHER Nicholas Winding Refn ? 1:50 drama
SAVIOR Peter Antonijevic 1997 1:43 war
SEUL CONTRE TOUS Gaspar Noe 1998 1:33 drama
SEVEN David Fincher 1994 2:02 action
TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, THE Anthony Minghella 1999 2:14 thriller
THIN RED LINE, THE Terrence Malick 1998 2:45 war
U-TURN Oliver Stone 1997 2:00 action/comedy

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click: A. searching for meaning of life

click: B. pain of growing

click: C. abnegation, death, devorce

click: D. defiance of norms, young rebels

click: E. intoxicating agent drugs

click: F. twilight zone, feel like going crazy

click: G. testing limits, adventure, excitement

click: H. glory, self respect, justice

click: I. love, happiness, hate

click: J. sexuality

click: K. humour: just for fun

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