Movies and books about Meaning of Life

Woody Allen

Plot The protagonist Mort Rifkin’s first dream in Woody Allen’s film Rifkin’s Festival begins with the words: “When I fell asleep that night, I had a…

Lisa Cholodenko (screenplay by Elizabeth Strout)

This mini-drama can perhaps be summed up by this quote: "A person is not an answer. A person is a question." The series is a montage of different peri…

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse’s utopian novel *The Glass Bead Game* can be read repeatedly—at different stages of personal development. Each time, readers can examine…

Ruta Sepetys

A bestseller on the New York Times list and recipient of numerous literary awards, Ruta Sepetys’ novel Between Shades of Gray offers readers a chance…

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The beginning of the novel evokes our stereotypes about the 1920s in America. "Our" stereotypes are those of people who could not see the reality of t…

Fannie Flagg

«Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe» by American author Fannie Flagg begins in a very mundane way. The text is written in the simple langua…

Richard Feynman

An autobiography by one of the creators of quantum electrodynamics would likely have to be as serious as the name of the scientific field itself. Perh…

Yevhen Volobuyev-Senior

In the foreword to this book, the daughter of the renowned Ukrainian artist Yevhen Volobuiev Sr., Natalia Volobuieva, writes that some pages may only…

Iain Softley

The film tells the story of a man who claims he comes from another planet and ends up in a psychiatric clinic. Two traumatic events trigger the protag…

Denis Villeneuve

The film Arrival is interesting in many contexts: a fresh perspective on the topic of alien life, the eternal philosophical question of the meaning of…