Violence, whether inflicted or suffered, is of high existential moment (even "Kick-Ass," in its better moments, makes this clear), which is why it's a matter only for artists of the keenest sensibility, and why meretricious violence, like meretricious sex, seems a betrayal of human nature itself.
Prominent among these is his distinction between formal, material, and existential ontologies, and distinguishing 'modes of being' as highest existential categories.
The "error" created by a universal node capturing a high existential simulates the way in which people actually use the universals.
Ingarden's four highest existential-ontological categories or 'modes of being' are: Absolute, Real, Ideal, and Purely Intentional.
If you thought Waiting for Godot was high on existential angst, Endgame makes it look like a riotous farce.
Above all, he seems motivated by a clear vision that sets the ideal of living and working together at a high pitch of existential commitment and danger.
You have Muslim youth rioting in the suburbs of Paris; you have a leader in Iran who is explicitly vowing that a homeland for almost six million Jews will be wiped off the face of the earth; you have a higher state of potential existential threat to Jews around the world than has been the case since the death of Hitler.
So not surprisingly, nations that report the highest rates of atheism tend to be those that provide their citizens with relatively high economic, political and existential stability.
The Red Desert in 1964 was Antonioni's first colour film and I think one of the best of his "high" period of opaque existential anxiety.
Reaching for euphoric highs and wallowing in existential lows are equal parts of the popular appeal, and visitors are encouraged to feel like they're getting away with something – eating too much, drinking too much, spending too much, gambling too much.
