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storytelling

Fifty Shades of Grey is a 2015 American erotic romantic drama film directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, with a screenplay by Kelly Marcel. The film is based on the 2011 novel of the same name by British author E. L. James and stars Dakota Johnson as Anastasia Steele, a college graduate who begins a sadomasochistic relationship with young business magnate Christian Grey, played by Jamie Dornan. The film premiered at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival on February 11, 2015 and was released on February 13, 2015, by Universal Pictures and Focus Features. Despite receiving generally negative reviews, it was an immediate box office success, breaking numerous box office records and earning over $571 million worldwide. The film was the most awarded at the 36th Golden Raspberry Awards, winning five of six nominations, including Worst Picture (tied with Fantastic Four) and both leading roles. In contrast, Ellie Goulding's single "Love Me like You Do" was nominated for the Go

happiness

Psychoanalyst and philosopher Adam Phillips stated, “[A]nyone who could maintain a state of happiness, given the state of the world, is living in a delusion. Argue for or against this stance. I’m going to argue against this stance. Yes, the world is crazy right now but if you are happy as a person that should be all that matters. I think what he is trying to say is that no on should be happy with the economy and all the craziness in the world. Some examples are the terror attacks, guns, and all the political scandals that are going on. “One of the obstacles is the demand that we be happy, that we enjoy our lives. I think it’s a huge distraction, and it’s very undermining, I think. So, living in a quasi-hedonistic culture, I think it’s a big problem. It’s wrong because, if we are to make this crude, in the old days whenever that was, there was an internal injunction to be good. Now the injunction is to be happy, or to be enjoying yourself. And the reason this is a distra