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A vocabulary word that captures most of this, that you might be looking for, is catharsis. Another very random, very small-scale example would be the moment the beat drops in a dubstep song or something.
Wow you are right about music. It does have the same effect
Yeah, it's common in film too. Take the LotR trilogy. It has this long, powerful climax that takes like an hour, and lets be real here, it's one of the most epic climaxes anyone has ever come up with. Shakespeare did no better.
Probably starts around the charge of Rohan and goes all the way until the ring falls in, just constantly bumping back and forth from despair to triumph in this earthquake of a stretch of film. It's just one big climax for the whole trilogy.
But then, its famous for having like a shitload of endings. It feels this way because these are all individual moments of pretty heavy catharsis, and we're used to those ending the story. But just like he gave us an hour of climax, he gives like 45 minutes of repeated aftershocks of catharsis.
People seldom complain seriously about it because the whole thing was such a wild ride, but every once in awhile someone jokes about it.