Movie Moments that Make You Cry

[kateln]

Oct 2, 2019 17:45:29 GMT -4 mrspickles said:

Oct 2, 2019 16:42:02 GMT -4 kateln said:

My mom got that visit in Vietnam, and the way she told me it was almost expected. It was almost like she, and the other wives, were half living their lives expecting to hear that news. In her case, I believe a Priest came and told her.

I've only heard her discuss it once, but it strikes me every time I see those scenes in films.

I'm sorry for your mom's loss. Having seen pictures of you, who does not look nearly old enough to have been alive during Vietnam, I'm thinking this story describes her first husband and this was before you were born, but if I'm wrong, then I'm sorry for you as well.

Oh yeah, this was her first husband. She married pop a couple years later.

[Smilla]

Boy, I sure can pick 'em. After May's brilliant decision to watch a documentary about the Tate/LaBianca murders, tonight I went with HBO's 2004 oldie-but-goody, Iron Jawed Angels. It's not what I think of as high art, but when the cast (imprisoned in a workhouse at the time) start singing "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" I burst into tears. I think it's because the anniversary of my mother's death is coming up, but still...goddamn movie. Goddamnit.

[technicolor]

Marriage Story. LOL, probably shouldn't have rewatched it during a pandemic, when spirits are low anyway. I've seen relationships of people I know devolve in similar ways, and what struck me this time is the waste and destruction that divorce can pile on. The unnecessarily traumatic scorched earth divorce resulted in an outcome that every decent mediator would have gotten them, but they destroyed their relationship so much more in the process. And yeah, that they're on speaking terms at the end and don't hate each other's guts is some degree of "hopeful", because it absolutely could have escalated even further. But the moment in the court room when their lawyers are tearing into each other while the two of them are disassociating from what they have destroyed with their behaviour? Wow. So much damage done, so effectively encapsulated in a scene. There were more overtly emotional scenes, but that one really drove home how a relationshipe that started with love was effectively destroyed.

[pathtaken]

For some reason I decided to watch George Clooney's new film The Midnight Sky on Netflix and wept at the end.
I'm talking snot and everything. Not sure if it was the movie or just this year/holidays but if you cry easily don't watch it.

[cremetangerine82]

The edited kissing montage in Cinema Paradiso still makes me cry like my ice cream cone fell into the gutter.