Slap Me Silly, I'm Crying!
May 10 '03
The Bottom Line Are you a crier or not? If you are, I highly recommend that you do NOT see these movies.
I am not a big crier, especially when it comes to movies -- unlike my mother and sister who cry at almost anything -- it takes a lot to make me snivel and blow my nose in a theater. The movies that are listed below are the only ones that have ever made me do this shameful thing. In no particular order:
1) Stepmom
Directed by Chris Columbus in 1998; with Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, and Ed Harris. Sarandon and her two kids have to cope when Harris, the divorced father/husband re-maries a young wife, Roberts. Things get more complicated as Roberts has difficulty with the children and we learn that Sarandon is going to die of cancer soon, and that she is counting on Roberts to take care of everyone.
Why I cried: it made me think of my mother dying of cancer and what I would do if she ever did.
2) Life Is Beautiful
Directed by Roberto Benigni in 1997; with Roberto Benigni and Nicoletta Braschi. Benigni bravely takes his wife, Braschi, and son through a concentration camp sending love messages to his wife through a megaphone to keep her spirits up and pretending to his son that it is all a big game. He is shot at the last minute, minutes before being freed. His wife and son survive.
Why I cried: this man did everything he could to keep his son and wife safe and happy, and the tragedy of him dying at the very last minute before being freed was just too much to bear.
3) Dancer in the Dark
Directed by Lars von Trier in 2000; starring Bjork, Catherine Deneuve, and David Morse. A poor women (Bjork) works very hard at a factory so that she might have money to give her son a better future. The problem is that she is loosing her eyesight and will be fired soon because of this, so she has been saving up a lot of money to get an operation done to fix this problem until her neighbor (Morse) steals all of her savings and then commits suicide/makes her do it. She is then hanged for a murder she did not commit.
Why I cried: it was just so sad from the beginning, this woman working so hard and then having everything taken away from her and then the final hanging scene. It was so powerful that even though I thought this movie was amazing, I cannot make myself watch it again. And even though I have all of Bjork's albums, I can't even listen to this one as even the music makes me want to cry.
4) Bear
Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud in 1988; with the Kodiak bear and the bear cub (seriously). A wonderful movie shot through the eyes of a cub bear. He loses his mother at a very young age and has to find his way on his own.
Why I cried: of course when he lost his mother. I know you all are laughing at me, but it was really sad!
5) Schindler's List
Directed by Steven Spieldberg in 1993; with Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, and Ralph Fiennes. The fascinating story of a man who starts a factory hiring Jews during the wars. He then notices the horrors they go through and tries to save them using his factory.
Why I cried: Well, obviously, the horror of the Nazis and how they treated the Jews in the concentration camps and so on. And then at the very end how Fiennes cries because he didn't save enough people.
6) The Green Mile
Directed by Frank Darabont in 1999; with Tom Hanks, David Morse, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Cromwell. An extraordinary story about a huge black man with mysterious healing powers that gets wrongly accused for the murder and rape of two young girls.
Why I cried: It was just so sad and wrong when he dies, especially the way he dies. He was such a sweet man too.
7) Ghost
Directed by Jerry Zucker in 1990; with Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg. Tragedy strikes when Swayze, who is madly in love with Moore, and vice versa, dies unfairly and suddenly. He comes back as a ghost to try to avenge his death and save his girlfriend.
Why I cried: The scene when Swayze takes over Goldberg's body so that he may talk and touch Moore is just too much to handle. It makes me think of the possibilities of losing a person that I love.
8) Powder
Directed by Victor Salva in 1995; with Mary Steenburgen, Sean Patrick Flannery, Jeff Goldblum. A mysterious kid that is completely white and has electric powers is discovered and then they try to intergrate him in the real world. Of course, since people don't like things and people they don't understand, things go wrong.
Why I cried: When his classmates are really mean to him and undress him and throw him in a puddle of mud. And then also at the end when he decides to be taken away by lightening. Powder is so fragile and cute and sensitive.
9) Boys Don't Cry
Directed by Kimberly Peirce in 1999; with Hilary Swank, Chloe Sevigny, and Brendan Sexton III. A disturbing story about a cross-dressing girl who prefers being a male and falls in love with another girl. Of course, she is found out and things go wrong.
Why I cried: It was just horrible when she gets beaten up and raped and then at the end when she gets killed so violently. Again, these scenes were just so disturbing to me that even though this was a great movie, I could never see it again.
10) The Big Blue
Directed by Luc Besson in 1988; with Rosana Arquette, Jean-Marc Barr, and Jean Reno. About a boy that growes up in the water, diving and spending time with dolphins. He falls in love with Arquette and vice versa, but he just doesn't feel that he belongs on the Earth, he feels like he belongs more in the water.
Why I cried: it was just so sad when he decides to go die with the dolphins in the water. It was tragic because he was just so cute!
Ok, so there was my list, but of course there is also a list of near-cries that almost made it:
1) The Hours (2002)
2) Philadelphia (1993)
3) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
4) Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
5) Thelma and Louise (1991)
6) Forrest Gump (1994)
7) E.T. (1982)
8) City of Angels (1998)
9) The English Patient (1996)
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