What pieces of art move you in that way? And why?

Ace said:

What pieces of art move you in that way? And why?

last snow by kaya

uterus by blam honey

blue and grey shirt-american music club

flowers-rozz william

dancer in the dark(film)

the book thief-by Mark Zubask

Winter Cicadas

Mulan.

i hate watching disney films, because, their is always some fucking scene, that will make me bawl. that fucking movie, My Dog Skip, last week it was the Rise of the guardians

i am the first person to cry during a film, mostly, i avoid tear jerker movies.

My Name Is Khan

Iron Giant

How to Train Your Dragon

Selena

Pinnochio

Peter Pan

Veer-Zaara

MJ in excessive amounts, especially when visually for too long

Lots of books make me cry, especially if they are describing abuse

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I always cry at the opening titles to Gone With the Wind - specifically, when the letters of the title "fly" across the screen.

I have no idea why, but it's happened every time I've seen the movie. It might be because I cried the first time I saw it - when I was 11. I was so excited to see it, and the titles were just so overwhelming on the big screen. Sense memory is a powerful thing.

I just saw it again on the big screen in October and I felt like I had to warn Sweetie that it was going to happen, since we'd never seen it together and I wanted him to be prepared.

This song also makes me cry, because it is just achingly beautiful...

I also cried at the Musee d'Orsay the first time I went there.

What's yours?

At random: A ST: TNG episode, when Capt. Picard gets to live another lifetime, on another planet. After all these years I still get choked up about that one.

I keep re-reading the "Parable" series, and get choked up Ms. Butler never completed them, as big of a pessimist as she was there was always hopefulness shining through in her books.

Michael Weston.

I cry at everything... but the TV show Parenthood makes me cry almost every episode. I was so proud of myself because I got through last week without crying... only to tear up at the preview for the next episode!

If you have not seen it, it is an excellent show. It's not over done... there just always seems to be some moment that really hits home, that you truly feel for the characters. In short, I love it, even though it makes me cry.

morningsong said:

What's yours?

The song below is what inspired this thread. My father is still very much alive, but we've had our battles over the years. He's going to be 75 and is still working way too hard and he's unhappy much of the time. He doesn't take care of his health and I would not be surprised if a heart attack or stroke fells him any time now.

The other evening, I was sitting in the office and thinking about how powerless I felt, that I just could not help him help himself. The album version of this came up on my iTunes and I bawled like a child:

Tess of D'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy (book)

This Woman's Work - Kate Bush (song)

Beethoven - the Alegretto of his Seventh Symphony

Beethoven - slow movement of the Emperor piano concerto

These have me bawling

Movies:

Hachi (2009)

Engelchen (1996)

Tree of Life (2011)

El Orfanato (2007)

Breaking the waves (1996)

The Fall (2006)

Loads more, I'm tender hearted

TV shows, I don't watch any (except Äkta Människor , so probably none really )

Ace said:

morningsong said:

What's yours?

The song below is what inspired this thread. My father is still very much alive, but we've had our battles over the years. He's going to be 75 and is still working way too hard and he's unhappy much of the time. He doesn't take care of his health and I would not be surprised if a heart attack or stroke fells him any time now.

The other evening, I was sitting in the office and thinking about how powerless I felt, that I just could not help him help himself. The album version of this came up on my iTunes and I bawled like a child:

This one, too:

I've admitted several times here (to the point that I'm probably being tedious) that I cannot watch the movie Grave of the Fireflies. I expect almost everyone who has seen it would agree that it's one of the saddest movies ever made, but I've been able to able to watch other sad films - this one I cannot get past the first 15 minutes. I just find it far too painful, and I don't expect I ever will try again.

Hachi: a Dog's Tale is a movie that makes everyone cry, I think. It's interesting in that it's not a particularly great, or at least not a very distinguished movie in most ways. I think it almost has a generic movie of the week feel to it in the writing and way the story moves, but it does what it needs to do very effectively and it tells such a universally touching story that I found it impossible not to be a mess at the end.

damosuzuki said:

I've admitted several times here (to the point that I'm probably being tedious) that I cannot watch the movie Grave of the Fireflies. I expect almost everyone who has seen it would agree that it's one of the saddest movies ever made, but I've been able to able to watch other sad films - this one I cannot get past the first 15 minutes. I just find it far too painful, and I don't expect I ever will try again.

Hachi: a Dog's Tale is a movie that makes everyone cry, I think. It's interesting in that it's not a particularly great, or at least not a very distinguished movie in most ways. I think it almost has a generic movie of the week feel to it in the writing and way the story moves, but it does what it needs to do very effectively and it tells such a universally touching story that I found it impossible not to be a mess at the end.

I put it on my list

ZombieKitten said:

Breaking the waves (1996)

Loads more, I'm tender hearted

This movie left me traumatized for probably a week after viewing

I rarely if ever cry from reading books. I get too excited about the journey of the characters to be brought to sadness (or joy) to the point of tears. That doesn't go to say that there won't be a turn of events that might not occasionally stun me, or shock me to the point of feeling something deep, but it's usually a quiet reaction to what has transpired that might stay with me for a couple days...but no tears.

The only music that make me cry are a few gospel selections as they take me deep inside of my life's journey and appreciate how far I've come, and a few scant pop song selections over the course of my life that do the same.

As for movies, I am easily moved to tears by Japanese dramas...they are built to be emotionally manipulative that way and I don't mind.

As for English language movies that make me cry...in the front of my mind I'm thinking of

This songs make me cry everytime! I couldnt listen to it when my son was a Marine in afghanistan.. Even tho hes home I still cry...It was such a terrible time for me.. Im sad now for the things I know he saw and had to do...

george did an amazing job covering it..

As I get older I find I cry pretty easily... At children crying, movies, hell even commercials!

I too am very tenderhearted

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Everything makes me cry these days. The older I get, the more I take after my mother. It's definitely not even out of sadness or happiness, it's any kind of powerful emotion and it seems it just doesn't take much to make me feel like that these days.

Last night I cried watching Glee (recorded from last week). Rachel sang Oh Holy Night and it was gorgeous.

I cried watching The Muppets the night before when Kermit sang The Rainbow Connection (I love that song!).

shiloh66 said:

I cry at everything... but the TV show Parenthood makes me cry almost every episode. I was so proud of myself because I got through last week without crying... only to tear up at the preview for the next episode!

If you have not seen it, it is an excellent show. It's not over done... there just always seems to be some moment that really hits home, that you truly feel for the characters. In short, I love it, even though it makes me cry.

That show is total cry porn! That and Grey's Anatomy. Although I have up on Grey's this season.

I have been watching Parenthood on netflix and my boyfriend thinks it's crazy that I watch because I end up with makeup running down my face every single time.

I cry at many songs:

You Stopped Loving Me

I Can't Make You Love Me

How Do You Mend a Broken Heart

They Won't Go When I Go

Love's In Need of Love Today

My Life

A Different Corner

I have a playlist for just when I want to cry

Movies:

It's A Wonderful Life

Steel Magnolias

Too many to count, but here are a few:

The Color Purple (book & movie)

Many Bob Dylan songs

Waiting for the Day, A Different Corner and My Mother had a Brother - George Michael

Now Voyager

k.d. Lang singing Hallelujah

Sophie's Choice (book & movie)

Empress said:

Too many to count, but here are a few:

The Color Purple (book & movie)

Many Bob Dylan songs

Waiting for the Day, A Different Corner and My Mother had a Brother - George Michael

Now Voyager

k.d. Lang singing Hallelujah

Sophie's Choice (book & movie)

Oh yeah!

The Color Purple. If I think hard enough, I probably could come up with a bunch of movies.

Stymie said:

Empress said:

Too many to count, but here are a few:

The Color Purple (book & movie)

Many Bob Dylan songs

Waiting for the Day, A Different Corner and My Mother had a Brother - George Michael

Now Voyager

k.d. Lang singing Hallelujah

Sophie's Choice (book & movie)

Oh yeah!

The Color Purple. If I think hard enough, I probably could come up with a bunch of movies.

I just sob like a baby when Celie and Nettie reunite. I've read the book 3-4 times and seen the movie even more and I still cry like a baby.

Empress said:

Many Bob Dylan songs

Which ones?

Old movie buffs might recognize the old lady from "The Grapes of Wrath" with Henry Fonda (aswell as a "blink and you miss her" role in "gone with the wind") amongst others...

Very few. Which is not to say that I'm unemotional, I just don't have the cry gene, I guess. I feel the emotions, but I don't get the waterworks.

Notable exceptions...

I've mentioned it before, but the Denzel Washington speech in Glory where they're praying the night before they go into battle. I've seen that movie fifty times and it still gets me.

The following songs...

The words in the middle of the first one are as follows:

Do you still remember when we were little and we were playing in the park, and you asked me what happens when we die? I said you forget everything, everything. "Even you?" Yes, even me. You did not want to die, never forget. The remains of what we used to have were taken away with the softest squeeze. How did I forget? How?

And these two, which I've posted in other threads before, both of which can make me feel low and heavy, like I'm slowly sinking into the Earth while the rest of the world flies by, or make me feel light and uplifted, like I can do anything, depending on my mood while listening. They've both brought the tears more than once, though.

Also, the first time I read the original Elfquest comic, when One-Eye died I let out a massive tear fest. That was the first time I'd ever made a deep connection with a work of fiction and I didn't expect any of the characters to go and die on me. I think I was like, eleven years old. Maybe twelve.

Lastly, if I read all 75 issues of Sandman straight through over a short period of time, some of the books near the end of that series hit me pretty hard. When all of the characters Dream knew, or had an affect on, start coming together for his wake... yeah... that part messes me up.

You can actually read it right here...

http://synergycrisis.com/books/Comics/Sandman/Sandman%20Volume%2010%20-%20The%20Wake/

Ace said:

Empress said:

Many Bob Dylan songs

Which ones?

Boots of Spanish Leather for sure. Love this song.

Most of Blood on the Tracks and Time out of Mind.

Desolation Row really moves me too.

Forever Young

I'll Remember You

Visions of Johanna

Lots more......................

Stymie said:

Empress said:

Too many to count, but here are a few:

The Color Purple (book & movie)

Many Bob Dylan songs

Waiting for the Day, A Different Corner and My Mother had a Brother - George Michael

Now Voyager

k.d. Lang singing Hallelujah

Sophie's Choice (book & movie)

Oh yeah!

The Color Purple. If I think hard enough, I probably could come up with a bunch of movies.

No matter how many times I have seen this movie I bawl like a baby when she meets her family at the end.. EVERY. TIME.

Empress said:

Ace said:

Which ones?

Boots of Spanish Leather for sure. Love this song.

Most of Blood on the Tracks and Time out of Mind.

Desolation Row really moves me too.

Forever Young

I'll Remember You

Visions of Johanna

Lots more......................

I really like the writing on Blood on the Tracks and - especially - Time Out of Mind. None of it moves me in that way, but I'm particularly blown away by "Tryin' to Get to Heaven", "Not Dark Yet" and "Highlands".

This scene takes place after people are being particularly nasty to Dumbo for his appearance, and his mother becomes completely fed up with the treatment and get angry. Of course, she is punished and confined to the enclosure you see in this scene.

Lawd, this scene fucks me up.

Also, the Joy Luck club. Just about ever other scene.

To understand the emotional impact of this next scene, you have to know the backstory. The mother here had killed her baby boy when she was back in China (the movie implies by accident), and she feels that soul left with that of her dead son's. Ergo, her daughter was given no spirit because her mother had none to give her. Hence, her daughter had no spine and went from one bad relationship to another.

Clearly in an unhappy marriage, the mother comes to visit.

The scene below is only a small part of the emotional rollercoaster of this storyline, but the mother essentially frees her daughter from the marriage. It is symbolically powerful to me.

I hate you Dan. That scene from Joy Luck Club fucks me up every time.

Stymie said:

I cry at many songs:

You Stopped Loving Me

I Can't Make You Love Me

How Do You Mend a Broken Heart

They Won't Go When I Go

Love's In Need of Love Today

My Life

A Different Corner

I have a playlist for just when I want to cry

Movies:

It's A Wonderful Life

Steel Magnolias

I'm seeing this tomorrow. On the big screen, no less. It oughta be a total fest.

Genesia said:

Stymie said:

I cry at many songs:

You Stopped Loving Me

I Can't Make You Love Me

How Do You Mend a Broken Heart

They Won't Go When I Go

Love's In Need of Love Today

My Life

A Different Corner

I have a playlist for just when I want to cry

Movies:

It's A Wonderful Life

Steel Magnolias

I'm seeing this tomorrow. On the big screen, no less. It oughta be a total fest.

I wish I could do that here.