Usually I don't cry anymore, but a few minutes ago I watched some tears falling on my bedsheets, which surprised me quite a bit.

Those tears were very different from the ones I shed on The Green Mile, Rain Man, Forrest Gump and American History X. Not the kind of tears that would usually make me feel relief and more human afterwards. Somehow they were ice-cold, as if the movie just hit home hard, although I couldn't point out which character, scene or line touched which aspect or thought in my life. It somehow lies deeper, as if you have look into the eyes of your greatest fear, without even knowing what it actually is.

That probably is the power of this story.

UGH, I hear ya.

I read Tess of D'Ubervilles in one night once, well half of one night, spent the next half crying my eyes out. It made me SOOOOO upset.

I never cried in any movie as much as these 3

"Engelchen"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116208/

"El Orfanato"


"Breaking the Waves"

I'm with you ZombieKitten, on "El Orfanato," I get a knot in my throat just thinking about it. I truly wept. I just read they're making an English version of it, hope they don't fuck it up.

Another film that messed me up was "Into the Wild." I was depressed for days. I had confused this with the writer's other book, "Into Thin Air," so the end caught me off guard. I thought he was going to make it.

TheResistor said:

I saw it in the cinema and I lay down on the seat and bawled my eyes out, could NOT cope with that.
My inlaws just saw Into the Wild the other day, I asked them what they thought, but turns out the DVD wouldn't play the end through,
it was awful

I love Hardy...but I honestly can't think of a single happy story by him.

I haven't read any of his works in a long time, but they were among my favorites when I was young and angst-ridden.

Genesia said: