I have a reason why I am writing this post today… So bear with me! 😛
A few nights ago I was watching one of my favourite films from my childhood, A Little Princess. I remember my mom buying me that film on video and I fell in love with it. It was such a heartbreaking story, but with the best ending!
Watching that film and talking about it on Twitter with followers got me thinking about what other films make me cry whilst watching them. I never used to cry at films, but around 2012/2013 something broke in me and I started crying at pretty much anything sad in a movie!
So, I thought it would be interesting to share with you number of films make me cry and which scenes hit me hard!
This post WILL contain spoilers! I’ll try and not write as many spoilers if it can be avoided, but for some it will be hard. I will pop a “SPOILER ALERT” when one is coming up just as an extra! This post will also ramble loads, which is the point of the post in the first place. 😛
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1. A Little Princess
I’ll start off by talking about the one that inspired me to write this post. I cried so damn hard whilst I watched this film recently, I don’t feel like I’ve cried that much for agggggges! I must have cried on three separate occasions!
When Sara’s father leaves to go to war, I was sobbing at the line, “I already know you by heart”. OH GUYS WHY DO THIS TO ME?! The bit that got me the most is when Sara is sitting in the window, cuddling her Emily doll and watching her father leave. At this point the film hasn’t been on that long and we already have the first out of three crying moments. DAMN!
SPOILER ALERT – When Sara is told her father has died and is made to be a slave for the school, that’s just sad, okay? But she also finds this news out on her birthday and doesn’t get the chance to “enjoy” the rest of the day. The worst past is that she has to spend the rest of her birthday on her own it in a leaking attic with just her Emily doll, a book and her thoughts. OH and let’s not forget her locket with the only photos of both her dead parents is taken away. Urgh my heart. I broke.
SPOILER ALERT – Finally we have the scene where Sara has escaped to the house next door (and nearly died doing so!) to discover her father is alive and well (but at this point he has amnesia), you see how happy Sara is and relived that her life of slavery and torture is over, only for her father not to know what the hell is going on! I FUCKING SOB OKAY. EVEN BEFORE SHE SEE’S IT’S HER DAD!!! But the bit that gets me the most is when Sara is being taken away by the police in the rain and her father runs out and shouts, “SARA?!” after his memory returns and he realises who the little girl is. I am adding the scene above because you need to watch it. If you haven’t watched A Little Princess you need to. 🙂
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2. Dumbo
I watched this film recently (back in March to be exact haha) and I sobbed throughout. My face was just damp and I was tiring myself out from crying so much. I put it on as me and Dane had bought a Dumbo puzzle to work on together and I thought it would be nice to watch the film as we did the puzzle. It was definitely a bad idea. The scene where Dumbo’s mother is locked up and he goes to see her breaks me every damn time. Where she rocks him and baby mine plays. The gif I have attached above is the bit where I break, because I know what’s coming. Just the fact he’s so happy to see her, but then immediately sad is really heartbreaking to watch. I don’t care if this is a cartoon, we’ve all been there where we have seen someone but know it won’t last forever, or need to say goodbye to someone after a short time. This is the film where if I need a good cry, this is on straight away!
3. Precious
Like A Little Princess, Precious contains various scenes that really pull on my heart strings for so many reasons. For a start the acting in incredible and so passionate and that passion alone makes me cry.
SPOILER ALERT – This film is set in the 80’s and as many of us know, HIV was a big thing and it wasn’t quietening down as the years went on. Precious discovers her father has died due to the aids virus and goes for a checkup to make sure she doesn’t have it… Sadly she does and she sits in class, pencil to paper and writes, “Why me?” Ms Rain notices this and asks Precious to go for a talk. This is where Precious tells the whole class she’s HIV positive. Ms Rain tries to encourage Precious but it doesn’t work and results in Precious breaking down about her life, including things she’s never had/done and even about the abuse she’s endured. “Love beat me. Raped me. Called me an animal. Made me feel worthless. Make me sick.” With Ms Rain replying, “Your baby loves you. I love you.”
I get shudders at this scene and of course I cry. Ms Rain cries and walks away from the class due to how emotional she is at the point. We begin to realise that Precious hasn’t felt or shown love throughout the whole film and it’s at this point, she is finally told she is loved. Not just by her baby but by Ms Rain, who has helped her more than anyone. It’s such a strong and powerful scene and one that was needed in the film. Precious deserves to be loved after the shit she has been put through.
POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT – This is the second scene that makes me cry and I just knew I had to add it above, because although it is incredibly sad and powerful I just love it so much. It’s the last scene of the film where Precious’ mother comes in to talk about what happened with Precious and the abuse she endured at the hands of her father. It comes about what happened whilst Precious was a baby, but most of all we FINALLY see some emotion from Precious’ mother and due to that it’s just sad. It’s sad most of all to hear how she felt… Even though she does creep back in with her bitter, angry, bitch self. She treats Precious like shit and she explains why. You do feel sorry for the woman. Her partner wanted and DID have sex with their daughter, so much so that he impregnated her not once, but twice. “My man who was supposed to be loving me, who was supposed to be making love to me, was fucking my baby.” Even though she continues and reverts back to her usual self, this is heartbreaking. No one EVER wants this to happen, so the fact it does and she explains this in such a poetic way is sad to watch and hear. Mo’nique played the part so fucking well and I adore her for that alone.
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4. Forrest Gump
If you don’t cry at this movie, you’re just an animal and need to think over your life for a while. 😛 AND if you haven’t watched this movie, then what are you doing with your life? Stop reading this and go and bloody watch!
This film makes me cry at various moments throughout. Forrest has my heart in bits, even at happier moments. I’m not even going to put spoiler announcements on, because I know for a fact you will have seen this film.
Quite near the start Forrest makes me cry, when he’s telling the story of him trying to get a seat on the school bus, with everyone denying him. Then, Jenny offers him a seat. I sob at this because I feel so sorry for the little boy, his first day of school and because he has braces on his legs is singled out. It’s nice that someone is nice to him and for that, I cry.
When Forrest is desperately searching for his friends during the war scene, it’s such a powerful scene, but when he finds Bubba and Bubba says, “I wanna go home.” I cry. It’s so heartbreaking, but when Forrest says, “Bubba was gonna be a shrimpin’ boat captain, but instead he died right there by that river in Vietnam.” I fucking bawl! It’s more so the way that Tom Hanks says the line. Forrest isn’t upset, but you can hear from the way he words it that he’s upset. Sometimes the way someone says something can be more upsetting, than what the emotion behind it.
I could go on forever about scenes from this film and how much they make me cry, so I’ll leave you with the worst one for me. Everything about the scene where Forrest is stood at Jenny’s graveside is sad and heartbreaking to me. From the music in the background, to what Forrest is saying. Most of all we finally see Forrest break down and cry and show some emotion. Of course we see this when meets his son, but I find that this is different. This is Jenny, the woman he has always loved and fought for throughout the film and now she’s gone after he finally “gets the girl”. We never see this emotion, even when his mother and Bubba die. We gradually hear him break throughout the scene, espeically at the point where he is talking about their song and how product of him he is. I can only imagine this is due to how proud he is, but also I suppose is because it’s the one thing left that reminds him of Jenny. He breaks even more so when he says, “I miss you, Jenny. If there’s anything you need, I won’t be far away.” Which in itself again, is heartbreaking because although she is no longer there, he will ALWAYS be there for her, like he was when she was alive.
Then we have the scene as he walks away and all the birds leave the tree above her grave. Now think back to when both Jenny and Forrest were younger and she prays to God to become a bird and fly far, far away? There you go.
Fuck Forrest Gump is just so sad. I know if I need a good cry, this is it!
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5. The Green Mile
I didn’t want to mention this film in my list… Not because it’s bad or anything but because EVERYONE cries at the film, or at least generates some emotion at the last scene where John Coffey is executed. It’s a sad scene. We find out that John is actually innocent of his crime and was actually trying to revive the two little girls who were murdered. Paul is the one to give the green light on John being executed, but at first isn’t able to bring himself to do so. With some encouragement from his colleague and even from Jogn himself, Paul can finally give the order and says, “Roll on two” and the execution begins. Paul has tears in his eyes, as the camera pans to the other wardens, some clearly upset and crying, whilst others composed. It’s after this scene where you can hear the chair doing its job and the music playing that I cry. Then the lights in the execution room post and spray light behind Paul, this is to show that John is in pain. I don’t want to see John killed, he’s a miracle from God and never did anything wrong. It’s a very powerful and moving scene and quite honestly it’s one I couldn’t not mention in this post. The whole film makes me cry, just like Forrest Gump and A Little Princess, but I wanted to mention the main one for me and the one that stands out the most.
So those are 5 films that spring to mind where I sob my eyes out throughout! A lot of films didn’t make the list including these 5 below:
Avengers: Endgame
The Fault in Our Stars
Nil by Mouth
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A Silent Voice
I do apologise for this post being semi rambly, it was kind of meant to be that way! When I’m crying and sobbing at this films, this is exactly how I will talk. Dumbo recently when me and Dane watched it together was hilarious for me rambling about why I was crying and how sad it was making me, in a hilarious manner!
I hope you actually laughed at this post, instead of crying!
What films make you sob your eyes out? I’d love to hear! I love a good cry at films, especially now I can. I never used to cry much at films. 😛
Make sure to leave me all your comments below!
Until next time all, take care and I hope you’ve had a lovely weekend so far.
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