Is there a scene from a movie, or a song, or a piece of art that unexpectedly moves you?
Maybe something subtle, or that most people would not pay so much attention to?
Do you know why you have that reaction?
I ask because this clip always makes my heart swell. My family is Ukrainian and very traditional in keeping the use of the language and culture active, so things that remind me of Ukraine make me think of my family. Plus this really is beautiful. I highly doubt most people would feel an emotional response, though.
So what is that odd snippet of something that you find beautiful, but feel may be overlooked by others?
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Yeah I do now that you mention it. Let’s hope you’ve seen the movie. In the second Mummy movie, near the end. Imohtep is betrayed by what’s her face…...Anacksumanun, whatever. Yeah he calls for her help & is ignored. Awww his poor ickle face. Totally dejected, genuinely feel for the guy. He ends up flinging himself into hell. Please say you know what I’m talking about…...anybody :¬)
I like the movie Contact where she is visiting the other planet and her father answers some questions. I think those answers are very profound.
It is the scene in Hope Floats when the father is driving away and the daughter chases his car down the street crying and begging him to come back.
I have never seen ANY of these movies. I feel so deprived of greatness, suddenly.
@TheOnlyNeffie Shame, it’s a real lip trembler, out of left field though. I mean he’s a monster but with feelings….kind of :¬)
A scene from my favorite movie, Requiem for a Dream, where at the end, two old ladies sit on a bus bench and hold each other and cry. They’re crying for a friend and it was a necessary moment of catharsis for both of them and it’s emotional and sad yet magnificent and moving.
@ucme; I actually say “aww” and feel bad when I see that scene…
@Vunessuh that’s a good one, I agree. The whole movie is sort of dark and ugly, but that scene is really pure.
@JilltheTooth Gets me right there…..touches chest with clenched fist XD
In almost the next to the last scene in Sense and Sensibility, Emma Thompson sees Hugh Grant, and he gives her some valuable information (which I won’t spoil because you MUST see this wonderful movie) and she reacts in a very uncharacteristic manner. It’s one of the best scenes I’ve ever seen in any movie.
I also love the scene in The Sound of Music where Georg Van Trapp (Christopher Plummer) goes out into the garden to find Maria (Julie Andrews). This scene has stuck with me ever since I first saw the movie when it came out in the 60’s!
Then there’s 2 unforgettable scenes in Lost in Translation. The first one is where Bill Murray and Scarlett Johanssen are in a nightclub with some friends and the song “More Than This” by Roxy Music comes on and he is just looking at her. The other moment from this movie is when, at the very end, he runs up to her and whispers something in her ear and it’s left up for us to decide what he said to her.
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This song does it for me and I know exactly why ;)
As for art,there are alot of pieces that move me.The one that comes to mind is a piece I own by a friend who recently died.It is beautiful :)
I have seen some of Lucille’s art. Absolutely beautiful.
The lines in Paul Simon’s song “Graceland”:
“As if I didn’t know her,
As if I didn’t know my only child,
As if I didn’t know the way she brushes her hair off her forehead.”
Always makes me think of my oldest son and the way he sucks his cheeks when nervous. Alwasy makes me tear up when I hear it.
The last scene in Field of Dreams always gets me.
Also, even though I’m atheist I tend to get something in my eye whenever I listen to Handel’s Hallelujah and For Unto Us a Child is Born.
I forgot to mention any musical examples. There’s a song I found called The Memory of Trees by the Taliesen Orchestra that just floors me every time I here it. You can listen to it here
And Going Home by Libera (a British boys choir). You can listen to it here
And East of Eden by Lee Holdridge (with Michelle Kwan skating to it) here
And Yo Yo Ma playing Mark O’Connor’s Appalachian Waltz (with a dancer) here
The second movement of Beethoven’s fifth piano concerto had a surprising effect on me.
In the book “The Book Thief”, at the end when (SPOILER)
everyone dies. One of the few times I’ve cried tears over a book . . .
I am also a sucker for musicals – pick a song, any song from “Cabaret” or “Moulin Rouge!” or “Chicago”. Or “Singin’ in the Rain”.
Song- Il Mio Miracolo by Vittorio Grigolo
Art-Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh
Movie-The scene in Saving Private Ryan where the captain, after losing a man in a firefight, wanders off by himself and weeps, looking over his shoulder to make sure the men do not see it. I sort of indentify with that.
I have a drawing on my office wall that was done especially for me and I get to look at it all day 5 days a week….very soothing for me and much needed at my work! ;)
So, so many… including the one you mentioned, Neffie.
Not long ago, I watched Babe again. The scene where Farmer Hogget sings “If I Had Words” to Babe always makes me cry. There’s something incredibly beautiful and moving about this soft-spoken man of few words suddenly singing and dancing.
And I must avoid mentioning spoilers, but the ending of Mary and Max (from the “Que Sera Sera” scene rendered me an absolute mess of emotions. I was not expecting that from the film.
@WillWorkForChocolate I’m partial to your 2nd video, also, but again I’m biased.
@muppetish I haven’t seen Babe in ages, but you’ve made me want to watch it again. In fact, I want to go back and watch a lot of the movies mentioned here, and see a few that I have missed.
From the Movie Philadelphia. I cried at the scene where Tom Hanks who is gay is listening to Opera and explaining it to Denzel Washington. Wow what a tear jerker.
-The Opening Theme from Les Miserables
-When Ricky is shot down in Boyz In The Hood
-When Wes dies in Angel
-When Omar is shot down in The Wire
-The entirety of The Pogues “Body of an American”
Yes. One day, a friend said that he’d like to take me somewhere. He drove us out to Hain’s Point in Washington DC. At the far end of this island was a statue called The Awakening. Not only was it incredible work of art, there was a class of blind students exploring it. We just sat close by and took in their experience which had to be so different than our own.
I’ve seen great works of art since then, but nothing has been as moving as that.
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