Movies that are going to make you cry
Not sad for the sake of sad. Films that earn the feeling and leave you sitting with it after the credits.
The good ones do not push. They give a character enough room that you stop watching and start caring, and by the time it hurts you had already agreed to it.
Lights Down calls this The Empath
You watch with your guard down.
That costs you something, and you pay it gladly. A hard scene needs a minute of quiet before you can talk again, and you'd rather have the minute than skip the scene. You pick by how a film is going to land on you, not by what it's about. The ones that got to you are the ones you go back to.
Films that sit at the center of it
- Marriage Story
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- The Pursuit of Happyness
- Up
- Past Lives
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