To ask you for the scenes in films that always make you blub?

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I've just been reduced to a puddle by the bit in Hunger Games where Katniss volunteers for Prim - you can feel both their panic for each other and it just gets me! gulp Reminds me of the bit in Empire of the Sun when Jamie is separated from his parents in the mob 😭 I feel like this sort of scene hits me harder since having my kids.

Call me bonkers but i love a good film cry, I find it really cathartic. So hit me! Any scene from any film that makes you ugly cry :)

The part in Dr Zhivago near the end where he gets off the bus and can't quite catch Lara up. Also when their daughter shouts , "She let go of my hand!"

And all of Lion.

Oh I'd forgotten Coco and now I'm having to take deep breaths on the bus.

When a heartbroken C.S.Lewis comforts his stepson who's waiting for his dead mum to come back through the wardrobe (in Shadowlands). He says something like 'the love we had and the grief we have now are all parts of the same thing'.
I was sobbing!

Yes, with the Joni Mitchell soundtrack too it is a tear jerker.

Paddington 2 - when Aunt Lucy appears at the end. Gets me every time!

Big - at the end, when he turns back into a boy, and the clothes he's wearing are massive.
Ghost - when Demi Moore sees Patrick Swayze as a ghost

Oh and when Rocky wins for the first time

The last scenes with the Dad in About Time.

What is it about being made to feel so sad that you cry that you want to seek out?

It's not actually crying we're seeking - it's the feeling of such strong emotion.

When you've watched a film you connected with - whether that's laughing, or crying or that massive exhale of breath when a film ends and you realise you've basically been holding it in for an hour and a half - it's a special feeling.

If a film is incredibly good you can suspend your disbelief, get sucked in and forget everything around you.

When Forest Gump tells Jenny he's not a smart man but he knows what love is. Also when he asks if his son is like him or smart. In fact all of Forest Gump, its a blub fest!

Midnight cowboy at the end when Jon Voight puts his arm around Dustin Hoffman on the bus to Florida and a new life. He's just realised he'd died. And the music, gets me every time.

The final scene in Paddington 2 when Aunt Lucy comes to London. Every. Single. Time.

Paddington 2 does have a great ending , but also sad as well.
Dr Zivargo is incredibly sad , when she doesn't turn around at the end :(
Your just willing her to see him one last time

@ClumpingBambooIsALie interesting question. I'm not actually seeking them out or want to particularly feel sad.

Both of the examples I gave caught me off guard the first time I watched the films with DS. Wasn't expecting such a strong response to a kids film.

Obviously being a child he would watch them over again several times, so I would know it's coming but something still affected me - I guess it was tied to things that had happened in my own life and reminded me of my own feelings of loss and grief.

Sometimes I think it's permission to have a carthatic sob when the rest of the time we have to be Super Woman and get on with a million things in our lives.

Interstellar when he's watching back the messages from his family who have all grown up as he was away for 30 years or something in their time.

Boy in stripped pajamas- proper tears

I was exactly the same with The passion of the Christ and I'm not religious either. I cried every time I thought about it for weeks after 🥺

I'm not a big crying person at all, but the bit in Dumbo where they lock Dumbo's mum up and she tries to comfort him through the bars of her cage with her trunk absolutely destroys me every time. Partly because it's JUST SO SAD and partly because I first saw the film with my dad when I was about seven and he also cried and now that makes me cry when I think of it because my dad is such a lovely dad.

The Bridges of Madison County - forgotten what a wonderful film that is!
brassed off when pete postlethwaite dies

Room makes me sob, when Jack manages to communicate to the police where Ma is and then she runs out and they're reunited. And then again at the end when it all ends relatively happily.

Another vote for Bridge to Terabithia, I haven't watched it for years but as a teen sometimes I'd switch it off when Leslie waves goodbye to Jess for the last time and just pretend it ended happily.

The Snowman - I have to watch it alone every Christmas because it makes me ugly cry. It used to only be when he discovers the melted Snowman but now I also have a little cry when they start crying. Even just hearing the music from the film can bring a tear to my eye.

Not a film but the first episode of The Simpsons - watched it last Christmas because it's a Christmas episode and it's not even funny, it's just sad! When Homer's stood between his poorly decorated house and Flanders' beautifully decorated house and just hangs his head. Then when he's at the store and can only afford one gift for each family member and they're not amazing gifts and he bumps into the Flanders' with all their gifts for each other and he sheds a tear. I was sobbing, I'd put it on as something light-hearted to wrap presents too!

Flanders was a right smug tear though wasn’t he. He used to relish in always been better than Homer

So, like a safe way to feel strong emotions? Like the way the fear of being in a fast chaotic vehicle and being flipped upside down is a pleasurable thrill rather than a trauma to be avoided, when it's on a safe rollercoaster?

Oh god me too!!

So, like a safe way to feel strong emotions? Like the way the fear of being in a fast chaotic vehicle and being flipped upside down is a pleasurable thrill rather than a trauma to be avoided, when it's on a safe rollercoaster?

Yeah that's a really good way of putting it!

Thanks!

I guess a kind of proxy catharsis makes sense, though it wouldn't work for me personally I don't think; I've always been a little baffled at the idea of having a "good cry" about something and feeling better afterwards — I tend to feel the same, but tired and with a sore head and face 😂 But I accept that others find something helpful in it.