I've been feeling emotionally numb lately so I've decided to buy a couple of tearjerkers at HMV just to get some water up my tear ducts and some emotion around my heart area. Two movies automatically came to mind, and thankfully, they were available on DVD.
Film number 1 is "A Walk to Remember." I've seen this movie around 5 times, and i'm just amazed how i cry each time at the same scenes. Although this film was SO critically panned, I still loved the honesty and simplicity of the entire story. Mandy Moore and Shane West gave pretty decent performances here, and it helped that they were virtual unknowns in the acting arena.
Favorite weepy scene: When Landon goes to his father's house to thank him for saving Jamie's life. His tears and embrace felt so real, I couldn't help but weep with him.
Film number 2 is "Love Actually." This is such an "ideal" film because everybody's happy by the end of the film, and everything is resolved (more or less), and there's an emotional high with all that hugging and kissing and loving. But the stories about love: true love, accidental love, unrequited love, and unconditional love, does tug a lot of heart strings and makes your tear fall uncontrollably at times.
I was particularly heart wrenched at the stories of Emma Thompson (a wife who's husband is on the verge of cheating her), Laura Linney (a sister who is "trapped" taking care of her retarded brother) and Andrew Lincoln (as Mark, who's in love with his best friend's wife, played by the splendidly beautiful Keira Knightley.)
Favorite weepy scene: Emma Thompson rushes to open the Christmas gift her husband gave her, because she thinks it's a gold necklace. Then when she opens it, it's a Joni Mitchell CD. She tries to put up a brave front and acts as if she loved the present. She excuses herself, goes to her room and weeps silently.
Thank goodness tomorrow's a Sunday. I'll probably stay at home most of the day since my eyes will probably be puffy because of all the crying today.
Film number 1 is "A Walk to Remember." I've seen this movie around 5 times, and i'm just amazed how i cry each time at the same scenes. Although this film was SO critically panned, I still loved the honesty and simplicity of the entire story. Mandy Moore and Shane West gave pretty decent performances here, and it helped that they were virtual unknowns in the acting arena.
Favorite weepy scene: When Landon goes to his father's house to thank him for saving Jamie's life. His tears and embrace felt so real, I couldn't help but weep with him.
Film number 2 is "Love Actually." This is such an "ideal" film because everybody's happy by the end of the film, and everything is resolved (more or less), and there's an emotional high with all that hugging and kissing and loving. But the stories about love: true love, accidental love, unrequited love, and unconditional love, does tug a lot of heart strings and makes your tear fall uncontrollably at times.
I was particularly heart wrenched at the stories of Emma Thompson (a wife who's husband is on the verge of cheating her), Laura Linney (a sister who is "trapped" taking care of her retarded brother) and Andrew Lincoln (as Mark, who's in love with his best friend's wife, played by the splendidly beautiful Keira Knightley.)
Favorite weepy scene: Emma Thompson rushes to open the Christmas gift her husband gave her, because she thinks it's a gold necklace. Then when she opens it, it's a Joni Mitchell CD. She tries to put up a brave front and acts as if she loved the present. She excuses herself, goes to her room and weeps silently.
Thank goodness tomorrow's a Sunday. I'll probably stay at home most of the day since my eyes will probably be puffy because of all the crying today.
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