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This movie made me cry

posted 17 years ago by Mr_McLaurel
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This is hard for me to admit, but it's the internet so what the hell. I'm a 19-year-old guy, and this is the only movie (out of a lot) to ever make me cry. Not just mist up a little, but huge *beep* sobs. If you're wondering what got to me, it was the scene where no one showed up to Amy's birthday party. For some reason even when it turned out they wanted to go but didn't because she didn't mail the invitations I still didn't feel any better. This might be the best movie about childhood ever made.

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[–] twin_ears 17 years ago

I didn't cry, but I do find it quite sad. Cat People was also quite sad because it is so tragic, especially when Alice and Oliver are inconsiderate to Irena at the museum. She pleads with them to not send her away, but they do anyway. Two outstanding movies.

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[–] teejay6682 17 years ago

it's very sad.

[–] Courtesy_Flush 17 years ago

Twin_ears,

That scene in the first movie was indeed tragic. It seemed Irena was treated like a child by Oliver and Alice. Also, the audience is made aware of Oliver and Irena's platonic, almost father-daughter relationship. He doesn't trust her, as well, parallelling his unfortunate relationship with Amy later. Amy and Irena's "ghost" were kindred spirits, so to speak.

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[–] mercutio-8 17 years ago

***SPOILERS****

Yes, much of the movie was sad, but by the end, very uplifting...
The reason for this is that while the audience is made to think that the ghost of Irena may be there to seek revenge on Oliver and Alice by haunting their daugher Amy, she actually turns out to be something of a guardian angel to her. This occurs when she "possesses" the woman who looks to strangle Amy, but who then stops.

My only complaint with this film is casting the SAME woman who played the Cat Woman in "Cat People" as the daughter of the old lady who befriends Amy. My first thought was that it was the same character.

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[–] mcornett 17 years ago

I was an imaginative child as well, and I knew what it was like to be lonely and mocked by my peers, so watching this movie is a wistful experience for me. I only wish I'd had my own guardian spirit. This movie really captures that inner world that imaginative children have, both the good and the bad.

I think this is just as good as the original CAT PEOPLE, but in a very different way. CP is eerie psychological horror, equally about monsters as it is about the fear of one's own sexuality; CCP is a wistful fantasy about the pitfalls of childhood.

And I agree with that other thread about the father's lousy parenting; he deserves to be kicked, and hard.

[–] melsen 17 years ago

But he's great, Kent Smith, always perfect in these naive Mr. Nice Guy type roles.

[–] creek_girl 15 years ago

I was saddened by that aspect of the film, too. I was an extremely imaginative child, which my parents had difficulty understanding. With my own children, I let them be as imaginative as the wanted. They seem to be okay (both are honor students and have tons of friends), but I was often criticized by my family for letting them play out their imaginations. Why do some people fear that character trait?

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[–] Jason_Radley 12 years ago

That scene was too early in the film (at first I even mistakenly thought that Amy had deliberately failed to post the invitations) to have established such an empathy. It was the ending where she walks into the woman's arms that brought a lump to the throat.

[–] scarlaohorror 12 years ago

I was like, "Keep it together...keep it together...nope, nope, you're not going to sob, don't do it...oh gawd Irena's telling a pleading Amy she's leaving, no, Irena, no!....c'mon...I can do it...ohhhh now Amy's hugging Barbara and her dad accepts her now and Irena's smiling at them and oohhhhhh WAAAAAAAAH!"

Well, I definitely choked up. Simone Simon and Ann Carter are now my two favorite people ever. So sweet. So cute. I mean, it would have been so easy to make Irena's ghost sinister and out to get Amy as revenge, but the fact that in death Irena's free of the curse and remains a total sweetie-pie and chooses to look after her lost love's kid just...it wrenches the heart in twain, it does.

(Also, I ain't gonna hear none of that, "It wasn't really Irena, Amy just imagined her after seeing her picture" jazz. No, cuz then how did Amy know that tune Irena always hummed, huh? Huh?? Yeah, take that.)

[–] dannysynth87 9 years ago

This is an old post, I know, but I feel compelled to add one point...

You see, when Irena sang that song to Amy to soothe her there is a cut. The parents are sitting around a table playing cards and the father seems to be absent minded. This made me think that he is also "haunted" by Irena but struggles to ignore it.

"I´m sorry, I was somewhere else" he said or something to that effect. I think he heard Irena singing.

[–] lm362 8 years ago

Amy may have heard the song from somewhere or found the record Irena had in her apartment and played it. In her mind, Irena sings it to her.

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[–] ElectricWarlock 11 years ago

When Amy hugged Barbara, it brought a tear to my eye as well. Both of them spent so much of their life feeling lonely and unwanted, and in the end they both finally found a friend in one another. It really was a touching, beautiful moment and I don't see how anyone couldn't be moved by that scene.

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