What a suprise ending that had got me, it takes a lot for a big guy like me to cry , but the ending made me shed a tear.
If this was done as a feature film, terry giliam would defentley be the directer to helm this great film.
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I cried when i saw it aged 12 and i still cry when i watch it, even for such a low budget feature the soundtrack is well written, because whenever i hear the end theme i feel a lump in my throat, haha.
2 other TV related tear jerkers for me are :
- the film Leon (or The Professional i think its called in USA), the ending, when a young Natalie Portman takes Leon's potted plant to the garden of the orphanage and plants it in the soil...and the song that gradually comes to the surface in the background...by Sting, called "Shape of my Heart"...wow...
- an episode of Futurama called "Jurassic Bark", at the end, when we see the dog wait patiently outside the pizza place for a never-to-show Fry to turn up, as we see the days go by, the seasons go by, people stop to pet him now and then, and he never gives up, sits there all alone...waiting....and in that simple animated way they show him aging with time until he just cant keep his eyes open, slowly lies down on his chin, grows sleepy, his eyes droop, and finally close for the last time...
Some writers have an uncanny power to reduce us to tears, but i also suspect we need to have had some sort of painful experience, cause i tend to think back to sad moments in life when i watch sad films, rather than the film itself making me cry...does that make sense? :)
Haven't seen this film in a good 15/6 years but I still remember some parts really affected me. The boy being attacked, and when I found out the old man was the boy. I still think about it even though I haven't seen it in such a long time.
shareanybody knows, who made the ending score, and what is the name of the song ?
shareI haven't seen this since Christmas 1991, and have been trying to remember what it was ever since - today is a good day for me!
But yeah, the scene where the little boy sends his alien dog/horse thing into the cave had me in tearful hysterics when i first saw it (87), and still upsets me now. It's just that it is so resistent to going in there - it's easy to transfer it onto your own pets, especially as a child.
Yeah - 15 years later i'm welling up again. poor thing.
Made me well up too. It's some depressing stuff and while some people might've thought it was obvious I was postively shocked. I was devastated.
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