When DeNiro dances with the girl and then watches her through the fenced window as she leaves to get on her bus....this scene makes me cry and cry again--it is so well done. It happens while everyone quietly watches and then they all look away when he leaves the window and makes his way back out of the room....POWERFUL scene....wow.
shareOh my god...YES...I had seen this film in 90, and I watched it the other day on Encore...that part had be boo hooing, too.
I actually cried through most of the last 30 minutes....such a great, underrated film.
No, no..."cruelty." I always think that has a nobler ring to it.
yes yes yes...
i have already watched the film.
i'm in pieces...
crying...
Agreed. This scene made me drop the first tears of this movie, but not the last. From there on just about every scene is heartbreaking. Seeing him struggle against his own body and mind so much, trying to cross a room, talk, comb his hair etc, or when you see again the first footage of Leonard after he was just awakened saying "i'm back" or when Sayer makes his speech about friendship or when we see that every patient is back to his original catatonic state. Just wow, so sad.
This has undoubtedly become my favorite De Niro performance ever. Beautiful movie.
10/10.
People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefsī²
i liked the scene when he realized that the medicin actually didn't work after all.
sharethis was the movie that touched me the most;
listening to end music alone makes me cry LOL
wonderful wonderful sad movie!
Life's a movie with a bad screenplay.
I actually felt most emotional at the bit when Leonard has just awoken, and he sees his mother for the first time. What a moment!
sharei was comming to this board to post the verry same thing the OP just said.
The two most emotional moments have already been mentioned.
The first is when Leonard is told he has a visitor (his Mum) and as they see each other Leonard holds out his arms. His Mum walks towards him, calling his name and they embrace.
But, for me, the most heart-rending is near the end when Leonard is suffering the relapse and is talking to Paula and says that he can't see her again because his illness is returning. He shakes her hand and tries to leave but she holds on to him and she stands up, takes him in her arms and they dance. That whole scene and what follows as he watches her leave the hospital, is one of the most emotional scenes I have seen in any film.
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When Leonards Illness is returning and he begins to rebel against the doctors in his defense to be able to leave the institution to go for a walk.After his attack on Dr Sayer.The Dr returns to the ward to see him sitting alone in a corner.The next morning after helping him return.as Leonard is standing by the window,he quietly pleads with Dr Sayer "Dont give up on me".
But, for me, the most heart-rending is near the end when Leonard is suffering the relapse and is talking to Paula and says that he can't see her again because his illness is returning. He shakes her hand and tries to leave but she holds on to him and she stands up, takes him in her arms and they dance. That whole scene and what follows as he watches her leave the hospital, is one of the most emotional scenes I have seen in any film.
The most interesting thing of this scene is: Leonard is shaking, and when Paula holds him in her arms, he begans progresly to minimize his movements!
Amazing, astoneshing scene!
But, for me, the most heart-rending is near the end when Leonard is suffering the relapse and is talking to Paula and says that he can't see her again because his illness is returning. He shakes her hand and tries to leave but she holds on to him and she stands up, takes him in her arms and they dance. That whole scene and what follows as he watches her leave the hospital, is one of the most emotional scenes I have seen in any film.
But, for me, the most heart-rending is near the end when Leonard is suffering the relapse and is talking to Paula and says that he can't see her again because his illness is returning. He shakes her hand and tries to leave but she holds on to him and she stands up, takes him in her arms and they dance. That whole scene and what follows as he watches her leave the hospital, is one of the most emotional scenes I have seen in any film.
I agree. The dancing-scene is so powerful and emotional.
i did never cry on movies i will never cry on movies but the scene when he welcomes his mother got me soooooo close. awesome movie.
sharei did never cry on movies i will never cry on movies but the scene when he welcomes his mother got me soooooo close. awesome movie.
shareWhen Leonard first "wakes up" and he says "I'm not asleep" God... tears were streaming down my face.
And, of course when he dances with the girl. This is such an underrated movie.
It has to be (for me) at the very end, where Robin Williams and Julie Kavner are watching the film of Leonard......dialogue (Williams first)
"You told him I was a kind man; how kind is it to give life, only to take it away again"?
"It's given, and taken away, from all of us"
"Why doesn't that comfort me"?
"Because you are a kind man; he was your friend".
That exchange just breaks me up every time I see it, and Randy Newman's music piles on the emotion for me - why, I can not explain.
For me, it was the earlier scene, where Dr. Sayer is talking to the Doctor that first worked with the encephalitus <sp> patients. (Max Von Sydow). Who says that the patients don't know what has happened to themselves. (paraphrased).
Sayer asks:
"How do you know that?"
Von Sydow replies:
"Because the alternative is unthinkable."
I can't watch THAT scene without crying.
Mine is the part near the end, when Lenard is relapsing, where he says to Dr. Sayer "Learn from me"! As if he knows the game is lost for him but maybe not for others after him.
share Maegnas, yes, that one got to me more than anything too. There's this intense urgency, pleading and begging that's just pulled off so brilliantly.
If an event like that really did happen to Doctor in real life, I can't imagine how he must have felt, being asked to keep filming during the relapse..
I always sob so hard during that scene. Dr. Sayer looks so lost, and when he watches a smiling Leonard who he thought he basically *cured*...
I'm almost crying just writing it!
"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."
omg i cried too!!!!!!! that is the most powerful scene in the whole movie...i totally agree!
shareThe dance and the look through the window.
I teared a bit.
Not to mention, Penelope Ann Miller is beautiful.
Not to mention, Penelope Ann Miller is beautiful.
Basically broke down watching the last scene, really puts things into perspective, we moan all the time when life aint going well, then you see this and you think how there is always someone worse off than you. How cruel it must be to be given back a life you once had, only to lose it again!!!
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