sympathy and empathy


What are some examples of sympathy and empathy in the movie The Doctor?

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I don't think there are many which show sympathy but plenty of empathy. For example when the Doctor finally is able to empathise with his patient and also with June. The whole film is about empathy and how one's experience allows one to identify with others. Would you say that June sympathises or empathises with him?

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I believe a good show of sympathy would be the way (after June "opened his eyes") he made his wife yell at him; that he finally understand how he treated her, and he fully felt how lonely, and mad, and afraid she felt and he asked to start over....luckally for him..she forgave.
She (the wife) has a bit of sympathy, no longer tinged with envy and jealously, when Jack tells her that June has passed away.

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Re-watching the movie and I believe it was more than her forgiveness. Forgiveness doesn't mean staying, in my opinion. It does stop the pain. I think she stilled loved him.
Sometimes we are over-powered by the people we love. But we give them that power out of fear, loathing, love, probably even hate. Her part in this is she stop, for him. So maybe that realization, he acceptance in the relationship allowed her to forgive herself. With all that baggage gone, they could get to know each other, possibly for the first time.

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