What made me cry and is making me cry right now as I watch Lorenzo's Oil is when the father is looking over the medical texts reading about what was going to happen to his son. Blindness, Deafness, Dementia, seizure, and paralysis, and then seeing him crying on the stairs. . . I could see and feel his pain and it was so full of despair. . . it was very hard to watch.
shareAnother scene is making me cry is during the rolling credits when all the boys say they've been taking Lorenzo's Oil and they are all able to function normally. They are able to swim, play with dogs, rides horses, play baseball, skateboard, run around and play and just be children because of two parents who wouldn't quit asking questions.
sharei was lk AWWWWW! when they were in the livng room or something, then they heard lorenzo and they rushed to him and he was screaming because he was having a seizure. we saw it in RAP CLass((lk a home room type of calss at school))
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That scene just grief strikened me, I almost felt like I could feel his pain and the sound of him screaming sounded like he was begging for death to take him. I just wanted to turn off the TV but I couldn't.
shareThe father's initial research is where I lost it too. Nolte was absoutely magnificent. Would someone please tell me why he wasn't even nominated?
shareMost of the scenes with Michaela crying made me cry. But the scenes of Augusto did not make me cry, rather I felt such pride in him being such a parent.
But, the scene of the little boy sitting in the car waiting for his mother made me feel so sad and I cried.
He didn't want to talk to Michaela and kept looking down.
His mother said "He knows what is in store for him because of Jaybird."
--- no child should have to anticipate such a horrible outcome. by that time in the movie, Lorenzo was already in bad shape.
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The scene that made me cry was when the little one was having a really bad seizure and his mom said, "If it's too much, if the pain is too much, run to Jesus, Baby, just run to Jesus!" That scene really broke me down because she was losing her son and I could feel her pain...
shareI saw it in school in my Health Careers class, and the entire class broke down when the African man started singing to him. And then when my teacher told us that his mother had passed away from cancer, the entire class erupted in "NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! She managed to save her son, why couldn't she be saved!!!!!!"
"Why you call the police, did the retard escape?"
Though I didn't cry, that scene right there gave me goosebumps. Seeing Augusto crying in anguish...wow. It WAS hard to watch.
Another scene was when Lorenzo's disease was slowly progressing and his parents took him to...Boston?...and he was in front of all these people. He was losing most of his hair and the doctor was talking to him and Lorenzo was trying to speak yet they had a hard time understanding him, then he replied, "Why are you talking like that?" or something of that effect. Just seeing the way the little boy's speech was deteriorating made me sad and the fact that they had to help him walk across the stage.
Sorry if this seems a little off. It's been a little over four years since I've seen the movie and I've only seen it all the way through just once.
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I've not seen the movie all the way through, but one scene that has stuck with me even til today is when they receive the first batch of the oil. They have no idea if it will work, how much is needed to be effective, if too much is a poison, if there will be side effects. And so rather than experiment on Lorenzo, his mother tried the oil first (as a salad dressing, IIRC). Think about it - this wasn't some controlled FDA-sponsored drug trial, it was a home experiment! With their child as the subject, and an unknown, never-before-tried-on-humans substance. And yet it could potentially relieve him of his suffering too. What a dilemma! And what love of the mother to be the first to test the oil!
It was not a big scene, but its power has stayed with me.
-- Paul
I think that in real life the sister tried it. If I remember correctly, she is a carrier with high levels of the fats in her, but had no symptoms. I think the reason she tried it was not just those facts, but that she had no children herself. Had she been adversely affected she would not leave children behind.
I always liked the way a scraped knee looks on a girl. - Mrs. Harker
i also cried at the part where the father is crying on the stairs. we watched this in class the week after our AP Biology exam, and i couldnt help my eyes from watering and my throat from burning.
shareThe last scene, the collage showing all the kids who could live a "normal" life, thanx to "Lorenzo's Oil", really moved me.
I loved this movie. The story is beautiful and humane, the acting by Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte was flawless. OK, "nearly flawless". Nolte's phony italian accent was kinda distracting. I concede that. Finally Dr. George Miller direction couldn't be any better. I couldn't believe this is the same man who directed Mad Max.
It was so refreshing to watch a powerful and substantial drama instead of those 'cool' but shallow films directed by Tarantino and his peeps, or even worse: exercises on sheer mental onanism such as the flicks directed by David Lynch.
Great movie 9/10
1. I cried when Michaela (Susan Sarandan) is telling Lorenzo that if the pain is too much he can fly to Baby Jesus and not to worry about his parents, that they'd be OK. And the director zooms in on Lorenzo's face while he's siezing and he's in so much pain and you have to wonder whether he's wishing for death or whether he's horrified that she's telling him he can give up. And you just know that it's tearing her apart and the father is watching secretly in the hallway and you can just FEEL the pain they're all in.
2. I cried when Omouri turns up from Africa and he's not prepared for how sick Lorenzo is. He looks at Lorenzo and there's so much sadness and compassion, and then he kneals, holds Lorenzo's hand and starts singing the lullaby. It's particularly poignant considering the previous nurses ended up treating Lorenzo like a vegetable (which is awful, but kind of understandable I guess) and FINALLY there's Omouri and he understands EXACTLY what Lorenzo needs without even a word. So humane, so compassionate. I admit, I totally lost it during this scene.