uncontrollable sobbing

I couldn't agree more.
Yesterday I was bored so a went to a movie store close to school. Just to see if there was an interresting movie. Thought of Ying xiong, cause its one of my favourite movies. But I didn't find it. Instead I saw this one, Wo de fu qin mu qin, and I noticed that it was by the same director as Ying xiong's- Zhang Yimou. Also noticed that it had won a price at the Berlin film festival. And, in addition to all this, my favourite actress Ziyi Zhang. Wow!, I thought, and rented it immediately.

And now I've seen it. I have never ever cried because of a movie, but with this one I cried and sobbed at least 10 times. I have NEVER EVER seen a more beautiful movie. Never. It touches my heart and I hope it'll stay there forever. Så beautiful, so sad, so..... Winderful!

You really should see it. Still got tears in my eyes, and the movie ended 20 minutes ago!

See it, and don't hold your tears in! Let yourself we swept away by the beauty of this masterpiece!


EDIT: Argh! Sorry, its a little bit confusing when english isn't your primary language...

People if you liked this movie, please see My Mother the Mermaid.
You will feel a lot of sentiments, perhaps more then with this one.
Both movies are beautiful, but I think My Mother the Mermaid it's better, not BETTER, but better..
You have to see to believe me..



There is a thin line between Love and Hate.

Ai wa kanari itai.

Gee, just thinking about the movie, which I saw yesterday, makes tears come to my eyes.

Broke down completely during the funeral procession, especially when many of the old pupils had joined and people run towards the coffin to get their chance to carry it

And how very poignant, "I'll never see him again", was

And the determined girl waiting/risking her life in the snow landscape.

And breaking the bowl and breaking down after running cross-country after the cart with the teacher in it.

And coming full circle with the son teaching for a day and his mother going to join others outside the school as she/they did for the first time all those years ago.

More tears (of joy) on other occasions, for instance when the two young lovers actually meet for the first time, after the girl had zig-zagged through the country side to, by chance, come across the teacher. That scene - amazingly cut BTW, and ending with the girl "shuffling" off, of course forgetting her basket - made me shout out aloud.

There were many moving moments. The significance of the red coat comes to mind and seeing the young girl weaving after we had seen the widow "go to work" on the loom < sigh >

What a wonderful, powerful movie that makes one reflect so much.

P.S. Interesting to see how many people in the reviews here confess to blubbing

Never in my life has a movie hit me so emotionally. I was sobbing like a baby the whole time... it's incredible. Nothing has ever done that to me before.

I cry during other movies, of course, if someone dies or whatever... but never with the emotion experienced here.

Frankly, until I seen The Road home I didn't think it was even possible to acheive that level of emotion in a film... it's mind boggling.

beni a&#287;latmay&#305; ba&#351;aran nadir filmlerden birisi. filmdeki ortam , görüntüler muhte&#351;em, sadelik çok ho&#351;. h&#305;çk&#305;ra h&#305;çk&#305;ra a&#287;lad&#305;m. kesinlikle izleyin ve izlemeyenlere izletin. (bu arada ya&#351;amlar&#305; bizim köylerimizdekine benziyor,ne de olsa bizde orta asyal&#305;y&#305;z)

Not: beni a&#287;latabilen di&#287;er baz&#305; filmler
-bu film (the road home)
-Jane Eyre (1996)
-the house of the spirits

Yes it's a beautiful movie. One of the few that made me cry from beginning to end. The story is so simple and sweet.

I cried, than cried some more, than got hungry and ate some potato chips, than I cried again.

Another gem from Yimou. I loved how he used the children's voices to recall memories!

[deleted]