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Did you cry?

posted 19 years ago by Sefu
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I have to be honest...
I cried so much during this film it's not even funny, and it embarasses me that I did, i've never cried so much during a film in my entire life...

The thing is, I have a really good relationship with my grandmother, and I'm of the oriental background, and boy, in my seventeen years on this planet, this is the only film to have, not only, played with my heart strings, but ripped them out and fiddled with them..

I can't believe I cried that Much..

Just brilliant..Simply Marvelous..

[–] loccomotive2000 19 years ago

so did I...this film reminded me of my grampa,who passed away last year.I started sharing a room with my gramps when i was eight,and we got real close. like that brat,i was annoying and played tonnes of pranks on him.it hit me hard when he got a stroke three years back,and even harder when he died.i used to cry in my bed a lot,but ive learnt to move on...
I started cryin when the kid saw the money with the video game...gramps used to give me cash so i could buy batteries for my gameboy...and i cried like *beep*

I'm a lil embarassed already...arrgh,heck,im just gonna post this.

Peace.

[–] BeatusAngelus 19 years ago

My grandmother also died of a stroke. I was nine years old when she passed away. It has been 8 years since her death, but this movie made me cry. Especially when the grandmother asks the grandson to thread the needle. I was always asked to do that. This movie has characters that are very true to the korean culture. I really liked the scene with the grocery woman and the grandmother. The kid also reminds me so much of one of my cousins. Why the character was never spanked is unique to the grandmother's character. But yeah, this movie made me cry because it was too true.

[–] Jamester 19 years ago

I thought everybody cried??!! Oh my god -- I was all grown up and balling my eyes out by the time the movie ended. My grandmother passed away a few years ago, but I don't know if that had anything to do with it. But maybe it did. Some of it did seem quite 'real'. Perhaps that was what was so touching about this movie.

My friends at the end of the movie asked me if *I* was ok. The part that really got to me were with the postcards that he created for her. And as he waved goodbye and rubbed his chest in sign language to say that he was 'sorry'. All the moments when grandma previously rubbed her chest in a circular motion that up until then I hadn't understood suddenly flashed in my mind. How selfless was this woman??! I was flabbergasted in sympathy, sadness, and it just seemed so moving, I couldn't stop crying. Great movie, though.

[–] percy-enriquez 19 years ago

Oh my!

I just saw it alone here at home and I couldn't believe how touched I was to cry and cry and cry...

I think I just wanted to share that.

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[–] MovieSleuth 19 years ago

yes

[–] valleester 18 years ago

Bawled like a new born baby. When I was around four, my Mom realized that she and my Dad could no longer provide for my brother and I on a single income. My Mom had to work. So, she sent for my Grandma so that I could be cared for by her, since I was a pretty insecure kid and didn't take well to a daycare environment. My Grandma dropped everything. She left her friends, her brothers and her sisters, and moved two states away from the area she'd always known just to care of my brother and I. Grammy performed a lot of self-less acts for my brother and I. While Grammy and I had a really good relationship when I was younger, as I aged, I became less mindful of her feelings. I was more hurtful than anything else.

As I watched the movie, I really began to hate Sang-Woo. Then I realized that it was myself that I hated. Now that Grammy is dying, I feel hurt as I think about all that time I wasted being angry at Grandma.

I loved this movie. I really loved this movie.

[–] PiranianRose 18 years ago

I wanted to let it all out, but the contrived, flat, Hollywood-wannabe music ruined it. So, I ended up not crying.

[–] jamiemp3 18 years ago

I bought the movie few months back and I cried while watching it. It is by far one of the most touching movie ever. It reminded me so much of my grandma who passed away 3 years ago and everything in the movie was what my grandma would have done if we were in such a situation.

The most touching scene where I really bawled my eyes out sobbing like a kid was when the grandma didn't return for a few days (i think) and when she did, she was all tired and carrying the big basket behind her back after trying to sell her stuff at the market to raise money to buy batteries. That really moved me and I cried my heart out then!

I would recommend this movie to everyone! And yes, the kid was bloody annoying and I would have smacked him into oblivion if he was my kid ;P However, I would put the blame on the kid's mom who, in times of need, just dumps the kid with the grandma without really extending any help. This somehow reflects how our society treats our elderly, something which happens here in my own country (malaysia) very often.

[–] ninetyone 18 years ago

i cried so much as well. i had watched it with my mom and my grandmother had just died 2 years ago. it made me think of her so much and how i never really spent alot of time with her. i think this movie is so wonderful. and i know i can't speak it but i understand korean and it is the just the most beautiful film.

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[–] n_x 18 years ago

OMG did anyone NOT cry??? it's impossible to not cry at least once in this beautiful heartfelt film, during the last, like 25 minutes, i cried like 4 or 5 times---not fun. by the end of the movie my eyes were swollen and red and my mom saw me and was like: "sweetie what happened?"

[–] kookla12 18 years ago

Thinking about it now makes me cry and I saw it almost 3 years ago!

[–] iwishiknew 18 years ago

The question is "How many 'men' cried!?"

And the answer is yes...
I am 43, male and a reasonably average Aussie Guy, yet in the private confines of my lounge room watching the DVD, I was able to release a lot of emotion (cry). It's a really beautiful film. I'd love to see anything that the grandmother (Eul-boon Kim) does in the future. I hope that there are many more years left for this delightful, and heart warming lady and that we can be enthralled by her presence on the screen yet again.

[–] PornIsOfTheDevil 18 years ago

I didn't cry, but I was deeply moved. This is a great movie.

[–] PontoSam 17 years ago

I watched this movie by accident a couple of nights ago. I was doing the night shift and I was on my own in the office. I was flicking through the channels and the only promising movie/program on TV was this movie. Man, how glad was I...A simple, beatiful, sometimes funny but most of all a touching film.
Even though I tried hard not to cry (and succeeded) when the boy finds money for batteries for his gameboy and when he tries to teach the grandmother to write, I just couldn't hold it anymore when the boy runs at the back of the bus to say good bye.
Now, if only my boss knew what I'm doing when I'm on the night shift...:)

[–] jacowium 12 years ago

Male or female, if you're human at all, you will cry, or at the very least, want to cry...

I am 44 today, male, a reasonably average South African guy, and like you watched it in the confines of my lounge room - and certainly didn't hold back when the waterworks started! I share all your sentiments.

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