..Why the hell didn't I cry!?!
I tear up watching a lot of movies and even though I found this so sad I didn't shed one tear!
Maybe it depends on the mood you're in! Anybody else not actually cry? I feel cold for not bawling!
I thought I told you,
this world is not for you..
I think for me it is the disbelief that this actually went on, I watched Schindlers List in june and that was very emotional to watch. My boyfriend and I went to Auschwitz and Birkenhau in June, we actually stood in one of the chambers where the mass murder happened it still seemed too shocking to be true!
shareI thought the same thing. It's such a sad story, yet I didn't cry. I think I was just in such shock with what was going on that I didn't cry but I was definitely shaking when it was finished.
liv2dance
I was just really shocked. The whole time, I thought that Smauel was going to crawl under the fence. As soon as it went the other way I was just frozen in shock.
shareMy wife and I have a 2 year old boy and one on the way, but neither of us cried, although I did hold him a little tighter at bed time. I think that because even though the ending was sad it was something you knew really happened from history and are over the initial shock as you knew what was going on, not to mention what happened to Bruno was justice in a very round about way even though he didn't deserve it, but which of the people in the chamber with him did?
shareI didn't feel bad for the parents... the Dad knew what he was in charge of. The wife tried to be in denial, but she knew. Bruno was a victim just as everyone in that chamber was. I think I was too shocked to cry.
shareThe mvoie wasn;t overly sentimentalized, so I think your reaction was normal. I didn't cry either, but I did cry out 'OH MY GOD' when thay all got gassed (I was watching it alone at home) and i did feel disturbed and quite sad afterwards.
Otterprods, to keep those aquatic Mustelidae in line.
i've just finished watching this, finally, and i have to say that i haven't shed a tear, so it must be to do with how it was made (music ect) but i agree that it was a deeply moving and quite shocking at the end.
shareEven though I did have some tears in my eyes, I didn't cry much. The reason being I felt more anger than sadness. That kind of injustice just touches the core of being human. And everything in you just wants to shout out in rage and despair I guess. But that kind of anger which doesn't lead to revenge but more like a call to live differently and help the ones that you can help.
There's still a lot of injustice around us and still we often make ourselves blind to it. We also just live our every day lives and carry on.
So I guess that anger can be good, if it leads you to move and perhaps change or help things that are in the present.
Just a thought.
Anger. That may be it also, although when I'm really angry and can't do anything to fix it, my body usually cries.
In a way, this movie had the same effect on me as a visit to the Holocaust Museum in DC. I get to the point where I can't see any more of it, and I don't necessarily cry, but I need to absorb the experience quietly. If I try to talk, I know I'll end up sobbing at the injustice and the senselessness and the loss.
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