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How many cried at the ending?


It seems everyone does. I've seen it many times and I still do. I watched this with my mom last night and she was sobbing hugely. Just the sight of all those people and Harvey's words, so powerful:

'"I ask this... If there should be an assassination, I would hope that five, ten, one hundred, a thousand would rise. I would like to see every gay lawyer, every gay architect come out - - If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door... And that's all. I ask for the movement to continue. Because it's not about personal gain, not about ego, not about power... it's about the "us's" out there. Not only gays, but the Blacks, the Asians, the disabled, the seniors, the us's. Without hope, the us's give up - I know you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. So you, and you, and you... You gotta give em' hope... you gotta give em' hope."'

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I was crying well past the ending. Had me deep in thought well afterwards for a day or so.

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I did. The sight of all those candles stretching for miles along the road just made me sob.

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It gets even more powerful with the actual archival footage and you realize just how many people actually did show up.

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Guilty.

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I did, I hate Dan White.

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I admit I cried but then I am an easy crier lol I cry watching commercials.

Angela

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I did. This movie was one of the only movies I've ever watched to make me cry.

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At the risk of my otherwise purposefully cultivated macho image....yep, I did.

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