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How many cried at the ending?

posted 14 years ago by brtd
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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."'

[–] sekatinayf 7 years ago

i am a crier, i'll admit. but when milk was shot and i didn't cry, i surprised myself and thought, wow, will this be the first time i do not cry at the movie ending, especially with the topic as important as this one.
and then the scene with candles came on and i was sobbing like a little kid. and for 10 minutes after the movie.

[–] jstang411 7 years ago

Least for me -- the candle seen was the one that got me too. Maybe with all the shootings and deaths in movies, maybe what gets is is what would not be most likely too in real life.

[–] mururoa 7 years ago

I didn't, but I found the way Milk uttered "No!" as he was getting shot at horrifying and haunting. The way Penn acted it it really seemed like a) it came totally out of the blue and b) he really didn't want to die.

It was probably the most emotionally daunting thing I've seen in movies for a while. :(

[–] slimone (7996) 4 years ago

It was sad that Milk was killed, but I'm glad that Dan White committed suicide instead of being tried for murder. He was a coward.