The Killing Fields is a good one for genocide tears.
Movies That Made You Cry Page 10
As always what was a nice idea for a thread has turned into a pissing match. Life Is Beautiful is a movie that has been around for some time, a movie that touched me, about the sacrifice that a father would go through to shelter an innocent child from the atrocities of the Holocaust. THAT'S ALL! It has turned into a debate on the pros and cons of Holocaust movies. Way to go.
Here's another movie that brought me to tears, Revenge Of The Nerds, those poor geeks, being tormented by negative a-holes who have nothing better to do that blast those they don't understand. Got something to say about that?
Guys, c'mon, they're only Jews. Make believe ones at that. Let's move on. 
Quote: Aaron @ June 20 2009, 5:59 PM BSTGuys, c'mon, they're only Jews. Make believe ones at that. Let's move on.
Good idea.
Quote: sootyj @ June 20 2009, 12:32 AM BSTSome people seem to rate the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, but the book was so awful I didn't see it.
The book is wonderful, so much so I've never seen the film! It's so powerful because you know exactly what's going to happen, but wish so deeply it wouldn't. It may be technically inaccurate, as many critics have not resisted to point out, but as naive as this may seem, it somewhat doesn't matter. It contains such a turbulence of emotion as all the words Bruno can't say or understand just completely epitomise the total confusion and lack of grasp which is has about something which he should never have to understand or rationalise, because it's near impossible to. Sachsenhausen is no Auschwitz, I'm told and sure of, but the atrocities you feel within your soul, or on a less abstract level purely the fear you have, and the wish to salvage the humanity which could be shirked to commit such crimes, were all aspects prevalent in my mind when I read it. I could feel the cold I felt when I was there, and it brought me to tears to just think that these were people with families and homes and lives killing their fellow man. It's something you know, but literature like this speaks to me so much in its simplicity which opens up totally different dimensions and planes of thought, by acting not as a set of guidelines for opinion, but as a canvas for considering the context at large. It's the fact that the situation is so unimaginable which makes the book what it is. I don't feel it holds any misplaced facade or delusions that it's going to change things. Even the title just speaks for it, because it really is like a bed-time story which is haunting, and in so many ways never woken up from.
Sorry for the rant.
Quote: Aaron @ June 20 2009, 5:59 PM BSTGuys, c'mon, they're only Jews. Make believe ones at that. Let's move on.
And I missed that - so sorry there, too.
I like a Scat rant!
They don't happen enough.
If we can go very slightly off topic and are talking about books that make you cry and prisoner camps, I'd like to vote for The Railway Man.
It's the true story about a British prisoner of war working on the Burma railway and his subsequent journey to forgiveness.
Quote: zooo @ June 21 2009, 2:09 PM BSTI like a Scat rant!
They don't happen enough.
I rarely have a clue what I'm on about, and often even rant then, though!
I still only remember really crying at The Fox and the Hound, though I have recently been getting teary eyed over other things.
You don't do teary!
Quote: PhQnix @ June 21 2009, 2:17 PM BSTI still only remember really crying at The Fox and the Hound, though I have recently been getting teary eyed over other things.
Examples? Holyoaks? Grand Prix? The News at Ten?
Doctor Who! When K9 blows himself up to save the Doctor, even though I'd seen the episode twice before and knew they built another one.
Quote: PhQnix @ June 21 2009, 2:20 PM BSTDoctor Who! When K9 blows himself up to save the Doctor, even though I'd seen the episode twice before and knew they built another one.
Oh good god.
Aww! I don't really like K9 much, but I cry all the time at Doctor Who.
(I knew zooo would understand! 
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