The deep emotional impact of Forest Gump

[allyndra]

 I don't cry much in real life. In fact, I'm fairly emotionally reserved (which makes for a nice gender-role switch, since my husband is Mr. Let's Share Our Feelings), but movies can make me cry at the drop of a hat. I'm sitting here working on one of the stories I owe for fire_fic, and Forest Gump is on in the background. I turned around and saw the scene where he finds out about his son for the first time, and I am bawling.  When he asks if little Forest is smart or if he's like his father ... *sniff* 

And now I feel like a big wimp.

Comments

[julii-wolfe.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel any better, I cried at Mulan. The whole "when will my reflection show who I am inside" bit, I felt so bad for her because she just wanted to make her parents proud.

And yet in real life, I don't cry so much. I think television and movies have just become an emotional trigger or something.

Besides, Forest Gump is really really sad. I'd think you were made out of stone if you didn't cry at the end.

[allyndra.livejournal.com]

It does make me feel better, actually. I don't know that I cried at Mulan (although I get where you're coming from. And the radio release of that song if my favorite thing Christina Aguilera has ever done), but I definitely cried in Finding Nemo. And I have this clear memory of sobbing uncontrollably through a biop of Nadia Comaneci and of my sister mocking me for it.

[julii-wolfe.livejournal.com]

Sisters can be so mean, sometimes you just take your emotional release when you can find it, even if it seems ridiculous to everyone else or even to you.

silly silly sister. blackmail her.

I came close to crying at Finding Nemo, and I was definitely feel very sympathetic in Lilo and Stitch; Disney really knows how to make their characters dysfunctional and miserable and then how to take the audience along for the ride.