I Cry During Sad Movies
Something snapped after I became a father because I seem to have a lot of outlet for emotion while watching movies. One of the movies that really, really hit me hard before becoming a father was Big Fish because it reminded me so well of my own relationship with my father. The ending of that movie still hits me so hard and I end up being a mess for quite a while afterward.
Now, though, I find myself getting misty eyed or even letting some tears flow watching Disney movies. I cried a bit during Finding Dory last weekend, mostly at the beginning with baby Dory learning from her parents how to interact socially. I've cried at Up for obvious reasons (I had no idea how hard that movie would hit me the first time I saw it, but when Carl looks through the photo album sitting in the house he and Ellie bought together after it lands in South America finally... that moment I lost it and became a bubbering idiot). Toy Story 2 and 3 get to me to the point where I don't try to watch them much because it's too emotional for me. Mulan even gets me, always has, in the moment when she's training and figures out how to climb the pole to reach the arrow at the top, then later with her father when she returns home. Even Beauty and the Beast has some of those moments for me. And don't get me started on hearing Ariel sing Part of Your World.
But even without truly sad movies, there's still these moments in movies where it just hits me the right way and then I get misty eyed. E.T. has moments like that for me now that I'm older. But even watching Star Wars The Force Awakens hit me hard when I watched it with my daughter. The moment Rey gets the lightsaber and has to fight Kylo Ren really hit me on a new level when seeing it through my daughter's 3 year old eyes. The ending of Spider-Man 2 even hits me when Mary Jane says to Peter "don't you need someone to save you."
Now, though, I find myself getting misty eyed or even letting some tears flow watching Disney movies. I cried a bit during Finding Dory last weekend, mostly at the beginning with baby Dory learning from her parents how to interact socially. I've cried at Up for obvious reasons (I had no idea how hard that movie would hit me the first time I saw it, but when Carl looks through the photo album sitting in the house he and Ellie bought together after it lands in South America finally... that moment I lost it and became a bubbering idiot). Toy Story 2 and 3 get to me to the point where I don't try to watch them much because it's too emotional for me. Mulan even gets me, always has, in the moment when she's training and figures out how to climb the pole to reach the arrow at the top, then later with her father when she returns home. Even Beauty and the Beast has some of those moments for me. And don't get me started on hearing Ariel sing Part of Your World.
But even without truly sad movies, there's still these moments in movies where it just hits me the right way and then I get misty eyed. E.T. has moments like that for me now that I'm older. But even watching Star Wars The Force Awakens hit me hard when I watched it with my daughter. The moment Rey gets the lightsaber and has to fight Kylo Ren really hit me on a new level when seeing it through my daughter's 3 year old eyes. The ending of Spider-Man 2 even hits me when Mary Jane says to Peter "don't you need someone to save you."
