What’s the last movie that made you cry?
I think the answer to this question might be better answered with another question:
What movie has NOT made me cry?
Let’s face facts. Kiki is a sap.
I’m an empath. Sure, I am strong like bull, but I am also chock-full of emotions. Filled right to the brim, actually, like an emotional piñata just waiting for someone to give me one good whack.
A well-written movie can move me to tears—the happy AND the sad kind. And please. It doesn’t even have to be a movie.
I am a marketing executive’s dream.
Give me a well-written commercial with a returning soldier, an elderly couple, a lost dog or a kid surprising his mother and I am DONE. There was an old Folgers commercial where the son comes home from the Marines on Christmas morning. “The best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup.”
Dear God.
I’ll never recover.
I don’t even drink Folgers, but apparently I’m emotionally invested in their entire family.
Sometimes these Daily Prompts show up at eerily precise moments. I’ll see something, hear something or experience something and then—BAM—WordPress comes knocking with a prompt that fits perfectly.
Such was the case this morning.
I had finished my shower, my daily meditation/inspiration track and was sipping my coffee while taking a quick stroll through Instagram. Guilty pleasure. No apologies.
An old cinema account I follow popped onto my screen.
And there it was.
The scene.
Robert Redford.
Barbra Streisand.
Hubbell and Katie.
The final scene of The Way We Were.
Their love story was never meant to be. Honestly, those two were doomed from the beginning. But still, after everything, when Katie reaches up and brushes Hubbell’s hair across his forehead in that final scene?
Holy Mother of God.
I lose it.
And I don’t just cry. Oh no. Amateur hour.
I recite the lines.
With inflection.
I am IN the scene. I may as well be sitting in a director’s chair just off camera wearing a headset and yelling instructions through a megaphone.
“Okay, Barbra…reach for the hair…beautiful…Robert, give me wistful…WISTFUL! Annnnd…CUE THE TEARS!”
The dialogue ends.
Cue Babs singing The Way We Were.
And Kiki is officially goo.
A big puddle of emotional goo sitting there with her morning coffee, sobbing over two fictional people whose relationship ended more than 50 years ago.
Such was the case this morning. As I tried to sop up the puddles forming under my eyes, I opened Jetpack/WordPress and Daily Prompt 2859 sprang to life:
What is the last movie that made you cry?
How apropos.
There have certainly been plenty of movies that have touched my soul over the years, but The Way We Were was one of the first—besides Old Yeller, which frankly should have come with a childhood trauma warning—that taught me just how deeply a movie could reach inside you.
So, what was the last movie that made me cry?
Apparently one I’ve already cried over about 847 times. Pass the Kleenex.
“Your girl is lovely Hubbell”
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