I have literally been in tears the entire movie. It's a fantastic movie, but I don't think I'll ever watch it again, it's too much. What do you guys think?
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I had to watch this in high school and it was a pretty tough movie to sit through. As far as movies go the one thing I can't really stomach is little kids in pain.
sharewell it was exausting in the middle, but the very end is powerful, and it definitely made you feel good.
but the very end is powerful, and it definitely made you feel good.
I was lifted so high by this important story. Lorenzo and his parents have changed my life.
shareThe saddest, but also the most hopeful movie (and true life story) ever made.
shareI watched it once, when it first came out. I shouldn't have. I haven't been able to watch it again. My daughter was 2 at the time that the daughter came out, and was recently discovered to be suffering from a de-myelinating disease. It's too close to my own story to bear to watch again.
shareI didnt think it was that sad.. sorta melodramatic... not very well done... Painful to watch not at all sad ust painfully bad. infact i sorta chuckled when he was freaking out. Sorta humerous... other peoples suffering.
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I've always thought this was the saddest movie ever---- I feel bad, but I had to shut it off-- I had just given birth to my second boy, and I was up late at night--- I cried so hard I probably made it 2/3rds of the way through, then had to shut it off. I did google the disease and Lorenzo the next morning because I needed to know what happened to him, I just couldn't sit through it anymore (not a bad movie at all--- just too sad). I never wanted to see it-- because I knew it was going to be too depressing, and then I woke up on the couch late one night as it was coming on HBO, and jsut kept watching then wished I hadn't--- I couldn't sleep all night.
shareWith all do respect, I would like to see you laugh as your own child is suffering. Then I would know if you are as heartless as you appear in this post.
share"I was lifted so high by this important story. Lorenzo and his parents have changed my life."
You do now know that Lorenzo died at age 30 and it is now believed that Lorenzo's Oil has nothing but a placebo effect on ALD(please don't mention the 2005 study that supposedly proved Lorenzo's Oil's efficacy in preventing the onset of symptoms for a majority of boys with ALD. That study has been disproved). Like "Zodiac," this is the worst kind of docudrama -- one that superimposes falsehoods on the screen at the end of the movie to deceive the viewer.
i really didn't think it was that sad. i had to watch it in science class last week, and was expecting most of the class to be in tears during it....but nobody cried. there were a couple parts i thought i would cry in, but not really.
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I also find this an extremely depressing movie and it kind of ruin my mood that night and the tormented look on the boy's face makes me sad everytime I think about it and the way he sometimes moan often drive me to tears - he must be in such great pain and sadness yet unable to express it, it saddens me even deeper when I later learn that it is actually a true story..the ending drive me to tears immediately though some say it is supposed to be 'happy'..
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Well, I just watch Elephant Man recently, and I have to tell you it hurts so deep just to look at the protagonist. I feel like The Elephant Man is sadder than Lorenzo's Oil.
shareI haven't seen "Lorenzo's Oil" yet, but I'd say "The Elephant Man" is probably the saddest film I've ever seen.
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No, Brian's Song is at the top of my list, but, Lorenzo's Oil was a bit depressing in spots, in my mind, more to due with the somber music, than anything else. And, that's not to confuse the somber music with the choir heard from time to time - the choir seemed to fit well, but, the somber music did fit well only once or twice...
However, not to be confused with depressing, the movie was very intense at times, especially when Lorenzo was suffering from the effects of ongoing spasms - definitely not the typical "Let's make pop corn!" type of movie...
Still, the movie does "appeal" to me, in a sense, since I was volunteering at a children's hospital when at least one of our ALD patients received the oil in the late 1980's (perhaps a patient chosen by Dr. Rizzo for the 1989 real-life trial mentioned in the movie, when Mr. Odone was heard to say "Rizzo is considering a trial")...
Truly, the teen I was familar with suffered the full effects of this disease, but, whenever I'd walk into his room, I always found his Mother with him - her dedication was always an inspiration when it come's to a Mother's love...
All of that, and, - Nick Nolte's accent was almost identical to the Director of our Pulmonology Department, who ironically helps to treat (suction) the ALD patients, similar to Lorenzo...
It's a small world...
i can remember this when it first came out on tv, and i was pretty young. i don't really remeber things from those days but i remember this movie, it has to be one of the saddest movies ever. you can't but feel his parents pain.
shareGotta be one of them. I saw this in school...I was shocked at how sad it was. :*(
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