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How this movie moved me

posted 10 years ago by Thradar
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I remember seeing this in the theater back in the day. At the end my wife and I were sitting in the car talking and I started balling like a baby.

At the time I'd been estranged from my father for about 20 years. He left us when I was 10 years old. I've never forgiven him. And everything about this movie made me wish that was the relationship I would have had with my *beep* father. =(

Those who don't have some sort of emotional connection with this movie either don't have a great (or terrible) relationship with their fathers.

[–] The_Blu_Ray_Penguin 10 years ago

Quite true. Mine has always been so secretive and distant. Not the huggy type, the typical "alpha male" who by proxy alienated us from our extended family as he has never been close to his parents or siblings. I found myself quite envious of the son as I wished so many times I had a fun loving story telling father like his. It also made me sick that he took him for granted and could only find fault with him. I guess it is always harder to see what we have than what we might not have had. In the end we only get one set of parents, if were lucky. So we have to try to appreciate what we do have for parents and family.

[–] daughterofolaf 10 years ago

Well what's the status with you and your dad now? I have gone through horrible estrangement with my dad but after a few years we got past it and now things are good. Even though things are okay now I still get really hard hit with certain "dad" movies like The Royal Tenenbaums and The Wrestler and so on.

It wasn't me who was murdered, was it?