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Did anyone cry at the end?


Cuz I did...

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I did. And when I write a Vietnamese review for this movie, I want to cry too. Poor boys.

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I sobbed my eyes out.

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I watched it again, just now
And I still have tears in my eyes

I saw it a few years ago, and I don't remember the ending being so strong

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I was not at the point of crying, but I was definitely left thinking after this movie. I can't even recall how many times chills went down my spine. I did not know too much about the movie going in, but I am completely haunted by it now.

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You know what? I've came to this thread some years after I watched the film (on 2006), and that's the part that always stayed with me (Zeke asking Neil to touch him), for some reason I've forgot some other parts of the film, but this part have always been full of sentiment to me.

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I was almost about to stop watching the movie halfway through because it just seemed ludicrous to me, but I'm so glad I watched it until the end. I didn't cry, but I definitely teared up as soon as the carolers came to the door at the end.

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it's a sad movie .. it's *beep* up .. and yeah - as soon as the carolers started to sing it just broke me..

very powerful movie.

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I cried without even sobbing, it just kind of forced itself out of my eyes

see, my girlfriend was a victim of child rape (i know none of you know me so I feel safe saying this) and at the end I just kept thinking of her in the boys' position
and sitting on the couch, a visual metaphor for a small world where you could find solace with a world of black around it

so yeah, I cried, and what real man wouldn't?

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I not only cried at the end, I wept uncontrollably. As a victim of child abuse by the hand of my own father I knew it would be hard for me to watch. I did because I love JGL, somehow I find his acting mesmorizing. He always puts everything he has in every character he plays.

When I purchased the DVD on Amazon, they sent me 2 in error. I gave a copy to my 22 year old daughter and she found it to be super disturbing. She also chucked it up to 'my mom and her weird indie movies'. I also gave her a copy of Julien Donkey-Boy which she equates Mysterious Skin to. I really don't see the connection but she claims there is.

Anyways, I thought this movie was wonderfully thought provoking film and a must see.

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I did!

"No worries, no responsibilities, just living in the moment."-Jerry Conlaine (Without A Paddle)

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I didn't, I think I was just more in shock. I found my jaw dropping so many times throughout the film. I felt like I should have cried, but I was just amazed by it.

They're all dead. They just don't know it yet.

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ah, my reaction to Requiem for a Dream

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I cried so hard. It's the most intense reaction to a movie I've ever experienced.

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I remember the first time I watched it, I was just staring at the screen in some sort of depressed trance. It was stuck in my head. I turned on some television sitcom on and I couldn't even pay attention to it. I watched it with my mom and grandma a couple days later (I know, too soon, but they wanted to see it) and after they went to bed, very depressed, I felt like sobbing.


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