Shed tears at several moments, but the really soul-wrenching one was when they put that beautiful young guy into a...trash bag. Did anybody NOT cry when watching that? OMG that was sad.
At least there will be plenty implied.
lol, how do I pick? I'm still a mess! I will say that I don't think I cried during the trash bag stuff, though I can hardly remember as I think there were few moments I wasn't crying, because it so enraged and sickened me. I think it just stunned the tears away. It was truly monstrous. I will say the wedding had me bawling. The love story just ripped my heart out and stomped on it. It was both beautiful and heart-wrenching.
shareSo many heartbreaking scenes. But apart from the hearkbreakingly well acted, hospital wedding scene the one that totally broke me was Felix and Ned's brother talk.
shareJim Parson as Tommy at the Funeral. That line...is exactly how many gay men felt as this was taking their friends, family, lovers over. Nobody cared.
The guy put into a trash bag just drove that home for me...
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Felix and Ned's big fight where Felix had accepted the inevitable and Ned threw food at him before accepting the inevitable himself...
That scene didn't make me cry the hardest but I think it was the most powerful.
The scene that made me cry the most was Felix and Ned getting married right as Felix was going to die.
I started crying when Craig couldn't blow out his birthday candles without help. Knowing what was coming for everyone without them knowing was hard to watch.
I pretty much cried the whole way through but "My Albert" was a stab to the heart and the man yelling for his dog. And Ned watching all the students dance without Felix like they had planned. I started ugly sobbing when they showed Ned's wedding ring.
And the roladex cards. Especially when Tommy broke down after pulling Felix's.
Everything about this movie will stick with me forever. I'm beyond heartbroken.
I cried several times throughout the movie; so much of it was absolutely heartbreaking, especially Jim Parsons' performance and all the moments between Ned and Felix. Especially the last one...
But two moments are really staying with me as personally devastating. The first was the man asking for his dog with first worry and then desperation as the camera showed the grim little hospital room he was dying in.
The second was that woman Estelle coming to Tommy and telling him about her friend Harvey. That really got me going. That hit hard.
Agreed. The scene with Estelle crying for her best friend made me cry the most along with Felix and neds brother talking. Also when Albert died and his poor mom and Bruce had to carry his body while she's sobbing :(
shareI agree about Estelle talking to Harvey. It was just so well-acted. Beautifully done little scene.
sharethe hospital scene in Arizona, was so freaking painful to watch. I cried HARD.
shareI started tearing up at the first funeral at the beach where Bruce wore his military outfit and walked into the sea with the first victim's ashes.
Then it just kept coming: the eulogy, the body in the trash bag, Ned and Felix crying in the shower, Mickey's Breakdown, Emma's breakdown, Ned and Felix fighting, and finally Felix falling on the sidewalk near a pile of garbage bags, symbolizing the inhuman way society treated these beautiful, brilliant men. I'm tearing up even remembering it. The second hour of this movie was so hard to watch.
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To learn how to ruin a perfectly fine, popular TV show talk to Jeremy Carver or Russel T Davis.
Yes to everything that everyone has said. I would also like to add the image of the young couple in the hospital room holding hands. Just heartbreaking to say the least.
I would like to add something that will probably make you tear up more at the hospital wedding scene; just last year Larry Kramer legally married his partner in the hospital as he was recovering from surgery. Sometimes life really does imitate art.
I would like to add something that will probably make you tear up more at the hospital wedding scene; just last year Larry Kramer legally married his partner in the hospital as he was recovering from surgery. Sometimes life really does imitate art.
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^^^I agree completely lambiepie. When I made the connection my tears were from nothing but joy. Having been born in 1987, I missed the most frightening times of the AIDS crisis. I am a vocal advocate for marriage equality though, having worked on the campaign to legalize it in Minnesota. My supervisor reminded me a lot of Larry Kramer (he was in New York during the events of this movie and lost a lover to the disease), and he has also since married his partner. We've come a long way indeed, and I can't think of anyone more deserving to partake in the fruits of our labor then Larry.
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