Vasquez on 16/5/2012 at 09:17
In real life it takes quite a lot to make me cry - not because I'm such a toughie (I'm not), simply because I'm more solution-oriented. Some people assume I'm not very emotional at all, but there are some small, silly things that will 100% guaranteed make me weep like a baby.
For example (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7GMbEBvcPQ) Finnair "baby reindeer" - tv commercial. And (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdsOAXJIy6s) this song (preferably by this very singer, Leif Wager), it's from an old Finnish movie which I dont think I've ever even seen, only bits here and there - and the song, of course.
(In fact those two are so bad I'm gonna have to fix my makeup after looking up the clips, I have a meeting later today...)
Also nature documentaries are risky, the happier the weepier. You know, tiger pup loses it's mom but is adopted by another tigress etc. I used to be totally ashamed of this and avoid watching those docs, but thankfully tears don't make Morbus panic, he just smiles and hands me a tissue :cheeky:
Want to share your weepy secrets? :)
scumble on 16/5/2012 at 09:29
The only thing that moves me in that direction tends to be music. Typically something involving a large orchestra playing a piece such as Mahler's 9th Symphony - the first and last movements at least. I have to be in a susceptible mood to get a strong emotional response though.
henke on 16/5/2012 at 11:38
Not very silly, but Johnny Cash's spoken word tracks usually give me at least a lump in my throat. Usually in particular moments in the story, like when he tells about giving his brother a whistle in (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjQ3WLR-TeE) Christmas As I Knew It.
Sg3 on 16/5/2012 at 14:07
Okay, I'll 'fess. Got a little watery while listening to "O Superman" a few minutes ago. Yeah, I only first heard it recently, and yeah, it was on one of those stupid commercials Youtube throws in front of your videos sometime. But, man, the song really got to me. Especially the three lines: "When love is gone / There's always justice / And when justice is gone, there's always force" Even if you don't really think about the unhappy truth of it, and what it means in the world & to the people in it, just the way she sang it sounded so sad. A calm sad, not a sobby sad ... almost a peaceful sad, if there could be such a thing. But, still, so sad.
Sombras on 16/5/2012 at 18:44
I'll admit that I get choked up when I watch videos of kids being reunited with a soldier-parent who has been stationed in a combat zone. As manipulative as they are sometimes, they still get me.
BrokenArts on 16/5/2012 at 19:57
Hell Toy Story 3 at the end chocked me up, god damn cartoon. Last time I got chocked up, last week. A picture of a baby, from brazil, couldn't see the face, it was turned on its side. The mother had induced labor, she didn't want it, and beat it to death. Tears filled my eyes, whether or not its true. That got me, and not in the warm fuzzy way. :( Sorry didn't mean to spittle all over this happy thread, being honest here.
scumble on 17/5/2012 at 07:14
That's harsh BA - that sort of thing hits you harder when you have your own children. Still, I wonder what sort of situation that woman was in to drive her to do that...
BrokenArts on 17/5/2012 at 13:07
Yeah, I know, god knows why she would kill her own baby. On the lighter side, I'm more of a sentimental cryer. Happy, cute things never make me cry.
nickie on 17/5/2012 at 14:45
I'll go with that. I got a bit tearful once watching Philadelphia but that was the aria. The only other time I saw something that made me cry was watching Sophie's Choice which I saw when my son and daughter were the same ages as the children in the film. Probably if I'd seen it some other time it wouldn't have affected me so much. I bawled my eyes out on and off for days.
I can't think of anything soppy or silly that made me cry. But music definitely makes me get a bit watery-eyed.
