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Lilya 4-Ever-A Russian film that deals with child abandonment, child prostitution, poverty, suicide, and the sexual slave trade. Brutal and heartbreaking and overwhelmingly sad. This is ONLY film that has made me cry. I still cry just thinking about it. It should be required viewing because people (especially us in America who are privileged to have agencies like Social Services and Welfare) need to see how others have to live and what they need to do to survive in the world, and that the Slave Trade is very real today.
I try and avoid movies that have a reputation of being "tearjerkers". If there's a sad part or two then fine. If the whole movie is a bawl fest, forget it. I really don't watch movies to be drug down into a deep depression! I can understand when it is for the purpose of bringing to light and important issue or educating viewers about the way things WERE and the cold hard truths.....so I forgive it when it's based on a true story or event. But sometimes it's just a matter of a movie that seems to be made only to say "oh, look how life sucks" or "look, tragedy, heartbreak, despair abounds and life is SO UNFAIR!!" (Steel Magnolias comes to mind as well as "Pay it Forward") and thanks but I KNOW life sucks. Don't need to be reminded in my "entertainment". I know the whole tragedy genre has its fans... but I'm not really one of them!
I also don't like to cry because it messes up my sinuses for hours! LOL! I'm not kidding!
First movie that made me cry - An Affair to Remember - the one with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr.
Since then - oh so many!
The Deer Hunter
Brokeback Mountain
ET
Steel Magnolias
Last Tango in Paris
Brian's Song (TV Movie)
Out of Africa
Philadelphia (with Tom Hanks - especially the opera scene. That about killed me.)
Ordinary People
Gallipoli
Terms of Endearment
The Killing Fields
Ghost
Ponette
Lilya 4-Ever-A Russian film that deals with child abandonment, child prostitution, poverty, suicide, and the sexual slave trade. Brutal and heartbreaking and overwhelmingly sad. This is ONLY film that has made me cry. I still cry just thinking about it. It should be required viewing because people (especially us in America who are privileged to have agencies like Social Services and Welfare) need to see how others have to live and what they need to do to survive in the world, and that the Slave Trade is very real today.
I am not familar with it; sounds heartwrenching.
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I know the whole tragedy genre has its fans... but I'm not really one of them!
