Boys, I’d like to talk to you about a very difficult and embarrassing subject. You know what it’s like: Your mother or partner is getting ready to go out and you have a couple of hours to yourself. They take ages to get ready and you’re beginning to think they’ll never go. You pace around the house, trying to look calm and purposeful but inside you’re screaming: “just put anything on and go!”
Finally, after the keys and mobile have been found and you’ve been told what needs doing, you’re alone. Still, better to check. You sneak a look out the window and wait until they disappear around the corner. You begin to relax. A final look out of the window then lower the blind. Pour yourself a drink, put the Kleenex nearby and you’re ready.
Let’s start with this one. It doesn’t really do it for me: too clichéd and Hollywood, I suppose. Still…
Well, now that you know what this about, did it work for you? If not, what does? I know that sometimes even the most manipulative US TV film can catch me unawares, but which scenes or films always guarantee you a good sob? Add your clips and maybe we’ll vote for the top 10 heartbreakers…. Here are my three in reverse order:
3. I’m not sure what it is about this scene. I’ve always found the music stirring, but the song on its own does not have quite the same effect. Maybe it’s because I can feel the emotion of the participants as it spreads around the room, expressing their courage and their hopes.
2. This one is cheating a little. I’ve only seen it once, but it represents a first for me: it hit me in the cinema and didn’t leave me alone until I got home. In a way it’s a natural: ‘ordinary’ people; dysfunctional families; an impossible situation. Then there’s the writer and director giving perfect lines to an excellent cast and catching every nuance of expression as they deliver them. I doubt that even this short trailer will leave you unscathed. Those last lines…
3. I can hardly write about this one. Sometimes, even seeing on the TV page that it’s on will set me off. Excuse me…
No, really, I’m OK now. I think the main reason this film has such a devastating effect on me every time is its innocence. ‘It could all be so simple, just leave it to ordinary people’ it seems to say. I don’t know; maybe you need to be English or an Eastender to feel it. Or British and of a certain age. Or maybe you just need to be me…
Anyway, I feel much better for that; hope you do too. And I’ve still some Kleenex for my next top 10…
Finally, after the keys and mobile have been found and you’ve been told what needs doing, you’re alone. Still, better to check. You sneak a look out the window and wait until they disappear around the corner. You begin to relax. A final look out of the window then lower the blind. Pour yourself a drink, put the Kleenex nearby and you’re ready.
Let’s start with this one. It doesn’t really do it for me: too clichéd and Hollywood, I suppose. Still…
Well, now that you know what this about, did it work for you? If not, what does? I know that sometimes even the most manipulative US TV film can catch me unawares, but which scenes or films always guarantee you a good sob? Add your clips and maybe we’ll vote for the top 10 heartbreakers…. Here are my three in reverse order:
3. I’m not sure what it is about this scene. I’ve always found the music stirring, but the song on its own does not have quite the same effect. Maybe it’s because I can feel the emotion of the participants as it spreads around the room, expressing their courage and their hopes.
2. This one is cheating a little. I’ve only seen it once, but it represents a first for me: it hit me in the cinema and didn’t leave me alone until I got home. In a way it’s a natural: ‘ordinary’ people; dysfunctional families; an impossible situation. Then there’s the writer and director giving perfect lines to an excellent cast and catching every nuance of expression as they deliver them. I doubt that even this short trailer will leave you unscathed. Those last lines…
3. I can hardly write about this one. Sometimes, even seeing on the TV page that it’s on will set me off. Excuse me…
No, really, I’m OK now. I think the main reason this film has such a devastating effect on me every time is its innocence. ‘It could all be so simple, just leave it to ordinary people’ it seems to say. I don’t know; maybe you need to be English or an Eastender to feel it. Or British and of a certain age. Or maybe you just need to be me…
Anyway, I feel much better for that; hope you do too. And I’ve still some Kleenex for my next top 10…
10 comments:
what are you doing to us Tony?
...sometimes the naffest things do it, send the fluttering electricity across our skin and down our spines, sometimes it's just a simple 'heart on sleeve' moment...
if you must know, this is one of those moments for me, sniff
Excuse me... I know this thread is just for you boys really... and I may have posted this before somewhere but this rainy ending to a great movie does it for me every time...
Oh Zeph, you swine! I have to go out soon and now I need to pull myself together first.
The title was a piece of psychology - the one sure way to lure women somewhere is to tell them they can't come in...
Sorry file, that's too Hollywood for me. Or maybe it's just that Robin Williams effect...
Tony: you draw us in with hints of salacious teenage activities, and give us desperate memories and yearnings of false promises.
So cruel, and yet so real.
At some point I'll trump you on clips!
and trawling and revisting, I misread your intro as Boycs not boys.
OOOH whole new meaning!
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