I love movies. No, that is an understatement, movies MOVE me. Yes, I feel better when I read, but watching movies will always be on top of my “things I want to do today” list. They are and always will be my absolute favorite form of media. And yes, I am the biggest sucker for sappy movies that leave everyone in tears. If a film can mess with my emotional stability it will quickly become a favorite. I admit it! I’m an emotional movie junkie and I am proud!
The first film to ever ruin my heart for any and all things was Jim Carey’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I was still very young, only 12 when I sat down with my older sisters to watch the tear jerker, and even now thinking about it I get the same feeling of emptiness as I did when I had first saw my favorite actor crying on screen. To witness a relationship crumple and to see a display of crippling heartbreak moved something in me, and ultimately made me feel so wrong about how I viewed happiness. While the story didn’t have a very solid or joyful ending, it taught me that people aren’t permanent in our lives like we daydream they are. Alright, so it might have even made a little girl a pessimist and critic, but it had to happen sometime, right?
Holy cow, you were only 12 when you watched Eternal Sunshine?! I watched that as an ADULT and my worldview was upside down for days.
Hmm, the first movie to make me seriously just bawl and sit in my room for a week was Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father. It’s a documentary, so it’s all a true story, and literally the most heart wrenching thing I have ever watched. I don’t think I’ve ever cried for nearly every minute of a movie besides with this one. The ending gets sort of weird, but the documentary was made with a lot of anger, so I understand it.
I’m a total emotional movie junkie too. Sometimes it’s nice to cry about something that doesn’t really affect you, y’know? Crying because my boyfriend dumping me is totally different and much better feeling than when a father’s son dies in a movie.
When I was 12 I wanted to do everything my older and cooler sisters did. Haha. That movie just messes people up, and I love it! I haven’t seen Letter to a Son About His Father, but I’ll have to look that one up! Heartbreak feeds my soul.