most emotionally devasting moment in film

[Dominic]

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For those who haven't seen it, the look on Chaplin's face at the end of City Lights when the formerly blind girl realizes her benefactor was The Tramp. The single most memorable shot in cinema, including everything.

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i'll have to agree with you on that.

[JuntMonkey]

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when jennifer connelly give the black guy a bj for crack in requiem for a dream was pretty brutal. he was like 'les let it breathe'. i almost collapsed.

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The whole ending sequence of Requiem is just outrageously manipulative and devastating. I don't mean it in a good way.

[SEABEAST]

jesus [censored] christ. how do you people manage to spoil season 4 wire moments in a "most emotionally devastating movie moment" thread? i have held off even reading forum threads and essays about the earlier seasons specifically to avoid this sort of thing, and you can't hold off even in a movie thread? unbelievable. and in this sort of thread which is very much a "skimread looking for names that might jolt a sentiment within you" typing SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!!! and then putting it just below the exclamation marks in plain text which through presentation stands out does not exactly help.

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[Michaelson]

Pretty much everything in this thread will be a spoiler, so it's probably best to name the movie first then discuss the scene. If I were in Seabeast's shoes I would be twice as pissed.

The Thin Red Line: there is a scene when one of the privates, who has been using the memories of his wife back home as motivation to get through his tour, receives a dear john letter... it sends a chill down my spine every time I see it, even though I expect it now. Absolutely gutting.

[JuntMonkey]

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jesus [censored] christ. how do you people manage to spoil season 4 wire moments in a "most emotionally devastating movie moment" thread? i have held off even reading forum threads and essays about the earlier seasons specifically to avoid this sort of thing, and you can't hold off even in a movie thread? unbelievable. and in this sort of thread which is very much a "skimread looking for names that might jolt a sentiment within you" typing SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!!! and then putting it just below the exclamation marks in plain text which through presentation stands out does not exactly help.

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Nice! I managed to miss it somehow!!!

[Stagger_Lee]

The final scene in Gallipoli

The final scene in Breaker Morant

[Dominic]

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The final scene in Gallipoli

The final scene in Breaker Morant

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okay, now i'm depressed after reading this thread...man, those two movies just have to make you shed a tear at the end.

[FlyWf]

The final scene in Grave of the Fireflies

The photo album montage in Oldboy. The rollercoaster of emotional responses during that scene is the reason that people watch movies.

[Valentyno]

The suicide scene, Swing Kids.

'nuff said.