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OK, Jun Yi is going to make the biggest confession now, he cried, recently, a lot, in fact, from watching a selection of movies. See elaboration below.
Jun Yi wept through the last few moments of Schindler’s List, though this is his 2nd time watching. A transcript from the movie shown here, but you won’t cry from reading them, just go buy the movie (with RM6 or so) and watch it. Btw, it’s a true story.
Oskar Schindler:
I could have got more out. I could have got more. I don’t know. If I’d just… I could have got more.

Itzhak Stern:
Oskar, there are eleven hundred people who are alive because of you. Look at them.

Oskar Schindler:
If I’d made more money… I threw away so much money. You have no idea. If I’d just…

Itzhak Stern:
There will be generations because of what you did.

Oskar Schindler:
I didn’t do enough!

Itzhak Stern:
You did so much.

[Schindler looks at his car]

Oskar Schindler:
This car. Goeth would have bought this car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people right there. Ten people. Ten more people.

[removing Nazi pin from lapel]

Oskar Schindler:
This pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have
given me two for it, at least one. One more person. A person, Stern.
For this.
[sobbing]

Oskar Schindler:
I could have gotten one more person… and I didn’t! And I… I didn’t!

[last title card]

Title card:
There are fewer than 4000 Jews left alive in Poland today. There are more than 6000 descendants of the Schindler Jews.

In short, the music did a good job brewing tears.

For Brokeback Mountain, the tears don’t come from dialogue scripts but body languages of the actors (sadly, actresses play little part in this movie). However, (as i’ve mentioned to a lot of people), Brokeback Mountain will be boring when you first watch it, but it leaves an impact on audiences who pay attention to every scene and development of the story. Brokeback don’t possess a very strong plot or storyline (which made it boring), but the overall theme is absolutely tremendous and remarkable (favourite words from Oscar winners). Quoting Ang Lee ‘ Jack and Ennis made us believe that love may come from everybody towards anybody…’ (ok, that wasn’t exactly how he said it, but the point is there, i think). Towards the end you’ll be swearing God, why can’t they be together? Why? Why it have to end this way! God damn it! No, that can’t be the end credits! NOT YET!

Evita is based on the true story of Argentina’s first lady Eva Peron. Again, the tears are much due to the effect of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s touching music and Madonna’s voice. Stupefying scenes like when Evita was delivering her final speech to the Argentinians (she was down with cancer, and that’s when the very famous ‘don’t cry for me argentina’ came about) and Che trying to kiss Evita’s dead body through her coffin was groundbreaking. Stupendous performances by Antonio Banderas and Madonna.

Last but not least, Moulin Rouge! While Jun Yi can’t help laughing for the cleverness of Craig Armstrong, but Ewan McGregor’s sobs and moans when Nicole Kidman (as Satine) died after her play ‘Spectacular Spectacular’ was spectacular indeed. McGregor surely knows how to manipulate voices to create sound effects as if he’s being (censored) (ok, that’s fanatic). Anyway, the sobs don’t come suddenly but in a rolling effect, and that’s the super part of it. Jun Yi watched it 3 times, and cried twice (the first time I was in my host family’s house, so I dare not cry).

Personally Jun Yi was glad cos movies can still make him cry. People are so convinced to be serious and ‘man’-looking nowadays that they don’t allow themselves to cry. Sue me for being bias and misleading the community, but this is hardcore truth!

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