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That moment is trumped, IMO, by Suge singing that gospel song from her gut, and then hugging her daddy at the church Pulpit. “See daddy? Sinners got soul too!”
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I totally agree. And I’ve often wondered if the soloist in the church was meant to be her daughter.
Sophie’s choice, when Sophie (Meryl Streep) has to choose between her children;
Debra Winger saying good-bye to her children in the hospital in Terms of Endearment;
The Elephant Man, having tea with Dr. Treves and his wife, and saying “my mother was so beautiful, I must have been such a disappointment to her, but I’ve tried so hard to be good”;
The little girl going to the orphanage at the end of “Les Jeux Interdits” ( French film set in World War II ), when she is vainly looking around to find the little boy who was her only friend, and then starts crying out for her mother.
This scene from The Five Heartbeats after Eddie King gets clean. There’s another scene right before this where J.T. and Donald “Duck” Matthews meet up after being estranged for some years, where we find that the nephew Duck has never met is named after him. Those two scenes will get the waterworks flowing.
Also, I dare the manliest man to watch the Joy Luck Club and not cry like a little bitch at the end: Our little sister…. I’m afraid I can’t find it with English subtitles, and I’m afraid that studying Mandarin has only made this scene even worse for me.
EDIT: It’s insane, I watched like, ten seconds of this scene just now, and I’ve got snot bubbles. Geez.