Watching "Imitation of Life" makes me cry

[CatWoman]

as does looking at my deceased father's picture. And this heart wrenching ASPCA commerical on tv.

Does that make me weak and phoney?

It appears to me that the media (Tweety and Maureen Dowd the biggest offenders) are trying to Swift Gore Hillary Clinton.

[cynatnite]

1. My RW bush supporting mom who has never cared for Hillary...

even said that what the media is doing to Hillary is wrong. It pissed her off so much that she told me she might vote for Hillary out of spite because of the way she was being done...and continues to be done.

[Warren DeMontague]

2. Charades, pop skill, water hyacinth. Named by a poet.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CEhT2QlRBMo

[peekaloo]

5. .

:yourock:

[CatWoman]

8. no, the movie

[Warren DeMontague]

14. Yes, I know. But the song still kicks ass.

And it fits, oddly enough.

[AlCzervik]

3. the Sarah Mclaughlin ASPCA one? If so i cannot watch that or forget it, i blubber

and i am almost nevver cry.

[CatWoman]

4. that's the one!!!!!

those poor dogs :cry:

I HATE that commercial :cry:

[AlCzervik]

6. i cannot take that, i saw it the other day and my daughter started bawling.

[DesertRat]

9. "in the arms of the angels, far away from here..."

[TahitiNut]

12. It's a tear-jerker, for sure.

Ubetcha.


Good practice video for Presidential candidates. Sense memory.

:hide:

[CitizenLeft]

16. neither can I

I cry every time. I want to turn away, even, but I never do, I just keep watching and wish I could adopt them all.

[liberalmuse]

7. The media reaction to Hillary showing emotion really touched a chord.

I consider myself tough, though surprisingly, I try to be a nice person rather than a bitch most of the time. I am not what some would call an ardent Hillary supporter, but I was pretty offended by the coverage and the comments made simply because Hillary got emotional. I took it as an affront to all women. I took it as the same 'ol Protestant, white male paradigm of oppression we've knowing for centuries. I realized I am sick to death of it. I'm sick of the Hillary bashing. I've heard it for years from males that are sub par in my book. I'm not lying--the guys who made the stupid jokes about Hillary were total losers that couldn't seem to hold onto a woman. They pretty much repulsed me and apparently other women out there. On the other hand, I've seen males stick up for her, and that is a complete turn on. God, I love liberal men!

[Hidden Stillness]

10. A Few Stories of Crying

Thinking about my late Mom makes me cry, still. Thinking about great kindness makes me cry. Ed Muskie, the great progressive Democrat, cried during the 1972 Presidential campaign, after an increasingly vicious Nixon "Dirty Tricks Committee" anonymous campaign of rumor-spreading, (that later turned out to have been Patrick Buchanan and G. Gordon Liddy, and others), leading up to a claim that Muskie's wife was a Lesbian, and was cheating with another Democratic wife on the campaign. Muskie couldn't take the vile lies against someone who was such a good person anymore, and famously cried outside during an angry speech that was supposed to be fighting back and putting a stop to the Republican ugliness. Instead, the emotion was used by vile Republicans as further ammunition. That same year, the new nominee George McGovern's Vice-Presidential choice, Thomas Eagleton, was revealed to have suffered a major bout of depression, cured with drugs and I think electro-shock therapy. When the slander began about how "unstable" and "embarrassing" it all was, it came out that the reason for the depression was that Eagleton's son had been killed in Viet Nam. You can't even suffer and cry, for that. Eagleton, by the way, was one of the most honest, and most respected, people ever in Washington, D.C. It destroyed both of their campaigns that year--"weakness."

About "Imitation of Life"--that movie (the 1959 version) had a scene, the funeral scene, featuring one of the most spine-chilling music, a beautiful gospel song, sung powerfully by the great Mahalia Jackson, who was so great and is largely forgotten. That song alone will make you cry--it was fabulous. Crying is a wonderful, human but even more than human, thing. We would be stupid blocks of ice if not for it.

[TahitiNut]

11. Golly! You must be qualified to be President!!

:dunce:

[CatWoman]

25. smart ass

:hi:

[Der Blaue Engel]

13. I cry over Meerkat Manor

Flow-errr! :cry:

[Solly Mack]

20. I know! It was so sad

:(

[CatWoman]

24. so do I!!!

I can't watch it anymore :cry:

[Der Blaue Engel]

31. I can't either

:(

[timtom]

15. Please let me share this...

I saw the movie when it first came out (1959, I think). I was 16. I bawled like a baby.

I said to myself, "This can't be happening, as I'm a macho teenage boy. Let's do this again."

So I went to see it again. A couple of times. I sobbed each time.

Fast forward to when I'm in my mid-forties. I rented the movie, with the intention of seeing my wife break down and cry.

Once again, I found I was still under the movie's spell and sobbed like a baby.

My wife, meanwhile, sat through it stony-faced and unmoved.

(I found out later, she also casts no reflections in mirrors.

[CitizenLeft]

17. okay, I don't know if you meant to make me laugh or not

"I found out later, she also casts no reflections in mirrors."

:rofl:

But yeah, that movie gets me too, every time I've seen it.

[timtom]

22. I'm sorry.

I'm given to inserting absurdities on impulse.

I love my wife and she is an intelligent, beautiful, caring woman.

And she didn't weep at the movie.

[CatWoman]

26. your'e married to Ann Coulter???

:wow:

(I found out later, she also casts no reflections in mirrors.

[texanwitch]

18. I saw a really old version of this movie.

Instead of the woman in the movie being a actor, in this version she got rich from pancake mix.

The rest of the movie was pretty much the same.

[mondo joe]

19. I cry in Elf when Buddy and Jovi look at each other after the sled takes off.

And Tweety is fucked up.

[Solly Mack]

21. Me too

Watching "Imitation of Life" makes me cry

[pink-o]

23. The reason Imitation of Life gets to us all

...is because the same issues are STILL GOING ON!!! Think about it: 5 decades later, and racism is alive and well, so much so that children of those who're marginalised still question their validity in society. People are still trying to pass for something they're not because what they are is so socially reviled. I see it amongst gays all the time: I live in the most gay-friendly city on the globe and yet I know those who're in a hetero relationship/marriage, trying to convince themselves that they can learn to be mainstream. Because acceptance means that much to them.

The funeral scene is particularly poignant because it's at that point where the character suddenly realises what she's given up, what she's lost by denying her very essence. And what we are as a society that forces children to make choices like that.

BTW, I've seen both versions, the Claudette Colbert and the Lana Turner one, quite a few times. The Lana one is far superior and more heart-wrenching. You rent it with friends, a bottle of Pinot, and a huge box of kleenex.

On a further note, the movie was brought to my attention by my English friend whose family hails from Jamaica. He's a big macho Afro-Carribbean dude who dissolves in tears everytime he sees it!

[calico1]

27. I agree.

Jon Stewart played a tape of men who have bawled and I mean BAWLED. Not at all like Hillary. Seems it's okay and even touching if a man cries. But if a woman does (and Hillary didn't even cry, she just choked up) then it is seen as a weakness. She has been criticized for being too "manly." Then she has an emotional moment and now she is too weak because she is acting too much like a woman. She can't win!

BTW, have you ever seen the first version of "Imitation of Life?"
1934 with Claudett Colbert.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025301/

The daughter was played by Fredi Washington. Interesting story about her. In real life she was told that if she passed for white she could have a good acting career but she refused.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

28. I change the channel. I think it's manipulative.

I've first hand experience, because it manipulated me into going down to the shelter and adopting my goofy border collie- Porkbutt.

But that's another story.

[Disturbed]

29. There was a TV show that featured people that appeared

to be Caucasian but were still considered to be Afro-Americans.
Many of them said that they received discrimination from
Afro-Americans.Racism is still dominant in America & is in the hearts
of many groups aside from Caucasians.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

30. That's great.

Have a cookie.