So, tonight, I had what I felt to be my first successful summer support group in years. I am doing a journaling workshop with teenagers who have experienced a loss. It went really well. We had three girls, aged 16-18. Needless to say, we clicked. Talking about music and movies while they decorated the outside of the journals I got them (and by journals, I mean notebooks - 10 for a dollar at Target? Hello?). The great thing about doing an activity such as that is that the clients get so busy with what they are doing they let their guards down, and talk about really deep stuff. They all lost a parent, and were able to talk about that loss in a way that they may not have been able to if they were in a more traditional, sitting around in a circle of chairs," way.So, on the way home, I got thinking of all of you, and have decided to give you, our faithful viewers, audience, one of the assignments that I gave these girls.... So, you can either leave your response in the comments section (anonymously, if you would like), or you can e-mail them to us and I will anonymously put them on the site for you in a post. You can get as detailed or as simple as you would like....I'm curious...
Talk about a movie that makes you cry, and why this movie makes you cry.
I hope we get some great answers. Depending on how this goes, I may throw one of these questions to you every week during the four week workshop/group...
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Big Fish makes me sob like a tiny newborn. For obvious reasons, I guess. I can't bear to think of the thought of one day losing my husband.
I think it would be easier for me to list movies that don't make me cry. But if I have to pick one, it would be Running on Empty with Christine Lahti, Judd Hirsch, and River Phoenix. Taylor - I know you hate that movie, but I cry every single time when they let him go to live his own life at the end.
Hope Floats- The scene where Sandra Bullocks daughter wants to go with her Dad,and he wont take her, and she is standing in the street, she lets out this cry that is nothing more than primal. Everytime I see it, I think of the day my dad left...
The Color Purple, at the end when Shug marches into the church to hug her daddy and when Nettie and Celie get reunited. Every time. I think it's the emotional journey all coming round to the happy ending. That or Maybe I used to be a black lady in past life and I miss my sister. NETTIE!
Oscar and Lucinda - when Oscar finally gets to the site in the glass church that Lucinda designed. And when his innocence is taken by that bi-otch. It all goes downhill from there. I just bawl to the end.
Reunion (1989) When Hanry Straus learned the truth of his childhood friend after more than 40 years....
When I was 9 years old myself, my mom and my sister stood in a line around the movie theatre to watch E.T. When they found him in the ditch dead, I began to cry and sob uncontrollably, so bad that people were looking at me and my mom had to take me out to the lobby to calm down.
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