Thread: Your emotional reaction to entertainment

Does anything bring out strong emotion in you, be it books, music, film, art?

I mean strong. Not a sense of "awesome" from watching 300; I mean something that goes right through you and takes your breath.

Any of you, and what?

One passage of a novel described slicing flesh off a man's forarm so that "a piece the size of a fish hit the floor."

I began physically squirming at the mere thought.

Never back down and 300 get my heart pumping, adrenaline rush for sure.

LOTR makes me feel very inspired to not just sit on the couch, and also makes me cry a little in some parts because of parallels I see.

I cry during most movies, [good movies anyway]and I don't necessarily mean romantic. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, to name one of my favorites. I don't know, it just really "affected me." Pretty deep.

What a great thread.

I would have to say that Radiohead-In Rainbows just made my cry with every single emotion being felt, but melted into one seamless bond.

I'm a complete sucker for a lot of movies too, like Lost In Translation completely destroyed me and my thoughts on romance.

My friend is a really great artist too, and It really hits an emotional nerve in me. I am honored to to be friends with someone who can express such beauty in a minimalist way.

"Minimalism" would definitely fit well with everything I've said.

This is a recent behavior for me to start crying over these kinds of movies, or music.

I'd say what gets me the most is dramatic interaction between people who just have unconditional love toward each other. Not so much as your random, cheesy-love-novel type of material, but more along the lines of parents and children who are caught up in some life-threatening ordeal, or brothers or sisters that would do anything for each other, and are somehow put to the test. Things like that. I can't really think of a good example at the moment, but oh well.

Also, I love details. Mostly the visual kind. Things that really make you feel that the content was heavily and meticulously tolled over so that it was done perfectly. I think a perfect example of this would be the action scenes in Spider-Man (especially 2). The train scene was absolutely awe-inspiring. Everything from the way Spidey moved, to how Ock's arms each worked individually - sometimes making the scene so chaotic that it was hard to follow exactly what all was happening at once, to how they broke to the shot of the two of them fighting, vertically, on the side of the train. They really pulled out all the stops to make those into perfect translations to film, and it's the type of thing that just makes me stare at the screen, slack-jawed.

But, aside from that, I just love any good thrill ride. Something that puts me on the edge of my seat and threatens to kick me in the throat at any moment.

Originally Posted by Omicron

Does anything bring out strong emotion in you, be it books, music, film, art?

I mean strong. Not a sense of "awesome" from watching 300; I mean something that goes right through you and takes your breath.

Any of you, and what?

Three movies have had such an emotional impact on me that I was in a total fog thinking about them for the next few days-- Schindler's List, Ordinary People, and Apocalypto.