Sobbing in cinemas
This is so out of date, but I've been meaning to write this post for a while now. Sometime last year (yes, told you it was long), I went with my girlfriend to watch this show "10 promises to my dog"... It was a Japanese show feature the life of a dog with its 14 year old owner.The girls mother, herself dying of cancer (or something) told her daughter to make these 10 promises to her dog, as a commitment to keeping a dog till its dying day, though in actual fact, the mother was trying to convey what was in her own heart. Quite a touching movie actually, and I agreed to watch it only because I had a soft spot for dogs, and the directors previous movie, Quill (also about a dog) was so touching it secretly moved me to tears! But lets just pretend I never said that OK.
So walking into the cinema, I had a rough idea what was to come. My girlfriend was just completely charmed by the poster of the ever cute dog poster above. Talk about effective marketing. Everyone else was busy watching the latest blockbuster, so the cinema was pretty empty, only filled in two rows. Not surprising, since the movie is in Japanese only. What WAS surprising was I was one of only 2 guys in the cinema. Oh boy, I've had it this time.
Now, I've never been a fan of horror movies. I go to the cinema to be entertained, not spooked. I don't like sad themed movies too. I go to be cheered up. But this was like the epitome of sad movies. I mean, the mom dies in the first 30 minutes, and you just KNOW the dog will die at the end of the movie. So I was battling how to follow the movie without getting all chocked up with the little poochie dies!
So when the part finally came.... "sniff.... sniff" to my left.... "sniff sniff...." to my front and back, and lo be hold, to my left.... my teary girlfriend sniffing too! Gosh..... man.... I gotta hold it together... Stop watching... think of something else... do math.... grocery list... hot women.... exploding tanks... anything but that girl and her dad crying over the aging dog, finally taking its last breathe while reminiscing of a its life.. sometimes loved.. sometimes neglected... at a time forgotten.
I managed to stop short of tearing.... but I was fully sunken into my seat by then.. but being amidst 2 dozen sobbing women.... I was determined not to look anywhere left or right! But I was wondering if that other guy was crying or not. This was supposed to be a sad movie, not a horror movie... and nothing scares me more than women crying! Oh boy..
That was the last sad movie I watched... and I wont want to watch another anytime soon!
posted by Compulsive Blogger @ 1:41 pm
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