I'm exactly like Nancy. I cry at moments of intense emotion, whether they are sad or not, just because they are moments crystallized wherein a character speaks of love or truth or something deep and meaningful. In Princess Diaries, I have tears in my eyes when she declares she will be Princess now and why....when Lindsay Lohan and Jamie lee Curtis talk of their lost father/husband in Freaky Friday and how they can maybe let another man in to, not replace their dad/husband, but maybe form a whole, new unit...
but yes, the funeral scene and the Auden poem in 4 Weddings gets me every time without fail, and so does Million Dollar Baby and so does the Gillian Andersen adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel "The House of Mirth." It gets so bad I have to stop the movie half way through to gear myself up because I know exactly how badly it ends, I know she could be saved if HE only got his act in gear and realized in time that he loves her...
Why cry at the Shawshank Redemption? That's a punch-the-air movie: have I forgotten a very sad bit?
Yes: Brokeback Mtn broke my heart too. Some films are very tough to watch. I don't think I will ever see Million Dollar Baby again. I couldn't bear it.
Clare