Hi There!
I watched The Fault In Our Stars (Tfios) today for the 3rd time, but today I watched the extended edition. Not much of a difference but there was 7 minutes more of scenes. I didn't really get to sit down and watch it all straight away I had to keep on pausing it to do things. This made my experience of the movie not as good as the first time I watched it. I did get teary eyed at the eulogy reading, as normal. I then got distracted and that emotion left me so when it came to the end I did not shed a tear how I normally do.
In class the other day we were watching War Horse. A girl started to sob (not fully cry but shed tears). I was rather confused and other people were like "How are you not upset he just got shot". Normally I get emotional with deaths in movies but this only tends to happen when I have made an emotional attachment to to the character. I had not had that attachment with the character therefore did not feel the pain.
I feel that for a movie to make you cry, you need to have an attachment with the characters and understand the situations like it was happening in real life. The only way for this to happen is for me to be in an environment where I can deeply watch the movie and have no distractions. I have to know that I can watch the whole thing in one sitting; this is why the movie I watched in class did not make me upset. I knew I wouldn't watch the whole thing, in fact the time I watched the beginning was 4 months ago. All my emotions were just waiting to get to lunch and leave the class, so I was counting down the minutes; this making me get distracted and not indulge the movie. I am not a heartless person I just didn't have the right circumstances to make me feel the pain in the movie.
I say I cry at movies but I tend to just feel all emosh and mushy and wanting a tub of ice cream. The only time I cried for 4 minutes was when I watched the season finale for season 5 of The Vampire Diaries (TVD). I have been watching TVD for about half a year now I am not all caught up yet as season 6 has not come on to Netflix yet but I have seen the first 4 episodes. I watched the season finale about 2 weeks ago. I have made emotional attachments to all the characters and feel some of the pain they do in certain circumstances. But for some the ending of the season finale had me grabbing a tissue. I honestly felt like a wreck. I have no idea why (well I do, Damon and Bonnie didn't make it out of the other side) this made me feel the way it did. I do know that I kinda enjoyed feeling that emotion at the end as I knew that I enjoyed what I was watching and that it was well directed and written to make the audience feel like that.
So another conclusion to why movies make us cry is, the way it is written and directed. To be able to pull on the audiences heart strings and make them cry when the character cries. It is all rather clever and I have to applaud them to have such skill. I mean half of my life troubles barely make me cry so for movies/tv shows to make me cry I do have to give them some appreciation for helping me prove that I am not a robot.
I love watching movies and crying so I am not going to complain!
Tia
xoxo
