Saddest movies

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was really good, and very sad.

Have you seen The Last Unicorn, Lovely? From the children’s book, by Peter S. Beagle, it pretty much defines bittersweet. And then there is The Velveteen Rabbit, both “children’s” book and movie, whose point-phrase is, “Being real means that you’ve been loved a lot.” I put children’s in quotation marks because someone once said that “Walt Disney’s genius was that he knew there is hardly any adult in a child, but that there is a lot of child in every adult.” There is an illustration in the book,and I
am not going to tell you what it is, against the chance that you’ve not yet read it, that is titled, “At last! At last!” and it looks like an engraving from my artist touchstone, poet and lithographer William Blake.

Make me cry? Edward Scissorhands! “Sometimes, I still
dance in the snow.” Years ago, on the Entertainment Weekly message boards, a man posted that his father was a Marine who
had served in the Viet Nam War, and that he cried every time that
he saw that scene. His love and respect for his father were palpable. He ended by writing, “If you don’t cry, there’s something wrong with you.” To quote Bill “Smokey” Robinson, I second that emotion.