The whole scene was incredibly sad. No dialogue or sound effects, but the soundtrack is very powerful and the imagery.
It would be heartbreaking to loose a loved one like that. Just driving and talking like you do everyday, and something happens and suddenly one of the closest people to you is gone.
I saw this in middle school and cried during this scene.
Death is not the end......Final De5tination (August 26, 2011)
I haven't even seen the movie and feel like crying. Yes, it is very sad how quickly someone can die. Especially when the person has young children. Very depressing.
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I have never seen this film, just turned it on, and after that scene know with certainty that there will be buckets of tears in my immediate future.
Narcissism is our nation's number one killer and there is no known cure...
very painful and unnecessary. Directors can do whatever they want to do and I think that scene was extremely painful and unnecessary. Shameful in fact. Not that it didnt make me cry. It just was a brutal scene that was really not necessary.
shareThis scene was right at the start of the film, you must be very emotional. You haven't even had the chance to connect with the characters at that point because it is right at the very start.
Baby, you make me wish i had three hands.
Well, funny, I was driving home in the dark today, and I saw this movie when I was very young, and I remember that scene, with no dialogue, how everything seemed to be normal and happy and then they crashed. It's been many years since I saw the film, but I found the scene very disturbing.
shareI cried too. My husband teases me about how the first 3 minutes of that movie will dissolve me into tears. The song breaks my heart. It's a beautiful movie, and they "get" you right at the beginning. Right from the start, you are on the girl's side and FEELING for her.
shareThat's right. I watched it together recently again on Blu Ray with a friend (we're both male and grown-up) yet we cried from the very beginning. Also, when the song appears again at the end of the movie, when Amy's father watches out for Amy's return, we cried again. Absolutely tearjearking. I wonder if there are similar calm enchanting and magical movies out there similar to Fly Away Home. Until then, this remains my favorite (Americana) movie of all time! :)
shareThink it's bad on its own? Try watching it right after your best friend, mother to a toddler, rolls her truck and breaks her neck. She's not paralyzed, thank god, but needed several surgeries to repair her neck. Believe me, I wish I'd remembered the opening scene before I decided to see it again, I bawled through most of the movie. (I'd decided to watch it because of the shotgun wielding grandma at the end, I always teased her that it'd be her in sixty years.)
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