Why oh why do I watch films I know are going to upset me?

[Jan1957]

Can't believe I am watching The Killing Fields again as it always makes me cry. Is there a film that upsets you but you can't resist? I love the music in The Killing Fields as well.

[Mamyalynne]

Well she is a fine lady hunxxx

[mrs.chappie]

Aw, bless you both. x

I'm away to bed now lasses. Sleep well. It's been nice chatting. Till next time. x

[Mamyalynne]

Night Sweetheart♥

[tiggerblue10]

I always cry at the end of Gladiator.

[lady-janine]

casablanca does it for me and hiroshima mon amour. buckets of tears enough for ducks to swim in.

[Jan1957]

Gladiator always gets me tiggs. Not heard of your second one lj but will look out for it.

[andy-hughes]

To answer your question Jan1957 - i think we need our emotions to be stimulated because it's good for us.

Early cave man would have his 'flight or fight' mechanisms tested on a daily basis - modern man not at all - hence horror films and roller-coasters.

Similarly, we are trained, to varying degrees, men especially, to maintain the 'stiff upper lip' which is a hangover from the war - we just 'get on with it'.

But under controlled circumstances, a rush of emotion is a good thing, even though it doesn;t 'feel' like it at the time.

For me - 'The Deer Hunter' left me crying in the cinema, as did 'Dead Poets Society' which I saw just after I came out of the hospital, so I was seriously raw and twitchy, and that evoked a lot of bad memories.

My middle daughter used to watch 'The Hunchback Of Notre Damme' (Charles Laughton) and weep copiously after it, and then watch it again the next day!