Dick
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For a 60+-year-old male, I cry with embarrassing regularity watching certain movies. IRIS and AWAY FROM HER did this to me, as they are about aging and, and so am I! I am sure that AMOUR will have the same effect on me. The biggest heartbreaker for me, though, was an animated film from Japan: GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES. I completely lost it. What incredible skill the Ghibli Studio animators invested in this production. The little girl's slow death by starvation and exposure brought about by U.S. firebombing is just so devastating -- her innocence and love of nature dying away because of man's relentless pursuit of power and destruction. I just can't imagine anyone watching this and not being left rather speechless afterward. And it's a cartoon! (which just happens to capture the human passion for life better than 99% of live-actions films being made). The new Blu-ray is quite beautiful.