I don't see this as an emotional film (as in the common use of the word: this film makes me feel emotions I didn't know existed), however I find myself crying during the scene before the fast forward at the end.
I believe Prospectors Quartet is playing, and we are shown HW and Mary Sunday playing together. The film then cuts straight ahead to 20 or so years later, and they are getting married.
I get hit by a surge of emotion by this. It might be the music, the drama in the scene, or just the way that the film is so damn perfect I have to let myself know somewhere.
It is very touching to see young Mary Sunday learning to sign by watching HW and his teacher sign to each other. She is making a commitment to HW even then-- devoting herself to him. I can't understand how she was unable to keep Daniel and HW close.
Yeah that scene gets me to. I think the music has a lot to do with it. Another scene that kind of gets me is when there is that flashback to plainview and h.w. having fun after plainview pretty much disowns him.
When Daniel is sitting in the train station, watching Eli leave town, the range of emotions playing across his face sets the whole fast-forward up. He looks as though he might be reflecting on the events of his time in Little Boston. That's where I start to get emotional.
I get all teary-eyed when the film cuts back to when H.W. was young and he and DP were playing in front of the derrick. Such a stark contrast to DP's rejection of the adult H.W. Man - so freakin' sad!
I agree that the flashbacks of HW and DP playing together make me very emotional. What makes me more emotional is that fact that they show these flashbacks right after the scene with his son in the present time, rejecting him. It makes me wish that DP had never said those mean things to HW.
The flashback scene is followed by DP crying and slowly stubbling down a flight of stairs which completes his downward spiral....most powerful moment in the film for me
The flashback scene is followed by DP crying and slowly stubbling down a flight of stairs which completes his downward spiral....most powerful moment in the film for me
I can't get enough of this film. I think it might be my favorite ever. When I see a good movie now it always reminds me of how much I enjoy this movie. Its a benchmark for me.
The biggest moment in the movie for me was the very first scene, as it opens with a man, in a hole, hitting a rock as hard as he can for very little gain. I have been in that hole and I have met that rock. I understood at that very moment what it was about. Men who came of age inside of a hole in the ground, trying to dig their way to something that no one else could see.
Yeshedoesa, what do you think is DP's rock? what do you think he's trying to dig his way out of that no one else can see?