What does it say?
May 24th, 2010Can you tell something important about a person by what makes them cry?
I’m a sap, so it doesn’t take much. The last fifteen, twenty minutes of “Field of Dreams” for example, will have my crying. The end of the movie version of “Return of the King” can ruin me for an good half hour. And the helicopter rescue scene from Tom Clancy’s “Clear and Present Danger,” the part where Jack Ryan tells the Sergeant who is dying in his arms what he’s going to do when they get back home, will leave me wracked with such sobs that I ache after I’m through.
The one thing that will get me, really get me, without a single doubt, are scenes of people doing the right thing. When people do noble acts, when they are honored for their honor and their bravery and their selflessness, I’m done. Find me a cot somewhere to cry myself until I’m dry.
What, exactly, does that say about me?