Word: poignant
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...over Lazarus that Jesus wept. In a more modern tribute to the girls, Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On was played over and over at the funerals. It is the theme song of Titanic, a favorite movie of the children's, and their most poignant artifact of love after death...
...still be so darn cute!). Their screenplay is far from being as good as everyone's making it out to be, but the other nominees don't have that much more compelling a claim--though The Full Monty manages to balance its killingly funny physical gags with a surprisingly poignant, though too easily resolved, storyline...
...truly original films capture our minds because they expose us to situations and personalities which we have not yet encountered. They cause us to question how we would have acted if in the same position as the characters. They cause us to remember lines that are especially witty or poignant. And sometimes, they add to our understanding of the subject matter they address. After leaving Titanic, my only thought was how Cameron made a computer-generated image look so much like a real iceberg...
...certain quote in "Eight Days a Week" was particularly poignant for me. "I try to spend my time efficiently," one of the Wonderwomen in the article says. "I don't spend a lot of time sitting around, looking at the ceiling." The ceiling of my bedroom is covered with glow-in-the-dark stars. Two weeks ago, I spent the majority of an entire evening looking at the ceiling. I'm not going to try to explain to you why this was useful, or productive, or beneficial or enriching. To be quite honest, it was completely pointless. The next...
There's a poignant little scene halfway into Primary Colors. It's primary night in New Hampshire, and candidate Jack Stanton (John Travolta) stands alone on a rainy street, knocking on car windows and importuning drivers for last-minute votes like a squeegee guy cadging a dollar. To hell with the odds; this man won't give up. He will keep asking, charming, wheedling, until people finally collapse under his will to be loved. As a character says in the Joe Klein novel on which the film is based, "The heart is a lonely hustler." But hustling--hey, that...