What is the most tragic scene in cinema history?
the end of dancer in the dark, traumatized me, still does, so fucking tragic.
the end of dancer in the dark, traumatized me, still does, so tragic.
So many questions – What is “tragic”? What is the scale to measure tragic? What defines a scene?
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What’s that from Apursansar?
Kenji Mizoguchi’s “Sansho the Bailiff” (1954)
Sansho the Bailiff
Ah, look forward to seeing it.
I go with Apursansar’s pick
Since it’s fresh in my mind. Bicycle Thieves.
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Oldboy
oh oh and recently The Ascent. man that guys face…
Shit, The Ascent. That movie went from depressing to double depressing to triple double dog depressing. I thought it was going to be like sadness, hope, tension, sadness….but it was just horrifying.
Also, I nominate the movie where my dick explodes into a million pieces.
Forbidden Games.
The last ten minute of Ozu’s Tokyo Story….
the ambulance scene of “when father was away on business”
“I have tried hard—but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. Now I am on the rubbish heap.”
House of Mirth (could also be titled Life Within The Capitalist Exchange System)
When Sophie is forced to choose in SOPHIE’S CHOICE. Great movie, but I will never watch it again.
Movie : Umberto.D
Climax
Ending of Lilja-4-ever
The end of Late Spring.
The end of Mikey and Nicky.
More or less every single frame of au hasard Balthazar.
In One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, when Jack Nicholson comes away from the lobotomy
“Remember the trees, Nick?”
“It was him! It was him!”
I’d probably have to second the ending of Tokyo Story.
I agree with Rajesh, Umberto D at the end.
Neil M.C.B. from what movie is that second image you posted?
FTW:
Double Suicide (1969 )
dir Masahiro Shinoda
The way the paralyzed man dies after completing the last sentence of his memoir in THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY. It took every ounce of his strength to write that memoir…. then he died days thereafter.
I suppose this would be considered more “heroic” than “tragic”. But they are often flipsides of the same coin.
Or how about the last few moments of ATONEMENT….? The author, now old, appearing on a TV talk show… revealing that the ending of her novel was a lie…. The lovers did NOT marry and live happily ever after, but instead were killed by the war.
the ending to Cronenberg’s The Fly.
Oni Gjinollari
Personally, the most tragic scene would have to be in Apocalypse Now. Its the scene of when Tyrone receives the package from his mothers. Its the tape player with a message from her. Then the boat gets ambushed and, I don’t want to spoil anything and sorry if I did, he dies. But, the tape player continues to play with his mother talking about him coming home and whatsoever.