Which bit touched you the most?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Paris, Texas
DeclanCochran — 13 years ago(October 22, 2012 01:43 PM)
For me, it was early on, when they were looking through the home videos. It had me crying like a baby and I don't know why; it just felt like there was all this beauty within the family, but then it ended when it all went to pot and Travis took off. It just touched me, deeply, and the whole film touched me deeply too.
Just wondered if anyone else had such a moment; where, within the film, it all connected?"A man who does not spend time with his family can never be a real man." -
Mr_Ectoplasma — 13 years ago(November 04, 2012 11:37 PM)
I have to second the end when Jane is reunited with Hunter. I NEVER cry during movies. NEVER. I don't shed tears on a regular basis to begin with, only under extreme situations (usually involving death of a loved one or the like). When she walks into the hotel room and he turns around and sees her and the two hug, I was almost bawling. I've never had that happen, so this movie is kind of monumental to me.
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taumpy_tears — 13 years ago(November 20, 2012 08:45 PM)
I thought the home videos thing was a bit cliche. it just seems like the go-to technique to invoke pathos. maybe it wasn't as cliche in the 80s but it still didn't move me.
the most touching was probably when he starts to recite his story to Jane in the strip club, though it goes on slightly too long for my liking. -
benGsboat — 13 years ago(December 20, 2012 09:34 PM)
This film is just perfect. So well made and acted, so emotionally draining yet uplifting. Something you experience and feel.
Thank you Wim Wenders. One of my favourites.
As for the bit that really gets to me: in the diner, when Walt is talking to Travis about Hunter Stanton's eyes say it all. -
rrr_mehearties — 13 years ago(February 22, 2013 03:11 PM)
The ending. Not when the mum and son meet but the final fade shot where the dad is staring up at the hotel. This film had tears in my eye the whole way and made me really sad. I'm a 17 year old boy as well. It just reminded me a lot of my own broken relationship with my parents
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chas437 — 13 years ago(February 24, 2013 08:14 AM)
You must be a smart kid, I don't think too many 17 year old kids could appreciate this brilliant film.
There are so many tragic, touching moments in the film, its hard to choose. I really like the scene where Travis and Hunter are at an all-night laundy mat, after Travis has been on a drinking binge. Their conversation in this scene is amazing. Hunter is amazingly smart for his age.
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Morbius_Fitzgerald — 11 years ago(July 01, 2014 10:20 PM)
I thought the part where he recites his story to Jane in the strip club. That is a perfectly acted and directed sequence, you have him reciting the story with his back turned to her so he can't see her cry and just her face when she hears everything being told, Its a scene that was just well done in every single sense of the word.
"I have always valued my lifelessness." -
Porn_Flakes — 11 years ago(August 20, 2014 07:42 PM)
I thought the part where he recites his story to Jane in the strip club. That is a perfectly acted and directed sequence, you have him reciting the story with his back turned to her so he can't see her cry and just her face when she hears everything being told, Its a scene that was just well done in every single sense of the word.
This. In fact, like most people, the scene where Jane was reunited with Hunter also had me bawling like a baby. The first time I saw this film, I didn't truly think it was special until that final half an hour or so. The scene where Travis confronts Jane was a big part of that. It transformed my opinion of the film and everything else slot into place and became majestic. -
sacrednerve — 11 years ago(September 23, 2014 08:18 AM)
Definitely the parts at the end with Kinski's character, especially
her reunion with Hunter.
It didn't move me to tears, but those were the most touching moments in the film.
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eighties_rule — 11 years ago(October 17, 2014 11:33 AM)
Probably the scene where Travis is talking to Jane, in the phone booth. One of my favorite scenes ever, just amazing.
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tarmacadam — 10 years ago(August 20, 2015 05:00 PM)
Maybe not an obvious choice, but when Hunter is trying to explain relativity to Travis over the walkie talkie. It was such a brilliant glimpse into Hunter's fascination with the universe and his simultaneously clumsy and advanced understanding of some pretty complex principles. Beautifully acted and shot, too.
