i didn't cry
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NoodleLizard — 14 years ago(September 08, 2011 11:07 AM)
This film just made me extremely angry and depressed. Which is a good thing, in a sense. This kind of stuff
should
make you angry and depressed because it's not fiction - the reality is likely a lot worse.
These bastards! -
klubblandet — 13 years ago(June 13, 2012 11:09 AM)
The bit where Volodya was saying hello to the group of boys, and he was asking if he could play with them and they told him to get lost.
Idk, I felt like nothing from that moment onwards could ever be right again. -
Tracey73 — 12 years ago(September 22, 2013 12:48 PM)
I cried like a baby in this movie, including the second and third time watching it. But I don't think you need to watch it again or think there is something wrong with yourself if you didn't cry. Everyone connects with different movies, actors, etc. This movie just hit me like a ton of bricks.
Some hurt, some love, some shout. I fought the world and I lost that bout.
~ Blue October -
fannyalex123 — 12 years ago(October 22, 2013 06:43 AM)
I did cry watching this. As far as I can remember, I cried in the parts where she ran to her mother begging her not to leave her since she's going to the US with her lover. The other one was when she's praying and finally, at the end where she took her life. I think the end is just really depressing since she's already escaped, she has freedom but she chose not to suffer anymore because she doesn't have anywhere to go to, she's lost, even if she's free, there's no more hope inside her. But at least she was reunited with her friend. All in all, it's really a sad and true film. The fact that it's happening now, everywhere. It's devastating to imagine how much suffering these people face everyday and to think that ending ones life is the only way to stop their pain.
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OblivionSt — 10 years ago(May 27, 2015 05:33 AM)
I don't know if this is weird but it made me cry when she just arrived at her flat in Sweded and she was tidying things up and cleaning. I don't know, the fact that I know something bad is going to happen and she was clueless is just so heartbreaking for me.
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aftermik — 10 years ago(June 19, 2015 04:48 AM)
hollywood paradigm is about manipulating shallow emotions using tricks so that viewers identify, laugh & cry
& don't think
.
well guess what, this is not hollywood paradigm, this is real cinema & therefore not meant to create fake emotions that vanished as fast as they appear.
it's a perspective on reality, if it does make you think & think & look at the world with a new perspective then it reached its goal.
not that i don't enjoy hollywood movies, i do when they are well crafted & don't call the viewer stupid (too much), but i never forget what they are : cheap (as shallow not as inexpensive obviously) manipulative & conditioning tools, not true cinema.
lilya is a great piece of true cinema that will haunt some of us for a very long time, that has obliged some of us to rethink our representation of the world.
it's not about crying or not. it's really about our representation of our paradigm & in this case the killing of human values by our great consumption society (cf the
shopping
center scene & that woman at the tail consciously ignoring a Lilya screaming help with her eyes).