{"id":7652,"date":"2010-02-02T10:32:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T10:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=7652"},"modified":"2010-02-02T10:36:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T10:36:37","slug":"the-crying-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/02\/02\/the-crying-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crying Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m not sure if these videos of a man filming his wife crying at films<\/a> are real, fake or part of some kind of internet spoof.<\/p>\n

The deal is that the husband claims<\/a> his wife:<\/p>\n

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‘cries after almost every movie we see with a happy or sad ending’.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It started when they watched all 6 episodes of Star Wars<\/a> (one per day) and she started to lose it.<\/p>\n

He then filmed it and uploaded it to YouTube (I hope with her permission).<\/p>\n

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He then filmed her after watching The Lord of the Rings<\/a>, Back to the Future<\/a>, AI<\/a> and Marley and Me<\/a> (she really loses after this one).<\/p>\n

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I should add a dash of scepticism by saying that the husband claims to work for a company that “handles ninja affairs<\/a>” but he’s probably joking of course.<\/p>\n

Spoof or not, it does highlight that one of the primary reasons people watch films is for an emotional release.<\/p>\n

Although one frequent complaint by mainstream audiences is that something is ‘too depressing’, some of the most successful films of all time like Love Story<\/a> (1970), E.T.<\/a> (1982) and Titanic<\/a> (1997) were openly sad at their core.<\/p>\n

One of the ideas Ancient Greeks had about drama was for it to provide catharsis<\/a> and purge us of our negative emotions within a social situation.<\/p>\n

Tragedies and their modern movie antecedents are a form of art based on human suffering, that paradoxically offers the audience pleasure.<\/p>\n

Despite all the joking around in these videos, they actually hit upon this truth.<\/p>\n

What films should this guy show his wife next? I’d go for Up<\/a>, Stand By Me<\/a> or The Shawshank Redemption<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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