30 day film challenge - Day 6

A film you put on when you feel sad...

I don't know about other people, but when I feel sad, sometimes all I need is a good cry to get it all out of my system. But sometimes I do need to pick myself up out of it... So I'm choosing two today.

1 = Black Beauty

2 = Love Actually

There are loads of films I know that make me cry... but I always find animal films REALLY get me. I ball my eyes out. It's embarrassing. My housemates at uni found me in tears after watching Marley & Me (which I haven't been able to watch again) and then again at Hachi: A Dog's Tale (Jesus Christ if you don't cry at that you are made of stone). But there's always one film that really gets me... all the way through.

So... yeah. Film number one (the film I watch if I need a good cry) is Black Beauty... in particular the ending... because it's purely for the happy tears.

Black Beauty has had to endure a lot in his life... losing his friends - both human and horse alike - being treated awfully, surviving a fire, nearly dying... But the bit that always gets the waterworks running is when he is reunited with Joe. He tosses his head, making the noise Joe remembers and they have a very tearful reunion. Of course the tears all come from me. It then shoots to him sitting in a field, eating hay, happy again at last with a promise of not being sold again, living out the rest of his days in peace and happiness with Joe. Happy tears indeed.

And then film number two... The film I watch whenever I need a good laugh to pick me up out of a teary mood, is most definitely Love Actually.

It has its ups and downs and it has its fair share of heartbreak and sadness, but the laughs and the love in this movie is always enough to put a smile back on my face. That and Hugh Grant's dancing. If that scene can't make you either start singing, dancing or laughing then I don't know what will...