Moments that touch your heart

So many great scenes in so many great films.
"The Grapes of Wrath"

Ma Joad
"[the family is leaving the farm, heading for California]
Al Joad: Ain't you gonna look back, Ma? Give the ol' place a last look?
Ma Joad: We're going' to California, ain't we? All right then let's go to California.
Al Joad: That don't sound like you, Ma. You never was like that before.
Ma Joad: I never had my house pushed over before. Never had my family stuck out on the road. Never had to lose everything I had in life."

AND
Tom Joad: "I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too."

The last scene in 1937's Make Way For Tomorrow. 

Here's another vote for MWFT. It has so much going for it, not the least of which is what I'd call the best work of both Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore on film. I put it at the top of director Leo McCarey's efforts as well, and it's refreshingly free of the maudlin sentiment into which he had a tendency to become mired. That's not to say it's free of sentiment, but what there is is honest, as is the entire film. The family dynamics portrayed are credibly complex, with neither "white hats" nor "black hats" in evidence, instead presenting fully dimensional characters warts and all, with well-rendered understanding for their individual motivations, difficulties, foibles and conflicting priorities.

Equally honest is its refusal to engage in neat resolutions to everything at the fadeout, no doubt figuring into Mike's description as "ahead of its time," its relevance and resonance these 80 years on, and perhaps its relative neglect among better remembered landmarks of the era.

While not always an easy film to watch, it's a rewarding one and comes with a high recommendation from me.             

many scenes in BAD SANTA - especially the interactions between the innocent therman merman (brett kelly in one of the greatest performances by a child actor) and the disillusioned and world weary willy soak (played by billy bob thorton). the best one at the breakfast table when willy tells therman that there is no santa claus.

the scene in RAGING BULL where jake (de niro) rings up his brother pesci and does not say anything when he picks up. an enraged pesci growls "your mother sucks giant elephants dicks" over the phone.

the scene in TAXI DRIVER when travis is hurt when the lady at the movie hall is rude to him and he tells her why cant you be nice.

In Star Trek II: The wrath of khan, when you know the Enterprise won't get warp speed back fast enough to escape the effect of the Genesis wave, and you see Spock rise from his chair and you know what he is about to do.  It gets me every time I watch it, a being who prided himself on logic and not giving in to emotion.  He could, of course give a logical explanation for what he did when he saved the crew, but I know he did it out of love. 

adding onto my godfather love any expression seen on fredos face, you can see how wounded he is.