What’s the most convincing emotional pain you’ve seen acted?

[u/bestest_at_grammar]

I recently watched Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri for like the fifth time and I never can get over Frances McDormands performance. It’s spectacular and it never fails to make me emotional.

One line in particular always sticks out for me. In a scene her and her son Robbie find the Billboards on fire. She goes to extinguish them but almost in a pissed off game on way. As Robbie tries to stop her mother she screams his name and the quick emotion always gives me that ache in my throat.

Link below it’s near the end of the clip.

https://youtu.be/m9mVSET01g0?si=0b-cMuWUKjRirq2D

Honorable mentions are

That’s my boy from Harry Potter. If you know you know, I fear rewatching this once I have kids will make this very hard to watch

https://youtu.be/FjoemE6QvxU?si=UUyjDSwjct7Gz31e

And of course the GOAT of it all hereditary

https://youtu.be/M2101AvCGd8?si=Bg9wW_2OzMbA2HWu

How she found a way to channel that feeling I’ll never know.

Anyways would love to hear some of your answers, and watch after I’m done cleaning.

Have a good Sunday.

[u/alsotheabyss]

Probably not the greatest of all time, but Cooper’s aching grief when he awakes after cold sleep to watch the videos of his children in Interstellar

[u/cpm67 → u/alsotheabyss]

Watching it as a young adult: oh that’s sad

Watching again as a parent: fuuuuuuucking hell that is devastating

[u/MyrtleismySupreme → u/cpm67]

Watched while pregnant with our first child...I ugly cried so hard I had to excuse myself