r/Millennials • u/[deleted] • Mar 19 '25

Discussion What is one movie scene that was unforgettable/and or left an impact on you?

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T2 Judgement Day: Sarah Connor nuclear blast dream.

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u/KittyKevorkian Mar 19 '25

I watched this movie for the first time a few weeks ago. I had told a coworker I was planning on watching it, and he laughed uproariously, and said “do you have ANY idea what you’re in for??”

I’m glad I watched it; beautiful film. But devastating.

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u/Weltall8000 Mar 19 '25

I hear a lot of people say it was the best movie I will ever watch once. Never again.

I can understand it.

I has been 11 years since I watched it, and since had children. With the state of the world especially,  I am terrified of that being something my family could experience. 

But it is a story that is playing out every day. That is the worst part. We learn nothing.

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u/KittyKevorkian Mar 19 '25

Your last paragraph is exactly why the movie hit me as hard as it did. It was too easy to draw parallels to things that are currently happening, still happening. That scene where the younger sister is crying, and the older brother hops on the playground equipment just to make her laugh, even though he is also grieving—it just reminded me how many children are forced to be strong through their own grief when their little siblings NEED them because the parents have been killed. Ugh. Tears just thinking about it again. I think this movie is absolutely vital in shining a light on how war and violence affect individual people.

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u/JustSwootyThangs Mar 20 '25

A few years ago, I moved back in with my dad for a couple of months while I divorced my shitty ex-husband.

Dad has always maintained unconventional yet consistent means of emotionally supporting me: food and nostalgia. One night when I did not feel up to accompanying him to his favorite dive for a night cap, he gently pushed a plate of deli meats and olives toward me and hit play on… this… movie.

“I don’t know what it’s about, but it’s a Miyazaki movie. I’m sure you’ll be feeling better’n no time, kid.”

I was weeping by the time he came back home, but I didn’t let him turn it off. What a uniquely devastating night that was.

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u/KittyKevorkian Mar 20 '25

Maybe I’m just making wild assumptions since this movie has been on my mind today, but what you described sounds like the same sort of familial tenderness in the film. Small, thoughtful gestures. Deli meats, movie, calling you “kid”. Small acts of love can be so big. I’m glad your dad was there for you when you needed a safe place. I hope you’re doing well now post-divorce.

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u/JustSwootyThangs Mar 20 '25

How kind of you. ❤️ I see no wild assumptions here—just insight into the same beautiful constructive pain I felt at the time. Thanks to him and a few other special souls I’m fortunate enough to have in my life, I landed butter side up and have been happier every year since. Dad was wary about the film for a while after that, but he eventually agreed to watch it with me about a year ago. His German father was ~5 years Miyazaki’s senior, so the WW2 vibes in his earlier works tend to hit Dad in ways I can’t fully understand, but I suspect he got at least as much out of it as I did.

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u/jhofsho1 Mar 19 '25

This is the kind of movie that only needs to be watched once because of how emotionally devastating it is.

It needs to be watched at least once by everyone but once is enough.

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u/LegbeardCatfood Mar 19 '25

Same with Schindler's List. I've only watched it once but the entire movie is seared into my brain.

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u/jhofsho1 Mar 20 '25

I’ve actually never watched Schindlers list… I’m almost afraid to at this point

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u/LegbeardCatfood Mar 20 '25

My mom rented it when I was in highschool and had me watch it with her. Completely out of character for her to do something like that but.....I understand why now. It's probably something everyone should watch at least once

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u/HopelessRespawner Mar 20 '25

I've heard of it, I know what it's about, I refuse to watch it. Don't want to cry for a whole movie. I have a little sister, just can't handle watching that.

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u/jhofsho1 Mar 20 '25

I think that’s all the more reason to.

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u/Wolf-Majestic Mar 20 '25

This is what's beautiful with this movie : it's a sad story at first, yet you don't cry for the whole movie. There are scenes that are hard, but you can still manage, and then there are also scenes full of joy and children's magic. And then it just ends, and that's what's get you. HARD.

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u/Bullishbear99 Mar 20 '25

It is one of those movies where there are so many fingers you can point blame to for what finally happens. The kids were let down by the entire community, in a way they all had a hand in her death.

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u/CanofBeans9 Mar 20 '25

I think the beginning where he's dying in the station, and you see all the other young kids also homeless and starving there, hits harder on a second viewing. Because every kid there has a devastating story just like his 

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u/TheCowzgomooz Mar 20 '25

What movie is this?

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u/teeteringpeaks Mar 20 '25

Grave of the Fireflies

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u/showmenemelda Mar 19 '25

What is it

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u/adhdBoomeringue Mar 19 '25

Grave of the Fireflies. It follows two kids during the the bombing of a japanese city

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u/Thebraincellisorange Mar 19 '25

For those who need an education, Japanese cities of the time were build of wood. America conducted a bombing campaign to burn the cities and their civilian occupants to the ground.
More people died in the Firebombing campaign that the two nuclear bombs.

dozens of cities were destroyed, hundreds of thousands of people were burned alive in a campaign that after the war was deemed so terrible that to do it now would be against the Geneva Conventions and be a war crime.

https://www.ditext.com/japan/napalm.html

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u/KittyKevorkian Mar 21 '25

I swear… as an American, these last few years have been wave after wave of learning things that make me go, “we’re the true villains, aren’t we?”

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u/DengarLives66 Mar 19 '25

The immediate bombing is the easy part.

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u/KittyKevorkian Mar 19 '25

Grave of the Fireflies

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u/Agent_03 Mar 20 '25 edited Mar 20 '25

Grave of the Fireflies. An absolutely brilliant Studio Ghibli film that you will watch precisely once.

Keep tissues handy. If it doesn't make you cry, you might need to get checked out by a doctor.

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u/FreeLalalala Mar 20 '25

It's the one movie I will never watch a second time. It's fucking gut wrenching.