Emotional from movies, music, books, etc.

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Anyone else feel particularly prone to strong emotions from watching movies, listening to music, reading certain books, etc.?

I find I have to try hard to keep myself from crying during a lot of movies (which even my gf won't be moved by). For example tonight I watched a silly movie with Jennifer Aniston but there was a scene in it where a divorced couple sort of fall back in love and it was intensely beautiful and I felt really moved and had to hold back tears.

The final scene in the Shawshank Redemption I find almost impossible not to cry, with the guy seeing his friend on that beach. It's extremely intense and profoundly beautiful.

Also music I can find extremely emotional. Mostly classical piano music, the Moonlight Sonata (1st movement) makes me feel strong emotions, while the 3rd movement gives me enormous amounts of energy to the point I need to pace around when listening to it. I have a similar response to other pieces like the Ossia Cadenza of Rachmaninoff's 3rd piano concerto, which is so powerful, yet when I try to share these pieces with others they don't seem to appreciate them much.

I also often cry from reading literature, especially ones depicting human suffering and also those depicting forgiveness.

Sometimes I also feel emotional attachments with inanimate objects. Nature can be extremely intense and I once hugged a banana (I know it's funny, but its bright color and symmetry just struck me as so beautiful one day I had to hug it).

I really find these experiences match up with the Intense World Syndrome I was reading about lately, which says our problem is hyper-empathy not a lack of it.

yup, I get very emotional from movies,certain music and books too. I always thought it was cuz I was a fruit in the case of movies but I never really heard of fruits getting intensely proud of being American when watching Glory or the Battle of the Bulge... or feeling Eminems pain and hate in his lyrics to the point of getting angry myself.

I think we DO have a lack of empathy in the sense that regular people understand it...but to compensate our creative and intelligent minds automatically 'construct' more pure versions of whatever emotions we should be feeling in the context so that its very intense. we cant empathize like nts so our brains logically construct the emotions, but because they are constructions they are very all or nothing emotions.It kind of makes sense cus our brains are like computers and only whats programmed can register with us, but since empathy isnt innate for some of us we had to manually program them in ourselves through logic.
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I rarely get emotional from movies, but I have gotten emotional because of books before and the right songs can do it easily.

You want to see "Dancer in the Dark" starring Bjork.
Just typing this is bringing me close to tears, its the most sadly emotional film Ive ever seen, the ending could be fatal for you.

I have cried during some strange scenes. Titanic when Rose is getting lowered in the boat and looking up at Jack and Cal on the deck and she can see in Jack's eyes that he knows he is going to die and he'll never see her again so she leaps back aboard the ship like an idiot just to be with him to the end. Yes, I cried during that. I know, weird.

There are a lot of movies and songs that I get emotional over. I cried after watching Forrest Gump a couple of times, and there are songs that aren't Kinks songs that remind me of Pete Quaife and the lack of support that I got, when he died. Pretty Paper by Roy Orbison was one such song, because blue was one of Pete's favourite colours.

I will sometimes get very emotional when watching films. In another thread, I mentioned that what usually makes me cry is the music that they might be playing in that particular scene. Another thing that may affect me is the person's voice in that particular scene. If they were to put the film in mute and I only read the dialogue, I doubt that I would cry, though...