The last movie that left me in tears is March of Penguin-and I blamed it to hormone, since I was about 8 months pregnant then. However, this is indeed such a sad movie that reminds you how cruel and futile life can be, no matter how selfless and determined maternal or paternal love can be- in the movie the mother penguin was killed by seals the moment when she dived into the water to feed themselves, after three-months of march in storm and hunger and finally reached the ocean. I burst into tears when I thought of the baby penguin hundreds of miles away will be starved to death under its’ father’s wings. The movie is full of such cruel moments that imply the hopeless future lying ahead of the baby penguins, and it tears my heart apart. Then I survived a few good movies that almost made me cry, like Painted Veil (love didn’t conquer death), Blood Diamond (young African kids were turned into senseless guerrilla killers), or Children of the man(when dying Clive Owen taught the young mother burping her baby)…now the second movie that moved me to tears, is, surprise- Dreamgirls! I was on treadmill most of time since the upbeat music kept me moving energetically, then all of sudden, Jenifer Hudson’s role was betrayed and abandoned by everyone she loves, she turned to Jamie Fox, the men who she loved dearly and who hurt her so much, and she sing in a deep voice, almost in a whisper, that “And I am telling you, I am not going”, with so much wounds and so much dignity. Man, she is so good-pulling out so much real feelings from such a cheesy-most-of-time movie. Now what it is about these two movies that make me cry? One is a documentary about the bird, one is a musical with, well, a lot of singing and dancing. One is so white (I mean the Antarctic, one is so black (I mean the skin). Acting is certainly important-Penguins are natural-born stars, so is Jennifer Hudson. They certainly connect with human emotion, so do a lot of other good movies. I guess more importantly, it has to connect with each individual audience’ personal experience and feelings-like when a baby was on the way or a sad memory of younger days when loved one turned back on you.