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She is the only one who feels sympathy for him, for his cute doggy Rita and her pups, and for all the people who surround them.
If you haven't seen Oldboy(or the sympathy trilogy for that matter) you are missing out on some of the best films made this century.
Anthony Quinn is a master at capturing our heart and sympathy.
Along the way, he is caught up in the fate of several Chinese patriots attempting to secure sympathy and support for their revolutionary cause.
I feel pity for him, so maybe it's a bit of a sympathy vote.
It doesn't have any sympathy for any of the men, really.
You can feel sympathy and joy and love and sorrow for them all at once.
the best friend and husband seemed random..the doctors meeting seemed to hint that there was not much time left(to live..) so when the infidelity was revealed, I didn't feel as much sympathy for the character-more like relief! the ending was so great- the lines btwn.
As Willard journeys upriver in an army boat with some soldiers accompanying, his witnessing the horrors and the insanity - and the overwhelming pointlessness of it all - leads to an eerie sympathy and identification with Kurtz before they even meet.
These are regular looking Aussie kids who invite plenty of sympathy because of this.
It's very easy to feel sympathy for the characters and to understand that their dysfunctional present relationship is a result of past events out of their control.
Both characters come from extremely broken homes and therefore the audience has sympathy for them despite their imperfections.
"Hidden in Silence" is another good story of human sympathy in World War II.
The crazy cases they get are so outlandish, they barely evoke sympathy or sadness.
The first problem is that, by agreeing to take on the murder by hire assignment, the drifter loses all sense of sympathy, worthiness, and heroism.
And the wife (nicely played by the fetching Kari Wuhrer - the sheriff in EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS), a high class lady who runs a mission for homeless people, similarly loses a degree of sympathy by jumping right into bed with the homeless drifter (despite her evidently weakened state after the death of her husband).
Has the standard background story to give sympathy to the religious fanatic (wife and son killed in a police raid a few years previous).
Y'know, maybe that movie could've been interesting, but it's misplaced in a documentary about the historicity of Jesus, and it's so self-congratulatory as to deflate any sympathy.
I give it a 4 out of sheer sympathy and my affinity for dinosaurs.
The biggest sin is that the audience is supposed to feel sympathy for kids who gun down old ladies, run over puppies chained to a tree, rob and steal, all the while complaining about their sad, sorry lives.
On top of that, it's hard to feel any sympathy for, or empathy with a teacher who has erotic dreams involving sex with one of their uniform wearing pupils while they both lie on a pile of gym mats.
Honestly depicting social depravation is no crime, but boring your audience to groans is not the way to win the sympathy of the public.
Catherine Keener does exceptionally well in a supporting role, and showing sympathy comes naturally to her, so that everybody would like to have her around (I would like to tell her every time I feel a cold coming on, as I know she would get me a soothing hot drink).
Akras family originally came from Jaffa, but now live crammed into a refugee camp only 4 miles from where the Levys live in comparative luxury.Any sympathy I would have had for the obviously well to do Mrs.
These are not mere plot-holes, but plot graves, that become ever deeper as we lose any sympathy for the main character and his plight.
At no time did I ever feel sympathy for Diane Lane or Anna Paquin in their troublesome middle-class care free life, nor did I feel for the emasculated Liev Shrieber.
I felt no sympathy for anyone because their characters were not developed enough.
You lost sympathy for her after she was rude and acting wackos singing and cleaning.
I mean who honestly would have any sympathy for a guy who finishes off everyone she has meet in a night.
The only feeling that this adaptation excited in me was incredulity and also sympathy for Charlotte Bronte who is most definitely turning in her grave.
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