Actor and writer Aaron Abrams (you may remember him from such roles as Matthew Weisz on Blindspot and Brian Zeller on Hannibal) got into a long confessional-meets-debate thread going on Twitter this week. He posted a simple question to which we can all relate…and could answer (if we aren’t too embarrassed).
https://twitter.com/MrAaronAbrams/status/953789842567004160
Abrams got a lot of responses from people who just couldn’t help shedding a tear, or, fine, blubbering like little kids, at movies they found to be inexplicably emotionally resonant. While in public. While hurtling through the sky. What’s really fun is that Abrams empathizes or mock-empathizes with almost every single person who owned up to their airplane-ugly-cry-film choice, many of which are not movies that one would normally think of as “cry” movies. (It must be something about the air pressure.)
1.
27 Dresses. I loathe romantic comedies, yet I sobbed like a baby. I was a complete mess. Definitely the altitude.
— Zoe Margolis🎗️ (@girlonetrack) January 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/MrAaronAbrams/status/953803901538418689
2.
Boss Baby 😬
— Chrissyinwm (@chrissyinwm) January 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/MrAaronAbrams/status/953803650027085824
3.
The Intern. HE TRIED SO HARD and he was lonely and also I took too much Ativan.
— sophie dinicol (@esscdee) January 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/MrAaronAbrams/status/954043404257644544