10 Movies It's OK For Men To Cry At

3. Up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2bk_9T482g Up is a film that touches us all in different ways, but there's no mistaking that the opening 4-minute sequence is easily the best and most affecting portion of the film, depicting the life-long love story between Carl Fredricksen and his eventual wife Ellie. We see them meet as children, start a romance, get married, get a house, and then sadly plan for children but discover that Ellie cannot have them. Ellie is distraught for a while, but the pair plans to travel to South America, before inevitably having life always get in the way, and eventually, succumbing to illness in old age, Ellie dies, leaving Carl all on his own. It's such a simple, delicate sequence but one which evokes more emotions than most feature films do in their entirety; it touches on the most human of all aspects - that's meeting someone, trying to start a family, and the inevitabilities of old age - that we are all going to be faced with in one way or another. And this is Pixar's genius; they manage to do this time and time again, to take universal ideas and deliver them in an artful, intelligent and heartfelt way.