10 Movie Deaths That Completely Ruined You
3. Up - Ellie
For an opening sequence less than 10 minutes long, Up manages to emotionally devastate just about anyone that watches it. Portrayed in montage form as Carl and Ellie live out their married life, we watch as their time together evolves with age. Ellie is an adventurer, she wants a life of exploration and excitement, and Carl is her adoring partner with her every step of the way.
Only, the biggest adventure the two want to undertake turns out to be impossible. We learn Ellie, much to the couple's dismay, can't have children.
Nevertheless, they live out their days with each other until they're old and grey, until Ellie slips away before Carl can take her on the trip of a lifetime they'd always hoped for. It's the consistently cruel hand of fate that dictates the lives of the pair, and it's borderline traumatising in its execution. That Carl then lives out the rest of his life, and the rest of the film, in dedication to her only makes it all the more touching.