12 Most Effective Musical Moments In Film

Newlyweds Juliet (Keira Knightley) and Peter (Chiwetel Ejiofor) had requested that Mark (Andrew Lincoln), Peter's best friend and apparently not a Juliet fan, make a wedding video and Juliet has come by to pick it up.

Mark pretends that it is not ready, but she spots it and pops it into the VCR (oh, VCRs). She loves it; it is exactly what they wanted. She is thankful, while Mark seems to want to be anywhere but there.

But something is amiss. As she watches the video, Juliet cannot help but notice that she is its focus... that it is her the camera follows... that it is her who Mark has paid attention to the most.

The realization of what his distance has always represented hits her like lightning, but he is too heartbroken to explain and she is too speechless to ask.

Mortified, Mark leaves, strolling down cold London streets as Dido croons about needing her lover. He has to gather his thoughts and move on from unrequited love, but does not know how.

The song is London at Christmas in this scene. It is Mark being vulnerable and uncertain of what his future holds, all the while in the grip of an impossible emotion. It is a perfect scene in a film filled with perfect vignettes.