You could take any good half-hour chunk of The Last of Us and you'd end up with a selection of incredible moments, from Ellie saving Joel's life in the hotel, to the interaction with Henry and Sam or of course the final scene that ends on that shot, meaning so much with so little. However the one that really grabs you and makes you realise how visceral this world can be is David's attempted rape of Ellie, the end result not going very well for the former at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWfoMG3JHf4 It marks both the first time Ellie has killed out of pure revenge-tinted rage and not necessarily a survivalist instinct, and is also the first time both Joel and Ellie embrace each other, the score underneath highlighting the spiking emotions of the moment and hammering home just how human these characters are.
