One of the powers of good storytelling paired with solid filmmaking is invoking the ugly cry from viewers.
The ugly cry is the uncontrollable stream of tears you, as the audience member, engage in as you feel all the characters’ emotions and stories playing out across the screen.
We’ve ugly cried to movies with animals, iconic deaths, endings of franchise films, and The Notebook.
The genres that really indulge the ugly cry are romance and breakup stories.
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