Do you ever cry when watching TV/a film? Is this empathy?

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I've been known to cry uncontrollably at some movies, e.g. Up! and Marley and Me. Any movie with emotional content will have that effect. If it's based on a true story, e.g. Schindler's List, I'm a wreck. My daughter gets very emotional too. When she was about 3yrs, I took her to the kids showing of Bolt. She started wailing when he left his toy carrot behind (crying for the feelings of the carrot, not Bolt).

I find that I need to buy a movie and watch it multiple times over a period of time before I can really relate to the characters and feel much emotion.

I was always fascinated growing up watching how emotionally involved with movies my mother would get, she would be shocked by the smallest thing, jump out of her chair at exciting things...just wow. I was kind of jealous that I couldn't get the same kind of emotional depth and show the same expressive behaviour by watching movies.

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I stopped going to movies a quarter of a century ago, because I burst into tears often. I cry watching TV maybe once a day. I cry in sympathy... and I cry at the aesthetics and the beauty of many creations. Even comedies like Community or Modern Family will choke me up... just the goodness of them blows me away.

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I start weeping at about 2:47 when Nils starts his killer impossibly beautiful solo... does it get any of you all? Ridiculous I know and my cheeks are wet right now... (silly old man!)

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well then tall-p, glad to have ya aboard the silly old man club then

I cry at lots of tv and movies. Mostly tv though, I find movies usually much harder to invest in the characters. TV allows me the time to care about them and what happens to them. It's also why I watch soaps. Well, one soap. In some ways I look at it as a learning tool to social situations.

I almost cried when i watched the movie " 1 litre of tears ". It's a real story of a girl that had a brain degenerating disease in japan. It's really a sad but inspirational movie but strangely when my maid in real life told me that she had a phone call from family and found out her father is died i can't feel sad , i just stand there don't know what to do.

No I do not. I remember when I was 5 went in to a haunted house I got scared but then my brother took me back in and told me it was fake. I then watched the Frankenstein repeatedly sit up and lie back down. After that nothing phased me that was fiction. Then a couple years later I learn about death so that no longer phased me. Didn't even cry after my grandmother died and found out I gave her the last dose of medicine that killed her. I did cry when my oldest ASD son was born. I also shed a tear we he first said "I love you daddy". Other than that, no I have little empathy maybe I'm just a heartless bastard.

I do not cry out loud but I sometimes get tears in my eyes when watching movies and series mostly out of relief when a problem has been resolved in a way I find beautiful like many endings of Touched by an angel. I did not cry when watching bambi and was amazed that everyone around me was in tears during a viewing at my primary school.

When I watch a series I feel like I really know these people I feel connected to them and I know how they will react. I really like the predictability of the characters and sometime their predictable unpredictability e.g. Walter from the Fringe.
When a series ends or I finish a book I feel like I have lost a friend or even family member. Strange thing is I am not able to feel this emotions for my real family members and friends. They can not stir these emotions in me. This kind of freaks me out when I try to think about it.

Yes I have teared up during films before and rarely experience this anywhere else in my life. I have heard about tragic news that have happened to classmates and co-workers and have never cried in response to it. I remember when I was informed by the office secretary that my former manager's husband passed away I really had no response and a blank look on my face. I kind of feel like an as*hole for doing that and may think about the situation in my head and feel really bad about it but to an observer my response was cold.

The only time I have really cried is when my first dog was killed. I was indifferent to the passing of my grandparents since I was pretty young at the time. However it is strange that emotional scenes in films will water up my eyes. This really does not happen any other way unless I am really feeling sorry for myself, am depressed, and start sobbing.

No, unfortunately I never cry while watching TV/movies. I am also somewhat schizoid and am usually indifferent to tragedies (real or fictional). When a living thing dies, I couldn't care less honestly. I feel absolutely nothing. If I had a dog and he died I would just get another dog, and I would probably only feel bad if I had taken the time to train the dog and I knew that if I got a new dog I would again have to take the time to retrain another dog. I consider this a good thing though, in a way, because It means I never have to deal with emotions and can just move on *snap* like that.