This was the first and one of the few movies to make me cry when I saw it. I have no idea why. I was probably 9 and saw it on pay per view. We had a black box. lol.
I saw this at the theater with my husband. I sobbed in the way out along with nearly everyone else. For three days I cried. Took a week to shake to sadness. A forever feeling.
The more you complain the faster they move because they don’t want you resisting. That’s truly delusional. The order says immediately but you ask the guy to wait until you’re ready.
I remember seeing this in the theater with my girlfriend and when it was over we turned around to walk out and I bet you half of the audience was sitting in their seats crying. Very powerful ending.
Watched this move several times back when TCM aired over here. :) Am mostly a 80s guy, and know about the version made in that decade, but this one is ever the best. They way they play out their roles, speech and use of emotions feels more realistic to how it must have ben in the time which the film is portraying.
Cannot even IMAGINE living during the Civil War Era. From all of the documentaries I've seen, seems that Life back then STUNK! Would've been SO Tempted to go to Canada, get a job, work hard, save my money, and eventually send for my Family.
It was either that or he admit the truth to being an impostor and lose the respect and love of the townsfolk who came to believe in him. He really did not have much of a choice.
@@xyPERSON The other thing that some cluey person pointed out on another clip somewhere else, I forget where, if he was proven not to be Jack Somersby all those share cropping contracts would be null and void, as his signature would be forgery. That would have left everyone in the district out of pocket and in a right ole dither. Add to that, the baby they had together would be considered an illegitimate bastard, a massive deal in them days, and Laurel would have been completely shamed in the community, and the original son would have had a horrible time of it all.
totally agree. one of top endings with me always crying like a baby at the end... its not a best of the best movies of all time, but the music and the acting is in my eyes perfect, one of geres better roles.. its much more underrated that i think it should be?
Tonight, I don't know why, but I needed to cry......this film, this scene does it for me EVERY time .....I remember coming out of the cinema devastated, Mr B took me to the nearby Boots doorway and I held onto him and sobbed xxxx
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Hola Ana María!!! Está escena final de Sommersby desde niño siempre me ha resultado muy emotivo. Porque a pesar de la horca y sus minutos finales. Jack quiere que le acompañe Laurel en su muerte. Un saludo desde España, en Málaga. Mucho ánimo contra el Covid
Maybe some less than perfect than Angels could sing along with her at the end if they won't open the gate. (That's a metaphor for you harsh science expert critics, you know. Of course you do.)
Leonard Hughes Basically he really was an impostor. He shared a jail cell with her husband, who killed a man and then died himself. They didn’t have the body so it was assumed he was alive still. If he said that he was an imposter though then his “wife” and family would lose everything.
Roy W yes they would have lost not only their land but also Lauren's reputation would have been in tatters - shacking up with a man she wasn't married to was completely unheard of in those days, and also, going by the times, how much would the daughter (baby born in story line) have suffered being a bastard child ... growing up in complete poverty, she would have had no prospects and as a bastard child would have ended up an abused prostitute in adulthood. It was a very brave thing that the character (played by Gere) in the story did - and imagine the strength of will it would have taken to go through with it. Also, shows just how much he regretted the previous life he had led as Horrace Townsend that he did not want to return to it under any circumstances.
Id like to add a little more context. The Sommersby imposter (townsend) had proposed a plan to rejuvenate the town and made contracts and took money from everyone. If he were to admit he wasnt the real Jack, all those contracts are void and as it would be fraud, the poor folk who gave everything to Jack for those tobacco seeds would have all assets frozen by the courts and likely wouldnt get their money. The town would go collectively broke if he admitted he wasnt Jack Sommersby. The tragic burn here, is that to continue to claim he was Jack, he would be hung for a crime he didnt commit and lose a womans love whom he deeply felt (as you can see in the clip). He selflessly protected the reputation of the love of his life, saved the town, and gave his life for these values. A tremendous demonstration of redemption as Horace was a cheater and a swindler. And he didnt want to be Horace. It was an excellent movie
@@titogonzalez8987 Excellent additional context. I hadn't even considered the legal aspect of the contracts he made with the townsfolk as Jack Somersby.
