Absolutely. Reunions are just the best things, and they’re gold for movies. There’s a big compilation somewhere of human-dog reunions…and there’s that donkey one. A donkey one! But it’s totally a joyous reunion.
This was one of the great things about working with elephants: they made it a joyous reunion every single time we returned to the yard/barn, even if we’d only been gone half an hour to feed the llamas and tapirs. Trumpeting, squealing, and Boo making thunder by kicking the door.
Something I noticed: look how well equipped that soldier is. New uniform, clean rifle. I compare that image in my mind to the ones sneaking out of dirty Russian soldiers in WWI-style dirt trenches. Winter is coming, too.
These scenes of reunion and of liberated people waving flags are incredibly moving.
There was one on twitter of a woman who dug up a flag she had kept carefully wrapped hidden under flagstones.
They are indeed. I’ve been sniffling all morning.
Pauline Kael, the film critic, said that the reunion is an absolute surefire emotions grabber.
It is. I well up when I see “so and so (child, old person, teenager) reported missing has been found safe and well”.
So much more when a village/city is liberated from a brutal occupying force.
Absolutely. Reunions are just the best things, and they’re gold for movies. There’s a big compilation somewhere of human-dog reunions…and there’s that donkey one. A donkey one! But it’s totally a joyous reunion.
This was one of the great things about working with elephants: they made it a joyous reunion every single time we returned to the yard/barn, even if we’d only been gone half an hour to feed the llamas and tapirs. Trumpeting, squealing, and Boo making thunder by kicking the door.
Something I noticed: look how well equipped that soldier is. New uniform, clean rifle. I compare that image in my mind to the ones sneaking out of dirty Russian soldiers in WWI-style dirt trenches. Winter is coming, too.