History YMMV / SophiesChoice

* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/MerylStreep would later play [[Film/MammaMia the mother of a woman named Sophie, who has three possible fathers and tries to choose one.]]

* NightmareFuel: The 'choice' scene, obviously. Creator/MerylStreep--herself a mother--found it so draining and disturbing that she [[OneTakeWonder did the whole scene in one take]] and never watched it again, until she appeared on Oprah's show and she showed the scene, much to Streep's discomfort.

* CompleteMonster: The [[SmallRoleBigImpact nameless Nazi officer]], who encounters Sophie with her children while processing prisoners at the trains to the [[PoWCamp concentration camps]] to be sent for [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust liquidation or labor]]. Mocking Sophie in a perverse manner, he decides to force the [[SadisticChoice titular choice]] on her: making her choice which of her beloved children can remain with her and which will be gassed. When Sophie cannot choose, he [[WouldHurtAChild orders both children to be gassed]], only relenting for sheer amusement when Sophie chooses her daughter to die.

* CompleteMonster: The [[SmallRoleBigImpact nameless Nazi officer]], who encounters Sophie with her children, is processing prisoners at the trains to the [[PoWCamp concentration camps]] to be sent for [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust liquidation or labor]]. Mocking Sophie in a perverse manner, he decides to force the [[SadisticChoice titular choice]] on her: making her choice which of her beloved children can remain with her and which will be gassed. When Sophie cannot choose, he [[WouldHurtAChild orders both children to be gassed]], only relenting for sheer amusement when Sophie chooses her daughter to die.

* SugarWiki/DevelopmentHeaven: Creator/MerylStreep learned German and Polish for her role. Maybe not completely fluently, but certainly to an astonishingly adept level. And she begged the director for the role on her hands and knees. It has been cited as the greatest acting performance ever put to film.

* SignatureScene: The titular choice is not only by far the most famous scene in the movie, but a arguably the most iconic moment of Creator/MerylStreep's career.

* HoYay: The love triangle between Nathan, Sophie, and Stingo is made more complicated by rather romantically charged scenes between Stingo and Nathan. Stingo talks at length about how he loves both of them and if one was to watch many of the scenes between the three of them out of context, one might easily believe they were in a [[Polyamory polyamorous]] relationship.

* HoYay: The love triangle between Nathan, Sophie, and Stingo is made more complicated by rather romantically charged scenes between Stingo and Nathan. Stingo talks at length about how he loves both of them and if one was to watch many of the scenes between the three of them out of context, one might easily believe they were in a [[Polyamory polyamourous]] relationship.

* HoYay: The love triangle between Nathan, Sophie, and Stingo is made more complicated by rather romantically charged scenes between Stingo and Nathan. Stingo talks at length about how he loves both of them and if one was to watch many of the scenes between the three of them out of context, one might easily believe they were in a [[polyamourous]] relationship.

* HoYay: The love triangle between Nathan, Sophie, and Stingo is made more complicated by rather romantically charged scenes between Stingo and Nathan. Stingo talks at length about how he loves both of them and if one was to watch many of the scenes between the three of them out of context, one might easily believe they were in a polyamourous relationship.

* Hoyay: The love triangle between Nathan, Sophie, and Stingo is made more complicated by rather romantically charged scenes between Stingo and Nathan. Stingo talks at length about how he loves both of them and if one was to watch many of the scenes between the three of them out of context, one might easily believe they were in a polyamourous relationship.

* Ho-yay: The love triangle between Nathan, Sophie, and Stingo is made more complicated by rather romantically charged scenes between Stingo and Nathan. Stingo talks at length about how he loves both of them and if one was to watch many of the scenes between the three of them out of context, one might easily believe they were in a polyamourous relationship.

%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * TearJerker
* TheWoobie: Sophie and her two children. Sophie is forced by Nazi troops at random to make the sadistic choice as to which one of her children will live (or have both of them killed). Her daughter Eva is then taken straight to her death the crematorium, and her son Jan is taken to a children's concentration camp, but never is shown to be reunited with his mother.

* AwesomeMusic: The beautiful [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhI-Ah1qGko love theme]] composed by Music/MarvinHamlisch.

* TearJerker

* NightmareFuel: The 'choice' scene, obviously. Creator/MerylStreep--herself a mother--found it so draining and disturbing that she did the whole scene in one take and never watched it again, until she appeared on Oprah's show and she showed the scene, much to Streep's discomfort.

* HilariousInHindsight: Meryl Streep would later play [[Film/MammaMia the mother of a woman named Sophie, who has three possible fathers and tries to choose one.]]

* NightmareFuel: The 'choice' scene, obviously. Meryl Streep--herself a mother--found it so draining and disturbing that she did the whole scene in one take and never watched it again, until she appeared on Oprah's show and she showed the scene, much to Streep's discomfort.

* NightmareFuel: The 'choice' scene, obviously. Meryl Streep herself found it so draining and disturbing that she only did it once and never watched it again, until she appeared on Oprah's show and she showed the scene, much to Streep's discomfort.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The 'choice' scene, obviously. Meryl Streep herself found it so draining and disturbing that she only did it once and never watched it again, until she appeared on Oprah's show and she showed the scene, much to Streep's discomfort.
* TearJerker

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The 'choice' scene, obviously. Meryl Streep herself found it so draining and disturbing that she only did it once and never watched it again, until she appeared on Oprah's show and [[CompletelyMissingThePoint she showed the scene]], much to Streep's discomfort.