Line #10 TearJerker/Threads

Context TearJerker / Threads

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1	[[quoteright:340:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/threads2.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:340: A woman, who has just survived a nuclear bomb, holding her child, [[MummiesAtTheDinnerTable who hasn't.]]]]
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4	'''As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff as per policy.]] Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.'''
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7	* The childlike awe with which Bob, Jimmy's friend, reacts to the mushroom cloud over RAF Finningley. He genuinely seems broken by the sight of it.
8	--> '''Bob:''' Jesus ''Christ'', they've done it. ''[quietly, [[StillSucksThumb holding his thumb to his mouth]]]'' They've done it...
9	* Jimmy's father, seen dealing with the early stages of radiation sickness, is shown sitting under a statue several days after the attack, staring at Michael's handheld videogame console and breaking down. And this is the last time the audience sees him.
10	* As shown in the page image, Ruth's walk through the ruins of Sheffield is utterly devoid of music and set against difficult images -- people in the midst of shock, an man whose head is covered in bandages, having a breakdown, and a woman holding the corpse of her child in her arms, looking at Ruth with a ThousandYardStare. And worse yet, this incident causes Ruth to suffer from a HeroicBSOD -- she barely speaks for the rest of the film, being so traumatized by what she saw that she resorts to near-animalistic behavior ''just to survive''.
11	* Ruth finding, and holding onto, Jimmy's book until her death 13 years later. Worse yet, Jane doesn't understand the significance of it, and leaves it behind, instead opting to take a hairbrush and scarf as she leaves.
12	* It's really damn hard to not feel terribly at the woman who's so terrified, she wets herself.
13	* Ruth's poor grandmother. She's bundled into a basement, frightened and confused, the city gets bombed and she suffers the indignity of [[PottyFailure soiling herself]], all the while sobbing about how she feels embarrassed and like a baby. [[FromBadToWorse And then she dies.]] The last we see of her, some looters walk past her rotting corpse and it's very strongly implied the rats will eat her - she suffers the gruesome indignity of unburied death.
14	** As Ruth's poor parents hastily cover up the grandmother's body, Ruth flees the house in terror, leading her mother to break down in sobs at the door.
15	* Most of the entries in the movie's [[NightmareFuel/{{Threads}} Nightmare Fuel]] entry also double as TearJerker.

Context TearJerker / Threads