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Tear Jerker / A Man Called Otto

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  • Sonya being disabled and her baby with Otto being stillborn after the bus crash. How crushed Otto is and how you are just watching something like that happen to a person who just wanted a family.
  • When Otto collapses and Marisol thinks he died at first. She calls out his name and you can hear the pain in her voice when she does.
    • Also one of the earlier sequences beforehand where he locks himself away in his home despite her desperately trying to reach him.
  • Otto's final suicide attempt being disturbed by Malcolm at his door; first he accidentally blows a hole in his ceiling and then he has to assure the poor kid that he's not going to shoot him - knowing exactly how rough Malcolm has it already.
  • Tommy and Marisol already know what happened to Otto at the end when they see the snow is still there and he didn’t plow it that morning.
  • Otto says the last part of his goodbye letter in Spanish with toys at his tombstone that are shown as he says it.
  • The credits show drawn pictures by Marisol’s kids of Otto who loved him so much. Seeing this is heartbreaking since he died before these were shown.

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