Writer's Block: Here's looking at you

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I have to admit, it's the scene in "Hannibal" where Dr. Lector is riding the merry-go-round and reaches his hand out to brush Starling's hair as he goes past her while they're on the phone. To me, that's the very essence of what love is. That longing, those glancing moments, that's what really makes it worthwhile. Where you don't require anything more from the one you love than for them to exist.


And I'm going to mention my second favourite, since the whole movie is, imho, one of the most romantic I've ever seen but I can't really pick any one particular scene. It's a Chinese film called "A World Without Thieves". The protagonists are a married pair of thieves who spend a train ride trying to keep other thieves from stealing money from a mildly handicapped boy that the woman has "adopted" as a brother. It's actually a really beautiful story about love and morality. I sob every time I watch it. Also? You get to see Li Bing Bing's stomach. ;)