Metropolis Reality Forums - What movie scenes made you feel most empathic?

Welcome, Guest. Please Login or Register.
Oct 17^th, 2025, 2:09am

Home

Metropolis Reality Forums « What movie scenes made you feel most empathic? »

Hot Movie News and Reviews at Entertainment Spectrum!
www.EntertainmentSpectrum.com

   Metropolis Reality Forums
   Off-Topic Forums
   Movie Discussion (Moderators: Heather, yesteach, Isle_be_back)
   What movie scenes made you feel most empathic?

Previous topic | New Topic | Next topic »

Pages: 1

Add Poll

Notify of replies

Send Topic

Author

Topic: What movie scenes made you feel most empathic? (Read 1045 times)

richardwalter
ForumsNet Member

I love YaBB 1G - SP1!

Posts: 46

What movie scenes made you feel most empathic?
« on: Feb 21^st, 2017, 7:42am »

Quote

Modify

Hello to all Movie Lovers and Cineasts out there!

I am just starting my PHD Project on the topic of empathy and I am really eager to understand - what makes different people understand each other? What hinders them in understanding each other?

I am basically going to track peoples gazing behaviour and look if it predicts how well they could feel into the character. We kind of wonder, if empathy for other people starts with the way we look at them.

To do this, we need, well, visual scenes with an empathic context. In a broader sense, any context, in which person A experiences something and has an emotion about it, can serve as an empathic context.

We are aiming for situations that have a trivial, day-to-day character, in which person A experiences emotions because of some situation. Or, if the situation is not of a day-today character, then at least realistic (no aliens coming through the backdoor or dead people talking through the phone). This situations need to require some degree of perspective taking on the part of the observer (whose gaze behavior we are eventually interested in and are going to look at). Also, we need single scenes, not whole movies. So it should be clear from the scene (2-6 minutes) what the deal is all about.
Person A is adopted and finally finds his parents and they meet for the first time. Biological parent(s) happy OR unhappy (both situations are interesting)
After trying several times, young, overweight A succeeds in jumping over a vaulting horse.
Actually here I could use any situation that shows how someone "unlikely" succeeds in sports. But it needs to be a more realistic scene and not something like Rocky Balboa running upstairs to some victorious sounding music
Person A is really nervous because of a presentation and she succeeds OR doesn't succeed at it (we could use both situations for our research)

Feel free to propose different ones. What is important - A experiences something, has an emotion about it. The scenes should give away enough information so the observer has a chance to understand the situation.
Also, it would be really helpful, if you give me a hint at where to look for the scene or what happens in the scene.
I am really really excited about your answers, guys
am new to here, I have worked with multiple firms. you can check Private cloud solution video one of my work.

Thank you !

IP Logged