The Royal Tenenbaums
Click to viewI don't know why, but this scene has such an effect on me.
I think it's mostly Elliot Smith's song, Needle In the Hay, that immediately puts my mood right into the emotion of the scene.
He cuts his hair and removes his sunglasses, both of which he had been hiding behind in order to hide what he feels from the world and himself. Then, after looking at himself in the mirror for the first time without his sunglasses, he whispers, just to himself, but loud enough to make an impact over the music to the audience, "I'm going to kill myself tomorrow." But he gets all these sudden flashes of Margo, kind of like the memories everyone in Eternal Sunshine of A Spotless Mind wanted to get rid of, and he can't take it anymore. So he kills himself right then. Unplanned, an attempt to escape the unbearable pain that he cannot be with the one he loves.
Oh Mr. Anderson, the intense emotion you pack into just one scene....