The last list is deleted. That got ridiculous.
Moments that feel influenced by something supernatural that we can't explain, like a holy sacrament in the Catholic Church. Not much, just a very little bit. A better list that only took 20 minutes...
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- The Baptismal massacre at the end of The Godfather
- The assassination of Don Fanucci in Godfather II
- The entrance and exit from Colonel Kurtz's camp in Apocalypse Now
- The death of Radio Raheem and the riot that follows in Do The Right Thing
- The encounter in Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- The monolith and the bone in 2001
- Club Silencio in Mulholland Dr.
- The locust plague and fire in Days of Heaven
- The field hospital in Gone with the Wind
- The oil fire and 'I've abandoned my child' scenes in There Will Be Blood
- The walk to the crucifixion in Last Temptation of Christ
- The USS Indianapolis speech in Jaws
- The final scene in Schindler's List at Schindler's grave
- The ending of Sunrise (the last great and maybe greatest silent film in America)
- The final performance of I Shall Be Released at the end of The Last Waltz
- The creation at the beginning of The Tree of Life
- The opening diary entry in First Reformed
- Mozart on his death bed and funeral procession in Amadeus
- The first encounter with aliens in Arrival
- The teeth story in A Serious Man
- The masked ritual in Eyes Wide Shut
- D-day in Saving Private Ryan
- The bell ringing in Lincoln
- The Cloister's scene and the subway trip in the new West Side Story
- the frogs in Magnolia
- the exit in The Truman Show
- the mothership and flying bikes in ET
- the farewell and sex scene in Her
- the dual sunset in Star Wars
- The Circle of Life in The Lion King
- Night on Bald Mountain and Ave Maria in Fantasia
- WALL-E and Evey dance in space
- Pinocchio becoming a real boy
- The forest fire in Bambi
- The jail scene in Dumbo
- Bing-bong's disappearance in Inside Out
- Robin Williams in Aladdin
- The opening of UP
- Miguel singing Remember Me in Coco
- The toys holding hands and the ending of Toy Story 3
- Jessie's memory in Toy Story 2
- The coin toss in No Country for Old Men
- The appearance of the baby in Children of Men
- Burt Lancaster looking out over the city in The Sweet Smell of Success
- The Xanadu scenes in Citizen Kane
- The doorway in The Searchers
- Omar Sharif's appearance in the distance in Lawrence of Arabia
- the office in The Apartment
- The shower scene and the appearance of the mother in Psycho
- Madeleine's appearance, the tracking sequence, and the appearance of the nun in Vertigo
- the final exit from The Birds
- The mirror scene in Duck Soup
- The movie escaping the studio in Blazing Saddles
- The police arrive at the end of Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the cut to black.
- The bomb ride in Doctor Strangelove
- The golf ball in the Marine Biologist episode of Seinfeld
- Springfield Gorge in The Simpsons (I'm serious)
- Homer sitting under the stars at the end of Mother Simpson
- The Sopranos finale scene
- Daenarys's rebirth through fire in Game of Thrones.
- The Red Room in Twin Peaks
- The wheel pitch, Don kissing Peggy's hand, Don and Peggy dancing to My Way, Peggy skating through the office in Mad Men
- Walter White laughing in the crawl space in Breaking Bad
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These are moments that reach out for something truly religious. They seem like holy sacraments where something feels influenced or transformed by a dimension larger than any we can understand in this world.
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