Who would have thought, saddest movie ever?

Rating: 5/10 (9 July 2011)

I'm sure my review will go unnoticed, as i've listed it as a 5/10, but I couldn't help but put my 2 cents in on this one.
I have a love/hate relationship with this movie. It really was good, great effects/graphics, great characters, some humorous parts.....but, I was constantly being reminded of how endlessly depressing the story line is.
I marked this as "spoiler", but again, if you don't want the movie spoiled then I wouldn't continue reading.
I am a 23 year old male, who has been brought up in a "tough" world. I've been raised to believe that a man who cries is a weak man, therefore, I rarely shed tears or openly show remorse. This movie may have brought out years of held back emotion. The writers of this movie did a satisfactory job of dragging you into the story, and making you realize how much the main character and his wife are in love. They basically don't have anything in life but each other. And in the story not only does the wife die, but it even points out that the couple were unable to have kids. While I realize these are parts of life, they probably don't belong in a children's movie.
Probably 15 minutes into the movie, I can't even see the screen because i'm fighting back tears as if my OWN wife had just passed away. Then, just when I think the movie can't get any more depressing, here comes a scene where a construction worker is assisting another while backing up a truck. The worker tries to stop the other from running over the old mans mailbox (which the movie emphasizes that he and his wife made, with their hand prints in paint on the side). After seeing his mailbox get ran over, the old man becomes enraged in trying to keep the worker from touching/fixing it, and accidentally "bonks" the worker on the head. At this point i've given up holding back tears, and i'm crying like an infant. Then the man is forced to go to court, where he is THEN forced to vacate his house (the house him and his wife fixed up and lived in almost their entire lives).
Throughout the movie the old man stares into pictures of him and his wife, ensuing melancholy music and depressing expressions.
I realize the movies motive, and realize that it gets upbeat for the most part later on, but it is extremely difficult to get over the first 30 minutes (or so) of this movie.
A lot of people would say that this isn't a children's movie...but I beg to differ. I think it should be strictly viewed BY children, as most of them probably wouldn't understand the glaring depressive vibe this movie gives off. At the end I probably had red eyes and a smile on my face, but I still cannot get over the chilling first half of the movie.