The moment
Shrouded by the darkness of the giant sequoias of a California forest at night, the mystical extraterrestrial reaches out his gentle, magical finger and points so delicately to Eliot's head and reminds him that forever he'll "be right here" before slowly marching up the gangplank of his spacecraft and making his final, tear-inducing farewell.

Why we get choked
This ascension scene inescapably whisks us back to time in our lives when we all possessed an unwavering faith in the notion that the future would always be full of mystery, wonder and aspiration as long as we believed.

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Maybe it's that moment when Wind in his Hair asks Dances with Wolves if he can see that "he is his friend" and tells him that he "will always be [his] friend" that we missed.

Do you agree that this moment is one of the best?