Small scene, big impact.

[Svengoolie 3]

Describe, if you will, some very small scenes in movies that had big impacts for you.

Shin godzilla:

Early on the infant stage godzilla is humping along thru a city, people are running screaming and panicking. In one very short scene an old man is standing alongside a road obviously afraid and confused. A rescue worker runs up to his, places his hands on his shoulders and begins to take him to safety. A tiny act of selfless humanity in all that mindless panic and "every man for himself!"  hysteria made a certain impact.

Later see see a family in an apartment trying to evacuate their building but are in it when early godzilla topples it, pretty obviously killing them.  We may know there are people in those buildings that get knocked over in kaiju movies, but this made them more real.

After the attacks, there is a scene where a refugee camp is set up and a person at a table holds a bowl out and has a large ladle of what looked like beef stew plopped in it. Again, a brief scene that shows the consequences of something like a kaiju attack on a city, and humans coming to the aid of their kind in need.

[Allhallowsday]

The very end of GERMANIA ANNO ZERO. 

[RCMerchant]

When the tear runs down the Monster's face while in the blind man's house in BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935).
That almost made me cry.

[RCMerchant]

The very end of GERMANIA ANNO ZERO. 

I still have yet to see this film. I really need to.

[indianasmith]

There is a scene in AMISTAD where President van Buren is hosting a state dinner in the White House for the Spanish ambassador.
John C. Calhoun crashes the party and has this incredible three minute cameo where he basically threatens the President with disunion and civil war if the Amistad Africans are not convicted.  It's chilling and utterly convincing!