Titanic

Titanic

Watching the Titanic movie motivated me to write movie reviews. After watching the Titanic movie, I was so anxious to begin writing reviews that I started penning it. Because I have always adored movies (actually all media), I figured I might as well share my opinions in a blog. It hit me only when I was sitting through the 1997 drama disaster film that I actually want to start writing film reviews.

Let’s start with the plot of the film. You feel every particle in the movie. Some may say the doors opened and everyone on the ship was able to come on who was able to get on in the short amount of time they were there, which is a lovely sight. Certainly no one is going to give you a happy ending; everyone knows the end of this true tale, and it will be written in history forever. Even now, James Cameron’s interpretation of the actual incident is breathtaking twenty years after its release. The film, which lasts nearly 3 and a half hours, is as beautiful as the love Jack and Rose had, and it builds up quite beautifully.

While one could argue that the story is fictional, with all that is going on in the world today, it resonates. One instance would be how the scenes are colored; when a dark and sad scene needs to be shown, the appropriate shade is used so as to enhance empathy towards the scene.

Speaking of the characters, in Jack’s case it so happened that he was broke, but honest and loving in equal measure. He had his doubts, but he always knew what he wanted and went out looking for it. He was said to be an artist, although the constituent pictures had not been drawn by Leonardo, which is strange because in fact they were the work of James Cameron (the Director) a man like that can do anything? Then they came down to some Rose.

Rose is someone who cannot be related to Jack in as much that she has everything, yet not a single ounce of content in her. All the money, a loving voice (her arrogant fiancé, Cal) but still not satisfied. The woman is encased in toxic people of her close circle and family. To me, it is obvious that Rose was not in love with herself or the life she had, which was the case until she met Jack.

She expressed the need to be noticed and as a result, it drove her a bit insane…

We reach a moment where Rose is desperately running through the deck in tears, buoys of her Maisha. Then, she stands on the ship’s sides and appears to be about to take her life. The score in this movie can best be described as heroic. As Jack approaches and strikes a conversation with her, she’s distressed that she’s going to make a big mistake, when she attempts to come off the rails again, she loses her balance.

At this instance, the tune suddenly turns even darker and scarier but before we know it Jack saves the day yet again, the hero never sinks with the promise that he will never let go of her. At this juncture, the music once again goes back to its original bold tone. Speaking of the music, Mr. James Horner deserves accolades for his marvelous orchestral pieces that dominate the film and why not, it is the highest selling orchestral film soundtrack.

Again what saddens me is at more or less the first half of the film is when talking about the class barriers the ship has inside, upper and lower.

Now, for anyone interested in watching this film in 2018, there has been a stark contrast in time since the year 1912 which is an improvement. If ships were able to be constructed and shaped in the way that Titanic was, people would pitch a fit. There are many such instances in life that the world is divided more on class principles where upper and the lower class never move forward in time. Things like such are hard to argue about when it involves political correctness which very few people possess nowadays.

I personally think in the very first instance we see Jack gazing over at rose as she walks down the wooden stairs, we have fallen into the depths of the plot. I wound up in a particular scene since if I were to recount every aspect in the analysis of this film it is going to be a long dispatch. I am simply reiterating a few sequences and how they played out in contrast to what was previously shown. Jack had virtually been asked in order to repay her for literally saving him some people with a upper class seating arrangement and this was one of the best parts for him.

During dinner, as Rose’s classmates inquire about his future prospects, Jack explains sweetly that “all life is a game of luck.” This resonates quite well with his view of Destiny and that he will find assistance from God. This quote will be interpreted in entirely different ways by different people because for some, religion exists, for others it does not. Of course, there is no right or wrong answer here.

The upper class party seems to be so refined and stylish, but is it true? Leading Jack to say one of his best lines of the film which is…“So you want to go to a real party?”. Watching Rose and Jack cut loose at the lower-class party is gut-busting and probably the funniest part of the movie. After the party, the family of Rose as you would guess disagrees with her for attending a lower class party and for being around Jack too much. So she decides to heed their comments and do not see Jack.

This however lasts for a very short period of time, for soon after she meets Jack on the deck after she has “had a change of heart” and we all know what happens in this scene. Yea, the interesting “I’m Flying!” scene! This should be perfect for everyone since the legendary instrumental of “My Heart Will Go On” is just there to remind us that everything is all good in this particular scene.

With any film, there has to be some improbability in it somewhere, and for me, it’s how Jack and Rose absolutely adored each other in four days! I understand how one can feel a certain degree of attraction towards a person over a period of four days, but being ‘in love’ within that period for me is a bit insincere. Jack opened doors for Rose to a life which she would have never imagined having, and that is depressing but encouraging for optimism. Regardless of that, although they didn’t end up the way they really wanted, Rose did discover herself and started to love herself, with a little help from Jack.

Allow me to take a minute now to discuss Cal, Rose’s abusive sponsor. He is terribly pompous and condescending. However, I kind of pity him. Why did he want to treat Rose the way he did? Perhaps he himself did not have any easy times either. A character in this movie seems to be thirty right now, which gives the impression that he is supposed to be fairly sophisticated and not brainless. I guess times were really tough in the past with many aspects, still then, there must not be any reason for a human being to treat Rose in the manner that he did, in any era.

When everything starts happening, the big scene that we are talking about is definitely not for those who are weak calibers and have low tolerance. You see people in absolute shock, or people getting gunned down/ gunning down. It is practically a fight for survival. If you’re a rich woman or a child, you’re the first one on the boat.

It was like that in the past and such would be the case even today if another catastrophe such as the one the Titanic faced was to ever arise (though unlikely, human beings should have had enough learnt from their own disasters not to construct an enormous ocean going beast of Iron and Steel). Then fighting for equal rights became a thing few decades after Titanic so things are completely and I mean completely different from how they were in the past.

Then we get to probably the most iconic and referenced scene of the movie, when Rose gets up on one of the doors made up of wood. There’s still a great deal of controversy that even today, there was room on the door arguing that if Jack were to climb onto there too, then in every situation they tried to climb up there, they would end up just falling off so I for one do believe THERE wasn’t any space for Jack.

In my opinion, it is evident in the film that Jack knew he would die and therefore tried to instill some positive confidence in Rose, suggesting that she was strong enough to fight for her life. To lift her spirits, he adds his famous line, “winning that ticket was the best thing that ever happened to me.”

As for the phrase, “I will never let go, Jack,” I think this is more metaphoric than anything. She absolutely had to let go of the icy remains of his corpse, but I think the expression was more about, “I will never forget you and what you taught me in our brief encounters.”

I believe that the lifeboats would not have returned to look for Rose had it not been for Fifth Officer Harold Lowe played by Iona Ruffed who simply lifted Rose after she blew the whistle to show that she was alive. Although this in actual fact never happened as Rose is a fictitious character, the real Harold Lowe did more or less went back to look for survivors but the temperature of the ocean made that impossible.

In conclusion, Titanic deserves to be on a list of must-see movies in one’s lifetime. It uncovers almost every emotion that can be captured in a single film. A near flawless depiction of a tragic event in history along with utter devastation, all woven into one movie by James Cameron.

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