Titanic

Titanic
1997

I have a confession to make. Hidden very, very, VERY deep down inside of me is a hopeless romantic who rarely sees the light of day. This said romantic only comes out when out when a love story is so beautiful you can’t help but go “Aw.” Only three movies have had this effect on me. One is Say Anything. Second, The Nightmare Before Christmas. The third, Titanic.

Before we go into anything, I must tell you this. THE BOAT SINKS. Okay? If you didn’t know that, you don’t have enough brains to deserve to live. I’m sorry.

Anywho, the story begins with this ancient lady discovering that a drawing has been found from the ship Titanic. It’s of a naked lady. So she calls the people who found it and tells them it was her. As she gets on the boat and meets up with the people, she launches into a three hour story of what happened aboard the Titanic.

Rose is a society girl destined to be married to a horrible, and might I add ugly, rich man. She doesn’t love him, so decides to jump off the edge of the Titanic. But! She’s not alone! Jack, a poor but amazing guy who only is here because he won his ticket in a hand of poker, is right behind her. He tells her not to jump and eventually saves her life. He’s invited to dinner with her family and before you know it! They’re in love. Aw.

They have loads of fun like dancing with the lower class people, pretending to fly, learning to spit, and been drawn naked. Well almost. She was wearing the really big and expensive necklace her fiancée gave her.

But then, of course, the stupid people don’t have stupid binoculars and they hit the stupid iceberg and the stupid boat begins to sink. It’s all rather stupid.

While the ship starts to sink Rose’s stupid family think Jack has stolen the necklace and has him locked up in the basement. Then everyone heads to the boats. Poor Jack.

The boats are women and children only so Rose and her mom get ready to go. But Rose realizes she can’t leave Jack. She loves him. Yay! I don’t care how illogical of a choice that is it makes me happy. She goes and saves Jack from the perilous basement. After fighting their way up, they find another boat, which is, again, women and children only. Rose gets on, looks at Jack, and leaps back. This made Rose, not the character, the real person sitting next to me the whole time, rather annoyed, but it made me feel pretty dandy!

The boat goes down. Jack dies from freezing water. *Sniff. Rose survives because he gave her the piece of ship and she was out of the water.

In the end, back with old Rose, we find out she still has the necklace, the priceless, necklace. And you know what she does with it? SHE DROPS IT IN THE OCEAN! Where is it now? At the bottom of the ocean? With Britney Spears? (If you get that, you rock) Rose is an idiot.
But she ends up dying, and goes to heaven, were she is reunited with Jack. The end.

I loved this movie. It’s a rare movie that can be over three hours long and not feel like it. The technicals of the movie, ie cinematography, special effects, are beautiful. The Titanic is dazzling in the movie. The chemistry between Kate Winslet, Rose, and Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack, is perfect. The whole movie was just really good.

It is a rare movie, for me, that is about romance and enjoyable. I don’t really know why, but even though Rose and Jack knew each other only two days, it seemed believable and lovely. For just this once I don’t particularly care if it’s unrealistic. When it’s done as brilliantly as Titanic it does not really matter.