Titanic starts out as a movie about an old lady who had been on an "unsinkable" cruise ship. She tells a story about the ship, and a person who had made a huge impact on her life. There are two main characters in the story, the lady telling the story, whose name is Rose, and Jack. When she starts telling the story, this is basically how it goes. Rose is a girl who comes from a rich family, and she is engaged to a man named Cal. Jack is a poor boy who happened to win a ticket for the cruise while playing a game of poker. Since the two have very different lifestyles, it is "improper" for them to speak to each other. However, one night Rose gets upset and decides to hang over the side of the ship. Jack is the only one around to see this happening and tries to go over and talk her out of jumping. Jack eventually gets Rose back over the ledge, and from then on their love affair starts. They begin sneaking around to be with each other, and eventually Cal and Rose's mother start to catch on about their secret romance. To try and get Rose to keep her priorities straight, Cal gives her a huge blue diamond heart necklace, called "the heart of the ocean". However, Jack and Rose still continue to sneak around a see each other. In a tragic turn of events about halfway through the movie, the ship hits an iceberg. The lower levels of the ship begin to fill with water, causing the ship to start sinking. Fights begin to break out because there aren't enough small boats to hold everyone whose on the ship. Rose's mother tries many times to get Rose safely on a boat, but she chooses to stay with Jack instead. Jack and Rose continue stay together, even after the ship goes underwater. They find an abandoned door in the water and decide to use it to wait for help. Rose lays on the door while Jack stays in the water. Eventually everything gets quiet, and only one small ship comes back to save the remaining people that might be alive in the freezing water. Rose hears the man in the boat whistling and turns over to tell Jack. When Rose turns over, she can't get Jack to wake up and realizes that he has frozen to death in the freezing water. She tells Jack that she'll never let go, kisses him, and then lets go of him in the water and watches him sink away. She then swims to another frozen person and retrieves a whistle and proceeds to whistle to the boat for help. The boat comes back for her and a few other people and they are taken safely to another big ship that's going to America. She moves on with her life and eventually gets married and has kids. The movie comes to an end with Rose going to the end of the ship she's on and throwing the heart of the ocean into the water. The very last scene shows Rose in a bed, and then shows lots of pictures of things she had done in her younger years. In my opinion this resembles that Rose died warm in her bed and then shows everything that Jack told her she would do instead of dying when the ship sank in the freezing water.
This image represents how opposites attract. I feel like this is the most important component in the movie because of how Rose and Jack were. They were completely from opposite ends of the spectrum, and If they hadn't been that way, then they wouldn't have fallen for each other.
In my opinion, this is a great love story. It shows how two completely different people can fall in love with each other and have a great relationship, even when no one else thinks they should be together. If I had to rate this movie on a scale of 1-10, I would give it an 8. I would give it an 8 because some things made me mad while I was watching the movie.
If I could make one change to the movie, it would be for Jack to get on the door with Rose. It makes me mad that he didn't get on the door with Rose when there was clearly enough room for him. However, even if this one part was changed, it would change the whole plot of the story and mess everything up. I think it would make a lot of people happy though, especially teenage girls.
-Taylor
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