Titanic (1997), Looking back into the past: Marxist critique approach

The film began with the search for the valuable and precious Heart of the Ocean necklace. Brock Lovett and his team believed that the necklace sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean along with the Titanic. They failed numerous times until they found a vault that they believe contains the necklace. As it was broadcast live on TV, they opened the vault only to be very dismayed that there was no diamond necklace inside. Just a sketch of a naked woman wearing the treasure they were looking for. Lovett was hopeless until he received a phone call from an elderly woman who claimed to know who the naked woman was. Rose along with her granddaughter landed on Lovett’s ship. He didn’t want to believe Rose. Not until he said that she is the woman in the drawing. She began to narrate the story of her as a first class passenger on the “unsinkable” ship. The flashback began with the arrival of a carriage with Rose DeWitt Bukater, her mother Ruth, and her rich and ignorant fiancĂ© Caledon Hockley. First class passengers boarded the Titanic. At the same time, a young Jack Dawson won third-class tickets to the Titanic in a game of poker with his friend Fabrizio. Rose was forced by her mother to marry Cal to save her degrading wealth status. Unhappy to marry a man she doesn’t love, she ran to the edge of the Titanic near the propellers and planned to commit suicide by throwing herself into the icy ocean. Fortunately, Jack saw Rose trying to jump off the railing. He successfully talked her out of jumping. “You jump I jump.” he said. As a thank you to Jack, Rose urged Cal to take him out for dinner.

After said dinner, Jack secretly invited Rose over for “the real fun.” That’s in the third class match. They had a lot of fun and Rose was free to do the things she could never do with first class people. They began to fall in love with each other. On the other hand, Bruce Ismay, the owner of the ship, proposed to Captain Thomas Andrews that he moor the course of the Titanic to gain publicity. And yes, indeed. They got publicity in a different way. Jack and Rose continued to see each other on the boat despite Rose’s mother disagreeing. Rose asked Jack, who was an amazing artist, to draw a nude of her using only the Heart of the Ocean. They were enjoying the night until the Titanic hit the iceberg. The first affected were the lowest part of the ship where the workers were. As the Titanic sank, all women and children were asked to board small boats and some less fortunate poor people were locked below.

On the other hand, Jack was framed by Cal for stealing the Heart of the Ocean and was locked in a room as a prisoner. Rose refused to board the lifeboat with her mother and some first-class passengers. Instead, she went back to find Jack. The two battled through thick and thin. They ran into Cal, who forced Rose into the lifeboat and told her a lie that he and Jack had their own lifeboat to catch. As she lowered the lifeboat, Rose simply couldn’t bear the thought of being without it, so she jumped back into the sinking Titanic. Cal was so enraged that he tried to shoot them dead, but was unsuccessful. After the ship sank, Rose and Jack held cold hands as Rose lay on a floating door and Jack froze in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic Ocean. Jack was already frozen before help arrived. When Rose got to safety, she saw Caledon looking for her and hid from him. In the pocket of the coat Cal lent her was the Heart of the Ocean. When asked what her name was, instead of saying her real name, she said Rose Dawson. The movie ended with old Rose throwing the Heart of the Ocean overboard. That night she dreamed that Jack was waiting for her on the great steps of the Titanic, they kiss and are applauded by those who were lost in the disaster.

From the beginning of the movie to the end, the difference between rich and poor was evidently shown in the movie. From the part before getting on the boat, until they went down into the water. The iconic couple Jack Dawson, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, and Rose DeWitt Bukater, played by Kate Winslet, show this divide between rich and poor. Jack was the poor, nomadic type. He didn’t even buy the ticket from him, but he got it by winning the third-class tickets in a poker game that happened minutes before he sailed the ship. However, Rose Bukater was not only rich, but they were the richest people in the world during that time period. They were in the first elite class where they could enjoy the complete luxury of the RMS Titanic and all the pleasures that she offers. Not only can they board the ship and sleep and eat in the best part of the ship, but even their cars, which are undoubtedly the best at the time, can also travel with them in the bottom of the ship. boat. But that’s just the beginning of the movie.

After some time on board the ship, Jack saw that Rose was planning to jump from the stern of the ship, which was where they first met. This part shows that even if you have a lot of money, you can’t really buy genuine happiness. Jack saw it and talked her out of jumping, and then he was invited to dinner. After dinner, Jack secretly invited Rose to the third-class party, where Rose had so much fun that she didn’t go up to first class. Another part where the movie shows the difference between the “haves” and the “have nots”. The clips went back and forth from the quiet atmosphere of the first class, drinking and smoking expensive alcohol and cigarettes, to the noisy, chaotic and fun bottom floor of the third class, comparing the two, where Rose and Jack enjoyed themselves. the rest of the night, until the iceberg finally hits the ship. At this point, the strategic locations of the first and third classes make sense. If a ship was damaged, hit by an iceberg and was going to sink, the people below, which is the 3rd class, are the first to experience the waters slowly swallowing the ship. While 1st class people can easily board the emergency launches without getting a single drop of water on them, because they are located on the upper decks of the ship, where they can receive the news from below and decide what to do. do while the passengers on the lower decks panic. But this is where things start to change.

After the Titanic was hit by the iceberg, it began to sink, slowly moving downward and being swallowed by the cold water of the North Atlantic Ocean. The ship’s damaged hull caused waters to rush in from the bottom of the ship to the top. The people on the lower decks are beginning to wonder why the water is getting into the ship. While the first class has no idea what is happening next. But when the latter receive the news, they are given life jackets while the 3rd class passengers fear drowning. The ship continues to sink, the 1st class passengers are already outside the ship’s cabins and on the deck, waiting to board the small emergency craft, while the 3rd class passengers are locked below deck so they do not interfere with the First class class trying to get to safety. The small boats were also not enough to keep everyone on board safe, not even half. That’s why they decided who lives and who dies according to their class, if you’re rich, you live, if you’re poor, well, I’m sorry. That’s why we’re locked down below, while first-class passengers calmly board the ships. But even so, not all 1st class passengers get to board first, they let the women and children board the boats first before the men. But before everyone was safe, the people of the 3rd class passengers like Jack, who was with Rose, broke through the barrier between the 1st and 3rd class and all headed to the upper deck of the ship. ship, which caused a mutiny. . Then the ship sank, some of the people, mostly first-class passengers, women and children, were in the emergency boats, and the rest went down with the ship or in the icy waters of the North Atlantic Ocean.

Overall, the movie is hands down one of the best movies of all time. It has many interesting themes to ponder and the iconic love story of Jack and Rose proves that love will find a way to bring people together, even if one is a first class passenger and the other is lower class. How about you? Will you let labels and socioeconomic status get in the way of connecting and interacting with others?

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