| As you would expect, the movie "Titanic" is set | | | | everybody else, right? |
| around the luxury cruise ship called "Titanic", which | | | | Wrong! |
| sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1912, hit an iceberg | | | | Throughout the film, the young lovers got all sorts of |
| in the middle of the night and sank, taking 1,517 | | | | strife from the people around them, who wanted |
| people to their death. | | | | them to conform, even if it meant giving up on what |
| The story involves a young, free-spirited woman, | | | | they wanted most and becoming miserable in the |
| who is about to be married to "the rich jerk", in order | | | | process, as long as those other people didn't have to |
| to save her family from financial doom, and a young, | | | | accept something different. |
| street-smart man, who is sailing to try his luck in | | | | The band, which was playing on deck at the time, |
| another country. They are attracted to each other, | | | | kept on playing. The poor musicians, who had spent |
| have a good time together, including several | | | | their lives in artistic expression, saw their life's |
| memorable romantic moments, and eventually he dies | | | | purpose as bringing music for other people's |
| while saving her life. | | | | enjoyment. Even as everybody else was scurrying to |
| Nevertheless, to me, although "Titanic" is a Hollywood | | | | the boats, they continued to "be musicians" and play |
| epic for the general public, this movie is all about | | | | music, rather than change their thinking and save |
| resisting change. Yes, yes, resisting change. | | | | their lives. |
| You see, the Titanic was designed as an "unsinkable" | | | | The crewmembers, who knew better than everyone |
| luxury ship for the "upper class", a group of people | | | | else about what was going to happen, directed |
| mainly distinguished by the amounts of money they | | | | traffic to the boats. Old women went first, then rich |
| had. The people who operated the ship were poor, | | | | people and the "lower class" (coming from the same |
| yet when disaster hit, their behaviors did not change | | | | places as the crew) were locked in the lower decks |
| and the poor people kept giving way to the rich and | | | | to die. They did not stop to think how long the old |
| helping them, even when it was clear they were in | | | | ladies had to live, or that rich people had no more |
| danger themselves. | | | | right to live than anybody else, even in the face of |
| The Titanic was built to be "unsinkable". As such, | | | | clear and present danger. |
| there was no need to put too many lifeboats on | | | | Our young couple seemed to be almost the only |
| board. In the unlikely event these boats had to be | | | | people on board the ship, who were accepting of |
| used, surely the rest of the people could remain on | | | | differences and flowing in life, as long as what they |
| the ship until help came. Unfortunately, the Titanic | | | | did made them happy, but in the end, they were |
| DID sink, and as soon as this was apparent, you | | | | powerless to change their world. The forces of habit |
| would have expected everybody to do their best to | | | | crushed everything around them and left one of |
| occupy one of the lifeboats and the hell with | | | | them frozen and the other alone. |