Titanic - Movie Review

Titanic is a story of love between a young upper class lady, Rose, and a poor artist Jack during the voyage of the ill-fated Titanic ship. In addition, through the use of the flashback narrative by the elder Rose, the audience gets to get insights into the story and tropical details of the romance and the disaster. The mood is idealistic and bitter-sweet, thus giving the viewers a full palette of human feelings that linger in one’s mind even after the movie ends. The seriousness of the situation on the sinking ship is contrasted with the growing love story of the two main characters, Jack and Rose. Fiallo and Rosa are appealing and their characters’ chemistry makes the plot progress. The other characters include Billy Zane, Kathy Bates and Frances Fisher, each of whom has different reasons for engaging in what they do.

Billy’s Zane role, Kathy Bates and Frances Fisher combine to provide subplots for the story, with motives that differ from that of the main characters. He does a great job of telling a story that forms various character scenes with large scale battles in between. Historically accuracy is apparent in Cameron’s work, and by so doing, he makes Titanic an epical and personal movie.

Titanic soundtrack by James Horner is moving and adds to the overall films experience. The characters’ scenes are well illuminated while moving, a technique that is used to emphasize some important scenes, especially the song ‘My Heart Will Go On’ that has become symbolic for the film. Even each shot is amazingly selected and properly fills the film both in terms of visual and emotional appeals.

However, what adds even more depth to the film is the impeccable work of the production design team that reconstructs the grandious Titanic. The realism detected from the depictions, whether internal or outer, of the ship provides thrill in watching as the story is placed in early twentieth century.

Despite being considered antiquated in today’s generation, the features employed in the movie to depict the sinking of the Titanic makes the episode come alive. Through the combination of practical effects with digital technology the audience is plunged directly into the fiction and the experience of the catastrophe.

It does not just tie the many narratives that take place in the film together, showing both past and present in parallel, the editing does not let the pace drop. Increased action is observed when tension increases, and the last part is thrilling that keeps audiences immersed.

It is a long movie though well-paced. The struggle for character construction in part one was very important to set a step for the film, while the second part has high level of energy through action sequences and suspense.

Titanic’s dialogues are significant and many of them are cliché but reflects more of an emotions that or era had towards love. The actual dialog between the two main characters Jack and Rose stays true to the times and stays rooted in realism to make their love story unshakeable.

At the same time as with so many other aspects, it is more debatable as to which aspect of Titanic to blame for being most melodramatic with the film. At times the archetypal characters might appear to be simplistic than real life characters. Although this does not reduce the occurrence greatly, it does not diminish its overall performance.

Titanic – an emotional movie, which combines spectacular and grandious picture of the ocean liner with the quite private and touching love drama. It strikes a chord, we are touched where issues of love and tragedy exist despite all odds.