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Titanic (1997), Looking Back at the Past: Approach to Marxist Criticism

The movie began with the search for the valuable and precious Heart of the Ocean necklace. Brock Lovett and his team believed that the necklace was submerged to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean along with the Titanic. They failed numerous times until they found a vault that they believe holds 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 with the treasure they were looking for. Lovett was desperate until he received a phone call from an elderly woman saying that she knew who this naked woman was. Rose along with her granddaughter landed on Lovett’s boat. He didn’t want to believe Rose. Not until he said that she is the woman in the picture. She began to tell her story as a first-class passenger on the “unsinkable” vessel. The flashback began with the arrival of a carriage with Rose DeWitt Bukater, her mother Ruth, and her wealthy and ignorant fiancé Caledon Hockley in it. First class passengers boarded the Titanic. At the same time, a young Jack Dawson won third-class tickets to the Titanic at a game of poker with his friend Fabrizio. Rose was forced by her mother to marry Cal to save her wealth situation. Unhappy to marry a man she does not love, she ran to the edge of the Titanic near the propellers and planned to commit suicide by throwing herself into the frozen ocean. Fortunately, Jack saw Rose trying to jump off the railing. He successfully convinced her not to jump. “You jump I jump.” he said. As a thank you to Jack, Rose urged Cal to invite him to dinner.

After said dinner, Jack secretly invited Rose to “the real fun.” That’s at the third-class party. 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, proposed to Captain Thomas Andrews to accelerate the course of the Titanic to gain publicity. And yes, indeed. They gained publicity in a different way. Jack and Rose continued to see each other on the boat despite the disapproval of Rose’s mother. Rose asked Jack, who was an amazing artist, to draw her nude using only the Heart of the Ocean. They enjoyed 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 the women and children were asked to board small boats and some less fortunate poor people were locked downstairs.

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, he went back to look for Jack. The two fought through thick and thin. They ran into Cal, who forced Rose to board the lifeboat and told her a lie that he and Jack had their own lifeboat to catch. As the lifeboat was lowered, Rose simply couldn’t bear the thought of being without it, so she jumped back onto the sinking Titanic. Cal was so enraged that he tried to kill them by shooting them, but was unsuccessful. After the ship sank, Rose and Jack held cold hands as Rose lay on a floating door and Jack froze by the icy waters of the North Atlantic Ocean. Jack was already freezing to death 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, Rose Dawson said. The movie ended with old Rose throwing the Heart of the Ocean overboard. That night she dreamed of being received by Jack 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 film to the end, the difference between rich and poor was clearly shown in the film. From the part before getting on the boat, until they go 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 his ticket, but he got it by winning the third-class tickets at a game of poker that happened minutes before the ship left. However, Rose Bukater was not only rich, but they were the richest people in the world during that period of time. They were in the first elite class where they can enjoy the full luxury of the RMS Titanic and all the pleasures it offers. Not only do they get on the ship and sleep and eat in the best part of the ship, but even their cars, which are undoubtedly the best of the best at the time, can also ride with them on the bottom of the ship. boat. But that’s just the beginning of the movie.

After some time aboard the ship, Jack saw that Rose was planning to jump off 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 convinced her not to jump, and was later invited to dinner. After dinner, Jack secretly invited Rose to the third-class passenger party, where Rose had so much fun that she didn’t get into first class. Another part where the film shows the difference between the “rich” and the “poor”. The clips went back and forth from the laid-back atmosphere of 1st class, drinking and smoking expensive alcohols and cigarettes, to the noisy, chaotic, fun lower deck of 3rd class, comparing the two, where Rose and Jack enjoyed the rest of the evening , until the iceberg finally hits the ship. At this point, the 1st class and 3rd class strategic locations make sense. If a ship was damaged, hit by an iceberg and sank, the people below, who are third class, are the first to experience the waters slowly swallowing the ship. Whereas 1st class people can calmly board the emergency boats without even receiving a drop of water on them, because they are placed on the high decks of the ship, where they could receive the news from below and decide what they have 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 up by the cold water of the North Atlantic Ocean. The damaged hull of the ship caused the waters to rush from the bottom of the ship to the top. People on the lower decks begin to wonder why water was entering the ship. Whereas 1st class has no idea what happens next. But when the latter get the news, they are handed life jackets while the 3rd class passengers worry about drowning. The ship continues to sink, 1st class passengers are already out of the ship’s cabins and on deck, waiting to board the small emergency boats, while 3rd class passengers are locked below deck so they do not interfere with the First Class trying to get to safety. The small boats weren’t enough to keep everyone on board safe, not even half. That’s why they decided who lives and who dies because of their class, if you are rich, you live, if you are poor, well, sorry. That is why we are locked in downstairs, while 1st class passengers calmly board the boats. But even so, not all first-class passengers get on board first, letting the women and children board the small boats first before the men. But before everyone got to safety, third-class passenger people like Jack, who was with Rose, broke through the barrier between first and third class and they all made their way to the upper deck of the ship, prompting A riot. . The ship then sank, some of the people, mostly first-class passengers, women and children, are in the emergency boats, and the rest went down with the ship or in the freezing waters of the North Atlantic Ocean.

Overall, the movie is without a doubt one of the best movies of all time. It has many interesting topics to ponder and the iconic Jack and Rose love story, which shows that love will find a way to bring people together, even if one is a first-class passenger and the other is a low-class passenger. What about you? Will you allow socioeconomic statuses and labels to hinder your connection and interaction with others?

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