One Of The Best

Rating: 10/10 (25 May 2003)

A lot of the comments about this film are centered on the romance between Jack and Rose. I never saw them as the center of anything. That relationship was only a vehicle for the main purpose of the film. That purpose being what the passengers of the Titanic went through during this horrific tragedy.
My husband and I had no desire to see this film when it came out. We thought, "Yeah, yeah... big ship, iceberg, sank, a lot of people died. We already know the story." We were so wrong. We were put into the shoes of those poor souls who were unfortunate enough to be of the wrong class (steerage). We saw those who knew there was no hope and waited to die. We went through the terror that each one of those passengers went through. And we saw the shame and disgust of those that let people die just to save themselves.
At the end of this film, we sat with tears in our eyes and could only say, "I never knew."