Aren't you forgetting something here..?

Rating: Null/10 (22 November 2000)

Forget the multi-billion takings, the ability of the actors, the love theme...
The underlying story here is attitude. Small mindedness that cost 1500 lives. Lives needlessly wasted through the selfishness and pig headed arrogance of others... And there seem to be plenty in this forum who have completely missed the point.
It must have been one horrific night. If you're a parent, put yourself on that ship with your children. Image your desperation... You know you may well die, but you so badly want your children to survive. Imagine saying goodbye to your partner, parent or child not knowing if you'll ever be reunited. Imagine the desperation that forced people to jump into the water. And imagine trying to keep afloat in that water, as the cold eats at your body, growing weaker, hoping that maybe, just maybe, someone can save you. Then all becomes quite even though many scream around you. Then darkness...
I admit, I cried. Yes I am a man, and not ashamed to admit it. I cried because of two particular scenes. A scene where a mother reassuringly puts her children to bed as though it were any other night for them... And the scene where the elderly couple lay together on their bed as the water rushed in...
Why did they make me cry? Because we all tend to forget just how precious life is. Some of you laugh at a man bouncing off the propeller - but that WAS a life. And someone somewhere lost touch with that life forever. And there was grief and pain...
I came out of the cinema, still holding back the tears, got into the car with my wife and hugged her so tightly as I cried. I truly felt for everyone onboard, and those left behind laden with grief. And I felt glad that I had not had to endure something so tragic, that I could get into bed with my wife that night, and continue to live life - and more recently become a father.
The events of that night should not have happened. They were easily preventable. Sadly the attitude then still exists in some forms today. And still costs lives. If you're lucky, and I hope you are, then that attitude just might not affect you...