Titanic Review

Rating: 10/10 (12 October 2015)

Titanic is an emotional, heart wrenching roller coaster type of film. One minute you will be laughing at how cute Leonardo DiCaprio is and the next minute you will be crying as you watch the ship sink into the deep ocean. The film's sole purpose was to one, show the history of the "unsinkable" ship, but on the other hand it takes a closer look at the passengers on the ship. There were two different types of people on the Titanic, the upper class, which was filled with the wealthy and well off people, and then there was the lower class, full of poor and not so well off people. As the movie progresses you see who belongs to where and how the classes get along with each other. As it introduces the characters, we the audience all fall in love with Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) so does Rose (Kate Winslet). Rose is a young, gorgeous, wealthy girl traveling back to America to marry her horrible fiancé, Cal (Billy Zane), and Jack is a cute, intelligent, but poor boy who snuck onto the ship. In this interesting romance between Rose and Jack there's also a panic rising deep within Cal as he begins to realize there just might be something going on between Jack and Rose. Rose and Cal are part of the upper class and their costumes and dialogue really show their class well. By this i mean that Rose and Cal wear nice and neat clothes and expensive jewelry and they speak all proper and tight and clean. On the other hand you have Jack, he's part of the lower class and dresses kind of sloppy and in rags it looks like and his slang is in no comparison to the proper way of speech the class above him uses. Still though, Jack and Rose can see past each others flaws and riches and manage to fall in love almost instantly. But putting the romance and drama aside, there's something even more interesting about to happen, a mysterious iceberg. As we all know the ship Titanic is indeed, sinkable. As the ship is sinking, that's when things become real and suspenseful and emotional and scary. You're on the edge of your seating biting your nails literally praying for the inevitable. On another note, James Cameron did an amazing job recreating a completely believable Titanic. I honestly thought it was real i had no idea he recreated it on a computer. The sinking scenes were just as horrific on screen as they were the night it was a reality to so many people. I was so transfixed onto the screen i couldn't believe it. The cinematic for this movie were incredibly believable and just utterly beautiful. I do not think anyone else could have done a better job at recreating such a horrific night but still make it into a love story at the same time. The music was yet another memorable aspect of this film. It was warming and heart touching during the love scene. It then turned into a calm serene as the violinists play while the ship is sinking. When Jack and Rose are "flying" at the bow of the ship, the music that is playing was used for the mood and for the effect of the emotions being displayed on Rose's face as Jack touches her to help her "fly". The music is used to perceive the mood and emotions being displayed during a particular scene. Whether it was calm to frantic, or warm love back to sad with sorrow, the music was used in a most incredible way and it really made the scenes pop and stand out to me. Lastly, in my opinion you don't just watch this type of movie, you really feel everything the characters are feeling. When they were crying or screaming, then you were too. When Jack and Rose are falling madly in love, I was too. James Cameron set this amazing atmosphere for his audience that just reels us in and we can't be pulled out. Over all i can say that i love this movie. The historical details were on point, the story-line was just utterly beautiful but heart wrenching as well, the cinematography was used amazingly, and the music and characters were portrayed nicely. This film as both thumbs up from me!