James Cameron´s vision of one of the greatest tragedies of all times

Rating: Null/10 (9 February 1999)

***** out of *****
I have to be honest. I saw this movie in the United States (In Houston, to be more precise), and I was extremely reluctant to see it, because when I first had notice that Cameron, one of my favorite action directors was going to recreate the Titanic tragedy, I thought: "Where´s the fun in that?"
So, I sat down with a large popcorn in one hand and a large coke oin the other, expecting to see Cameron fail BIG TIME! I have to say, that when the movie started, the music and the underwater scenes of the Titanic on its underwater and cold grave haunted me. And when the movie finished I was so shocked, that I couldn´t even speak.
I´ll start with the cinematographic elements and then I´ll continue with the personal ones: The movie´s cinematography is beautiful,the edition amazing, the costume design is excellent, but the art direction and set design... I have to say that the artists that worked on this film, deserve all the existing awards for that marvelous effort. James Horner´s music is extremely beautiful and it is used in the exact moments...It is at times so subtle that it can make you weep and at moments it is so intense it can make your palms sweat. Leonardo DiCaprio makes such an excellent performance that there were times I could swear he is really like that. Kate Winslet is perfect as Rose DeWitt Bukater and the loneliness and desperation her character feels is so well portrayed that I really cared for her. James Cameron made a movie so beautiful and well researched, that he managed to create a movie that is a perfect amalgam of the historic, drama, romantic, disaster, fiction and even the action genres. The movie is in its first hour and a half, a movie in which we get to know the characters. We get to care for them or hate them. Then, the Titanic, crashes with the iceberg (Some people gasped at the moment we were first confronted with the iceberg as if they didn´t know that moment was inevitable in the movie), and the movie turns into an action movie, with dizzying chase scenes. The disaster feeling of the movie is always there...and you sometimes, can feel crushed by it. What I also liked about this movie, that at first was one of the main reasons I didn´t want to see it, was its TITANIC budget... Waterworld´s publicity was its budget and that movie is one of the worst movies I´ve ever seen...so I thought, what could change?...Oh! But not Titanic... Every cent of those 200 million dollars is on that screen, and that is something I appreciate about every Cameron film I watch. I think this movie deserved those 14 Oscar nomination and the 11 it won, because James Cameron and his team, outdid themselves for this movie. The research Cameron did, and the way he manages to make fiction, alternate with historic moments is magnificent. I cried...this movie´s vision about the tragedy is so well done that I couldn´t avoid it, and I still cry every time I see it.
In the movie a character says: "Even God himself couldn´t sink this ship". Well... that ship sank, and I don´t know if it was God or Nature but what I do know is that someone tried to teach Humankind a lesson...
James Cameron makes a movie, approximately, every three years, and because of that, his movies are so exact in every detail. I will be desperately waiting for his next movie...It will no longer matter if he changes to another genre again...