Mixing Fiction with True Stories

Rating: 8/10 (20 June 2000)

I think I was one of the few people that waited for this movie to come out on video before I saw it. I don't know why. I think maybe because I knew what the end would be. Just like in Romeo and Juliet, you know what the end is going to be, and you can't help but hope the end is going to be different than you know it to be and you just can't help watching it. Mixing the fictional story of Rose and Jack, with the true life people who really sailed on the Titanic was done quite well. I can tell you, watching the very detailed sinking of the ship probably only gave the viewers a 20% feeling of horror that the actual passengers had, especially third class. How they put people in the ships by class really irritated me, a sad fact but true. Putting only 12 people in a boat that could have held 60-70 when they were already short of lifeboats was incomprehensible. It seems to me, that even after 80 years, generations of people have never gotten over the sinking of this ship, and they probably never will. The fascination of the Titanic and her passengers will outlive time.