The REAL POINT of this movie, if you think about it, was the "truth" of this tragedy !

Rating: 10/10 (26 January 2006)

I've seen "Titanic" many times now, and I get teary-eyed still because I TRY (without much effort) to imagine the actual people this happened to in 1912 -- the very rich, the immigrants down below, the SMUG SELF-PROCLAIMED "unsinkable ship" propaganda, and the tragedy at the end as the ship begins to fall apart.
It remains an "interesting" movie because of the mix of recent "real time footage" intermingled with the love story. But, as the Celine Dion song implies ("My heart will go on and on"), there was a VERY REAL TRAGEDY of these "poor" people trapped in the middle of a dark, freezing ocean, with no "high tech" to help save them. The terrifying last half of the movie, with terrified people running back and forth trying to escape the inevitable REALLY GETS TO ME the more I see this movie. Tragedies happen every day in the world, but this was 1912.
Don't know what else to say - except that I DO GET TEARY-EYED at the ending. These poor defenseless people -- it could have been any one of us, then or now (if you believe in reincarnation, which I DO NOT !). Anyway, GREAT MOVIE and it deserved to become the HUGE HIT IT BECAME !