Synopsis of the movie The movie selected for this paper is “Titanic”, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet and Billy Zane as principal characters. The movie is situated in most of the part inside the ship, the Titanic. It is not a movie about the drama of the Titanic in general, but it focuses on the drama of a family. The story is about a rich English aristocracy family, habituated with all of the facilities and privileges of an aristocratic family. It was a family bound by the rules, norms and values of the British aristocracy. They decide to get to the New World aboard the most famous of ships, the Titanic. Parallel to that, the movie describes the journey of a poor English boy, Jack, which incidentally got aboard the Titanic. Most of the movie is about the encounter and relationships of this boy with the members of the aristocratic family mentioned above. The main theme is the love that was born between Jack and Rose, the youngest member of the aristocratic family. She suffered from a suicide depression and wanted to end her life while aboard the ship. Only the intervention of Jack saved her from killing herself. Gradually, they became very connected to each other until they got in love. Here is where the problems began because there was a significant class division between the two. Rose’s family would never accept Jack as her partner, and in fact they did not. Furthermore, Rose was promised to another man, also coming from an aristocratic family with friendship ties with Rose’s family. This situation continues even during the evacuation of the ship where many people were running for their lives. Ultimately, they manage to be together till the last moments until death separated them. Jack, decided to sacrifice himself in order to save Rose. The role of the selected social institution in the movie The family is at the epicenter of this movie. Even though many would argue that love and the relationship between these two characters, Rose and Jack, is the principal theme of the movie. Nevertheless, one cannot deny that they intended to be together in order to form a family and were encountering difficulties because of that. This movie is a perfect example of the transformation that the world was undergoing at the beginning of the twentieth century. This was a transformation due to the processes initiated by industrialization and modernization. The family could not have been untouched by these transformation processes. In fact, the movie describes that even within the ship there existed two different social worlds, that of the aristocracy and that of common people. The film describes the isolation between the two and the roles that were expected by each member of these social groups. The aristocratic family had very strict rules and protocols in terms of communication and relations. On the other side, Jack symbolizes the common family already changed by the industrial revolution that did not know what the future holds and lives by the moment, with no strict rules and communication protocols. Jack played the role of the change initiator for the aristocratic family. In fact, the mother of Rose had arranged for her to be married with a young man from a fellow aristocratic family. In the movie the aristocratic family did not allow to Rose the liberties that nowadays a modern woman