I just can't find a movie which manages to be both honest and hopeful. I'm yearning for a really satisfying ending. Let's all join hands, cling to one another for comfort, shed a tear, hold on to our fading photographs as we sink into dark nothingness. Still, this seems cold comfort, small potatoes in the face of so much death. The death portrayed in Titanic was so large and the hope at the end seemed so small, by comparison.
Death is large.
Everything that lives, dies. All whom we love are, day by day, descending toward that dissolution. There are 3 billion of us on the earth, and all 3 billion must be dead, on schedule, within this lifetime. The vast mortality, involving something over 50 million of us each year, takes place in relative secrecy. We can only really know of the deaths in our households, or among our friends.