Evaluating a Movie

Titanic

One Saturday night, I went into the movie rental store looking for a real good movie. I was looking for a story of love, a story of a romance that has no limits. I love movies that have such beautiful plots that they make me forget all about my empty love life. However, I was shocked when the store clerk told me to rent Titanic in order to get this plot. I thought to myself, "Is she crazy? Wasn’t that the "unsinkable" ship that sank and killed over a thousand people?" As crazy as it sounded, yes, Titanic was, no doubt, the movie I was looking for that night.

In Titanic, the director, James Cameron, takes the story to a new level. A level that has never had a nation so interested in what happened on April 11, 1912. With the help of a good plot, characters, setting and the soundtrack, the story of the Titanic has fascinated many viewers.

What is a movie without a good plot? The plot of this movie isn’t one that we would expect. It centers on the love of two people. One of the characters is Jack Dawson, (Leonardo DiCaprio) who is a poor, adventurous American boy on a voyage back to America. The other character is Rose Dewitt (Kate Winslet) who is traveling with her finance on the Titanic just for leisure. Rose is unhappy. She feels her soon-to-be husband doesn’t understand her. On the day that she decides to kill herself, she meets Jack who convinces her not to take her life. From that day on, Rose and Jack become inseparable. It is when they realize the boat is about to sink, and they are going down with it, that the meaning of true love comes into play. Not only is this an amazing story of a tragic situation, but it is also one that shows the beauty of a budding relationship sustained by determination and loyalty in the midst of trials and tribulations.

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However good the plot, without characters to help bring the action to life, it is as good as nothing. The characters in Titanic played their roles very well. From actions to accents, everyone could tell the time period and the place in which the action occurred. The main characters were excellent actors. Every girl in America fell in love with Jack. Maybe it was because of his determining spirit or his passion for life. Whatever it was, James Cameron couldn’t have chosen a better man than Leonardo DiCaprio to play the role of Jack, a poor man with big dreams who ...

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