Broadcast once more this night on TF1, James Cameron’s “Titanic” is a monument of cinema that wants no introduction. However how ought to we interpret the final seconds of the movie?
We’re within the closing minutes of Titanic. After greater than three hours of a wide ranging spectacle, after a heartbreaking love story and an ending as epic as it’s tragic for the legendary liner, we’re again in 1996, aboard one other ship.
The final minutes of Titanic
Now 100 years outdated, Rose completes her account of the horrible shipwreck to the captain of the Keldych, who’s searching for in any respect prices to get his arms on the Coronary heart of the Ocean, the priceless diamond that the younger girl carried aboard the Titanic. Out of sight, beneath the moonlight, she walks alone onto the deck of the boat and takes out of her pocket the jewel, which she had secretly saved for greater than 80 years.
With just a little prankish giggle, she then throws the diamond to the underside of the ocean, and gently lets it be part of the wreck of the Titanic which rests beneath her toes.
We then see her once more mendacity in her mattress, a smile on her lips, close to the quite a few images which bear witness to all of the adventures she was capable of expertise throughout her lengthy life, because of Jack’s sacrifice.
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How ought to the ending be interpreted?
His thoughts (or his soul?) then wanders alongside the corridors of the Titanic (which progressively regains its former glory) and even beneath the big clock which had marked the start line of his first assembly with Jack. The younger man, in addition to all these lacking from the shipwreck, appear to be ready for his arrival.
However since its theatrical launch in 1997, the ultimate sequence of Titanic has raised a whole lot of questions and theories, to which no official reply has ever been given, undoubtedly to go away it to the spectators to decide on the model that they like.
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Dream or past?
Is Rose dreaming of this return in time, falling asleep peacefully after eliminating the burden she nonetheless carried on her, metaphorically represented by the Coronary heart of the Ocean? Did her story to Captain Lovett and his crew awaken in her a number of recollections which materialize mechanically in her sleep?
Or, quite the opposite, has she breathed her final, and has simply reached the afterlife, the place all of the passengers of the Titanic who died on the evening of 14 April 15, 1912? After having handed away, she would have accessed an everlasting place, the place time and loss of life now not have any affect, which might clarify each the truth that the arms of the clock have stopped, and the truth that Rose regained the looks of his 17 years.
In your opinion, how ought to the ending of Titanic be interpreted?
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