TItanic

Oh man, I went to see Titanic in 3D for the first time. I haven't seen the movie in about... 4 months so it was about time to re-watch haha. It was my first time seeing it in cinema and since it's my favourite movie ever, it was about time.

I was thinking about what I liked about it most, what it is that makes me fall in love with it every time, even though I can quote it and know it so well.

Obviously, it's the love story that gets me. Rose is such a nuanced character. She isn't perfect by any means, but she is able to keep surprising Jack. The story isn't 'How Jack continued to save Rose over and over' though as she said 'he saved her in all the ways that I person could be saved,' it wasn't the idea of the man saving the woman, it was the idea of saving the person you love. And Rose kicks ass. She is the bravest son of a bitch, she goes to save Jack in what would have been the most frightening situation ever. She leaves the surety of the lifeboat to be with him again. "I jump, you jump." It's fantastic. Jack wants her safe and he protects her, eventually at the cost of his own life, but he loves that she would do the same for him and that they are an equal partnership. She is the one that takes their relationship to the next step, inviting him to their room, asking him to draw her, to run when the manservant was chasing them, to take her 'to the stars'. She's independent and confident and beautiful and headstrong and brave and I think she's amazing. Jack is of course magnificent as well, but Titanic is primarily focused on Rose.

But I just love that, and the soundtrack, and the tragedy and all the characters and lives and how beautifully tragic it is and how realistic and gruesome and shows the depths of the human condition and it's variants, those who sacrifice others for there own lives, like Cal, or the officer who shoots a man to keep order and can't live with himself and kills himself, or the mother, or Molly, or the older couple lying in their bed, or the father who says 'it's only goodbye for a little while..." to his two crying daughters as they get on the lifeboat. Or the mother with the newborn, frozen to death in the water.

I loved the cinematography and the actors and the script and ironies and the directing and I think James Cameron is flawless.

And when Jack holds Rose up on the front of the ship and sings in her ear and she says 'Jack, I'm flying!' as the sun sets, and the music plays and they kiss, her head turned to meet his lips and the way her hand comes to the back of his head to pull her closer...

Everything about their love story hits my heart strings, I love it I love it I love it.

I saw it with my ex. Is that weird? Maybe. The fact that I grabbed his arm and held it for the last quarter of the movie was, and his hand was on my knee... but whatever, he knows how friend-zoned he is and i just wanted a hand to hold. Is that bitchy? I mean, it felt a bit date-ish but only cos we were close and it was a movie. And it was the most romantic movie of all time.

I think he was a bit weird but not too bad. He knows in general I don't like seeing movies with just him, but other times I don't care. Like, I invited him to hang out with me on Valentines this year but then I realised.... yeah, that's a tad weird, maybe another time. But we're pretty cool as just friends. He knows that I'm not attracted to him. He thinks I'm hot or whatever, but he doesn't want me either. It works.

I asked the group in group message if they wanted to go. You-know-who was online but didn't reply, even when we got into a whole long conversation.