Young Jack Dawson and Ruth David Kate met on Titanic, a luxury cruise ship from England to America, and they planned to elope after arriving in America. Unfortunately, the passenger ship hit an iceberg on the way and sank.
When I mentioned this film, apart from the thrilling scenes, touching love and fascinating stories, what impressed me most was Ruth's eyes. It was on the verge of life and death, but it was not a desperate look.
People are so small in the face of death. Therefore, the extreme panic and all kinds of ugly behaviors caused by this are obvious: in order to survive, some people drown other people's heads in the water at sea and float on the sea themselves; A man bought the crew with money in order to give priority to women and children boarding lifeboats; In order to protect their own safety, a lifeboat with more than 70 people can only carry a dozen people. The people on board are unwilling to save many people in distress, including relatives, because they are worried about their own lives. How hateful and realistic these phenomena are. However, the beauty in human nature always exceeds ugliness: most men abide by the system and leave their wives and children on the Titanic after being sent to the ship of hope; The calm crew members are ready to die in the line of duty and arrange passengers to board the lifeboat in an orderly manner; When the hull is tilted and people slide backwards, some people hold the post tightly and the other hand holds others' hands; When the two protagonists in the film are chased by the swept seawater, but they see an unattended child crying at a loss, they resolutely pick up the child and flee with him ... These are noble spirits and noble practices in the face of life and death choices.
There are many touching details, which show the calmness and calmness in dealing with death: the young mother in the third class knows that the hope of survival is as slim as a phantom, so she tells beautiful fairy tales and lets her children sleep peacefully; The old couple hugged each other gently with tears in their eyes, lying peacefully in bed waiting for death; The members of the ship played a sad song and cooperated for the last time at the end of their lives; The old captain walked into the captain's cabin and chose to dedicate the last moment of his life to the most enthusiastic and brilliant place in his life. The heroine Ruth doesn't want to be separated from Jack. When the lifeboat was lowered, she bravely jumped into the window of the Titanic. For her, the meaning of life far exceeds the nostalgia for life.
Ruth once had such an inner monologue: "My life is always occupied by boring things. Endless dinners, dances, horse racing, boating, these are the only people who can associate. Nobody really cares about me. I feel like I'm standing on a high cliff and I can't turn back. " After Ruth's father died, Ruth's family property was not much. In order to let her daughter marry a rich man's son, the mother forced her to continue to live a lady's life in the smoky upper-class circle of mutual admiration and money worship. She is like sitting on a swing, swinging high, but suddenly her heart is empty, very empty. So she chose to jump into the sea, but Jack saved her and Jack saved her heart. At the first class dinner, he bravely expressed his idea of "enjoying every day". And take Ruth to a free, sincere and enthusiastic third party. He made Ruth feel the full and happy civilian life and told her the meaning of life.
Jack is a tough and optimistic person, and his spirit infected Ruth. After the Titanic sank, Ruth and Jack found a bamboo raft. After a thrilling and difficult escape, they were exhausted by fatigue and cold at sea. The determination to live keeps them talking, and only by talking can they survive. The night sky is full of twinkling stars. It was supposed to be a romantic night, but the worst shipwreck happened in history. Except 705 people were rescued, 15 15 people were in distress. There are groups of bodies wearing life jackets floating on the sea in the North Atlantic. Only one lifeboat came back to save people. The crew's searchlights searched the sea for the living. Ruth, shivering with cold, saw the light of hope, and she wanted to wake Jack happily. But her crying was so pale and weak that Jack couldn't wake up when he was sleeping. Ruth's tears ran down her cold face. At this time, the lifeboat is sailing. Ruth put Jack's body into the sea, and with a painful expression in her eyes, she climbed down the bamboo raft trembling-she wanted to fulfill her promise, and she had promised Jack that she must live. "Come back, come back, come back ..." Ruth's faint call is accompanied by firm eyes, showing incomparable determination and infinite desire for life. She struggled desperately on the edge of despair and fought tenaciously with death. She must get on the lifeboat, or she will be swallowed up by endless darkness and the silence of death, and her soul will melt in the biting cold water of the North Atlantic. She doesn't want to lose the meaning of life as soon as she realizes it, and she doesn't want to break her word. Trembling, she swam to a dead sailor, took the whistle he hung, and blew it with all her strength, blowing her love for life, blowing her nostalgia for all things in the world, and blowing her nostalgia for all beautiful things. God heard her sincere prayer, and the lifeboat turned around and headed for the place where the whistle sounded. The bright light of the searchlight shone on Ruth's strong face, and she finally fell asleep in the warm blanket on the lifeboat. When she opened her eyes, she saw the soft light of the rising sun. The darkness has passed.
Titanic gave me too many feelings. I remember seeing this movie five years ago. I was shocked by its thrilling scene and occasionally left a line of footprints on the soft beach in my heart. But now, completely moved by it, deeply imprinted into the memory. Even when fireworks were set off on New Year's Eve, I saw them rising, blooming and falling in the dark night sky. I thought of the distress signal sent by the captain when the Titanic was killed. Fireworks also rose to the vast starry sky, bloomed and landed on the boundless sea. The innocent little girl on the boat smiled happily because she saw the beautiful fireworks. It still hurts to think of it.
People's feelings will always grow deeper and deeper with age, just like I only regarded Titanic as a thriller five years ago, but now I am deeply moved by it. Five years later, ten years later ... I will definitely get more and more insights from this classic film.