The Unsinkable Titanic

As is universally known, Titanic has sunk deep in the Atlantic Ocean. But in my heart it never ever sank, it is still unsinkable, but not the unsinkable ship.

We have got a quite clear description about how the ship Titanic sank, so there is no point for me to give a detailed account of this again. What deserves our concentration is the movie.

It was 1998 when the movie Titanic first hit the screen. We were only seven years old then, the age of beginning to observe the world, the age of getting to know the concept of love. Here came Titanic, who taught us the meaning of love and something more than love. Without doubt it has become one of our most unforgettable common memories of the whole generation. I am not sure that everyone of our generation watched Titanic at 7, but I’m firmly convinced that we all have at least watched once or twice in the process of growing up and we were impressively touched by the soul.

It is about pure love, a kind of love which can face anything in the world, which cannot be destroyed by any disaster, which is beyond life or death.

No one, unless a piece of wood, can stay unmoved at the scene where Jack and Rose stood at the bow of Titanic, with the wind flowing through their faces, lifting Rose’s blonde hair. No one, unless a cold fish, can keep calm when the first time they saw Jack, who lifted Rose on a piece of wood, sinking in the chill water himself, dying away gently and gracefully, still with a satisfied smile on his face. Even now it stays fresh in my mind, with a little bit sorrowful and a little bit pitiful and more of admiration. He taught us the preciousness of love, for which you can even sacrifice everything including your life.

It is more than just love, but also about people’s reaction to disaster and death.

Disaster is thought to bring both the best and the worst in humankind, so is this time. Who will you think of when faced with death? To whom are you willing to giving your own life? What is the importance of life and what is the fear of death? Why are you still alive and what are you living for?

Well, it is already 12 years since the first show of Titanic. 12 years is enough to identify the quality of a movie. There is no need for me to comment such a classic movie, all what can be commented have been posted. What I can do is to reflecting ourselves, to observe what mark has it left in my heart.

What unsinkable is not the ship Titanic, but the titanic love between Jack and Rose. What unsinkable is not the movie- time might bury it someday-but the mark it left in my heart, in this generation.