Today, the English Composition class’ presentation group had presented a very meaningful topic. It was entitled Titanic.
At that moment, I had a feeling as if I was brought back to my years of 6 to 7 years old. I remembered that I watched this film when I was at that age. It was nothing really special to me at that age, until the later years when I started to dig into books and resources that are related to this movie, or rather, the incident.
I believe that everyone knows about the story. The main characters, Jack Dawson and Rose Dewitt, the giant and gorgeous ship, the two thousands passengers, the grand architectures of the ship and the boundless crystal blue sea are no stranger to us. The story tells about the love and romance between these two different social class adults, Jack and Rose. Everything was laid wonderfully like a sweet fairy tale, from the beginning of how the spark of love lid between these two person, till the tragic incident that had separated these lovers and put this romantic story to an end.
The Titanic ship was the one that has caught me. Titanic, which had meant as the Unsinkable Ship, was concluded in the year 1909. The cost of the construction was over U$D 200 million. It has 256M in length and 11 storey’s height. Can you imagine such a huge building sailing on the sea? The surprising part was that it only took 3 years to be constructed. This British ship had her first voyage on the 10th April 1912.
The beauty of the story, or I should say, the real incident, can be viewed from the literature’s aspect. First, I’ve found social class discrimination. Back in those time, there are basically 3 different social classes—the lower class, the middle class and the upper class status. This discrimination can be seen when the gate guards locked all the lower class people at the bottom of the ship during the sinking of Titanic (It DID happened in real). The guards did so in order to save more life boats for the upper class people. Second, it was the gentlemen manners. It was really shocking to see that all men were asked to stay behind and let the children & ladies to move to the life boats first. All men were thoroughly “gentleman” enough to put the youngsters and ladies first. Compared to the time now, do the manners still matter? Finally, salute to the Captain and the Band on the Titanic. I really respect Captain Edward J. Smith for his courage and (I do not know what words to use). He stands with the Ship until the last second when the Ship had finally sunk. The Captain died together with Titanic. Same goes to the band that had played their every last note until the Ship dies. Bear in mind, the love story is just a fiction. And of course, the diamond, “The Heart of Ocean” was only made for the fiction purpose.
On 14th April 1912, the Titanic collides with the Iceberg and sinks on the 15th April 1912, 2:20 am. 705 were survived out of 2228 passengers and crews. The Ship finally rest in the deep sea of North Atlantic till today, resulting in this unsinkable ship its first and last voyage.
If I have the chance, I wish I could watch this Film again.
