Critique Paper on The Titanic Movie

         

American disaster film The Titanic written, produced, directed, and co-edited by James Cameron in 1997. He is an oceanographer, which explains why Titanic is one of his best films. It was an enormous and unparalleled success, it took more than a decade for another Cameron film to surpass it. The movie "Titanic" is well liked and won praise from critics and viewers When it was first released. It is a fictional romantic tragedy film about the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912. The film combines real-life individuals and partially based on a genuine story, but it also adds some fictional details to actual historical events. The main focus is the romance between two passengers from different social strato, Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater.

The Titanic film voices out and illustrates the cruelty of social injustice. Some evidence, such as scenes that show unequal access to benefits and rights, is provided in this paper. This analysis's main objective is to examine how "Titanic" represents and makes comments on the differences in social class, power dynamics, and the effects of these inequalities against the backdrop of the early 20th century, which was marked by glaring social class distinctions and pervasive economic inequality. This analysis uses a Marxist lens to find hidden messages about the social issues that are subtly included in the movie's story. The Titanic film incorporates economic and political themes. It also employs Marxist criticism as a method of diagnosing political and social problems via the conflicts of people of various socioeconomic groups. The film focuses on a battle between the wealthy and the poor and how money influences individuals. The fundamental issue is social class, which is a division based on people's social and economic position. It also demonstrates how having a wealthy family was important for having respect and desiring advantages. It conveys the disparity and unequal treatment of people based on their socioeconomic position.

    In the scene where the third class is trying to get into the lifeboats but is trapped behind the gates, multiple shouting, begging, and sobbing voices can be heard. The crew threatens to kill the passenger because the first class prioritized getting onto the boat. Also, the behaviors of the health inspectors toward third-class individuals are radically different from those of the rich people at the beginning of the film because they scrutinize everything in them to see if those third-class people are safe to board the ship, whereas the rich ones are not.

When Rose's mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, meets Jack Dawson, she looks at him as if he is an insect, demonstrating how a rich person may drag down a poor person because of his looks and social position. 

Rose was confused and asked Mr. Andrews, the ship's creator, how all the boarders would be rescued if the number of boats was just 20 and it couldn't even save half of the people. That scene demonstrated their ignorance and their belief that the Titanic was unsinkable. It also showed that the majority of the passengers they would prioritize in times of sinking were first-class people, which is also true because in the scene where the crew locked the low-deck gate, the deck where third-class individuals stayed, which is also a symbol, to prioritize the first-class people to move in on the boat because the ship was sinking, and they let those people be locked up until the rich people were already secure. These scenes or symbols in the film say it all. Differences in a lot of things can have an impact on the lives of all individuals. Because of various ways of life and resources, there is always prejudice, inequality, and humiliation between wealthy and poor individuals.

            The tragic Titanic disaster serves as a parable about the results of wealthy people's unrestrained pride. Characters like Jack and other underprivileged people have terrible fates, bringing to light the underlying inequalities of the time. Marxism offers a lens through which we can see how the affluent used their position to protect themselves while leaving the less fortunate behind, summarizing the film's comments on society. One such conflict that highlights the unfairness of capitalist society is depicted in the movie Titanic. It's intriguing how the director, Mr. Cameron, used the rich and the impoverished as symbols. He made an effort to demonstrate how the rich were not as kind as the poor and how this ultimately led to their destruction. He did, however, demonstrate that neither all wealthy nor all impoverished people could be categorically grouped together.

          All things considered, "Titanic" goes beyond being just a love tale and becomes an effective film that addresses the unequal treatment of the rich and the poor. It reveals the inequality or unjust treatment people received regarding their social class in the early 20th century. It widens the topic of sociality, where your class or way of life will reflect on how others treat you. The movie excellently illustrates how people in the lower class suffered from the discrimination of the high class. It also creates a clearer picture of the huge barrier between the different socialities of each person. Lastly, this film's long appeal and emotional depth are a result of the subtle representation of class differences and their effects on characters.