At the end of Titanic, why does Rose throw away the necklace?
I wondered this myself when I first saw the movie, and it really bugged me — I just didn’t get it.
Rose didn’t seem to be a crazy old lady. Jasně, she had a good time – she became an actor, raised babies, flew planes, went on roller coasters, and rode horses “like a man” – all that might’ve addled her brain, and made her much less practical about these kinds of things than I’dve thunk, given her spunky streak. Myslím, c’mon, she knows firsthand you can’t take it with you, a přesto, she was trying. It seemed inconsistent with her character. I don’t know any old ladies who aren’t downright cheap, when it comes right down to it. My mom would send my kids $10 checks for their birthdays – někdy. Vážně, teď.
Tak, here’s a priceless blue diamond, and she tosses it over the side — what is that about? Her family, who she may well have lied to for years, shouldn’t benefit from her story? Endow a woman’s college or something, for crying out loud! The survivors or family of people who perished on the Titanic, shouldn’t benefit? Or perhaps even Cal’s heirs, who were left with nothing when he offed himself after the 1929 crash, they should be stuck with the sins of their father? (Koneckonců, Cal did give her his coat, and the necklace was inside the pocket – you’d think she’d have forgiven him, by now). Možná se Rose chtěla vyhnout všem těm legálním problémům s dědictvím a bitvám; by to mohlo být jednoduché.
Horší, ačkoli, nechává to Brockovi a dalším potápěčům a případným hledačům pokladů. Prakticky, tohle nedává moc smysl; dříve nebo později ho Brock pravděpodobně najde, pokud ho předtím nesežere nějaká velká ryba, a ona to musí vědět. To, že uděláte velkolepé gesto, neznamená, že někdo nepřijde a neuklidí to po vás, a nějak to vyhodit, dříve nebo později. Zvažte bitvy o zachování architektury, nebo kolik uměleckých pokladů bylo během historie ztraceno nebo zničeno. Visuté zahrady Babylonu? Knihovna v Alexandrii? Všechno pryč. A co pyramidy? Lovci pokladů, nebo spíše, vykradači hrobů, vytrvat a nemít velký respekt k romantice, kromě jeho trusu. Díky bohu za kletby! Promyslet si to, Rosein čin je neúmyslný průšvih, a depresivní komentář k naivitě, a dočasný charakter “věčný” láska.
Možná.
A možná to byla jen bláznivá stará dáma – Znám jich hodně, a toužím se jím jednoho dne stát (ne tento týden, doufám), tak proč ne. Někdy je lepší moc nepřemýšlet nebo přehnaně analyzovat, zejména při sledování VELKÝCH obrázků. Dalo by se namítnout, že jednání staré Rose bylo sobecké a sebestředné; ale věřím, že to je přesně to, co jí Jack slíbil, jak sklouzne do mrazivých vod – dává jí slib, že bude žít, sobecky a plně, bez ohledu na strukturu nebo konvence, a do “nikdy nepustit” toho slibu.
By looking at some fan sites, I discovered that there was an alternate ending proposed; Rose’s granddaughter and Brock try to stop Rose at the rail from tossing the necklace into the murky depths. Cameron cut the ending because supposedly he decided that it wouldn’t matter to an audience whether or not Brock got redemption. Apparently, Rose lets him hold the Heart of the Ocean, and then he gives it back to her; she then drops it in the water ceremoniously, porozumění…something. I’m sure there would’ve been a shot of Brock, nodding ponderously, looking recalcitrant about his greed, and humbled by witnessing an eternal love (while keeping his fingers crossed that coordinates of the location were being recorded, for his next dive, once the old lady had had her nightcap and was all tucked in).
It’s much more romantic to simply surrender to the story, emotionally, despite that little voice that…wait, why didn’t Jack just knock off one of those dead people off a fridge and get out of the water, and live, příliš? Nebo…didn’t she care about her mom, at all? Nebo…was he really THAT hot? He can’t have had good teeth. Really. Nebo…dobře, whatever.
Upon learning that there’s no record of Jack, kdekoli, old Rose says: “Žádný, there wouldn’t be, would there?…A woman’s heart is a deep ocean of secrets. But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me…in every way that a person can be saved. I don’t even have a picture of him. He exists now…only in my memory.”
Early in the film, Cal gives Rose the Heart of the Ocean, he says: “Open your heart to me Rose”. And she covers the diamond with her hand. At the end of the film, old Rose lets the Heart of the Ocean go, having opened her heart to Jack and his memory. She lets go, releasing Jack’s memory and her secrets, and letting go of her promise to him to live, because she knows her time is done. Rose’s heart, her Heart of the Ocean, her will to live, rejoins the deep ocean from whence it came.
Geez, now I’m getting all weepy.