I slutningen af Titanic, hvorfor smider Rose halskæden?
Jeg undrede mig selv over dette, da jeg så filmen første gang, og det irriterede mig virkelig -- Jeg forstod det bare ikke.
Rose så ikke ud til at være en skør gammel dame. Sikker, hun havde det godt - hun blev skuespiller, opdragne babyer, fløj fly, gik i rutsjebaner, og red på heste "som en mand" - alt det, der kunne have forkælet hendes hjerne, og gjorde hende meget mindre praktisk omkring den slags ting, end jeg havde troet, givet hendes spunky streak. Jeg mener, kom nu, hun ved selv, at du ikke kan tage det med dig, og dog, hun prøvede. Det virkede ikke i overensstemmelse med hendes karakter. Jeg kender ikke nogen gamle damer, der ikke er direkte billige, når det kommer til stykket. Min mor ville sende mine børn $10 checks til deres fødselsdage - undertiden. Seriøst, nu.
Så, her er en uvurderlig blå diamant, og hun smider den over siden -- hvad handler det om? 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? (trods alt, Cal did give her his coat, and the necklace was inside the pocket - you'd think she'd have forgiven him, by now). Maybe Rose wanted to avoid all those legal inheritance issues and battles; could be simple as that.
Worse, selvom, she's letting Brock and other divers and would-be treasure-hunters have it. Practically, this doesn't make that much sense; sooner or later Brock's probably going to find it unless some big fish eats it first, and she's gotta know that. Just because you make a grand gesture doesn't mean someone's not going to come along and clean it up after you, and sort of blow it, sooner or later. Consider architectural preservation battles, or how many art treasures have been lost or destroyed throughout history. Hanging gardens of Babylon? Library at Alexandria? All gone. And what about the pyramids? Treasure-hunters, or rather, tomb-robbers, persevere and don't have a lot of respect for romance, except for its droppings. Thank goodness for curses! Thinking this through, Rose's action is an unintentional bummer, and depressing comment on the naivete, and temporal nature of "eternal" kærlighed.
Måske.
And maybe she just was a crazy old lady - I know a lot of them, and aspire to be one myself one day (not this week, Jeg håber), so why not. Nogle gange er det bedre ikke at tænke for meget eller overanalysere, især når man ser STORE billeder. Man kunne argumentere for, at gamle Roses handling var egoistisk og selvoptaget; men jeg tror, at det var præcis, hvad Jack havde lovet hende at gøre, da han glider ud i det frysende vand - han lover hende at leve, egoistisk og fuldt ud, uden hensyntagen til struktur eller konvention, og til "aldrig give slip" af det løfte.
Ved at kigge på nogle fansider, Jeg opdagede, at der var en alternativ slutning foreslået; Roses barnebarn og Brock forsøger at forhindre Rose ved skinnen i at smide halskæden ned i de skumle dybder. Cameron klippede slutningen, fordi han angiveligt besluttede, at det ikke ville være ligegyldigt for et publikum, om Brock fik forløsning eller ej. Tilsyneladende, Rose lader ham holde Havets Hjerte, and then he gives it back to her; she then drops it in the water ceremoniously, understanding...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, også? Or...didn't she care about her mom, at all? Or...was he really THAT hot? He can't have had good teeth. Virkelig. Or...well, whatever.
Upon learning that there's no record of Jack, hvor som helst, old Rose says: "Ingen, 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.