As we know, Titanic was the masterpiece for Leonardo Dicapurio. After the appreciation of the film "Titanic", I have noticed some meaningful details behind the peoples' general impression of simply an affection film. The wreck of the Titanic occurred in 1912, in which the great recession started from the end of the 19th Century still hasn't ended. Most critics pointed out that the sinking of the Titanic represents the collapse of the Capitalism in the end of the 19th Century. However, I would like to say that, in this movie, the director had not only foreran the crisis of the Capitalism, but also showed some of the human nature, from both gloomy and brilliant aspects, like selfish, mammonish, vainglorious, and love, hope, bravery, faith, and so on. In this article, I will first reveal this film's indication of the social context of that age.
Under the development of industrial technology, the economy in the Capitalism countries took off. People lived a rich, luxury and expensive life, and this rapid economic development lasted for almost 20 years.
People had got used to this kind of life. The huge development in machinery changed people's life greatly. Innovations of transportation, such as vehicles and tankers, allowed people to travel around. The appearance of these modern transportations was an important milestone of the industrialization. People thus became very confident on human intellectual capabilities. They believed their power of conquering the nature is inapproachable. While the Titanic is also called "The Ship of Dreamers", in this film, when it bearing in with the ocean in the darkness, the mysterious ocean represents the unknown nature and the ship itself represents the advanced material capabilities people owned.
In a shot that Mr. Bruce explains his design of the Titanic, he said "the ship possesses huge size, stability, luxury, and strength", and that "the supremacy will never be challenged". In fact, all these words can be thought of the symbols of the Capitalism of that time in many people's eyes. They thought the Capitalism is just like the Titanic, which should be "unsinkable". The wonderful way of developing economy would stay in good condition eternally. However, things do not always follow the way people wish to be. The economic recession suddenly attacked the Capitalism countries at the end of the 19th Century. It was not until then that people did not realize the impracticality of their idealized "unsinkable" Capitalism. Capitalism will sink. And unfortunately it did sink. Just like the movie shows, when the ship broke into two parts and began to sink quicker and quicker, everybody knows the ship is going to sink, the priest kept reiterating to the disciples, " the former would has passed away."
Finally, I supposed that if there is a spy camera installed on Titanic. The captain may detect the danger of iceberg and avoid the tragedy. Just kidding!
