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1997 · romance · drama · disaster

Titanic

Directed by James Cameron3h 14m1997

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.

Our read: Titanic (1997) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded romance · drama · disaster entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.

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Neutral, steady, measured romance / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.

ElsewhereIMDb8.01.4MRT88%Metacritic75TMDB7.927k
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How Titanic feels to watch.

Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.

MoodHeavy ↔ Cosy
PacingSlow-burn ↔ Kinetic
IntensityGentle ↔ Extreme
WeirdnessConventional ↔ Surreal
HopeNihilistic ↔ Redemptive
StakesIntimate ↔ Epic
HumourNone ↔ Broad
RealityGrounded ↔ Fantastical
DensitySparse ↔ Twisty
WarmthCold ↔ Tender
AuteurTransparent ↔ Signature
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“You want an epic romance against a historic disaster spectacle.”

ends bittersweetit stays with youa slow buildgrips by minute 28attention 3/5earns its length
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