Film Analysis on Titanic

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Introduction:

Titanic movie is a romance movie featuring two lovers; Rose and Jack who met on a ship called Titanic on its first and last voyage to New York. In the movie, Jack a low class Artist meets Rose on the ship of upper class people after he won a third class tickets in a game with his friend Fabrizio De Rossi. Rose had board the ship with her mother Ruth and her Fiancé called Caledon Hockley on it’s depart journey to New York. She then met with Jack and fall in love. This movie brings out the true essence of true love which makes Rose withstand all forces from her fiancé who was a rich person and her mother.

The movie captures the audience when the two lover birds Jack and Rose, rush to the front of the ship and kiss as they enjoy the ocean scene. In the movie, the families of upper class people are seen to enjoy their lives through different celebrations while on the other hand, the two newly met lovers were doing whatsoever that love calls for (Rasor, 2001). They ended up, Jack drawing a picture of a beautiful girl, “Rose” who was lying on a seat with a nice bracelet on her neck. The Titanic ship sinks against the expectation of the owner after hitting an iceberg. The two lovers, Jack and Rose struggled to stay close and be together. This did not work that way, but rather Jack saved his lover’s life and he ended up dying in the ice cold water of Pacific Ocean. The girl was saved by a rescue team only to be found at the end of the movie telling this story to her grandchildren at the age of 100 years. This movie was well produced thus becoming the first movie to gross more than a billion dollars at the box office.

This paper will analyze the sociological part of the Titanic movie. This is because the film is all about day-to-day human sociology since it features the true essence of the past, present and future love lives of people in youth age. This paper would then analyze the following sociological themes as based on the film, Titanic; culture, socialization, sex and gender, marriage and family, social groups and social structure and social interaction.

Concept Application:

The Titanic movie features the real life happening in the day-to-day lives of human beings. As a result, the main concepts of sociology are viewed in this film at different situations in different perspectives. The six primary concepts of sociology that are encountered by human beings in their day-to-day life that are seen in the movie of Titanic:

Culture:

The Titanic film brings out a culture of the American people that lived in the 19th century. In this case, Rose’s fiancé tries to dictate her life and monitor her moves the time he realizes that she was having a relationship with Jack. This is an example of a cultural belief whereby the male gender is seen as superior over the female gender.

Socialization:

In the Titanic movie, people of the upper class are seen socializing and enjoying life through celebrations. In addition to that, Rose and Jack also socialized while on the front of the ship. She liked the scene and said, “It does look spectacular I have to say…you sort of feel like you’re on the fairground ride…as opposed to sitting back and watching the spectacle, you’re really immersed in it,”.

Sex and gender:

Sex and gender is highly distinguished in the Titanic movie in that the male gender is given greater power unlike the female gender. This can be seen in a case whereby Caledon Hockley who just a fiancé to Rose wants to practice dictatorship towards his fiancé just because he is of masculine gender.

Marriage and family:

In the Titanic movie, the main reason for Rose going on a trip with her fiancé was to strengthen the relationship for marriage purpose. On the other hand, Rose’s mother as a member of her family accompanies them on the trip to show family support of the relationship and the intended marriage.

Social groups:

In the movie of Titanic, there are two main social groups that are featured. In this case, the ship was to carry only the upper class people to New York. This means that there were people of a lower class to since Jack was not of the upper class but won the three-class ticket to the ship through games (Aldridge, 2008). Therefore, through the movie, the social lives of people in the 19th century were divided into two social groups, which were, the lower and the upper social group.

Social structure and social interaction:

In the Titanic movie, people are divided into two main social classes, the upper class and the lower class. The upper-class people socialize and interact among themselves in their well arranged occasions. In the case of Titanic, the upper social class people are given a chance to sail in the Titanic ship in which they tend to interact amongst each other. Jack finds himself in this place by chance after winning a third class ticket to the ship through games but in the really sense, it was not meant for low class people.

Theoretical Application:

The basic and major theoretical applications in life are three and they are:

Functionalist; is a theory that features the lives and situations that pertain to lives of people in their functional states in attempt to facilitate a swift life. This theory applies in the field of industry, academic field and other functional fields.

Conflict theory; is a theory that applies in the situations of disagreements between individuals, organizations or nations due to one reason or another. There are cases where human beings at different levels or positions in life would tend to disagree or quarrel due to misunderstanding or difference in opinions (Henslin, 2007).

Symbolic interaction: this theory applies in a situation where people interact and as a result, something is born of the meeting. This applies in a case whereby, individuals, organizations, or nations meet or interact in one way or another and in the process; something develops as a symbol of their interaction.

In this film, the two young people, Jack and Rose meet on a ship and a result of their meeting is falling in love. In this case, symbolic interaction theory is applicable (Cameron, 2012).

Conclusion

Through Titanic movie analysis above, it can be seen that films are imagery to the real life situations based on the outline and coverage of the Titanic movie. Most of the core concepts of life of human beings as they embark on their daily lives are featured in the film. In short, films aim at educating people on the importance of certain interactive and social concepts and not just for entertainment purpose.

References:

Aldridge,R (2008) The Sinking of the Titanic, Great Historic Disasters, New York, Infobase Publishing.

Cameron, J (2012) James Cameron’s Titanic, New York, HarperCollins.

Henslin, M, J (2007) Sociology: a down-to-earth approach: core conceptsMySocLab Series, Edition2, New York; Pearson Allyn & Bacon.

Rasor E, L (2001) The Titanic: historiography and annotated bibliographyIssue 53 of Bibliographies and indexes in world history, Volume 53 of Major Issues in American History, California, Greenwood Publishing Group.