Line #36 Fridge/Titanic1997


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4	* Sure, he did it for selfish reasons, but Cal almost certainly saved the life of that child. The girl was hiding in a corner (which small children often do because they are scared and/or because they think whatever scary thing is happening is their fault), she had obviously gotten separated from her parents/guardians and chances are no one else would have helped her even if they found her, because they were all trying to save themselves and their families. It doesn't matter that Cal only did it to save himself; the fact is that she only ended up on that lifeboat because he picked her up and carried her there. If he hadn't, she probably would have either gotten trampled to death by panicking people, or she would have died when the ship went down.
5	** During the montage of lifeboat passengers after Rose's rescue, the little girl and the woman Cal handed her to are seen sitting next to Cal. There's also a deleted scene on the ''Carpathia'' showing that the little girl did indeed survive.
6	* FreezeFrameBonus: There is a total of ONE first class woman seen aboard during the final part of the sinking, behind Jack and Rose when they are running to the poop deck and momentarily stop to see the passengers jumping over the railing (Jack tells Rose that the longer they stay in the ship, the better). Four first-class women died in the sinking historically: three were last seen by the bridge before it was swamped (Ida Strauss, Bess Allison, Edith Evans); nobody knows what happened to the fourth (Ann Isham). So we can conclude this one is her!
7	* At first it just seems like dramatic effect that the engine and boiler room crews are working as frantically as the guys on the bridge to avoid the crash when they can't see what's going on up top. But considering the whole crew or at least the guys in charge probably were aware of the iceberg danger then suddenly being told to reverse engines and shut the dampers for a potential impact out of the blue means they probably had a good guess of what was about to happen.
8	* How come the master at arms didn't come for Jack before his office started to flood? It's likely that Lovejoy approached him outside of his office, [[MagnificentBastard lied that he released Jack and gave back the key]].
9	** The Master at arms was sent away to help at the second-class purser's office. He was also probably too busy dealing with that to get back to the office and he likely didn't realize that the ship was sinking until it was too late.
10	* If parts of the love story seem melodramatic, just remember that this is a 101-year-old woman telling the story of her first love.
11	** The historical inaccuracies in Jack’s backstory and lines can be chalked down to lapses in memory and lack of knowledge on Rose’s part as well.
12	* A FreezeFrameBonus. Right before the sketch starts to happen, Rose doesn't bother closing the door to the room. She no longer cares if Cal finds her, and would probably be happy for him to walk in while she's fully nude and getting sketched by Jack.
13	* The WMG page pointed out that Old Rose boarded the ''Keldysh'' with pictures of herself, which does seem self-absorbed. However, the pictures are lit in the same golden, dreamlike lighting of the Heaven!Titanic scenes. She might have brought the physical pictures along in remembrance of the fact that she made sure the efforts to save her weren’t in vain (Andrews giving her his life jacket and Joughin catching her, for example), and fulfilled all of her promises to Jack. Alternatively, the pictures aren’t real: just a handy visual rundown of Rose’s life post-''Titanic'' (not unlike a clip show montage), flashing before her eyes in a dream and/or before she dies.
14	* As Old Rose is finishing up telling her story to the ''Keldysh'' crew and her granddaughter, one of the researchers mentions that this is the first time they even heard of a Jack Dawson being a victim of the sinking. While it's easy to assume that it's because most of the historical records only focused on the famous and/or rich people who died in the disaster (such as [[TogetherInDeath Isidor and Ida Strauss]]), it makes total sense when you remember that Jack and Fabrizio won their tickets on the ''Titanic'' last minute in a poker game. Those tickets were bought by somebody else and registered to somebody else so there wouldn't have been any record of Jack buying a ticket or being a third-class passenger on the ship.
15	** While Jack may have bought his ticket ''to'' Europe, there's no telling when he left the US or how long he was in Europe, and he's not likely the type -- personal or financial -- to stay at hotels that kept precise records. Nevermind if any of those records even survived by the time the ''Titanic'' was found again.
16	* When Boiler Room 6 is breached during the collision, it appears that there is already water on the floor. How is there water when it hasn't been opened to the sea yet? The cargo hold. The watertight doors have not been closed yet, so water from the breached cargo hold is getting in before the boiler room suffers its own damage.
17	* Aboard the ''Carpathia'', Rose gives her name to a crewman as "Rose Dawson." Of course the audience knows that she's basically faking her death and starting a new life, but there's also a secondary meaning likely inherent in this. Jack is dead, and he and Rose can't be married like they probably would have been. By taking his last name, Rose is essentially marrying him post-mortem; she may also have hoped that she had conceived a child during their one night together, whom she could raise with his or her father's name.
18	* Jack talking to Rose when she tries to kill herself is not only because he is in love with her at first sight but also to put her off from jumping off especially the freezing water.
19	* Upon seeing ''Titanic'' for the first time, Rose comments that "it doesn't look any bigger than the ''Mauretania''." Obviously, she must have seen that ship as well, and given that she was one of Cunard's finest ships, Rose, Cal, and Ruth likely came to Europe aboard her.
20	* When Rose asks where she'll find Jack, Thomas Andrews tells her to use the ''elevator'', even though he's Irish and would say ''lift''. However, he probably deliberately used it to make it easier for Rose, an American, to understand.
21	* When Rose says goodbye to her mother, Cal runs after her. Had he stayed at the lifeboat, Officer Lightoller would've asked someone to help row the lifeboat (as he did in real life). Cal was experienced with rowing (as seen in a deleted scene) and much younger then Arthur Peuchen (who we see sitting next to Molly). Had he not been so obsessed with Rose, he could've easily saved both his life and reputation by climbing into boat 6 and helping the crew row.
22	* Old Rose seems privy to information about the ship she couldn't possibly have known at the time; same goes for seemingly knowing about things she never witnessed during the voyage. Well, it's been 84 years, so maybe she simply heard stories from other survivors and put it all together. It would also explain the [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade character]] [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade changes]] that the historical figures went through, as Rose is probably not an [[UnreliableNarrator unbiased narrator]].
23	** There have been lots of books and documentaries about the ''Titanic''; plenty to help Rose fill in the gaps a bit regarding what happened.
24	* We never find out what happens to Ruth. But it makes sense that Rose herself doesn't know either: after her mother tried to sell her as a bride to a rotten and abusive man, Rose probably feared that her mom would likely force her into another unwanted marriage with another rich man, [[AbusiveParents if not punish Rose for her defiance and refusing the lifeboat]]. After getting a taste of true love with Jack, Rose would never go back to becoming just a TrophyWife, let alone being a tool for her mom anymore. Not bothering to look for her mom's whereabouts was the only Rose could finally break with her for good.
25	* Despite being on the Carpathia, Rose and Ruth never bumped into one another. But Rose was in the third-class survivor section and Ruth is a woman so classist she wanted the lifeboats to be segregated by class. Rose willingly chose to be in the third class, knowing her mom would never step foot there.
26	* Going on the above, there is a reason why Rose waited 80 years to tell her story: she was so desperate to escape her toxic life, she hid her experiences out of fear someone from her old life could track her down. Considering how Cal wandered Carpathia to look for Rose, it makes sense why she would do this.
27	** Rose became a famous actress, for most of her life she was living unafraid, in the open, and her former associates must have eventually seen her on screen (presumably they were too ashamed to contact her). Her silence on the subject more likely is because she didn't want to upset her husband and family with the knowledge of a romance which was so much more important to her than her relationship with them that she imagines herself going to the afterlife with Jack and not her husband.
28	* Cal going bankrupt in the crash of 1929 isn't all too surprising: underneath [[FauxAffablyEvil his pretenses]] of gentlemanly behavior, he's a spoiled and controlling asshole who treated his fiancee like a possession. His upbringing was likely one in which he got everything handed to him, so he never really learned discipline or how to succeed in the business world. Like many people in the 1920s, he would've believed the stock market would remain on a permanently high plateau, only to be wiped out completely when the crash came. His ending his own life was because he knew without money no one would want anything to do with him.
29	* How a character relates to poverty (or the fear of it) is a reflection of their moral character.
30	** Jack was born into poverty and remained a starving artist, but he never showed any shame or embarrassment from it, even when he was dining with some of the richest people in the world. He was a decent, humble guy who was secure with who he was. Rose went from being a wealthy but miserable (would-be) TrophyWife to a poor refugee with no possessions but clothes on her back (and a rare diamond she didn't pawn). And yet she managed to build herself up, become an actress, raise a family, and live into the 1990s.
31	** Ruth was an upper-class woman who dreaded being stuck in poverty and thus treated her own daughter as a show pony and a cash cow, proving how much of a selfish wench she was. Cal's choice to stick a pistol in his mouth after going bankrupt only showed how much of a weak coward he really was.
32	* Why did Rose keep the Heart of the Ocean for so many years?
33	** Rose made a conscious effort to break with her pre-Titanic life, changing her name, refusing to go back to her abusive family and living according to her own merits. Not pawning the diamond despite the wealth it would've brought her was because she didn't want to rely on something her cruel ex-fiancee gave her to support herself.
34	** Also, if she tried to pawn the diamond, its size, wealth, and in-universe lore would've revealed her true identity, which is something she apparently didn't want others to find out.
35	** Also, as decades passed and the ''Titanic'' and those lost with it faded from the world's living memory, Rose may have felt that the Heart - one of the last traces of the doomed voyage's magnificence, as well as a priceless reminder of her time with Jack - was too precious a thing to forfeit merely for cash. She had no way to know that the wreck would ever be discovered; to her, it was the ''one and only'' memento mori for everyone who died that night.
36	* Cal's suicide was prompted by his going bankrupt in 1929. However, it is shown that Cal seemed somewhat remorseful about Rose, even wandering the Carpathia trying to find her. What if he was carrying lifelong guilt over what he did, on top of the trauma that many survivors of the Titanic held? His suicide may have been the result of going bankrupt, but all that guilt and self-loathing were kindling.
37	* The movie's AwardBaitSong[=/=]Love Theme, "My Heart Will Go On", is from ''Rose'''s perspective, thinking back on the romance she had with Jack, and how he will always stay in her heart, despite "the distance / And spaces between [them]".
38	* How did Rose get away with everything after Titanic? Simple: Lovett states that Rose Dewitt-Bukater died on the Titanic when she was 17. By changing her name, Rose was able to start anew and do whatever she wanted - she was no longer confined by her past; Jack ''literally'' saved her in that respect.
39	* Murdoch's DeathGlare to Ismay before ordering the lifeboat containing him to be lowered contains two degrees of subtext -- firstly, the seat that Ismay took was one that Cal had originally bribed Murdoch into giving him before running off to find Rose, so for as much as Murdoch may have wanted to call out Ismay, he knew he was in no position to do so. Secondly, while the prevailing mentality at the time was that crew members should give up their lives in order to save the lives of the passengers, Ismay ''wasn't'' a crew member (in fact, Lowe had angrily reminded him of this during a DeletedScene), and thus wasn't under any real moral obligation to go down with the ship.
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41	!FridgeHorror
42	* An in-universe example with Rose is when she remembers what Andrews told her earlier about the number of lifeboats while he is telling her that the ship is, in fact, sinking.
43	** It's double Fridge Horror/Brilliance if you're familiar with the real Thomas Andrews. Andrews in real life was a father to a 2 year old girl named Elizabeth when the disaster happened. Based on his interactions with Rose in the film, it's implied that Andrews views her as like a daughter. The look of fear and horror in his eyes when Rose confronts him about the iceberg shows that he's deathly worried for her and was no doubt thinking of his own daughter and what he'd do if she were there...hence his pleading with Rose to "don't wait".
44	** Imagine the company that overruled the double lifeboats for the ''Titanic'', which could've saved those who at the very least made it deckside. As soon as they heard the news about it's tragedy and the mortality rate, it's not off to think that whoever may have declined Andrew's order are now possibly living in guilt and turmoil...
45	* Rose alerts the lifeboat by prying an officer's whistle out of Chief Officer Wilde's dead hands. When Lowe's boat takes her aboard, he cannot have failed to notice the blue frozen corpse of his immediate superior staring him in the face and realized where she got the whistle. Bad enough to see all the relatively-anonymous corpses, looking straight at someone who until about twenty minutes ago was your coworker and boss, and if not for an order from another superior, that might have been you in the water....
46	** Also, consider the people in Lowe's boat when he gets back. While he's staring at the frozen corpse of his superior Wilde, they're likely staring at the frozen corpses of their friends and/or loved ones...
47	*** It can get even worse if you stop to wonder how many people weren't lucky enough to be floating next to a dead man with a whistle. Who else was out there, left to watch their only chance of rescue drift by because they couldn't make themselves be heard?
48	** If we take Option A and the ending is really Rose dying and going to heaven and that's really their afterlife... well, look around. There's all the people we saw die. Including all the third-class passengers we got to meet, Rose's maid, the orchestra, the stewards manning the doors, Captain Smith, First Officer Murdoch, Thomas Andrews... so, if this is their afterlife, sucks to be them. Smith, Murdoch, Andrews, Guggenheim, and at least one of the orchestra were all married with families that weren't on the ''Titanic''. Chief Officer Wilde (aka dead guy with the whistle) was a widower with children whose wife was already dead before the sinking; Astor's wife and unborn child lived long lives without him, not to mention that he had two grown children from a previous marriage, yet here he is; the Strausses may have died together, but they had adult children; and what about Fabrizio's beloved mother?
49	*** This heaven is like a dream. When you dream, the characters in your dream, despite being real friends to you in waking life, do not have consciousness of their own, which is kinda scary on its own that all the people she sees are empty beyond the actions towards her. Maybe at least Jack can maintain inner thought. The 'real' Mr. Andrews for example probably has a different afterlife from his perspective, with friends and family of his own, back home in his own happiest time of life.
50	*** Or maybe they just stopped by to welcome Rose to the afterlife, honoring her status as a fellow ''Titanic'' passenger, but can return to join their own deceased loved ones whenever they choose.
51	*** If Rose ''did'' die and go to Heaven at the end of the film, she's abandoning the man she married and had children with so that she can get together with a guy that she had a brief fling with eight decades ago.
52	*** If this is ''Rose'''s heaven, perhaps her late husband and Jack have already reconciled, and he's waiting in the background because he knows Rose has been waiting a lot ''longer'' to be reunited with Jack than with him.
53	*** Heaven probably has a bunch of polycules.
54	*** Something to consider is that, while yes, Jack and Rose were together for a short while, the relationship helped Rose to break away from the restrictive life she was trapped in. If she hadn’t met Jack, she would've either been married to Cal or committed suicide, thus never meeting her husband in the first place. Jack may not have been with Rose nearly as long as her husband, but he was still an important turning point in her life.
55	* So, what DID happen to Rose's mother? She admits to Rose she's pressuring her to marry Cal because her deadbeat late husband left them with nothing but the family name and a pile of debt. Rose marries rich, they can pay off the creditors; if she doesn't, all their belongings are sold off and her mother's taking in sewing. Now, she might have been exaggerating, but the fact that Rose's marriage is apparently their only trump card suggests there aren't any close relatives to take them in. Old Rose mentions that she 'heard' Cal shot himself after the Crash of '29, but doesn't say anything about her mother. (You know, the previously-unknown great-grandmother of that nice granddaughter who feeds her Pomeranian and hauls her out for helicopter rides to Russian research vessel in the middle of the North Atlantic and presumably packed all those trunks? i.e., is doing Trudy's job now?)
56	** So did Ruth have to swallow her pride, hock all her belongings, and either take up seamstressing or throw herself on the charity and pity of her society friends? [[DriventoSuicide Or did she take a darker option?]]
57	** She could have remarried. A lot of widows from the ''Titanic'' did. She was still a name and could be a somewhat attractive prospect for an older bachelor. She might even get help if she can milk the sympathy she'd get from her "dead" daughter.
58	** Just a guess but: insurance. Rose 'dies' unmarried and her next of kin is Ruth so that Ruth can claim both their possessions on the ship. Now, that doesn't include the Heart of the Ocean, because we know Cal claims for that, but it could well include every other thing they had. The paintings, jewelry, expensive clothes, it was probably all insured. Assuming Cal got them a good deal and the claim value is about equal to the actual value of the lost goods, Ruth does better than selling them (buying second hand often gives you leeway to ask for a discount, especially if you know the seller is desperate and will take any offer). She presumably had some place arranged to stay before the wedding (even hotel reservations would be something) and there were many collections for the survivors who lost their breadwinners/source of income (craftsmen losing tools, merchants losing goods) that were pure charity if she could bring herself to ask for that. She talks to Rose about selling their fine things and taking in sewing but that is probably mother-drama. It's possible that Ruth could have lived reasonably as a distressed gentlewoman for the rest of her life if she could deal with the responsibility of choosing rent and food over new hats...
59	** Cal was still rich for a long time after the ship sank. He may have set up a trust fund to take care of Ruth as his mother-in-law, since he regarded Rose as his wife in practice, if not by law. Cal would have been aware that his reputation as a gentleman would suffer if he cut Ruth off without any money after her only child was thought to have died in the sinking. Also, he seemed to show remorse and some longing for Rose, as shown by his aimless wandering on the Carpathia, [[TheAtoner so he might feel inclined to help Ruth as atonement for how he treated Rose.]] Plus, Ruth and Cal were BirdsOfAFeather, who seemed to genuinely like each other. He may have had genuine affection for her and wanted to take care of her by settling her debts, if nothing else.
60	** Even if Ruth somehow avoided the poorhouse, [[VillainousBSOD she's not going to be in good shape mentally]]: her daughter, as far as she knows, is dead. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone And she has no one to blame but herself for driving her away]]. Ruth probably regrets [[PartingWordsRegret that her last moment with her daughter was complaining about lifeboat space and hollering at her with another abusive order]]. No amount of money in the world can make up for the fact that she has no one to really share it with.
61	* For animal lovers: Those dogs we saw the stewards walking earlier are NOT on the lifeboats. Which means...
62	** In real life, at least one of the dogs was taken into a lifeboat by a passenger. Most of the dogs did die, though.
63	** Three very small dogs were taken on board the lifeboats by their owners. The other nine dogs that were on the ''Titanic'' didn't make it; in fact, one woman ''left her seat'' in a lifeboat to go back and try to save her Great Dane, and [[TearJerker her body was found floating hours later, her dead dog clutched in her frozen arms]].
64	** Cameron portrayed two "''Titanic'' dog sinking stories" in the script: When the bridge begins to sink, the whole pack of dogs seen by Jack and co. days earlier can be seen running among the people, as they were during the sinking (it is unknown who left them out of their cages, though this is usually attributed to J.J. Astor, whose wife trusted him to look after her dog after boarding a lifeboat); and when Jack and Rose are in the water, they see the French bulldog swimming past them (he was seen from a lifeboat). However, it was decided that these scenes were too much MoodWhiplash and were cut.
65	* Suppose that Cal's girl's family didn't board a lifeboat because they were looking for her while Cal had already gotten her on a lifeboat already. There is an early scene where the girl appears with her family, and it is a really big one with lots of little children.
66	** Uh, that was the last boat away (except the one that wound up upside-down.) If Cal hadn't thrown her in there, then the only difference would have been her ENTIRE family would die (assuming that the mother and other kids weren't on another boat already and her father, who was likely dead one way or another, was left looking for her). The 'looking for a lost child who was actually already gone' did cause the only first-class child fatality, Lorraine Allison, who was with her parents looking for her baby brother and his nurse (who were in a lifeboat already.)
67	* The idea that Jack and Fabrizio's names aren't on the lists (due to them running on board at the last minute and having tickets they hadn't purchased themselves) so Fabrizio's family will NEVER know where he is, if he is alive, or what happened to him. He and Jack are completely lost in time!
68	** Unless Fabrizio's body is recovered by one of the ships sent from Halifax to pick up corpses and he has some sort of ID on him, not counting the ticket of course. Though ''that'' assumes that there was actually enough of Fabrizio left to identify after he got crushed by the funnel...
69	** Third Class passengers received free postcards on their dining menus, so that they could get more business for White Star by praising the line to their friends and family back home, and the ship made two stops in France and Ireland that might have included some mail drop-off. It's possible Fabrizio wrote a postcard to his mother that made it off the ship, and when she didn't see his name on any survivor lists, she realized what had happened to him.
70	* Related to the above, it's hard not to wonder what the Swedish guys who lost their tickets at cards will think, not only at the thought that their (presumably) friends are quite probably dead, but that [[LifesavingMisfortune for the want of a bad hand at poker it could have very easily been them]]...
71	** TruthInTelevision: A number of ''Titanic'' victims were traveling under assumed names or the names of other people. For example, a man who intended to sign up for ''Titanic'' as a stoker left his discharge book (used as a sort of work record aboard ship) behind after a heavy night of drinking in the pub. Without his book he couldn't sign on for ''Titanic'', but somebody used his book to sign on as a stoker. The individual in question, who was assumed to be the man to whom the book really belonged, died in the sinking and it was assumed for a couple of months that the book's owner was the victim. When it became apparent that the owner of the book was not the stoker who went down, it left a little mystery behind. Who was the guy who found a discharge book in a pub and used it to sign up as a ''Titanic'' stoker, only to die when the ship went down? We'll never know.
72	* The electricity was powered by the boilers, which were being run by men shoveling coal into them. Remember that when you see the lights flicker as the ship sinks and how long it takes for the lights to finally go out for good.
73	** There were six boiler rooms. They didn't all flood at once.
74	** Imagine if you were still trapped inside the ''Titanic'' when the power finally went out. In fact, imagine you're there at all! After the lights go out, you are effectively blind as your eyes struggle to get used to the dark. Mere seconds after, there's a loud cracking as the ship splits in half...
75	** The stokers suffered a very high death toll and none of the engineers escaped the sinking. They are remembered as heroes today because they stayed at their post and kept the lights burning for as long as they did. Imagine being in the bottom of the ship, you can hear the steel squeaking in protest (and possibly can even see it beginning to warp), you know there's no way you can make it up the escape ladders now because the angle of the ship is too steep to allow you to climb them. You know that any minute the sea is going to rush in and kill you... and you STILL keep trying to keep the ship afloat and maintain the ship's systems as long as possible to give the people on the upper decks a fighting chance of survival. How's that for HeroicSacrifice?
76	*** While the engineers deserve to be remembered for their work to keep the ship afloat and the power going as long as possible, they [[https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/a-last-bright-shining-lie.html actually made it out of the ship before it sank]].
77	*** the strokers as well as the majority remained at their posts, fighting to desperately to hold the icy waters of the Atlantic back long enough for the boilers cool down enough to avoid a steam explosion that would’ve destroyed a good chunk of the ship and accelerate the sinking; the end result is that only 25 or so made it deck side and survived.
78	* Cal obviously had the potential to be an abusive husband; his behavior towards Rose was unpleasant in general, he scared her, threatened her, and on one occasion, slapped her hard across the face. We know that after Rose escaped from him, he went on to marry another woman. What's the likelihood he treated ''her'' decently?
79	** Admittedly, most of Cal's behavior was due to him being -- understandably -- upset and humiliated that his fiancée was cheating on him. Even her dancing with Jack at the third class party was [[ValuesDissonance tantamount to adultery for a first class lady in 1912.]] His actual wife may have been dutiful, obedient, and utterly devoted to him for all we know. Not to mention the fact that it's also possible Cal had a HeelFaceTurn after the tragedy and losing Rose. It might have occurred to him with reflection that he basically drove Rose into the arms of another man with his behavior.
80	*** Actually, in most marriages of two people of social convenience it wasn't a big deal if people had lovers on the side. Although that is merely on a social level: there is nothing stopping a controlling person taking it personally even if it is considered 'okay' to parts of society.
81	*** This is an example of double standards. In 1912 it was still socially acceptable for a married man of high society to have an affair with a female lover as long as he was discreet about it but if his wife/fiancee had an affair, or even just had a male friend, no matter how discreet they were, high society would throw the book at her for committing adultery regardless of the excuse; which was one of the reasons behind the fight for gender equality.
82	** He died in 1929 so even if he was abusive, his next wife was free from him eventually.
83	*** If she survived him. In the extended scene, Rose only says that Cal's sons fought over his inheritance.
84	** He was clearly remorseful for what he did to Rose, so likely he treated his next wife much better.
85	* Rose was rescued by boat 14. Boat 14 also rescued survivors from half-swamped collapsible lifeboat A, which Cal was on board. It's hard to believe that they never met.
86	** Prior to returning to look for survivors, Officer Lowe gathered together five boats and transferred all of the passengers from his boat to others. So Cal wasn't in boat 14 when they found Rose.
87	* After Cal flips the table and screams at Rose, Trudy rushes in to clean up. Rose babbles hysterically until Trudy quietly tells her, "It's all right", in a tone of voice that strongly implies that this isn't the first time she's dealt with something like this -- either she herself has been abused or she's witnessed plenty of other wealthy men assaulting their wives/girlfriends.
88	* Rose narrates early on that she considered the ''Titanic'' "a slave ship", and her personal life after the disaster seems to have been freer and happier. It at least appears to be so. If Rose is not a completely selfish jerkass, she would also have to be a ShellShockedVeteran for the rest of her life, free, but knowing that her life was made possible by the expense of all those casualties left behind in the North Atlantic. No wonder she has been silent for 84 years. It is also no wonder that her DyingDream is filled with all the people she left behind -- who presumably showed up to forgive her (as the whole shebang initially never was her fault to begin with).
89	* Near the beginning of the film we see a boot, broken spectacles, a waistcoat, and the head of one of Cora’s dolls. This can send shivers down your spine when you realise how the bodies of those who died decomposed under the ocean over the decades. To make it more horrifying, the bodies may not have decomposed at all but simply eaten by sharks and other fish.
90	* The Irish mother is last seen tucking in her children after realizing they're not going to survive. The accommodations for third class single women with children were located in the stern. There's a possibility they may have still been alive after the breakup and died once the stern imploded beneath the surface, half a minute at most.
91	** If it help alleviate the potential horror, given the bashing around the stern underwent before it made its final plunge, they would almost certainly have either been killed as they were buffeted around or at least knocked out, so either way were almost not conscious when the implosion occurred.
92	** Provided she didn't [[MercyKill smother them both once they fell asleep to spare them]]...
93	* Remember the steward who drops the keys and fails to save Jack and Rose? Imagine what he was thinking after he selfishly ran up the stairs. Their screams probably haunted him for the rest of his life, especially if he survived.
94	** He actually does survive. If you look closely, you can see him near Collapsible B and then on ''Carpathia'' in front of the pile of life jackets.
95	* Ruth sees nothing wrong with selling Rose like a trophy to the highest bidder. But it is very well possible Ruth endured the same thing Rose did: her own parents forced her into a marriage with a wealthy man when she was still a young adult. This could mean Ruth was raised to believe these kinds of arranged marriages are normal, or she's forcing Rose to endure the same emotional hardship out of anger seeing her own youth and love life taken away from her.
96	* Was Ruth's father just like Cal? An abusive rich bastard who only cared about himself and saw other women as objects? It is telling that Rose never once talks about her biological father, and the only time he's brought up, it is when Ruth disdainfully talks about how he apparently brought the family into debt and ruin. There are a lot of possibilities:
97	** Ruth has little problem with Cal's (at best) controlling behavior toward Rose, meaning she also had to endure a relationship with an abusive man [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror and probably thinks that kind of relationship is normal]].
98	** Or it could be Rose indirectly blames her father for the rotten life she nearly got: had he not died with the family in debt, she wouldn't have had to deal with Cal at all.
99	** Or perhaps Rose felt a sense of abandonment from her father dying, which is why she doesn't bother to think about him.
100	** It could be that Rose's father was a good man to his wife and daughter, but lost their money through external matters or a gambling vice.
101	** It could be that Rose’s father was a good man to both but finally had enough of Ruth treating him as her personal ATM to fund her own lavish lifestyle that something caused him to die unexpectedly. Ruth said her husband/Rose’s father had left them with nothing but his surname and debt when he passed away but she didn’t say how he died. For all the audience knows Ruth might’ve murdered her husband to prevent him from leaving her and taking his fortune and Rose with him.
102	* While Cal did save the life of a little girl, albeit, for self-serving reasons, this action could have potentially caused a lot of harm since he functionally kidnapped a kid.
103	** If that kids' parents were still alive and looking for their daughter, how would they've reacted to not being able to find her on a rapidly sinking ship?
104	** How did that child feel, knowing that her parents were dead?
105	** Whatever became of that child? Hopefully, Cal was decent enough to give that poor kid home, but it is easy to imagine him dumping that child in an orphanage once her utility to him ended.
106	*** Considering what happened to the other orphaned children rescued from the Titanic (who were looked after by volunteers while the newspapers published their photos in order to find their extended family members), she'd probably be all right.
107	* Jack's fate was his frozen body being sent to the bottom of the Atlantic. In RealLife, the bodies of those who drowned either dissolved or were consumed by sea creatures, with nothing remaining of the victims except for their shoes and boots. It is depressing and nightmarish that all that might remain of Jack is footwear and the memories of an old lady.
108	* The fact that “propeller guy”, the guy who was electrocuted, and some of the others who fell to their deaths from dizzying heights are the luckiest victims since their deaths were at least quick. Everyone else died in horrific pain by either freezing to death or drowning….in freezing water.

Context Fridge / Titanic1997