Titanic: the iceberg after the declaration
example · film: Titanic ·
retold in 3 talks
The ship hits the iceberg not simply after the couple makes love, but precisely at the moment Rose declares she will leave her class and live with Jack, the catastrophe forestalls the 'true catastrophe' of their mundane life together.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 4
“the catastrophe occurs to prevent the true catastrophe. The true catastrophe would have been of course the two of them landing in New York”
“While she is shouting this, with her hands she is pushing him away.”
“It's a kind of a Western Buddhist psychological advisory, be true to yourself, live authentically and that kind of bullshit.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
contents · one story, 3 jobsuses
surplus enjoyment
×2
Hollywood Marxism
×2
catastrophe as blessing in disguise
×1
Its cast and sources
populated by
Kate Winslet2Leonardo DiCaprio2Tadeusz Borowski1Tom Stoppard1Ray Brassier1Alison Tyler1Marion Cotillard1Jo Esterhaz1
alongside works
Every retelling 4
The ship hits the iceberg not simply after the couple makes love, but precisely at the moment Rose declares she will leave her class and live with Jack, the catastrophe forestalls the 'true catastrophe' of their mundane life together., illustrating catastrophe as blessing in disguise,production of the couple,surplus enjoyment
17:58 "THE DARK KNIGHT RISES is a Conservative Liberal Film" - Slavoj Žižek (2012) | TIFF REWIND2012 · 1:09:18
Kate Winslet shouts 'I will never let you go' while physically pushing Leonardo DiCaprio's body away, illustrating the bourgeois use and discard of the lower class., illustrating Hollywood left,arch conservative reactionary myth
18:36 "THE DARK KNIGHT RISES is a Conservative Liberal Film" - Slavoj Žižek (2012) | TIFF REWIND2012 · 1:09:18
DiCaprio's dying words are not romantic but 'Buddhist psychological advisory' ('be true to yourself'), revealing the film's conservative core., illustrating Hollywood left
Žižek analyzes the scene where Rose pushes Jack's body away, interpreting it not as love but as a reactionary motif where the lower-class vitality restores the rich girl's ego and then disappears., illustrating surplus enjoyment,cinema-art-culture