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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.

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“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.”

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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
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
DiCaprio's dying words are not romantic but 'Buddhist psychological advisory' ('be true to yourself'), revealing the film's conservative core., illustrating Hollywood left
10:33 Slavoj Žižek — Charlie Rosepub. 2020-03-12 · 32:31
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