April 15, 1912

As I walked to work this morning I got to thinking about the film 'Titanic'. It hardly gets a mention these days, odd really as how it is, by quite some margin, the highest grossing film of all time ($1,845,034,000). I remember one february evening in 1998 walking out of the cinema desparately trying to coach my vocal chords back into some kind of order, after holding back tears for the last hour. I never expected to be moved quite so much. On the face of it Titanic was a cheesy, predictable DeCaprio vehicle, but deep down it was much more. Titanic a had real backstory, one which anyone with access to a book store could research, plus it was of huge local interest. The music was chilling and the effects were first class. Pretty much from start to finish the film projects a sense of loss, and seeing as how everyone has lost something or someone dear to them it had a resonance which many people could feel. I might just have to get the DVD today.