7. Titanic (Lesson: Don't Fall In Love With Poor Artists)
I think I'm going to let my boy Slavoj Zizek take this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHAWcozS0lk But in case you don't understand a word he's saying, the basic point is that Rose is unconsciously relieved when Jack dies because if they had stayed together, she would have faced a life in poverty with a deadbeat artist who really didn't have very good drawing skills in the first place. I was Zizek's student in a class at the European Graduate School and he joked that, had he lived, Jack probably would have kept Rose barefoot and pregnant in an apartment in the Bronx while he gambled and drank all day. So the lesson is: If you find yourself falling in love with an artist, survive a massive disaster and make sure that he or she does not.