10 Movies That Might All Be In The Character's Head
2. Titanic
Titanic could have ended many ways, especially if Rose had only realised that there was room on that door for two. As it is though, Cameron ends the film with the elderly Rose dying in her sleep; Gloria Stuart was instructed to hold her breath when she filmed the scene. The final shot is of Rose, in her younger Kate Winslet form, reuniting with Leonardo DiCaprio's Jack in the afterlife. Everyone who died on the ship is there to applaud them, despite probably all having friends of their own to applaud. Where it becomes confusing, is that Rose mentions she married a man long after her brief romance on Titanic. Let's face it, it's good that she got over Jack: it's really sad to pine after someone for eighty years if you barely knew them. So why exactly would she meet Jack in the afterlife? Eighty years, a husband and no doubt some kids have passed, and yet the person who greets her is someone she knew for a few days? Taking the life expectancy into account and presuming her husband's already dead, shouldn't he be there to greet her in heaven? If her soul-mate was really Jack, why marry this other bloke? Just so he can have kids? That's a bit mean, isn't it? It would just make more sense for that final scene to be a dream, but the more you look at the film, the more you realise that it could all just be the fabrication of a very old woman. The important thing to remember though is that she could have saved Jack. There was room on that door for two.