And even when the lights came up and I realized my father was missing, his absence didn’t seem to matter much. I couldn’t think about anything else while the movie played. It didn’t matter that I knew exactly what was coming. But it wasn’t fair, my friend explained: It was obvious to her that there was room for them both. One of my friends had briefed me on what to expect: Jack and Rose fall in love, the ship sinks, and Jack finds a piece of wreckage floating in the sea and helps Rose clamber onto it, saving her from the freezing death that claims him before the lifeboats return for survivors. I wasn’t conscious of any reality but Titanic, even though I already knew exactly what was going to happen. The first time I saw Titanic, my father left the theater in the middle of the movie to get a haircut.
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