Movie

Titanic (1997 film)

The first movie that I have picked is Titanic. It is a 1997 film by James Cameron. After watching the current movie Avatar, people would get more familiar with his name. Titanic is a romantic movie. I would say it is a classic romantic movie because the director uses the living condition of people in 1912 as the background. The clothes that those actors are wearing and the way that they speak in the movie are very classical. Basically, the movie is talked about two people, Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater, who meet on the ship. The boy is from a working class family and Rose is from the upper. Jack has attracted by Rose’s beauty in the first sight. Something has happened and make Rose comes up with an idea of killing herself. However, Jack saved her. They start hanging out. Rose is engaged at that time, but she is not engaged in the relationship that she is having. It is an arranged married. Rose is looking for true love, and she finds that Jack is a right person for her. Eventually, they fell in love with each other. However, something has happened for the ship. The ship starts sinking. People are running around, trying to get on the boat and finding a way to survive. In this scene, you will see different people’s attitudes toward death. For example, the captain is staying in his own room while people are screaming and running around outside. He treats the ship as his body. He wants to die with his ship. Finally, the attention back to the poor couple. Jack has tried different way to survive. However, he has only found a piece of wood, so Rose can get on there and he stays in the water. Finally jack is died in this accident. In general, I like the movie. The storyline is unpredictable, unlike other romantic movie that it always has happy endings.  

      The most recent movie that I have watched is Love & Other Drugs. It is a romantic comedy movie directed by Edward Zwick. One of the attractions of this movie is its main actor and actress, Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway. They both are the popular movie stars in the United States. Maggie (Hathaway) is a strong girl who does not want people to let her down. She only wants to have short term relationship with all her boyfriend because she believes that eventually those boyfriends will leave her because of her Parkinson. After she meet Jamie (Gyllenhaal) she has found her true love. Jamie is a handsome, good-looking, smart salesman. Before he met Maggie, he doesn’t have a stable relationship. He put his focus on his career and enjoy his life. When these two different people come together, they have addicted by the love between them. At the end of the movie is all about the decision. Does Jamie want to stay with Maggie and take care of her for his entire life? This struggle cause their relationship has changed. However, Jamie made a right decision is to take the responsible and stay with Maggie.       From the review on Orlando Sentinel, it mentions the movie is little bit too sexual. The movie is sexual because there have many scenes that Maggie took her cloths off and audience can see that she is naked. However, in my opinion, I believe it have strength the personality of Maggie in the movie. It makes the audience to get more concepts about how a girl she is. On the other hand, audiences can compare the changes of Maggie’s attitude toward love.