Each Day Time is Fleeting - Make Every day Count
Time is fleeting, all we have is unwavering time – Making it count…..
In listening to music on YouTube, an interesting note was read as a comment on the song. I have seen the James Cameron movie Titanic 1997 at least 100 times, even knowing the ending the film is vibrant and full of life, death, conflict, and resolution. I will quote the note, written by Elwood Blues in 2016. I hope you find it interesting, eye-opening, and intriguing.
Gleaned from YouTube - by. Elwood Blues.
“It is frustrating to me that not many people (at least from my experience) do not recognize the pure GENIUS of this movie, and I can summit up in one word – Time. There are clocks off throughout the film; there is the grand staircase clock (of course there is the clock at Rose suite there is a clock in the pub where Jack and Fabrizio are playing poker, characters are constantly checking their watches. Even Mr. Andrews and Cal, in particular, you even saw Mr. Andrews adjusting the time on the clock well still waiting for his death."
"You can hear the ticking of clocks throughout the movie; you can hear it and Rose’s suite when Jack’s prepping the room for her drawing. You hear at several other points in the movie you hear the ticking of the grand staircase clock as Jack passes it you can hear the ticking of the pocket watch was Jack and Fabrizio so play poker there are constant references to time throughout the movie. Jack and Fabrizio have five minutes to get on the ship. The ship has ‘an hour or two’ at most to sink, and the nearest ship is four hours away."
"Murdock orders to ‘note the time and enter it in the log.’ There are an evident 84 years separated the actual event in the movies present. The most subtle nod of time is Hands. Clocks have hands, and their hands are throughout the picture. The first shot of old Rose is of her hands at the pottery wheel. Jack draws hands and shows them to Rose. There is a close-up of young Rose’s as it slams the window of the car during the love scene. Rose kisses and caresses Jack’s hands when they are in the car before saying ‘put your hands on me, Jack.’"
"Jack tells her not to let go of his hand as the ship goes under the water. There is a close-up of Rose’s hand at the end of the film when she puts hand ‘up on the railing’ to drop the Heart of the Ocean into the sea. We get a close-up of both Jack and Rose’s hands intertwined at the bow of the ship during the “I am Flying Scene.” We get close-ups of hands during the poker scene. We see a priest holding the hands of passengers as a ship near its end. When Rose is watching a mother ordering her daughter to sit up straight, we see her hands, and she folds and napkins."
"All of this is constant reference to time itself. What does Jack say to Rose? “Make It Count,” which she ultimately does. Although the film is a terrific technical achievement and the story (for me) is it involving and touching one. This is why it is one of my favorite movie ever, not just a movie to me but rather an inspiration. Moreover, an inspiration in the sense that all of us are affected influenced changed and ultimately bound by time.
It is at the end of the day; all we can do is make it count….”
In the end, Make life count – the time is unforgiving, finite, and expiring…. “Make it Count”