Titanic on TF1: Pause at 3 hours and 6 minutes and take a close look at this clock

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TF1 is showing James Cameron’s Titanic tonight, among the classics starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. Recall that it tells the love story between Rose, a rich young girl, and Jack, an artist of humble origin, on board the liner Titanic, before it collides with an iceberg, causing it to fall.

“Old fashioned”, “stupid”, “with zero sensitivity”: the entire press loved Titanic… except them!

The director himself controlled many of the details of the feature film until the end of the film, as evidenced by the final sequence of the feature film set on the actual sinking of the Titanic.

Stop at 3 hours, 6 minutes and 43 seconds

In the final sequence, part of the dream or the afterlife, given that Rose is dead, we discover a brand new Titanic, its passengers very much alive. Rose enters the Grand Staircase and finds Jack, behind him is a magnificent clock carved in wood. And look closely at its needles.

The time given is 2:19 a.m., one minute before the official sinking time of the Titanic. We clearly recognize James Cameron’s almost manic details, and above all, the chosen time is before the tragedy, as a symbol that time stopped for a moment for Rose, before the liner and her love sank again into the deep sea.

We can also say that the hand is exactly at 2:20 and is more symbolic that in this reality / this fantasy version, this is the hour of the ship’s demise, but that the ship did not hit the iceberg and that Rose and Jack will. can feel their love. Of course, with the end of Titanic, the audience can imagine its interpretation, and perhaps that is why the film still fascinates 26 years after its release.