The Titanic

All the fanfare surrounding Cameron’s blockbuster movie Titanic was rubbing this review the wrong way. When it had first been released I’d resisted to see / seeing it, because I just didn’t feel like to watch / watching 1,500 people drown.

The next day at my desk at the newspaper, I jotted down ten reasons why I shouldn’t have to see / seeing Titanic and write a review of it. But it was before my wife dragged me to the picture. And now my advice to you is this: The movie is worth to go / going to. Before to see /seeing the picture I was aware that many people have gone back again and again to see / seeing it, and I wondered why. “It must be because of the special effects,” I said to myself. But what really makes the picture to work / work / working is the story-within-the-story framework. As the film opens, we focus on a modern-day treasure hunter who has mounted an expedition in which divers will attempt to recover / recovering a famous and valuable necklace reported to have gone / having gone with the Titanic. The expedition just happens to be televised / being televised, and the telecast just happens to be watched / being watched by a 101-year-old woman who not only was on the Titanic but who has the necklace. Before we know it, the woman and her granddaughter have joined the expedition, at which time they proceed to tell / telling everyone what it was really like the night of the disaster. Once the old lady begins to tell / telling her tale, the film proceeds in flashbacks of her recollections.

To watch / watching a movie like this, one is faced with the inevitable question: Is it more suspenseful to know / knowing the end of a story or not? I come down on the side of the former. We all know what happened when the Titanic sank. Somehow, to know / knowing the outcome makes the suspense greater.

By the way, I must assure my readers that I will not be a member of that group responsible for destroy / destroying the pleasure of many moviegoers by divulge / divulging the secret of what happens to the necklace. Find out for yourself by go / going and see / seeing the movie.