#instead of a sentimental slop to make viewers cry

[mzannthropy]

Much has been said about Titanic, the movie, whether it's the fact that it would not have been possible for a first class passenger and a third class passenger to ever meet or that that they both would have fit on the door. But I have a different theory that explains it. Basically, it never happened. The old lady is making it up.

She really did sail on the Titanic and survived, but the romance with Jack is the product of her imagination. Maybe it helped her cope with the trauma she must have had afterwards, or maybe there was really a poor boy named Jack she knew back in England that she loved but couldn't be with bc he was poor. (A poor artist, perhaps?) Maybe she didn't board the lifeboat with her mother bc she really wanted to die. Later, something in her clung to life and she got saved. She changed her name and started a new life in America.

One of the men who listens to her narrate the story says there was no record of any Jack Dawson. Of course, bc he never existed.