Okay, I've been reading reviews about Titanic, and one of the universal complaints I read was that focusing on the love story between Jack and Rose completely took away the emotional impact of the tragedy as a whole. I guess I can sort of see that point. But one of the main points of this movie was that the disaster was not just some academic, symbolic thing that happened in 1912. It actually made a *difference* in people's lives. You've got to remember that the 1500 people that died were just that--PEOPLE. I mean, what do you critics want? They can't do an in-depth story about every single person on the boat. They just picked two (yup, I know they're fictional) characters and used them to represent the people on the boat as a whole. Also, it's not like James Cameron just completely *ignored* everyone else on the ship. Some of the scenes that make me cry the hardest have nothing to do with Jack and Rose--for example, the scene where the lifeboat had come back to find everyone frozen never fails to make me cry. Plus, the one where Rose is getting in the lifeboat--part of what makes me cry during that is the father up on deck saying, "It's goodbye for a little while.. only a little while..." That always sends chills right down my spine. I mean, this movie does still show that it wasn't only Jack and Rose that were affected by this. Even at the end, after Jack dies, on the Carpathia, they haven't neglected everyone else; like, they show that woman who's saying, "But there's *got* to be another passenger ship! Perhaps he's on another ship!" I just wanted to defend the love story, anyway, because I didn't think it took away from the message of the movie at all.