Christopher Vogler The Writers Journey
identity there, as a well-off member of the ruling class, as a worker, as an immigrant,
as a dreamer, as a lover. And we can appreciate the truth that certain inexorable
forces — nature, death, physics, fate, accident — affect all of us, across the spectrum
without exception. For a while the human story is reduced to one archetype — the
Victim.
Titanic is a coherent design in part because it observes the unities of time,
place, and theme. T h e confinement of the central story to the time from the Titanic s
sailing to her death concentrates the dramatic energy. T h i s concentration intensifies
in the second half of the film which follows the surging events in real time, moment
by moment. Confining the action to one place, the world of the ship alone at sea,
makes it into a microcosm of life. It is an island of life in a dead sea, just as this
island Earth is adrift in an ocean of space
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