fluffycakesistainted:

“…there were two teenage girls sitting behind me, and they were weeping. And I said, ‘How often have you seen this film?’ And they said, ‘Oh, maybe six or seven times.’ And I said, ‘Why do you love this film so much that you keep seeing it?’ They said the payoff of the movie, for them, was seeing those photographs at the end. And seeing this old woman, who had been a young woman, and she had lived a really rich and full life. And that she had survived all these struggles, and had made something of herself, and that was so inspiring. This movie gave them an opportunity to think about their own future in a way that was transcendent, and enabled them to envision an empowered, productive life.”

— David Lubin, author of BFI Modern Classics: Titanic, in the “Reflections On Titanic” 15th anniversary documentary