Dear blog,
I cried tonight like I haven't cried in many years.
I walked in on my mother and sister watching Titanic on our ridiculously large television. This put me in mind of one of my favorite scenes. I looked it up on youtube just to listen to the string arrangement of Nearer, My God, To Thee, which I haven't found anywhere else. It can be found here.
I couldn't pin down exactly what did it. There are, in my opinion, a number of tear worthy things to that video. It recalls the horror of people resigned to die or fighting to survive and failing. The music is beautiful. The juxtaposition is heart wrenching. Maybe it was just a trigger for something that has been waiting for years to come out.
As I type, I'm listening again, and still crying. Almost sobbing.
It's just so sad.
-Ian Hogan.
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Some of these tearworthy scenes:
musicians decide to play one last song, though nobody's listening
the captain has a moment alone at the wheel
a man adjusts a broken clock to reflect the current time
an old couple snuggle together in bed as water fills the room
a mother tells her children a final bedtime story
artistic masterpieces are destroyed in the water
a man takes a lifejacket off his dead friend and puts it on himself
people struggle to save a lifeboat that's trapped in the lines
an old aristocrat's look of horror as water and desperate people flood the room
The captain watches as the windows around him burst and he is engulfed in crushing water
I wouldn't be surprised.
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