SLAVOJ ZIZEK on... TITANIC

"In Titanic [...] all the rich people are mostly corrupted, the lower [down the decks and classes] you go, the more people are authentic, honest and all that. [Titanic] is not even a love story! It's this idea that rich people need from time to time contact with poor, authentic people, to suck their blood to re-establish their life energy, and then they can drop them. In the film, he is not so much [Kate Winslet's] lover, Leonardo DiCaprio, his function is to restore her ego and self-image, literally - you remember he draws her portrait, and when he does his job he can disappear!"

Taken from "Mind the Gaps" by Sam Davies, Sight and Sound Magazine, October 2013, Volume 23, Issue 1