homosandhomies:
That car scene in Titanic makes me go insane specifically because Rose is the one holding Jack when they’re done having sex.
We’ve established in recent years that one of Titanic’s amazing qualities is that Jack is a manic pixie dream boy teaching Rose how to live. It’s not the other way around.
In Rose’s relationship with Cal, he is the sexual aggressor, and she’s clearly not into it. With Jack, Rose is the aggressor, and Jack is very into it. He likes a girl who takes charge, and in some way he taught her to be confident, but in other ways she found it in herself. So with her newfound confidence and sense of agency, it makes sense that she’s the more assertive one during sex.
And in that scene, they’re naked, as vulnerable as they can possibly be, and this is the closest Rose has ever been to anyone before. And for just a few seconds, we see Jack vulnerable for the first time. He’s trembling and it’s definitely implied that this is his first time, not hers (It’s been implied in the film that she and Cal have slept together but it isn’t good.) So she holds her lover and strokes his head. She’s the strong one, the protector, the experienced one.
You very rarely see that in sex scenes, with the woman holding the man, but this movie chose to do it that way. And it’s such a good choice. Rose’s strength helps her fight, but it also helps her love.
