"Garber deserves an Oscar nomination for his earnest, intense performance as the ship’s main designer. He is, at first, rightfully proud of his ship. But when the iceberg hits, he is the first to accept that “the ship will sink.” When he walks up the grand staircase, and Rose inquires about why everyone is being made to wear their life-vests, Garber’s eyes (and watch his extraordinarily expressive eyebrows here) burn with guilt, shame, and fear as he explains to Rose of the inevitable."

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The story of the giant ship that sank on its maiden voyage is so rife with symbolism that if it hadn’t actually happened, we might have had to invent it.

Yet it did happen, on that cold, clear April night in 1912. And it happened to real people—stokers, millionaires, society ladies, parsons, parlormaids—people who displayed a full range of all-too-human reactions as the events of the night unfolded. The recollections of those who survived, conflicting and embroidered though they often are, allow us to place ourselves on that sloping desk and ask: “What would we do?”

The unsinkable story sails on.

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