Was Jack a figment of Rose's imagination in the film 'Titanic' ?

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This belongs in that crazy movie theory thread.
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Apparently there's no arguing this point because there seems to be an answer to every possible rebuttal for this thread.
lol, exactly

here's the thing, if the movie was indeed winking at the idea that Rose imagined everything, sorry, there would need to be more subtext for this theory. if the clues and meanings are so hidden that majority of people disagree about it, then either there is no weird twist, or James Cameron got lazy.
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Damn, Son.

The Titanic is not a story about Rose and Jacks relationship but about what caused the global financial crisis. The actual sinking of the Titanic has little to do with the plot and is more symbolic and overshadowing to the key event in the movie.

The story is about Rose, the person who solely bankrupt America. The film follows her in a fabricated version of how she obtained a rare and “priceless” jewel. What the movie does not show is that following her theft of the jewel and her murdering Jack is a 60 plus year spending spree. She borrows millions of dollars off the jewel, buys real estate, goes on extravagant adventures, pursues the finest things in life money can buy all by essentially pawning her jewel.

In her ripe old age she is pursued by debt collectors and escapes by fabricating a lie that she was on the Titanic. She is afforded refuge on a boat in the middle of the ocean away from the debt collectors but the “sharks” are circling figuratively and literally. Her tall tale interweaves with both fact and fiction and buys her time. Fact, she was a daughter. Fiction, she was on the Titanic and was an upper class lass with a heart of gold yearning for love over materialistic indulgence. Fact, she knew a man named Jack who drowned and froze to death, Fiction, that his death was a natural occurrence, Rose poisoned Jack at dinner and drowned him in the bathtub, she put filled the bath with ice as to keep him from decomposing as she fled the country. She talks about romance and describes a nude painting and a sexual scene in a car to seduce the sailors but alas she is too old.

Towards the end of the film Rose throws the priceless jewel in the ocean. She is aware that the Captain is not interested in her (sexually) and has been notified by debt collectors and Police that she is not who she says she is, there is no escape it seems, she has only bought herself time. She thinks to herself, “if I can’t have it, no one can” and lets go, an evil cackling can be heard in the credits. As she does this, as does the Tinantic sink, the jewel sinks, with millions perhaps billions borrowed off the jewel it defaults countless bank loans and repayments, America does not recover and this causes a snowball effect that reaches maximum velocity in 2008.

This was Cameron’s vision, not some silly love story on an old boat. He wanted it to be more than that and his symbolism and the way he lets the viewer fill in the blanks is cinema genius.

What ever happened to Rose? Well, let’s just say, she will rot in prison for the rest of her days.