He died for her. The scrap of wood couldn’t hold them both so he stayed in the icy water and talked her back to life. That was a great scene and lesson about grace in extreme circumstances; so good, in fact, that you can’t convince me James Cameron wrote it, screenwriting credit or not. Agreed, otherwise a terrible screenplay.
>>He died for her. The scrap of wood couldn’t hold them both so he stayed in the icy water and talked her back to life. That was a great scene and lesson about grace in extreme circumstances;<<
Grace is one word — dumb is probably a better word. There was so much flotsam and jetsam than he could have grabbed something to keep himself afloat.
Sacrifice for its own sake isn’t noble — it is just, well, dumb.