“I love you, Jack.”
“No. Don’t say your goodbyes, Rose. Don’t you give up. Don’t do it.”
If you find your lips moving in sync with these lines from Titanic, have rewound the moment that Leonardo DiCaprio’s face recedes into the freezing waters of the North Atlantic until you could weep no more, and have watched the film more times than you would ever admit, then it seems you are in excellent company.
The average Briton has watched his or her favourite film 29 times, according to a poll. Psychologists believe that the chirping ubiquity of the smartphone has made it so hard to concentrate that people are constantly returning to films in an attempt to work out what was going on.
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