I, for one, have grown up watching, loving, and practically worshipping the movie Titanic. I have always been extremely interested in the history of the Titanic, which inspired my parents to let me watch the movie Titanic at an age where I was probably too young to be allowed to watch it (don't worry, I wasn't allowed to watch the famous drawing or car scenes). As every true Titanic fan, I was conditioned to hate Rose's fiancé Cal and love Rose and her relationship with Jack. However, it wasn't until recently that I realized that everything we're supposed to believe about the movie is a lie.

Here are the facts: Cal is the victim and Jack probably never existed in the first place.

Crazy, right?! But hear me out...

For starters, there's no denying that Rose was being forced into marrying a man that she didn't love. As awful as this would be for her, it was very common during this time, especially for families like Rose's and Cal's who have lots of money. In fact, Rose's mom even makes a comment that their family's money is gone and they are only hiding behind their good name. Rose's mom truly believes that her daughter marrying Cal is what's best for the family to keep them financially stable.

However, Rose was mentally ill the entire time that she was on the ship. The theory goes that she suffered a psychotic episode on the ship which caused her to believe that her own mother and Cal were against her and were taking her to America on what she calls, "the prisoner ship."

I am not saying that how Cal treated Rose was in any way the correct way for a man to treat the person that he's going to marry, but was Cal really as bad as Rose made him seem?

The first scene that causes concern as to how Cal treats Rose is the scene where Cal and Rose are eating and he flips the table at her and calls her "his wife in practice if not yet by law." Rose gets really shaken up by this, and rightfully so, but Cal isn't to blame. In my opinion, Cal has every right to be angry at Rose for sneaking around the ship with another man behind his back when they engaged to marry.

Next, our hatred for Cal grows after he finds the drawing that Jack did of her in his safe and slaps her across the face for it. Obviously, no man should hit a girl, especially not their fiancé, but the way that Rose treated Cal wasn't okay either. She let another man see her naked, draw her like that, and then left the evidence somewhere she knew that Cal would find it just to rub it in. Not to mention her note on the back, "now you can keep both of us locked up".

And, more importantly, the fact that these two incidents made Cal so upset proves that he did care for Rose at least a little bit. Had he truly had no feelings for her and was only marrying her because she belonged to a wealthy family as Rose claims, he wouldn't care about her at all emotionally or be worried if she were spending her time with another man.

So, Rose is disgusting and was cheating on Cal with Jack. I mean, if Jack was even real in the first place...

Now here's where things get weird.

During her psychotic episode on the ship, Rose tries to commit suicide by jumping off the back of the boat but is famously stopped by Jack. "You jump, I jump." After this incident, Rose is suddenly in love with Jack and credits him with saving her life.

But what if Rose was so psychotic and depressed that she convinced herself that Jack was real when Jack Dawson really never existed...

The theory goes that Rose created Jack as a distraction from her misery and as a way to ultimately escape from her miserable life with her mother and Cal. Rose was so mentally ill that she created in her mind a fictional character that she made herself fall in love with and spent all of her time on the ship with to avoid having to spend time with Cal, who she saw as abusive.

Think about it: Jack is the exact opposite of Cal. Jack is poor, artistic, doesn't care about material things, he cares about her, he's adventurous... he is literally everything that Cal isn't. He truly is too good to be true.

Not totally convincing, I know, but even the plot of the movie itself give hints that Rose made the whole thing up.

If you recall, the whole movie is an older version of Rose recalling the events of the Titanic as she remembers and experienced them. Yet, she describes in full detail multiple events that happened to Jack that she wasn't there to witness. Jack winning his ticket to the Titanic, Cal putting the necklace in Jack's pocket, Jack being held as a prisoner for "stealing" the diamond necklace, etc. There is no possible way that Rose would have known how any of these events played out, except for the fact that she made them up just as she made up Jack.

Also, for years fans have been angry and convinced that there was room for Jack on the raft that Rose floated on in the end of the movie and that Jack could have lived. Although director James Cameron has proven that this is wrong and Jack couldn't have fit, Jack had to die. Because there was no Jack. Rose needed to let this figment of her imagination go, but continue to use his name to completely escape from her mom and Cal.

For crying out loud, even in her FICTIONAL and ideal version of heaven, she's marrying Jack ... not the guy she ended up actually marrying after Jack passes.

And if you aren't convinced yet, the dead give away is the very end of the movie where Rose is retelling her story and says there is no way there would be any record of Jack because "he exists now only as a memory" but that "he saved her, in every way a woman can be saved".

I'm not saying that Jack Dawson never existed but, Jack Dawson didn't exist.