Is it an illusion or reality?

Alysa 2022-10-31 10:28:00

What if the whole movie was a carnival by the heroine who suffered from sea fever from the beginning? What if the sacrifice she thought was actually her fantasy?

The background of the story is the deep sea monster, contact infection, isolated island mode, and the "ghost ship" that meets on a narrow road. The unknown deep sea brings boundless fear. The narrative logic on the bright side: the female researcher saw the strange deep-sea monster and found that the monster’s juvenile state was extremely lethal to humans. All members were required to isolate themselves at sea. Later, they were attacked by the monster and had to abandon the ship to escape to save their partners. , Was infected by a monster, and finally plunged into the sea and swam in the direction of the monster for all mankind.

There are many things in the above story that are not in line with the actual situation: the discovery of strange deep-sea creatures is purely based on speculation, not further investigation; clearly he is not sure, but dared to take everyone into the forbidden sea; no research records, no data Integration, her status as a researcher is just what she said.

So, can we look at it from another angle: the heroine herself is a patient with sea fever, and her sense of morality has made up the story of a deep-sea monster in order to rationalize her brutal behavior. The people on the ship did not look at this. The thin and helpless girl was defensive, so she was killed by her, and in her eyes, they were killed by the juvenile state of the deep sea monster.

In this way, the whole movie seems much more reasonable, because this is the fantasy of self-salvation of the heroine. In the end, she also sacrificed herself for all mankind, which perfectly reproduces the fate of the "ghost ship" encountered at sea: full violence Dead-even if she was the only survivor left on the lifeboat, where she was able to swim to the deep sea monster, it proved that the ship was also within the deep sea monster, that is, within her own attack range, and she was swallowed by the monster. Proving the complete loss of her humanity, then the outcome of the only survivor can be imagined.

So, is this movie an illusion or reality, what do you think?

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Sea Fever quotes

  • Johnny: Sea Fever... It Happens

  • Gerard: [on the corpse strewn boat] Sea Fever; One Of Them Gets It... Then spreads it around

    Siobhán: Doesn't explain his eyes

    Gerard: [dismissive] Must've been a fight