This film reminds me of a kind of word game - palindrome. Unlike other films (narratives) that play time games, this film does not do any reversal, interlude or flash forward, it is in chronological order to be deduced (Jessie time is different from external objective time). You can choose to start watching at any point in the film, connect to the beginning at the end, and then watch the time you started watching, you will find that you are still following the protagonist (Jessie) in order to experience this never-ending experience. Terrible terror. The reason why the film chooses the starting point (end point) of the final version is to allow the truth to advance layer by layer, create suspense, and create a terrifying atmosphere. Let the audience slowly enter this cursed cycle.
"Terrorist Cruise" is generally considered a relatively strict film, but to construct such a space-time circle, the logical problem cannot be avoided, so the nightmare (forgetting) of sleeping for a few hours on the ship is used to create a breakpoint, which makes this cycle repeatable. The game can be continued again and again, and it is necessary to know why the heroine has set foot on the sailboat again - she just wants to experience all this horror again and return to the driving time, avoid car accidents, and save children. It is this almost obsessive maternal love that enables her to kill people and experience nightmares again.
If you don't fall asleep on the sailboat and forget everything (as a vague nightmare), Jesse's awareness and thinking about the event will strengthen each time, and it will be recovered after a certain number of times. will exist.
This film implies such a setting-Jessie for some reason (probably her obsession with seeing children alive) goes beyond the laws of nature and repeatedly enters this time and space. And Jessie who has entered this cycle different times can still meet and fight.
Don't get me wrong, there's only one Jesse in this film, we watched Jesse's circle tour in its entirety, and the "other Jess" are Jess another time (two, three, four) Enter the circle.
This is exactly the Sisyphus futility that the film implies.
This dark and desperate way and the setting of being locked in one day in this film can't help but remind people of Liu Wenyang's "One Day Prisoner". But the difference is that the director of "Terrorist Cruise" undoubtedly did not want to ponder the mystery of time and space, but just gave such a prior setting-the mysterious and terrifying game rules without discussion to show the despair and helplessness faced by the characters. .
After this analysis, it can be found that "Terror Cruise" actually doubles the classic linear narrative and connects it with hidden breakpoints to create a circle.
Of course, the whole story can also be seen as a fantasy, nightmare of a mother who is apologetic (or even bereaved) for her child. Showing the contemporary family in collapse may be the underlying appeal of the film.
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