This article should be the most systematic analysis of "Terror Cruise Ship" so far, and all the analysis is based on the content of the film. I believe that after reading this article, you will have a new understanding of this film and be able to solve many unresolved questions.
1. Interpretation of the title
"Terror Cruise" tells the story of single mother Jesse and a group of friends sailing out on a yacht. After that, she encountered a storm and the yacht capsized. Several people boarded an old cruise ship, and then a terrible murder occurred. The most terrifying thing is that Jesse seems to be caught in a cycle of terror that is difficult to escape...
The title of "Horror Cruise" seems to be too simple and rude. It makes people feel that this is a B-level Cult film, and it seems that the cruise ship is the protagonist of this movie.
The English name of "Horror Cruise" "Triangle" seems to better reflect the content of the movie. Triangle is the name of a few people sailing out in the film. It means "triangle". In the movie, Jessie is on the cruise ship To go through three similar cycles.
2. Character introduction
Due to the different translations of foreign movies, the names of the characters will be different. In order to avoid confusion when analyzing the plot later, here is a brief introduction to the main characters in the movie.
1. The heroine Jesse
Jesse is the protagonist of the film. She is a single mother with an autistic son.
2. Grey
The owner of the "Delta" yacht wanted to pursue Jesse, so he invited Jesse to go to sea together.
3. Victor
Grey's friend, currently lives in Greyna.
4. Downey
Grey's hair
5. Sally
Sally is Downey's wife and Grey's ex-girlfriend.
6. Heather
Heather is Sally's friend, and Sally tried to make her and Grey meet.
Heather received the box lunch early, its existence is mainly to create the authenticity of the shipwreck, and to set up suspense for the identity of the attacker at the beginning of the film, and set up a reason for missing people separately for several people.
Third, the essence of the story
If you want to understand the logic of the movie, you must first clarify the essence of the story told by "Horror Cruise". Is it a supernatural event? Parallel universe? Hallucinations? Or ghost soul?
At this point, the answer is very clear. The story told in this film is an illusion of Jesse's soul .
1. The cycle of the whole movie is not a reality
At the end of the film, Jesse drove his son in a car accident, and then the camera turned to the front of the accident. Jesse appeared in front of the audience intact.
In such a serious car accident and his son died, it was incredible that Jesse could climb out of the overturned car station on his own; it was absolutely impossible for him to have no injuries at all.
There is only one explanation for this scene, that is, Jesse was dead in a car accident, and Jesse’s soul is standing in front of us , looking back at the scene of the car accident; this is the normal operation of many European and American horror (thriller) movies.
And the taxi driver who came by behind her could see her and talk to her, indicating that this driver is by no means ordinary. Even if he is not the god of death, he must be a subordinate of the god of death and the attractor of the dead, so in the following we will call this taxi driver the god of death (messenger) .
What is even more bizarre is that after Jesse asked the god of death (messenger) to take her to the dock, Grey, Victor and others could see her as a soul and talk to her, indicating that this story is not reality .
Combined with the previous shot of Jesse hitting the albatross to death and discarding the body, this is the director reminding us once again that this place is still in a loop .
From this, it can be proved that the whole cycle is not a reality.
2. This cycle is the punishment of death to Jesse
When the five people just boarded the cruise ship, they saw the photo of the cruise ship and learned that the name of the ship was " Erus ", and there was a brief introduction of the name under the photo.
Ethiopia is the god of wind in Greek mythology and the father of Sisyphus. The introduction focuses on the mythical story of Sisyphus being punished by the god of death and falling into the endless cycle of pushing stones up the mountain forever.
Then Sally's lines can be viewed in a key circle, saying that Sisyphus violated his promise to the god of death and was punished.
After Jesse arrived at the dock, the god of death (the messenger) said that he would not turn off the taximeter first, and confirmed with her: "You will be back, right?"
Then Jesse said to him that she promised to come back.
In the end, she went out on a yacht with Grey and others.
In the context of the context, Jesse and Sisyphus made the same mistake and deceived the god of death ; and the inextricable loop of Jesse was similar to the punishment that Sisyphus suffered.
Therefore, it can be inferred that the cycle that Jesse is in in this film is the punishment given to her by the god of death, so that she can never escape .
3. Other evidence
The illusion is like a dream. Its creation is derived from reality . There are many weird scenes in the movie, suggesting that what happened on our ship was an illusion created based on Jesse's memory before his death.
(1) Static time
The title shows that Jesse and Grey agreed to meet at the pier at 8:30 in the morning.
But after a few people boarded the cruise ship, they found that the time was a weird 8:17.
The time of Jesse's watch and the ship's clock are the same at 8:17.
But when Grey looked at his watch, it showed 11:30.
And when Jesse returned to the restaurant again, the clock on the cruise ship was still 8:17.
And she found that the fresh food just now has been decayed (symbolizing the decay of Jesse's body, that is, she has died).
In other words, Grey and others’ time is normal and flowing. Three hours later after meeting at 8:30, a group of people boarded the cruise ship; but the time on board and Jesse’s time remained static forever. 8:17, and this 8:17 is the time of Jesse's death in a car accident.
(2) The same room number
Among the many rooms on the cruise ship, there is one of the most special rooms, that is, the room where "Go to the theater" is written on the mirror, and the camera specifically took the number of this room as 237.
And 237 happens to be the house number of Jesse's house.
(3) Similar yachts
The yacht that Jesse and his party took was very similar to the toy yacht Jesse bought for his son, and the two boats capsized. This is a recurrence of the scene.
Before Jesse died, she scolded her son for this toy, so she had guilt in her subconscious mind.
(4) The same piece of music
On the cruise ship, the music played by the record player was the same as the music played by the roadside children's band when Jesse hit the bird.
This shows that the melody that Jesse heard before death has been reproduced in another form in the illusion created by her subconscious.
(5) The same pattern on the drum surface
After Jesse cruised on, the drumhead of the band seen in the restaurant was the same as the drumhead of the boy before his death.
(6) The same injured part
Jesse, who was robbed and injured his head on the cruise ship, had the same injuries and bleeding on the head of Jesse's body at the scene of the car accident.
(7) Albatross that appeared many times before and after going to sea
The cause of Jesse's car accident was that he killed the albatross. Jesse also had paintings of albatross at home, and Jesse also saw albatross shots many times after he went to sea.
More details of these movie scenes to reproduce enough to explain a series of stories after Jesse sea, are her subconscious to create a lifetime of memories based on illusion.
4. Realistic speculation
According to our previous analysis, we can infer what happened to Jesse , namely:
Grey and Jesse made an appointment to go out to sea together and meet at the pier at 8:30 in the morning.
On the day of the date, Jesse's son painted with paint. Jessie soiled the dress she was wearing when she wanted to go out when she was packing up, scolded her son and beat him up in a hurry.
Because of the time wasted before going out, Jesse drove very anxiously all the way and accidentally ran into the albatross.
The son was stimulated by the blood, and Jesse was very irritable at this time, so at 8:17, the tragedy of a car accident occurred.
The soul of Jesse's death, looking at the child, gave birth to infinite guilt.
The god of death (messenger) wanted to take Jesse away, and Jesse, like Sisyphus, said that he had an unfinished agreement in his lifetime to go to the dock.
As a result, Jesse, who promised Death (the messenger) would come back, broke his promise, and was punished by Death, and fell into the eternal cycle of "Terror Cruise"...
We know that Jessie’s motivation for breaking her promise later is to go back to the past through the cycle and see the child again;
As for why Jesse broke her promise to the god of death in the beginning, we don't know. I think it might be because of unwillingness to die like this.
Fourth, the composition of the cycle
The nature of the story told in "Horror Cruise" has already been analyzed before. Let's start to analyze how the loops in the film are constituted. This is also the most brainstorming part of the film .
Regarding the loop in the film, the fans’ opinions can be divided into two groups:
The first is to think that Jessie goes to sea-boarding-jumping into the sea-going home-going to sea , which constitutes a complete cycle ;
The second is to think that Jesse's two cruises constitute a cycle . The result of the first cruise is to jump into the sea, and the second is to be killed; and then he wakes up again.
Those who agree with the second type are divided into two groups. One is that Jesse who was on the ship for the second time has memories, and the other is that Jesse who was on the ship for the second time has no memories as much as the first time.
In addition, there are two views about what happened on the cruise ship is composed of several different small loops :
One thinks that the circulation pattern on board is ...ABABABAB...
The other is that the circulation pattern on board is ...123123123...
Let me first talk about my point of view, describe the whole process of the cycle in detail, and then analyze why I don't agree with other statements.
I think Jesse’s journey from going to sea-boarding-jumping to sea-going home-going to sea constitutes a complete cycle, and every time Jesse on the cruise ship has no memory of the cycle, they did it when they first boarded the cruise ship. The state is the same. Depending on whether Jessie was confronted with a gun in the previous round, there will be two different cycles afterwards. We will mark them as AB.
We denote Jesse from the audience's perspective in "Horror Cruise" as A, and Jesse who gets on board in the next round of A is B, and Jesse in the next round goes through the same cycle as A, that is, the horror cruise ship. the always ...... ABABAB ...... patterns constantly circulating .
To make it easier to distinguish, we will
The Jesse who goes through the A cycle before A is recorded as A-1;
The first Jesse who goes through the A cycle after A is recorded as A+1;
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The Jesse who goes through the B cycle before B is recorded as B-1;
The first Jesse who goes through the B cycle after B is recorded as B+1;
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It is worth noting that in addition to Jesse's two modes, AB, the other four also have two corresponding endings, so they must be distinguished and not confused . We use Jesse's number to assign corresponding numbers to the other 4 people in each group.
The numbering convention is clear, let’s start to sort out Jesse’s two cycles of A and B along the plot.
Let's first sort out the experience of Jesse numbered A on the cruise ship based on the movie footage.
1. Jesse A's experience
(1) A cruise ship;
Picked up the key of (B-1);
Seeing someone in the restaurant (B-1);
See the bloody words "Go to the theater" on the mirror in Room 237;
Argument with Grey from Group A;
Go back to the restaurant and kill Victor of Group A by mistake;
Go to the theater and find that Group A Grey is dead;
Witnessing group A Sally and Downey being shot by the hood (A-1);
Avoid the headgear (A-1) to chase and kill;
Attacked from behind by a hood (A-1);
Forcing the headgear (A-1) to jump into the sea;
(2) Witness group B coming;
Follow B and others all the way;
The key was dropped and picked up by B;
Seen by B in the restaurant;
Witness the floating corpse of Downey in Group A;
Lost and injured Victor of Group B;
Hearing that B and Grey quarreled after seeing the bloody words "Go to Theater";
Copy the note (the font is exactly the same);
Dropped the necklace
Drove B away in the restaurant;
Rushed to the theater and found that Grey in Group B was dead;
Wounded (B-1);
Back to the restaurant, he found that Victor of Group B had been injured in the face (B-1) and was thrown into the sea;
Face injury (B-1) stabs Downey and Sally in Group B (this is from the audience's perspective, A did not see this scene);
Group B Sally sent out a distress signal (this is from the audience's perspective, A did not see this scene);
Witness the death of Sally in Group B;
Witnessing B counter-killed with a face injury (B-1);
(3) Witnessed the arrival of Witness B (A+1) group;
Witnessed (A+1) and others getting on the ship looking for the bridge;
Missed the floating small yacht;
Witnessing B injured (A+1) Victor;
Talk to Victor in (A+1) and say that he can be saved;
Wrote to the theater in room 237;
Throw the body of Downey in Group B into the sea;
Drag away the corpse of Grey in Group B in the theater;
Tell Downey and Sally in the (A+1) group to go to the theater;
Picked up the gun and put on the headgear;
Kill (A+1) Group Grey on the second floor of the theater;
Shot down (A+1) group Downey and Sally;
Hunt down (A+1);
Forced to jump into the sea by (A+1);
(4) Wake up on the beach;
Ran home and killed myself at home, snatched the necklace, and put on a sweater coat;
Killed the albatross and threw it to the beach;
Had a car accident and witnessed the death of the child;
Arrive at the port by taxi;
He promised that the god of death (messenger) would come back, but went out on a boat;
Lie to Victor that the child is at school;
Apologize to Grey;
I slept on the boat, and then lost my memory (forgetting the death of my son and the previous cycle.);
Heard the distress signal from Sally;
Encountered huge waves and overturned yachts;
Cruise again...
2. Jesse B's experience
(1) B cruise ship;
Pick up A's key;
See someone in the restaurant (A);
See the bloody words "Go to the theater" on the mirror in Room 237;
Arguing with Grey in Group B;
Back to the restaurant, he found Victor of Group B who was seriously injured.
Witnessed the death of Grey in Group B;
Fighting with a facial injury (B-1), learned that Downey in Group B had died in room 237 (this is a speculation);
Anti-killing injury (B-1);
(2) Witness (A+1) arrival;
Follow (A+1) and others all the way;
The key was dropped and picked up by (A+1);
Seen by (A+1) in the restaurant;
Talked to (A+1) Victor and injured him by a miss;
Hiding again, witnessed the deaths of (A+1) Group Grey, Sally and Downey;
Witness A to kill (A+1);
Witness A being forced into the sea by (A+1);
(3) Witnessed the arrival of the (A+1) witnessed (B+1) group;
Deal with the bodies of Victor, Grey and Sally in group (A+1);
Finally, the (A+1) group of Downey’s body was thrown into the sea;
Tell (B+1) group Sally and Downey to go to the theater;
Picked up the gun and put on the headgear;
Kill (B+1) Group Grey;
Was injured by (A+1);
Kill (B+1) group Victor and leave the sea;
Wipe off the "Go to Theater" on the 237 glass;
Take off the headgear and cheat (B+1) group Downey and Sally to Room 237;
Stabbing (B+1) group Downey and Sally;
Pursuing (B+1), being counter-killed by (B+1).
The above is the cycle that Jesse went through in the two modes A and B respectively on the cruise.
The A we saw when we watched the movie, because she would hear the distress signal from Sally of Group B before the cruise, so she would enter the cycle of A every time she cruised, and the cycle would go back and forth again and again.
As for B and the other A-1 and A+1, just like the Jesse that A killed at home, they are just NPCs created by the protagonist A based on his own image in the illusion of the protagonist.
However, A does not exist as a player character with independent choice in this cycle, because she has no memory, so she will make the same choice every time, so her behavior also looks like an npc, and A- There seems to be no difference between 1 and A+1.
The biggest difference between A and A-1 and A+1 is that the audience follows A's experience through the lens of the movie. This is the most special part of A.
A little bit bigger, the "Terror Cruise" we saw is actually a program designed by Reaper to run in a loop, and this program is used to punish Jesse.
5. Falsification of other claims
1. 123 Defects of Three Jesse Cycles
There is one kind of 123 three kinds of Jessie's statement widely circulated on the Internet, but this kind of statement has a biggest problem: the other four people except Jesse must be obscured for this statement to be valid .
In other words, the term "123" does not distinguish which group the other 4 people belong to, but is handled in general terms; however, when the source of the 4 people involved in each step is to be investigated in detail, there will be contradictions; and "123" Nor can it explain how the corpses of the other four people are handled in this movie, which is very detailed.
2. It is untenable to say that Jesse has the memory the second time he boarded the ship.
To illustrate this point, we must first solve the following problems:
(1) How did Jesse lose her memory?
According to the movie, Jesse’s amnesia is when she lost her memory of the cycle she experienced while sleeping on the yacht, but it was not completely amnesia. Some places still feel like deja vu.
(2) Why did Jessie lose his memory after sleeping? Who caused her amnesia?
Some people think that Jesse hypnotized herself and made herself amnesia, the purpose is to make herself forget that her child is dead.
But the problem is that after experiencing the cycle, Jesse still chooses to go to the dock. Her goal is to go back to the past through the cycle of experience so that she can see her children again .
Whether it is possible or not, Jesse's ultimate goal is to change the outcome of the child's death, that is, to jump out of this cycle, and if she makes herself amnesia, she will never be able to jump out of this cycle .
We know that the key to Jesse's endless loop lies in her amnesia , so that she can instinctively make the same choice every time she faces the same situation, and then the cycle will continue.
If Jesse had memories when she got on the boat, she could change the circulation on the boat in various ways. She could even jump into the sea and go back to find her son after getting on the boat.
Because if Jesse never realizes that she is dead and becomes a soul, but thinks that it is a cycle of experience, and time will flow back, she would never think that time will flow back through a few killings, but will think that Back in time is the reason for this weird cruise ship. So she can jump off after getting on the boat.
Therefore, Jesse will never let her amnesia , and the only person who can make Jesse lose her memory as soon as she sleeps, has this supernatural power, and has the motivation to make Jesse's amnesia never escape the cycle of death. Reaper. And in order to ensure that Jesse has amnesia, even if Jesse reminds herself not to fall asleep after getting on the yacht, Death will definitely let Jesse fall asleep.
To sum up, every time Jesse on the cruise ship must have amnesia, one is because death will definitely make her amnesia, and the other is because if she does not amnesia, the cycle of death will definitely collapse .
3. Jesse's two cruises constitute a big loop, and this loop will produce a very imperfect breakpoint.
The argument that two cruise ships constitute a big cycle means that the same Jesse first enters the A cycle, then the cruise ship enters the B cycle, and then re-enters the A cycle after death.
And the very imperfect breakpoint I mentioned is when Jesse enters B and finally dies . First of all, Jesse in the soul state can no longer die. She can only lose consciousness like A jumped from the ship;
Secondly, if Jessie dies every time she rebirths, then her resurrection point every time she rebirth will also be a problem .
This resurrection point cannot be the beach, because Jesse waking up on the beach retains the memory of the cycle, and if Jesse wakes up on the beach after death, but still remembers that she is dead on the boat, then she may be conscious. This is the cycle designed by the god of death, and then it will break this endless cycle like some comic characters that can break the dimension wall;
Moreover, it is also a problem to say that Jesse's resurrection point is on Grey's speedboat after death, because we know that Jesse only had a dream on the speedboat, and she was "alive" on the speedboat before she fell asleep.
If it is resurrected on the speedboat, it is unreasonable whether it is because there is no Jesse on the speedboat and suddenly one becomes alive, or there is one and then another becomes two.
We know that every Jesse who appears on the speedboat out to sea corresponds to a Jesse who has experienced cycle A, and if the Jesse on the speedboat corresponds to a Jesse who was resurrected after the death of B, it will become A=A+B , and it is known that both A and B are not zero, which is obviously not true.
To sum up, my views in "Four. Composition of Cycles" are the most reasonable in comparison, and there are various contradictions in the other statements.
Even if "Terror Cruise" is just an illusion designed by the god of death based on Jesse's subconscious, this illusion should be as reasonable as possible so that Jesse can't detect the abnormality, so as to maintain a stable circulation forever.
Of course, if you read my analysis above, you still have different views, which is understandable. There are a thousand Hamlet for a thousand readers. For the same movie, because everyone has different experiences and different understandings of life, they will see different things. We cannot and should not require everyone to agree.
The world is gorgeous because of different colors.
Sixth, the success of "Terror Cruise"
Regarding the details of "Terror Cruise", I have analyzed a lot before, here is just a general analysis of the reasons for the success of "Terror Cruise".
I think there are two key reasons for the success of "Horror Cruise": one is brain burn, and the other is logical self-consistent (perfect endless loop).
1. Reasons for Brain Burning
Please think about it first, what kind of movies are brain-burning?
There are many kinds of brain-burning movies, but they must all be those with suspense and not straightforward narratives, and these suspense must be solved by carefully observing the details of each part of the movie and piecing together clues.
And some movies simply do not give the audience enough information, which will cause different audiences to have different interpretations, and even the same audience will have different understandings when watching at different times in their lives. Such movies are open-ended plots. movie.
The most common open-ended film is an open ending. At the end of the film, a blank space is given to the audience, allowing the audience to imagine the ending of the story according to their own expectations, such as "Inception";
And some movies have an open beginning, that is, the movie does not explain the cause of the story or the motivation of the characters. Although the ending of such a story is fixed, different audiences will have different understandings about the source of the story. For example, "The Knife Out of the Sheath".
As for this "Horror Cruise", it is an open-ended process , that is to say, after watching the movie, no matter the ending or the beginning, the audience is clear. In fact, the ending of "Terror Cruise" is the same as the beginning, that is, Jesse is in an infinite loop, but the process of the loop is open.
Because on a cruise ship, at the same time, there will be at most 3 Jesses at the same time, and a Jesse A will encounter a total of four selves A-1, B-1, B, A+1 on the cruise ship.
However, the movie only took the perspective of A, and other Jesse’s perspectives were very few. This resulted in a large amount of blank space in the process of the cycle. Part of the activity of B), which makes different audiences have different understanding of the cycle.
This kind of blank film in the process is rare, because a little carelessness will give the audience a feeling that the movie has dug a hole and forgot to fill it, and it is not easy to please.
But "Horror Cruises" is an infinite loop movie, which is very suitable for this method of blanking in the process. If all the plots of Jesse are presented to the audience, it is easy to cause the public to repeat the shots or make the editing messy.
2. The mystery of logical self-consistent
"Horror Cruise" can be logically self-consistent, not that it has no bugs, on the contrary, this movie has too many bugs.
For example, Sally’s bodies pile up infinitely, what should I do if the ship sinks?
Or it consumes bullets every time it loops, so what should I do if the bullets on the cruise ship run out?
Or how is Jesse's initial cycle formed?
But these inexplicable bugs can be perfectly solved by the setting of the film: that is, Jesse is dead, and this film is just an illusion created by the god of death based on Jesse's subconscious.
Because it is an illusion, the bullets will be automatically replenished and will never run out;
Because it is an illusion, Surrey’s corpses will not pile up indefinitely, but will be periodically reduced;
Because it is an illusion, a reciprocating cycle, there is no initial cycle, which is similar to the problem of "the chicken or the egg" is difficult to tell; or as I analyzed earlier, except for A, other Jessies are It was an NPC designed by the god of death based on her, so the initial cycle looks like this...
In short, many unexplained problems can be solved by saying that this is an illusion.
The director seems to expect that someone will find bugs, so he deliberately shows us through various scenes in the film. This is a fantasy, this is unreal , such as suddenly corrupt food, such as time that never changes...
However, the most valuable thing about "Horror Cruise" is that it will not ignore logic because it is an illusion. On the contrary, the director pays great attention to details, and most of the film is very reasonable.
7. Enlightenment from "Terror Cruise Ship"
1. People must pay attention to integrity and keep their promises:
People who are accustomed to talking but not believing will one day make irreparable mistakes, such as deceiving people they can't afford to offend, and then reap the consequences.
2. The greatness of maternal love:
Jessie in "Horror Cruise" usually has a bad temper with her son; but in order to save her son, she can choose to go to the purgatory horror cruise ship again and again; and no matter how many times, she will do the same every time choose.
3. There is no regret medicine in the world, even if you come back then you will still make the same choice:
As long as you don't have the memory of experiencing these things, even if you start again and face the same situation, you will still make the same choice, because you are you.
So don't regret your previous decisions, because it is precisely all the decisions you have made that make you unique . We only need to learn the lessons, let ourselves grow and change, and make better choices next time.
4. Life will fall into a vicious circle, it must be because of one's own obsession:
Correspondingly, when we find that our lives have fallen into a vicious circle, the way to get out of it must be to let go of our obsessions.
It is difficult for oneself in the cycle to break through this cycle; but letting go of obsessions, breaking one's old ideas, learning new knowledge, and introducing outside help, you can easily jump out of the vicious cycle.
5. When driving, you must look at the front:
No matter what happens, don't turn your head and chat with the back row. It is very, very dangerous to do so!
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