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What I want to share with you today is the old film "Terror Cruise" from 2009. Just looking at the title and the poster with the main character covered in blood and holding an axe, you might think this is an uninteresting B-horror movie. But in fact, the scene where the heroine takes the axe in the play may not exceed 3 minutes. What a big misunderstanding.
But if you've seen this movie, you'll be impressed, why, because maybe you don't even know what the movie is talking about, I haven't met anyone who can see this movie for the first time, of course I I am no exception. After reading it off and on several times, the hard work paid off, and I understood 80% of it. So I will tell you the eighty percent of what I know.
The content of this issue is purely spoiler, and it can't be more revealing. Mr. Lu Xun once said that if the spoiler reaches a certain level, it is no longer a spoiler. He told me that. So you can watch this issue whether you have seen the movie or not. Some people say that even if "Terror Cruise" is spoiled, you may still not understand it. Why, because the person who gave you the spoiler may not understand it himself. Well, let’s not talk nonsense anymore, let’s start now. In order to facilitate everyone’s understanding, I have listed the important summaries for your reference.
1. Outline of the story
Everyone can see that this is a story about reincarnation, and the film also clearly mentions the tragedy of Sisyphus, which symbolizes that suffering will be repeated over and over again.
The relatively clear story line is this. Jesse, a single mother, is raising a son Tommy who has an intellectual disability. One day Jesse drove his son out of the house, but unexpectedly encountered a car accident on the road. When Death is about to take Jesse, she, like Sisyphus, wants to trick Death into a path she thinks will change her destiny. Jesse gets on Greg's Delta yacht, which is hit by a storm and a gang aboard the ship named after Sisyphus' father, Aeolus.
At this time, Jesse had lost his previous memory, but he could still feel that he had been here before, and then a series of strange things happened. There were masked men hunting and killing those who boarded the ship, and Jesse also saw many of himself. With batches of new yacht members, it seems that they are constantly reincarnating. Various phenomena suggest that Jesse can only jump out of reincarnation by killing all the yacht members. Jesse wants to jump out of reincarnation to see his son, so she Her behavior is slowly approaching the masked man who once hunted her, because the masked man is herself. It's just that Jesse was pushed into the sea by the other self when he was hunting the other self.
But Jesse seems to have jumped out of reincarnation, because when she woke up again, she was no longer on the cruise but on land. She quickly ran home to verify, but she saw another self in her own home. Jesse killed her and took her son and drove out, an albatross hit their car and left blood on the road, Tommy yelled, Jesse was distracted to take care of Tommy, so they got into a car accident, Tommy Unfortunate to die, in order to save his son Tommy, Jesse once again boarded Greg's Delta yacht. A new cycle begins.
The above are the plots that we can easily see. I think it's OK to see these things, but if you dig too deep, it may affect the look and feel. One reason is that there are a lot of characters in the movie, and the same face is actually a different person, which is easy to be confused the more you look. In addition, there are always bones in the egg. "Terror Cruise" is undoubtedly a good movie, but it is by no means a perfect movie. At this stage, no one can make a perfect movie about reincarnation, because no one can Prove the existence of reincarnation. The closer you look, the more unreasonable you will find. If you want to enjoy the movie for fun, you don't need to continue watching it here.
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However, if you are a persevering person, a person who will not give up until the goal is achieved, a person who will not hit the southern wall without turning back, and a person who will not die until the Yellow River is reached, I suggest you continue to look down, Next, I will fully review this classic thriller and suspense film (PS, this is not a horror film, this is not a horror film, this is not a horror film). Share with you the key details you found in the movie, and work with you to clarify the context of the story and restore the truth.
2. Introduction of Jesse who has played
Since there are many Jess in the movie, being able to figure out which is which is basically the same as the judgment of the plot. So I'll start by labeling each Jesse to differentiate and help understand the plot. To be fair, I'll list Jess in order of appearance, and label them with their main features.
1. Cry Jesse People will think that she is the female protagonist Jessie that we see most frequently. Here, for the sake of understanding, we should distinguish the two and call her crying Jesse first, and this question will be analyzed in detail later)
2. Jesse wiped the floor , (this Jesse has very few scenes. In fact, he was killed by crying Jesse soon after the floor was wiped. This will be found in the later reincarnation, but the director's treatment here makes us mistakenly think that The same person as the heroine Jesse)
3. The heroine Jesse , (Jesse with the most scenes, note that the heroine Jesse only appeared after crying Jesse had a car accident. This is only known after watching a reincarnation, and it is not easy to notice if you follow it. , the heroine Jesse's first face in the movie is walking behind Victor in a sweater, the heroine Jesse is the Jesse we can see her whole reincarnation)
4. Jesse in the headgear , (as soon as he appeared, he fired a cold shot at the theater, killing Downey and Sally, and finally lost to the heroine Jesse on the deck, fell into the sea, and told the heroine Jesse that he must kill before he died. them)
5. Escape for Jesse , (this Jesse is Jesse who appeared in the SOS 5 immediately after the heroine Jesse killed Jesse in the hood, and was pointed at by the heroine Jesse with a gun in the banquet hall, but escaped. One life. She later kills the next headshot Jesse on the deck to introduce)
6. Headshot Jesse , (he fired a cold shot at the theater, but was accidentally shot by the heroine and broke the headgear, then took off the headgear, seduced Downey and Sally to room 237, killed Downey and stabbed Sa Lee was finally pushed into the water by the escaped Jesse on the deck, and this scene was witnessed by the heroine Jesse. Remember the set of keys that the five-member group got when they first got on the boat, it was lost by Jesse headshot , Jesse is also headshot when the hostess Jesse glances at the banquet hall)
7. Clone Jesse, (this Jesse appeared in the third wave of SOS 5 after headshot Jesse fell into the sea, her experience is closest to the heroine Jesse, she saw the theater put on a headgear and open it. The gun kills Downey and Sally's heroine Jesse, and finally completes the counter-kill on the deck, pushing the heroine Jesse into the sea)
8. Jessie in Flower Dress , (The heroine Jesse woke up from the beach and came home, and saw that the Jessie who was beating and scolding Tommy was Jesse in the Flower Dress. She was beaten to death by the heroine Jessie with a hammer and loaded into the back of the car. box)
9. Watching Jesse , (At the end of the movie, the heroine Jessie had a car accident. Jesse, who was watching by the roadside, was sent to the dock by a taxi driver. Many people think that this Jesse is the heroine Jesse. Let's distinguish it first Come on, I'll tell you later whether it's true or not)
OK, there are a total of 9 Jess played, if you can distinguish these 9 Jess, then you are not far from success, at least you have made a good start. Next, we will follow the main line of the heroine Jesse and review her complete reincarnation.
3. Replay of the main storyline
Or to repeat, according to the classification of Jesse above, the heroine Jesse is not the first Jesse to cry, nor is it the Jesse who was killed by Jesse, but the one who appeared with Victor at the dock. West.
The appearance of the heroine Jesse should have started from witnessing a car accident, and then took a taxi of Death, and came to the pier, but the movie was not filmed at the beginning. (I will mark the plots that I will add later)
The heroine Jesse came to the pier with her ambiguous boyfriend Greg, 18-year-old Victor, the Donny Sally couple, and the blind date Sid. Encountered a storm on the way, Greg dialed the distress broadcast and heard the voice of distress, it was Sally's voice, and the words were exactly the same, which can be seen later. But because of electromagnetic interference, neither side could hear each other's voice.
The storm overturned the speedboat, and the blind date daughter Sid disappeared, forming a group of five for help. They boarded the cruise ship Aeolus Aeolus. At this time, the cruise ship was heading to the left of the screen. Before boarding the cruise ship, the heroine Jesse lost her memory and no longer remembers reincarnation.
After boarding the ship, they first picked up the key dropped by headshot Jesse, who was peeping on the side, but did not see headshot Jesse, and the hostess Jesse took the key in her pocket. Because the blind date daughter Sid disappeared, everyone thought that the key might have been brought by Sid. But where did Jesse's own keys go?
Then the five-member group entered the banquet hall for help, and looked at the time on the watch. The hostess Jesse found that her watch was the same as the time on the cruise ship, staying at 8:17, while everyone else was at 11:30. Let’s also take a look at the time. 8:17 is the time of the car accident, 8:30 is the sailing time of the Delta yacht, and 11:30 is the time to arrive at the banquet hall.
At this time, the heroine Jesse saw the headshot Jesse peeping beside him, so Victor chased out.
The hostess Jesse and Greg also hang out together.
At this time, the Donny Sallys were waiting in the banquet hall to eat fruit. But hooded Jesse came in and let them go to the theater. Note that the part where Jesse comes in with the hood was not filmed.
Then the heroine Jesse and Greg found room 237 and found that someone wrote "Go to the theater" in blood on the glass. This blood should be written by Jesse, the headgear who will shoot the Donny Sally couple next.
After walking out of the room, the hostess Jesse and Greg parted ways in the corridor at odds.
At the same time, Victor encounters headshot Jesse on the deck who has not yet blackened and wants to explain the supernatural phenomenon. Headshot Jesse accidentally pushes Victor on a nail in the wall, seriously injuring Victor, and Headshot Jesse escapes. This part was not filmed either.
Victor walked back to the banquet hall and found the heroine Jesse alone, and wanted to strangle the heroine Jesse, but was killed by the heroine Jesse.
At this time, gunshots sounded in the theater. It was Jesse in the hood and Greg who came to the theater according to the blood. Greg fell and smashed in front of Downey and Sally in the theater. Before dying, tell them that Jesse fired the gun. This part was not filmed either.
At this time, the heroine Jesse ran in and saw the hooded Jesse who shot. The hooded Jesse shot and killed Downey and the Sully couple, but missed the heroine Jesse and let her escape.
The heroine, Jesse, escaped into a kitchen, found a knife, and hid under the table. Hooded Jesse passed by, but didn't come in to search.
When the heroine Jesse continued to escape to the deck, she heard the sound of someone running upstairs, looked up, and was attacked by Jesse in the hood. This is a very important scene because it is revealed for the first time that there are three living Jess at the same time. Everyone may not have paid attention to the footsteps at that time, because the camera explained too quickly, and there was a moment of life and death behind, which was missed. In fact, the footsteps were the headshot Jesse later.
The heroine Jesse fell to the ground after being attacked. She had a great opportunity to put it in front of Jesse, but she didn't cherish it. When she wanted to shoot, she regretted it and was escaped by the heroine again.
The heroine Jesse continued to escape, and got the equipment on the way - an axe. Yes, the axe on the poster finally appeared, and he also threw a discus in the opposite direction to try to mislead the hooded Jesse to kill him. But it seems that the headgear Jesse was not fooled, because she still found the heroine Jesse on the bow, but the heroine Jesse saw the headgear Jesse who wanted to sneak attack in the reflection of the axe. Then the hooded Jesse and the heroine Jesse fought on the deck. The heroine Jesse KOed the hooded Jesse, and the hooded Jesse fell into the water. Before falling into the water, Jesse told the heroine Jesse to kill them all.
At this time, the heroine Jesse thought it was all over, but heard the repeated sound of the record player suddenly playing. She came over to restore the record player to normal.
Then a new wave of SOS appeared, including Jesse who ran for his life.
At this time, you can find that the Aeolus cruise ship is heading towards the right side of the screen, which is opposite to when the heroine Jesse boarded the ship, which seems to show that not all details of reincarnation are the same.
The heroine, Jessie, ran down to peek at the movements of the new five-member group, and accidentally lost the key. So the key went to the escaped Jesse.
After losing the key, the heroine Jesse entered room 237 by the way, and the bloody words "Go to the theater" were still there. The heroine Jesse was thoughtful, as if she forgot that there was blood in there, she and Greg had seen it together.
You thought the heroine Jesse would be inspired by the blood to go to the theater, but no, she went to the banquet hall and continued to spy on the quintet, and was found by the escaped Jesse, so the new Victor rushed out to find the heroine Jesse .
The heroine Jesse escaped to the deck to breathe, but saw Downey's body in the sea.
At this time, New Victor also came to the deck and saw the heroine Jesse. The heroine Jesse tried hard to prove that Downey's body was floating in the sea and told him that something strange was happening, but the body was gone in a blink of an eye. The heroine Jesse thought it was weird, and I thought it was weird too. Could it be that birds eat corpses so fast?
The heroine, Jesse, forcibly explains the ins and outs of the matter to the new Victor, but accidentally pushes Victor on a nail. The heroine Jesse escapes.
The heroine Jesse ran into the weapons room and found a lot of notes that read "If they board, kill them all". She also wrote a handwriting that she found to be her own. At this time, the heroine Jesse did not want to kill everyone. Then she wrote the note purely to identify the handwriting. To identify whether it is her own handwriting, she must write it again by herself. ? It's a bit strange, but in any case, Jesse, who was the first to write a note, must not be trying to recognize handwriting.
This is the first time the buildup has been seen in the movie. We found an important setting that the new cycle does not empty the sediment of the old cycle.
The heroine Jesse saw the same overalls that Jesse was wearing in the closet, and took a shotgun of the same style as Jesse from the arsenal. (10 guns)
We saw that the work clothes in the closet and the shotguns in the arsenal were sufficient, and they were not taken away because there were many notes on the ground, which means that the consumed things will be automatically replenished after reincarnation.
Just as she was about to leave, the hostess Jesse found a necklace inlaid with Tommy's photo on the hollow floor that was exactly the same as her own.
A closer look found that many identical necklaces had fallen from below. The hostess Jesse was shocked, and the necklace around her neck also fell off. But she didn't hang the necklace hanging on the hollow floor around her neck, which was out of the ordinary. It wasn't that she wasn't interested in necklaces. She later put the necklace of the floral dress Jesse around her neck. It can only be understood that the director deliberately arranged to form the accumulation of necklaces to create a shocking effect.
Next, the female protagonist Jessie ran out with a gun and bumped into the blood-covered new Victor who had just been accidentally injured by herself.
And Jesse, who had just parted ways with Greg, walked into the banquet hall. The Downey couple in the banquet hall had been separated by headshot Jesse. The heroine Jesse appeared with a shotgun and pointed the gun at Jesse who was fleeing for her life. New Victor also walked into the banquet hall, so he saw two Jesse exist at the same time.
The heroine Jesse wanted to shoot the escaped Jesse, but she couldn't, so the escaped Jesse escaped.
That's when gunshots sounded from the theater next door, and it was Jesse who killed New Greg with a headshot. Headshot Jesse's state of mind has been upgraded at this time, and he believes in the theory that killing others can be reincarnated by himself.
The heroine Jesse ran over, and the two Jesse had just shot. After a few rounds of fighting, headshot Jesse's headgear was broken.
Jesse saves Downey and Sally. The New Downeys thought that Jesse killed Greg, but found that there were other gunmen, so they could only choose to temporarily follow the heroine Jesse because she had a gun in her hand.
The heroine Jesse felt that the new Victor could be saved, so she gave the gun to the new Downeys and went to Victor herself. Why can't three little friends go on the road together to take care of it? It can only be understood that it is forcibly giving the headshot Jesse a chance to drop the bag.
Victor had been dragged away by this time and thrown into the sea. Logically, headshot Jesse should have done it, but why clean up the body? And the cleaning speed is so fast, we can only understand that it is necessary for the plot. After all, if there are also piles of corpses in the banquet hall, the performance will not go on, because this is the distribution center of the five-member group.
Headshot Jesse went on to find Downey and Sally after dealing with Victor. At this time, she took off her headgear and successfully deceived their trust. Although the clothes and equipment were completely different from the heroine Jesse, the new Downey couple did not agree. Not believing that more than one Jesse existed, just followed her.
Headshot Jesse takes the Downeys to room 237. One stab wound Sally, and another stab at Downey.
Sally, who was stabbed and injured, quickly escaped from room 237, and successfully escaped the clutches of headshot Jesse, but was immediately chased by the female protagonist, Jesse, who just arrived. Both Sally and Jesse discover a radio station where they hear Greg's voice. Here Sally said the same thing that Greg heard in the first wave at the time.
The heroine Jesse continued to track Sally and found a pile of Sally's body lying somewhere on the deck. The buildup appeared again.
Sally was exhausted, and Jesse took off her sweater to keep her warm. Note that not all of Sally's corpses had sweaters on them, which means Sally's way of dying was different, and not every Jesse would follow.
It didn't take long for Sally to take a breather, and at the same time, the heroine Jesse also saw the headshot Jesse and the fleeing Jesse fighting on the next deck. In the end, Jesse ran for his life and killed the headshot Jesse and pushed him into the sea.
Before long, a new five-member group reappeared. The above Jesse is a clone of Jesse who will push the heroine Jesse into the sea in the future. Her next experience is very similar to that of the heroine Jesse, but it is different. There is a place here that is strangely ruthless. I just heard Greg's broadcast not long ago, why did the five-member group appear in a blink of an eye.
At this time, the heroine Jesse has come up with a rule that she thinks is correct, that is, if the five members other than herself are killed, including Greg, Victor, Downey and Sally, the reincarnation will begin. At that time, she didn't think about a problem. If that was the case, wouldn't she have to have one more herself every time she was reincarnated.
The heroine, Jesse, ran to the control room and wanted to stop the cruise ship and get on the yacht that was overturned by the five-person crew, but found that she could not control the cruise ship at all.
In desperation, the hostess Jesse returned to the deck and saw the third wave of Victor being nailed to the head by the escaped Jesse. After the escaped Jesse left, she told Victor that she knew what to do. Her so-called method is actually to kill everyone, and the newly created group of five people will have a way to survive, she is still too naive.
So the heroine Jesse came to room 237, where Downey, the second wave of who was stabbed to death by headshot Jesse, was lying there, and her name JES was written in blood on the bathroom glass. Note that there is no "go to the theater" in blood, just Jesse's name.
Downey, who was stabbed more than a dozen times by Jesse in the head, didn't know where the strength came from. He didn't write blood on the door, but climbed into the bathroom to write. Not only did he write Jesse's name on the glass . He also wiped off the bloody words "Go to the theater" completely, and left a pool of blood on the sink for the heroine Jesse to write in blood. This Downey is too leisurely and elegant.
So the heroine Jessie wiped her name, wrote "Go to the theater" in blood on the glass, and disposed of Downey's body in Room 237 and Greg's body in the theater. She knew that the third wave of Greg and Jesse the clone was coming to room 237, ready to introduce them to the theater.
Then the heroine Jesse ran to the banquet hall and let the Downeys, who were waiting for Victor's third wave, go to the theater. But doesn't the heroine Jesse remember that she had just shot Jesse with a headshot at the theater, and almost shot and killed each other at that time. Knowing it is so dangerous, why do you insist on going your own way, and you are only happy to go to the theater for a decisive battle? Aren't you afraid that you will really be headshot? Did she know that Jesse, who rushed in, wouldn't have a gun in her hand?
Then she went back to the weapons room herself, grabbed the shotgun, put on her overalls, and put on her hood. Get ready to snipe the five.
When they came to the second floor of the theater, the hooded heroine Jesse met Greg from the third wave, and Greg recognized the masked man as Jesse through his shoes.
The heroine, Jesse, explained that covering her face is because she doesn't want others to see her face, and makes others believe that the Jesse who got on the boat together is Jesse. Is there a mistake, she is ready to kill everyone else, does it matter whether or not to wear a hood? If your explanation is that it is easier to carry out an assassination, I will believe it. Is it really impossible to make up words?
She fired anyway, and Greg was shot and fell off the second floor, in front of the Downeys.
Jesse Clone rushed in when he heard the gunshots, and witnessed Jesse wearing a hood on the second floor kill the Downeys. When Jesse wanted to kill Jesse Clone, she missed. So began chasing down Jesse clone. The plot behind it is very similar to the plot of the heroine Jesse who was chased by the hooded Jesse when she just got on the boat, but the heroine Jessie was wearing the hooded hood and was chasing down Jessie clone. But the details are still different. The kitchen where the heroine Jesse used to hide with a knife, now clone Jesse has also gone, but there are two different things. One is the obvious difference, everyone can see that the heroine Jesse hid under the kitchen table when she was chased and killed, and the hood Jesse did not come in. Clone Jesse wasn't hiding under the table when he was being hunted. This is a stark difference. But totally understandable.
What I'm more surprised about is why Jesse, the heroine wearing a hood, didn't even go into the kitchen to search. She herself has been hiding here. Isn't it worth searching? , this is not logical. Did she lose her memory and forget that she once hid in the kitchen?
The other is the difference in small details. The heroine Jesse and clone Jesse both took knives in the kitchen when they were hunted down. We know that pictures like this can actually be copied and pasted as they are, just like Jesse holding an axe in the back. Like throwing a discus. But if you look closely in the kitchen, you can see that Jesse Clone was holding the knife and another knife fell off, which was obviously re-shot. The director seems to be trying to explain something.
Then Clone Jesse ran to the deck, heard the footsteps of Jesse fleeing upstairs, and was attacked by the heroine Jesse behind him. At that time, I didn't see any softness on the second floor of the theater, it was just that the marksmanship was inaccurate.
So Clone Jesse managed to escape, got the axe, and threw the discus, the same shots as before.
At this time, the heroine Jesse seemed to have regained her memory, remembering that she once threw the discus and ran in the opposite direction, so she did not chase in the direction of the discus, but turned around and went the other direction.
This time, the heroine Jesse's strategy has also changed. She seemed to remember the reflection of the axe, so she chose to cut corners and set up an ambush to give Jesse Clone a head-on blow. But he was blocked by the cloned Jesse, and his reaction was as fast as the Flash.
So the final fate of the heroine Jesse is still to be defeated by cloned Jesse and driven out of the sea.
After a scene of falling into the sea, the heroine Jessie woke up from the beach, and her overalls and headgear were washed off. It's very strange. I remember that the overalls seemed to be one piece, and the heroine's shoes were not washed away. The clothes were washed away. The quality of the sea water is obviously not good enough.
In any case, the heroine Jesse successfully rescued herself and returned to her home, and saw Tommy who was alive and creating.
Tommy saw her too and was startled and knocked over the paint, which angered Jesse in the floral dress. Jesse in Flower Skirt beat Tommy, so the hostess Jesse pressed the doorbell and brought a weapon, ready to kill Jesse in the Flower Skirt, Jesse in the Flower Skirt went out without seeing anyone, and then was smashed by the hostess Jesse in the face. pawn.
Tommy was overwhelmed by witnessing all this, and the heroine Jesse hugged Tommy to comfort him. This scene is the same as the scene at the beginning of the movie.
The hostess Jesse packed the floral dress Jesse into the car and took away the necklace of the floral dress Jesse.
Then she took Tommy to go out, not forgetting to put on a sweater before leaving. This image matches. But after so much, would she still think about going to the port? So where does she want to go? We don't know.
The heroine Jesse and Tommy hit the albatross while driving on the road. When the heroine Jessie threw the albatross away, she found the piles of albatrosses.
The heroine Jesse and Tommy continue to drive on the road. Tommy makes a lot of noise, and the heroine Jesse is distracted to take care of Tommy, which results in a car accident. Both mother and son died.
A black screen for 5 seconds appears. What is the purpose of this black screen? It should be the beginning of the cycle.
At this moment, Bystander Jesse appeared. She stood by and watched all this. The taxi of Death came to take Bystander Jesse on the road. Bystander Jesse said that he was going to the port. So the driver took her there, but when she arrived at the port, the taxi driver said that I should keep the watch first, meaning that the port was just passing by and the trip would continue. Asked bystander if Jesse would come back, and bystander Jesse replied, definitely. This is very strange. He clearly said that he was going to the port. Why did he say that he would return to the car? Could it be that he had changed the itinerary and reached a new agreement with the driver? Or did you lose your memory when you were sleeping in the car? In any case, Jesse on the sidelines was still on Greg's Delta speedboat. At this time, the camera was given to the albatross, and the reincarnation continued as usual.
4. In-depth analysis of the reincarnation mechanism
The plot is almost finished, and the most exciting part is coming. If the various unreasonable situations that appear before are all decorations that need to be done for the plot, you can turn a blind eye, then the unreasonable situation that follows will directly affect the The judgment of the whole movie, we have to go deeper.
I just skipped over and didn't go into details. In fact, the most unreasonable thing happened at the scene of the car accident. At the time of the car accident, there were two Jess in the car, the heroine Jesse who was driving in a sweater, and Jesse who was already dead. But the only one who fell in the pool of blood was Jesse in a floral dress, which looked like Jesse in a floral dress who was beaten to death by the heroine Jesse. Was it because of the car accident that Jesse's body in the floral dress was unzipped from the body bag and rolled out? Is it like a one-piece suit in the sea being swept away by the waves?
Also, where did the heroine Jesse go? No body was seen outside, and the carriage was empty, so where did Jesse go? Some people say that the last bystander in the taxi is Jesse. However, after such a serious car accident, can Jesse really get out of the way, and he doesn't seem to have any traces of the car accident on his body, and he can continue to meet friends on the yacht. Does Jesse have steel bones and super-healing powers like Wolverine, or does everyone else pretend not to see it? Is this reasonable?
Based on this major doubt, the following inferences are derived: Here I remind you again, you don't have to watch the following content, maybe after watching it, you will feel that you have watched another movie completely, which affects you The original look and feel of "Terror Cruise", I don't want this. The following content is only suitable for paranoid people who want to break the casserole and ask to the end.
If you insist on continuing to watch. Don't regret it, I'll start right now.
The first inference is that the heroine Jesse did not die in a car accident, and she could escape death for some reason, so the heroine Jesse and the bystander Jesse who was about to board the taxi were the same person.
Then, by analogy, the crying Jesse that appeared in the first scene of the movie should also be able to escape death, so he is the same person as the heroine Jesse. The three Jesse are the same Jesse, but they have different of three memories. In this way, reincarnation is established. That is to say, the same Jesse has never died, but is repeating the cycle of car accident, boarding a yacht, encountering a storm, boarding a cruise ship, killing teammates, returning home after falling into the sea, and encountering a car accident again. This explanation sounds like that.
But how should the ability to escape death be explained, and do the rest of the Jess have the same ability to escape death? The first inference here is that only the heroine Jesse has this ability, and none of the other Jess can escape death. So in fact, this has become an RPG game that can be saved and read. Only the heroine Jesse keeps repeating in the same reincarnation. Everyone else, including the other Jess, are just NPCs in the game. Their function is purely to make the heroine Jesse fall into reincarnation successfully, not at all. In order to save their sons, they are really dead when they fall into the sea. It's good to come out and advance when the plot needs it.
If this is the case, I think that so many reincarnation scenes in the past will be a waste, and the sense of fate of the movie will be greatly reduced. The most important thing, I think the reason why the director will never shoot like this is that it doesn't matter at all. Although the Chinese name of the movie is "Terror Cruise", it is somewhat misleading. The English name Triangle contains more information. The literal translation of Triangle in English means triangle. The name of Greg's yacht in the movie is also called Triangle, but I I believe that the director will never name it after the yacht. What is the name of the yacht serves the theme of the movie? It must have the theme of the movie first, and then the name of the yacht. If there is only one reincarnation of the female protagonist Jesse, it is far from the Triangle, and it can't match.
So, let's look at the second inference. The second inference still thinks that the heroine Jesse, watching Jesse and crying Jesse are the same person. She has the ability to escape death. Others, some Jesse also have the ability to escape death. ability. The part here refers to those Jesse who wear hoods on the cruise ship, and they can escape death. After they fell into the sea, they did not die, but returned to land like the heroine Jesse, returned home, and killed the flower dress. A car accident occurs, and the cycle continues. In this way, at any time, there will be three hooded Jess in infinite reincarnation. If each hooded Jesse is a ring, then the movie is equivalent to three rings buckled together, and they will always be There is an intersection, and no one can leave the other.
We can look back at the movie, nothing else, just look at the cruise and there will always be three Jess alive. Next, I will sort out the relationship between these Jess for you. Starting with the female protagonist Jesse boarding the ship, there are three waves of five people boarding the ship, and the Jess who survived are:
Jesse who survived when the first wave of five entered the game (the heroine Jesse, headshot Jesse, head cover Jesse),
Jesse who survived when the second wave of five entered the game (Fleeing Jesse, Heroine Jesse, Headshot Jesse),
Jesse who survived when the third wave of five came into play (Clone Jesse, Runaway Jesse, Heroine Jesse).
Pay attention to the order of my arrangement. Take the surviving Jesse in the first wave as an example. They are in three different stages. The heroine Jesse represents Jesse who is in amnesia. She doesn't know the situation on the cruise yet. We call this stage. For - amnesia stage; headshot Jesse means that there are other Jess who have found out, but still don't know what to do, we call this stage - confusion stage; head-covered Jesse means that he thinks he has summed up the law of reincarnation. Jesse, has made up his mind to kill other people, we call this phase - the awakening phase. We can understand that there will always be Jesse in these three states, constantly reincarnating. In the movie, the three different states of the three Jess were filmed once. Here we use again the ability to escape death granted to them by Corollary 2.
This is wonderful. Jesse, who was pushed into the sea by the heroine Jesse in the first wave, is about to enter the reincarnation, and then she will run home to carry her son in a car accident, but at the same time, there is another escaped Jesse on the cruise ship So let's figure it out, that's not right. In this case, there will be three Jess with hoods on the cruise, Jessie who escaped, Jessie with the heroine and Jessie with headshots, and one Jessie with hoods outside the cruise. There are four Jess in total, breaking the Triangle setting. Trust me, this is definitely not what the director wanted. In order to maintain this cycle, there is only one possibility, that is, the second wave of escaped Jesse who just boarded the cruise ship is actually the hooded Jesse who just fell into the sea. The two are the same person, but the memory has been refreshed midway, but one Reincarnation obviously takes a long time. Don't you need time to go home and take a taxi, don't you need time to drive in a car accident, don't you need time to sail a yacht? In fact, time has always been an issue. Remember, the heroine Jesse saw the reborn quintet not long after hearing Greg's broadcast. How long has it been before Jesse fell into the water with a headshot? But let's not forget, is the whole movie telling the story of a normal living person, and do you still have the impression that Jesse's time is always fixed at 8:17? Do monsters and monsters have to be the same as us? Is it possible to allow a little accommodating?
Here, we understand that the entire time line after falling into the sea is a point, what happened after falling into the sea, taking a taxi home, killing Jesse in the flower skirt, driving into a car accident, boarding a yacht, encountering a storm, seeing the Aeolus cruise ship , which happens in an instant. The time here is a split second relative to the time on the cruise. But people in this timeline are unaware that time is stretched. In this way, the problem of time has been successfully solved, and the three loops are just buckled, and they have found a balance between them.
OK, we have to update the label of the three waves of Jesse again to help everyone understand the real relationship between the characters.
A runaway Jesse is a hooded Jesse, and a headshot Jesse is a cloned Jesse.
Jesse who survived when the first wave of five entered the game (the heroine Jesse, headshot Jesse, head cover Jesse),
Jesse who survived when the second wave of five came in (head cover Jesse, heroine Jesse, headshot Jesse),
Jesse who survived the third wave of quintuplets (headshot Jesse, hooded Jesse, heroine Jesse).
In this way, we found that, I rely on, the only three Jess who have worn hoods have always been these three, and it forms a closed loop. Whoever falls into the water will become himself in the next wave of amnesia.
I know that you may need to stop and smoke a cigarette or put on lipstick when you hear this. If you feel suddenly enlightened, then congratulations, your understanding of the plot is one step closer. If you are still confused Water, it doesn't matter, because I made up this theory for the director and made it up myself. But whether this theory is very powerful, I myself admire myself.
However, there is a fatal problem with this inference. The clothes that Jesse wears in the process of going back and forth, how does she keep the bottoming vest in a state of no blood, no stains, and no damage? Could it be the true biography of Kenjiro Hokuto Shenken? you are shock. Can clothes be restored by themselves?
Moreover, this inference can't solve the problem of Jesse wearing a floral dress lying on the ground in the car accident.
Emma, it turns out that there is still a bug in making it so powerful.
How to do how to do? Then I have to move out the third inference. This inference can address most of the irrationality in the movie, and it can also explain the timing. Very few people know this inference.
This third inference, with a decisive difference, is that the heroine Jesse and the bystander Jesse are not alone, and they cannot escape death. So natural and crying Jesse are not alone, they are three different people, but they have all experienced a complete cycle, that is, from witnessing the car accident, to boarding the yacht, to boarding the cruise, to falling into the sea, to returning home Kill the flower skirt Jesse and die in a car accident at the end. But they inherited the memory of the last Jesse when they witnessed the car accident, that is, the heroine Jesse inherited the memory of crying Jesse, and the bystander Jesse inherited the memory of the heroine Jesse. This solves the problem of the vest that never wears out, because the character is updated throughout. Moreover, the third inference of the circulation pattern on the cruise ship in the second inference can also be established, except that their bodies and clothes are updated, but their memory is circulating. A person's memory is not the foundation of a person's consciousness. In other words, what do dead people do when they are not in the flesh?
Also, let's not forget the important setting of the film - the Sisyphus tragedy, which is essentially a repetition, not a cycle. At the end of the movie, the driver of the Death Taxi tells Jesse that no one can save your son Tommy. That's because the god of death knows that Jesse feels that he owes Tommy and that Tommy shouldn't die, so he wants to save Tommy's life in favor of the cycle. Once Jessie gave up on this idea, she would naturally follow her to death. Don't continue to struggle, it's all in vain, the outcome will not change, the child is dead, and you are dead. So Death is cleverly designed so that no matter what Jesse does, she ends up returning to the end where she and her son were killed in a car accident.
But every Jesse in the movie is reluctant to accept reality, but chooses to escape reality, so the tragedy will repeat itself again and again. OK, when it comes to this point, it can be considered round.
Well, next is the other half of the third inference, the other half with a bigger brain hole. This part is about the director's narrative technique. It can solve all kinds of unreasonable phenomena and time problems in the movie, as well as the problem of the heroine's memory loss from time to time.
I believe that everyone has seen the sequence, flashbacks, interludes, and various filmmaking methods. I'm here to tell you that Horror Cruises actually uses a special narrative technique we've probably never seen before - out of order.
What? WTF, you may want to say that what I'm watching is in positive order, isn't it a complete reincarnation? What is out of order?
Below, I will first tell you what disorder is, and then tell you the evidence I found.
Listen to me, the director has actually been lying to us that he is using the positive sequence, but the full positive sequence has a lot of resistance to the normal progress of the plot. So the director mixed some clips of Jesse from different periods together. What do you mean, we know that there will be countless similar reincarnations outside the reincarnation of the heroine Jessie that we can see. Their endings are all the same, they died in a car accident, but their processes are actually different. of. When we watched the movie, we should have noticed it, and I also reminded you when I did the plot analysis.
The director has connected some fragments of these countless reincarnations to weave a complete story. It's like I found 100 different movies, extracted various clips from them, and cut out a single movie. Can everyone understand? And the materials edited here are actually very similar, just different reincarnations of Jesse.
In this case, we have to break the previous thinking again. We distinguish 9 different Jess before, but in fact, we may see far more than 9 Jess, maybe hundreds of Jess, just see The picture is coherent and is in line with the logic of the behavior of these nine Jess. But every time the screen changes, another Jesse might have been replaced.
Because reincarnation is going on indefinitely, with infinite possibilities, there is always a possibility that a certain segment can be connected to the previous segment, thus making up the complete "Terrorist Cruise" we have seen.
Amazingly, this shooting method will not affect the three-stage reincarnation on the cruise ship. Because no matter what Jesse does, they have to go through these three stages, but some small details in the middle will deviate, so no matter how the director intercepts the clips of reincarnation, it still looks like the three-stage style.
I know that when you hear this, you must want to say WTF, is your brain hole overinterpreting the intention of the movie?
In fact, no, the movie has a clear prompt, it depends on whether we pay attention.
Please go back to the first time Jesse shoved her hood into the sea in the movie, when the record player suddenly went off, but it kept looping. Jesse, the heroine, gets it back to normal, then panics at the sight of the new quintet and hits the record player, which starts looping again. At this time, there were several jams in the movie. If I remember correctly, it appeared three times here on the record player. At first I thought it was a computer jam, but after watching it several times, I found that it was not the case, it was deliberately arranged by the director. If you haven't seen it, download the movie to review it quickly, and don't say I'm talking nonsense. What exactly does this little detail do?
This is the director telling us that the same thing happened to Jesse, a certain Jesse. That is to say, maybe the heroine Jesse we see is no longer the heroine Jesse after the card machine, but another Jesse at another time. In fact, the heroine Jesse may have been before. Not the heroine Jesse.
This card machine is the most direct evidence. Other unreasonable places are circumstantial evidence. For example, the heroine Jesse found Downey's body in the sea, but it disappeared in a blink of an eye. In fact, these two things did not happen in a reincarnation, and the heroine was confused because of deja vu. In the same scene, there is also a detail that the heroine Jesse saw the blood on the railing first, and then Victor pressed the blood mark with his bloody hand, and the order was obviously reversed. Could it be left over from the last Victor? If it is, then there shouldn't be only one bloodstain on the pole. Where is the bloodstain of the last one, and the last one? So it is only possible to take a reincarnation segment of a reasonable time period.
Another example is Downey, who was stabbed to death by Jesse with a headshot in the second wave. He was clearly dead. Then had the strength to climb into the bathroom and write Jesse's name on the glass? Could it be that he was worried that writing Jesse's name on the white wall at the door would make others not believe that Jesse did it, and that writing on the glass would be more convincing? Is it necessary for the director to make this superfluous? I don't think so. The director is telling us another thing. In fact, the two Downeys are not the same Downey. Maybe one died at the door and the other died in the bathroom.
There are also many inexplicable amnesia behaviors of the female protagonist Jesse. The director can absolutely not shoot like that, and can easily avoid unreasonable places? For example, when the heroine Jesse finally chased down Jesse clone, she clearly passed by the kitchen, but did not go in to search. She should remember that she escaped here. It's very smooth, so it won't be criticized, why must it be filmed as amnesia and not search the kitchen? Of course, the director didn't want to explain that Jesse actually had intermittent amnesia, but the director wanted to tell us that Jesse has actually gone through countless reincarnations and tried all kinds of possibilities, but in the end, he still couldn't escape. reincarnation. This is what the director wants to express. And the out-of-order approach can just serve this theme.
Now, do you understand?
Finally, we returned to the flower skirt Jesse at the scene of the car accident. It was obviously the accident of the heroine Jesse's car, but why did the flower skirt Jesse fall to the ground?
Because, this is also a method out of order. The Jesse who died in the car accident in the flower dress was not Jesse in the flower dress, but the first Jesse who really died. The last scene of the car accident is the scene of the first car accident. Surprise or not? Accidental or not? Stimulating or not?
5. What happens in the real world
Up to now, we should restore this cup that happened in the real world.
Jesse, a single mother, raises her son Tommy, who has an intellectual disability, by herself. Tommy has severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. He has to do things repeatedly according to his own pattern, otherwise he will make a lot of noise.
One morning, Jesse beat and scolded Tommy for spilling ink. When cleaning up, the flower skirt was also glued with ink. But today she was going to participate in a blind date event that she attached great importance to, and she was very annoyed. She wanted to quickly find a new pillar for this incomplete family. After cleaning up, it was very close to the agreed time at 8:30, so Jesse drove fast on the highway, and hit an albatross on the road. It is the albatross that always appears in the movie. The blood of the albatross made Tommy very uncomfortable. , has been making a lot of noise, so Jesse gets distracted driving and causes a car accident.
How did this true story come together?
We can find projections in the reincarnation after Jesse's death. These reincarnation worlds are composed of the superficial consciousness of Jesse when he was dying.
The reason for reincarnation is projected on the mental retardation of son Tommy, because Tommy likes to repeat over and over again, and jumping out of the repetition pattern will make him very uncomfortable, which makes Tommy seem out of tune with the world. Remember the picture Tommy drew and Jesse berates him for not being able to draw something normal. Most of Tommy's paintings are circles. In the movie, what he is drawing is a large circle with many small circles, and there are several separate small circles hanging on the wall.
Why do I always see albatrosses, because albatrosses are the fuse that caused the death of mother and child, so they appear repeatedly in the movie, and every time there is an ominous sign, there is an albatross figure.
As Jesse was dying, he saw the band beside him. The word AO on the instrument was exactly the same as the one on the cruise. AO can also be reminiscent of Sisyphus' father, Aeolus, the wind god, who was the inventor of the sailboat, and the songs played by the band, which were repeated on cruise ships.
There is a toy sailboat that flips into the water in the opening sequence, and Jesse is so furious that there is a sailing accident in the reincarnation. And the storm at sea is projected on Jesse's violent temper with Tommy.
Also, Jesse's house is number 237, and that room on the cruise ship is also number 237.
Jesse, who was knocked to death in a body bag, was wearing a floral dress with ink, which is what Jesse was wearing at the time of the car accident. In the reincarnation, only Jesse in the flower dress was really killed, and she was killed by Jesse herself. She did not participate in the reincarnation, because she was a projection of the real world, which symbolized that Jesse was killed by herself.
There are actually many more such projections, so I won't list them one by one. You can find out for yourself, that's more fun.
"Terrorist Cruise" is a good movie. Most of the production team's IQ is online, so some mistakes in details are understandable.
Finally, leave some difficult questions to test everyone.
1. Why did Jesse write a note in the weapons room to kill them?
2. When did Jesse lose her memory?
3. How did Jesse get ashore after falling into the water?
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