but Horror Cruise is not an ordinary horror movie, it's special, beyond your imagination...
The gears of time
The excitement of the story started after everyone boarded the cruise ship. The screenwriter also started to take care of a lot of details and foreshadowing in the previous part. The track of the whole story also began to break away from the stereotyped serial killer mode at this time. Enter another common mode of Hollywood movies - time travel. The scientific community has a space-time theory called parallel universes, that is, in short, they think that there may be a possibility that our universe is composed of infinite parallel universes, that is, there are also infinite universes like us. The world exists in parallel, and there is also a theory called overlapping time and space. Cruise Ship is a reinterpretation and exploration of this theme! Victor with a head injury returns to the restaurant and suddenly attacks Jessie, Greg claims to be attacked by Jessie, Downey and Sally are tricked into the movie theater, the bloody message on the mirror, plus the previous mysterious hallucinations of Jessie and in childhood. The distress signal received on the ship and the necklace and note after that, all the doubts, have a logical explanation. It turns out that from boarding the ship until the last victim is killed, it is a cycle of time and space. Although the director did not explain the reason for the cycle of time and space, this is obviously not the focus of the film. Foreshadowing, the film began to enter a new stage - the legend of Sisyphus.
Sisyphus legend
Sisyphus was a ridiculous hero. He offended the gods. In order to punish Sisyphus, the gods asked him to push a boulder to the top of the mountain. Because the boulder was too heavy, he often rolled down the mountain before reaching the top of the mountain. To do it endlessly—the gods thought there was no greater punishment than performing this futile and hopeless labor. Sisyphus' life was slowly consumed in such an ineffective and hopeless labor.
He's a ridiculous hero because of his passion and the ordeal he's endured. His contempt for the gods, his hatred of death, and his passion for life must have subject him to an inhuman torture beyond words: he devoted his whole being to an ineffective cause. And this is the price that must be paid for the infinite love of the earth. Therefore, the legend of Sisyphus is destined to be a tragedy. And the tragedy of this legend lies in the consciousness of the protagonist-every step he takes, he has firm belief and hope of success, but he also deeply understands the tragic ending of his own destiny.
Jessie in the film also experienced the pain of Sisyphus. In every reincarnation, she is trying to change her destiny: when she first discovered the cycle of time and space, she chose to warn her friends, hoping to use her own Language and experience are used to persuade friends to leave the cruise ship and avoid this bloody disaster. Unfortunately, no one wants to believe her, and reincarnation inevitably continues. The second time, she tried to change her fate in another way, so she picked up the gun in her hand. She hoped to kill everyone and escaped when she started again, but it ended in failure, the third time, she was unfortunately knocked into the water by another self, but unexpectedly found herself leaving the terrible cruise ship , went back to his own home!
At this time, Jessie even had a little fantasies in her heart, killing herself in this time and space and getting back on the normal track of life. But when she threw the dead bird to the beach, the pile of bird corpses told her that this reincarnation could not end. Jessie's fate, like a circle, is always changing its trajectory, but no matter how it changes, it will eventually return to its original point. She clearly realized her tragic situation, but she had no choice, because in her heart, the most important thing was to return to her son.
The core of the twisted maternal love
story, or the core of the entire film, is maternal love. No matter how time reincarnates, no matter how crazy Jessie is, in her heart, there is only one thought, that is to return to her child.
When Jessie felt that when she returned to her own child, everything else in this world became irrelevant. She could kill all her friends with a mask, and she could brutally hammer to death the innocent self at home, and then Tried to get out of it all and left with my son. Jessie said to her son in the car, the woman who was mean to you is not your mother, I am your mother, just like she said to those friends on the boat, it wasn't me who killed you, and she tried to make up for the past. To make up for the mistake of constantly arguing with her son over trivial matters, and to make up for the loneliness and helplessness that exists in Jessie's heart, lacking maternal love. Jessie worked hard to change this cycle of fate, not so much to save her son, but to complete the redemption of her own soul. Only by returning to her son, and only once again, can she make up for the mistakes she made to herself, even if she paid a huge amount of money. cost. It's a pity that while she clearly sees hope, she also clearly sees the irreversible ending. This sober awareness is the most shocking part of the film. It reminds me of the classic love story of Lord Star. - "Journey to the West". To a certain extent, Jessie and Supreme are actually tragic figures, because they are sober, and because they have a strong love, the deeper the love, the deeper the pain, they inevitably fall into invalidity In the contradiction between struggle and self-salvation.
When Jessie chose to go to sea again with a blank face, a bigger and terrifying reincarnation was waiting for her...
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