For the woman is weak, for the mother is strong, the mother's love is the greatest love in the world. The suspense film "Horror Cruise" is about a single mother who has to accept the curse of the infinite cycle of death in order to go home and see her child again, and is painfully reincarnated in one horrible fight after another.
Before the plot introduction, learn about two myths and stories, which are closely related to the content of the film:
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="46" > Sisyphus mythology</h1>
In Greek mythology, Sisyphus, the son of the wind god Aelos, asked Zeus, the god of the gods, to give him three days to bury his body on earth, but he never returned. Zeus and the gods were furious, and in order to punish him, he ordered him to push a boulder to the top of the mountain, but every time when the boulder was about to reach the top, he was exhausted and gave up his previous efforts, and the cycle began, and Sisyphus continued to do such a never-ending thing.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="47" > the story of "Song of the Old Sailor"</h1>
The story of the Old Sailor's Song, written by the English poet Coleridge, tells the story of an old sailor who shoots an albatross while going out to sea, causing their sailboat to be trapped in the middle of the sea and unable to sail. The crew removed the cross from the old sailor's neck and hung a dead bird as punishment. At this time, a ghost ship came in the distance, and the banshee on the ship cursed the crew to death one by one through a spell, leaving only the old sailor alive, leaving him alive for the rest of his life in self-blame and resentment of his dead companions.
These two mythological stories reflect the same fate of the protagonist.
Plot Review:
The protagonist Jessey is a single mother, her son Tommy suffers from autism, and the mother and son are dependent on each other. Jesse's good friend Gray is very sympathetic to her situation and has a good feeling for her, asking Jessey to go to sea with him many times, but Jessey did not agree because he accompanied his son.
Later, Gray asked Jessie again, and she agreed, and agreed to be absent on the pier at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday morning. On Saturday morning, Jesse hurriedly packed up and rushed to the dock with Tommy. On the road, an albatross suddenly flew over and crashed into the front gear glass and died, leaving a lot of blood on the glass, Tommy sitting in the back row watched the blood on the glass and cried and cried, Jesse turned back to comfort Tommy, collided with the oncoming truck, and the mother and son died on the spot. (Crashing into the albatross, foreshadowing that the protagonist is about to suffer the fate of the old sailor)
The dead Jesse's soul stood by the side of the road, watching it all sadly. At this time, Death came over and prepared to take her away, and she told Death that she would come back soon when she went to the docks, and Death said, "Then I will wait for you here." ”
Jesse arrives at the docks and meets grey, along with grey's friends Vic, Donnie Sally, and Sally's girlfriend Heather, and the six of them board the cruise ship to begin their journey at sea.
However, soon after they set sail, they encounter a storm, the ship is overturned, Sally's girlfriend Heather is missing, and the five people who have survived the disaster sit on the bottom-up boat waiting for rescue. At this moment, a huge ship suddenly came from a distance, and the other four people cheered, only Jessey's face was confused. When they boarded the ship, they found that the ship called "Aelos" was the ship that had disappeared in 1930 and was empty, the clock in the restaurant showed 8:20 (in fact, it was 11:30 a.m.), and the time on Jesse's watch was 8:20 (this was the time of Jesse's death in a car accident). Downey saw a lot of fruit in the restaurant and couldn't wait to pick up a banana and eat it.
They saw a painting in the hallway of a man pushing a round boulder toward the top of the hill with all his might. Sally explains that the content of the painting is the myth of Sisyphus.
At this time, Vic, who had gone to the bridge to find someone, came back covered in blood, and when he saw Jesse, he stuck her neck, saying that she had killed him, and was explained by Jessie, who was breathless, and pushed Vic away with all his strength, and went to the theater to find other personnel. At the theater, she finds Gray killed, and Sally cries and scolds her for killing Gray. Just as she was explaining her innocence, a masked man appeared on the second floor, shot them with a rifle in his hand, and killed the Downeys.
At this time, Jessie was the only one left on the ship, and she was trying to figure out how to deal with the masked man as she fled. On the bridge, she meets the masked man and subdues the masked man in a fight, and the masked man tells her that you can only go home by killing them.
After knocking the masked man into the sea, Jessey suddenly noticed that not far from the sea, five of them appeared again, standing on a yacht facing the sky and waving to the giant ship, and it was not long before the five of them got on the giant ship again, repeating the situation of their first boarding. Thus, a new round of killing began on the giant ship. After killing the others, a new round of personnel will be put on board. Jesse began to realize that they could only be resurrected by killing them, and then prevent them from getting on board. On the top, she put on her hood, picked up the rifle, and joined the killing. As a result, she kills the others and is knocked out of the sea by herself, completing a small loop (the details of the loop are a bit complicated and can only be briefly introduced).
Jessie, who had drifted from the sea to the shore, thought that her son was still at home, so she rushed home eagerly. Back at home, she saw herself packing up her things at home on Saturday morning and getting ready to go to the docks. Because her son Tommy spilled the paint on the ground, Jessie was very angry, and when she wiped the floor, she got the paint all over again, and when she found that her son was messing up the things in the house, she rushed up to her son in anger and slapped him, and scolded him for not fighting, which scared Tommy to cry. Jesse, who was hiding outside the window, saw this scene and realized that it was his impetuous and violent education that caused his son to look today. Feeling extremely bitter and remorseful, she rushed into the house, killed the other self, and then guiltily picked up the child and said, "In the future, my mother will never do this to you again." Then, she packed her bags and rushed to the dock with her son, and then died in a car accident, Jesse's soul went to the dock, another round of the big cycle was completed, and the movie story ended.
The film has a lot of unspoken details and is an open-ended ending, leaving many versions for the audience to guess and self-interpret. I have two doubts, such as:
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="41" Who was the first person to board the ship Aelos and start the killing >? </h1>
Many people interpret that there are two groups of the same 5 people in A and B who take turns to board the giant ship, and each time they get on the ship, there are three Jesses on the ship (one is Jesse who just got on the ship, one is Jesse who left behind from the last round of killing, and the other is the masked Jesse who decided to kill everyone). So the question is, who was the first person on the ship at the beginning of the first cycle? Jessey?
In the film, Jessey's round of going to the dock to go home is not the first time, as can be seen from several details: 1. Jesse rushed to the dock and killed an albatross, and when she threw the dead albatross under the bridge, there were already many dead albatross corpses under the bridge;
There are already many dead albatrosses under the bridge, indicating that it has been looped many times
2, Jesse slept in the yacht, dreaming that she was washed on the beach by the sea, it should be a group of AB groups that cycled to the time when Jesse wanted to go home;
3. When the yacht encountered a storm, gray called the coast guard through the ship's radio station, and heard the sound of the injured Sally on the giant ship calling for help (it also showed that another group was circulating);
4) On the giant ship, Sally was injured and ran to the deck, where there were also many corpses of Sally. This shows that the one loop presented in the film is only one of the many previous loops, not the beginning of the first loop.
So, how did the first loop start? There is no explanation in the film, we can only reasonably infer from the plot, I think that the first person to board the giant ship is the soul of Heather who drowned after the yacht was overturned by the huge waves. There are mainly logical inferences in the following aspects:
(1) Jesse could not have boarded the ship alone. From the perspective of the cycle, Jessie has been on the yacht with her friends, and after seeing the giant ship, she is also on the boat together. Although they did not see a man on the deck of the ship before getting on board, this person was Jessey. But as I said above, what we see is not the first cycle, it has been looped many times. Taking a step back, even if Jesse was the first to get on the giant wheel, how did she know that she would kill everyone else and go home herself?
Heather should have been the first to board the giant ship and start killing
(ii) Heather's short-lived character certainly has a meaning. Heather, as Sally's girlfriend, is ready to introduce gray, but Gray already falls in love with the protagonist Jesse. Therefore, Heather is already a "light bulb" that has no meaning to exist, so he dies in the storm. From the perspective of the entire plot, Heather belongs to the role of playing soy sauce, and removing this role does not affect the plot development at all. But why did the director put this character? I think it was to arrange for Heather's soul to land first, to start killing according to the instructions of death, and to tell Jessey who got on the ship that you can only go home if you kill everyone. Death was afraid that everyone would recognize Heather, so he asked her to kill with a mask, and later, Jesse realized the meaning of this sentence, and then he also masked and killed. The first masked man on board is Heather, because she did not pull off her hood until she was shot down into the sea by Jessey, which is the suspense left for the audience.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="54" > can Jesse stop this infinite loop? </h1>
It depends on whether the obsession in Jessey's heart can be let go.
First, there has always been a deep remorse for her son's improper education and a strong self-blame for his death. Jesse, a single mother, actually loves his son Tommy very much, but her education method is simple and rude, lack of patience, allowing her emotions to discipline children, and even sometimes beating children, causing Tommy to be timid and cowardly, and later suffering from autism is estimated to be related to Jessey's improper discipline. After a reincarnation of a soul journey, she finally realized her mistake and felt even more sorry for the child. In the film, she returns home, sees her original self scolding the child so roughly, kills the original self without hesitation, and picks up the child and says with remorse: "Mother will never do this to you again." However, what she did not expect was that in order to go to the agreement of her friends, she actually let her son die in a car accident, which was a reality that she could not accept under any circumstances.
Second, in order to revive her son's obsession, she did not hesitate to run for her life in the cycle of infinite terror. Judging from part of the film's plot, each of her reincarnations is memorable, but incomplete. For example, she went to the dock to see Gray and said "I'm sorry" to make Gray inexplicable, and she may remember that she had killed Gray many times; and she said "I seem to have been here this place" on the giant ship. So, she may have a memory of coming home to see her son. At the scene of the accident, Death said to her: "The child is no longer saved, and no one can stop Death from taking him away." She said to Death, "Take me to the docks." She knew that only by going to the docks could she return home to see her son through the cycle, so that she could stop Death from taking him away. What she didn't know, however, was that she had broken her promise to death, deceived death, and thus fell into an endless cycle of reincarnation, unable to get rid of it. Each reincarnation made her physically and mentally exhausted, but she did not hesitate to accept this endless reincarnation in order to see her son's obsession. When she went to sea on the yacht, she always said that she was very tired and tired, and that she slept in the cabin for several hours.
I can't let go of my son in my heart
Third, choosing to let go may end this spell of infinite reincarnation. The reason why Jessie is trapped in the spell of infinite reincarnation is that she is obsessed and does not accept reality, that is, she wants to go home to see her children, change her original bad temper and personality, and educate and cultivate children well. She thought that through her own persistence, she could finally break this spell, but she did not know that the only way to break the spell was to lift the demon in her heart, choose to let go, admit her fate, and accept reality. It was she who said to Death, "I'll go with you, I'm not going to the docks." ”
However, the weakness of human nature is stubbornness, fluke, and always hope that a miracle will happen. As a result, what can't be put down will lose more.