In the TVB drama "Fall in Love with My God of Decline", Chen Beihe was unconscious after being seriously injured by the perverted Dou Zheren because he saved the girl Ah Xin. His soul was taken to the ninth dimensional space by the emissary, and when he flopped, he chose a closed time and space between the first and second dimensions, painfully and desperately witnessing Pan Xiaoyu's repeated killings, and experiencing a repetitive cycle in this closed time and space.
In fact, the emergence of this circular narrative style is not the first case, as early as a British film in 2009.
Recently, Bin Ge once again looked at the classic horror film "Horror Cruise" with circular narrative, and found the four cruel truths of life hidden in the film, which made Bin Ge analyze them one by one.
Truth One: If you bet alone, you will lose.
Six of the men who went out to sea were hit by a storm at sea, and the remaining five boarded an abandoned cruise ship called the Aeolus.
The god of wind was the god of the wind in ancient Greek mythology, and the presence of wind heralded the arrival of rain.
And the wind and rain can refer to all kinds of troubles in life, the heroine Jesse divorced her husband, taking care of her autistic son alone, this single mother is destined to pay more than ordinary mothers, life is more difficult.
The repetitive cycle in the nightmare represents that she is trapped in this dilemma of life and cannot get out.
She has made herself a superwoman, thinking that she can solve the endless problems in life 100% on her own, and do her best to make her son look like a normal child.
Someone wants to help her, and Gray, who asks her to go to sea, tries to participate in her life and solve her problems, but she is turned away.
Although she single-handedly fought against a repressive life, she lost every time and fell into an infinite cycle of death.
Like Sisyphus, the son of the god of the wind, the stone that rolled back to the bottom of the mountain was pushed back to the top of the mountain, day after day, and the cycle began endlessly.
Truth two: lose yourself and eventually drive yourself crazy.
The value of the heroine's existence is to please the son, and everything else is insignificant.
For the sake of her children, she cut off her social life and had no career goals to pursue.
The chores of the family filled her life and occupied the whole of her life, and these things that could never be done brought her a constant anxiety and a monotonous repetition of mental torture.
When she finds herself taking for granted that everything she has done is not reciprocated positively by her son, the depression and anger that accumulate day after day will pour out like a flood of beasts, making her irritable and irritable.
If her son accidentally spills the paint on the floor, she will punch at each other.
The existentialist philosopher Albert Camus, in his classic treatise The Myth of Sisyphus, likened the punishment of Sisyphus to the futile quest for meaning and truth in a meaningless and cold world.
Sisyphus repeatedly pushed the fallen stones back to the top of the mountain, repeatedly, seemingly meaningless and absurd, but it was an indelible part of life.
She is like this Sisyphus who constantly rolls stones, constantly expending energy and enthusiasm in a life of self-loss.
In real life, many excellent women also repeat the mistakes of Sisyphus, completely to please their husbands and children to reflect the value of existence and all the meaning of life.
Before marriage, Xu Fan was a big Green Coat with unique acting skills, who had acted in many excellent film and television works such as "Not Seen, Not Scattered", etc. After marrying Feng Xiaogang, he became a housewife who must be more cautious about chai rice oil and salt.
Before marriage, Li Lianglei also had her own stable job, and in order to pass on the family lineage of Wang Lihong, she quit her job and became a reproductive tool.
Although doing so is their personal choice, living so humble is actually no different from the heroine in the film, but Xu Fan chooses to be patient, Li Lianglei chooses to divorce, and the heroine chooses to escape.
Truth Three: Regret is beyond reach, and it is against nature to change one's life and be anti-human.
Experiencing the same encounters on the cruise ship again and again, the heroine tries to change the original trajectory in order to regain the initiative in life, but she is unaware of the randomness and accident of the change of events.
Even if she is familiar with every detail on the cruise ship, grasps the trajectory of each character, makes a thorough plan, kills all the people who board the ship, and returns home, she will be caught off guard by an accident arranged by the god of fate.
She can slash her grumpy self with an axe, but she can't predict that the trap of fate has already been laid in the next incident.
She drove to the dock with her son and accidentally killed an oncoming seagull. If it weren't for her son's panicked cry as she watched the seagulls killed, she wouldn't have caused an even greater tragedy after getting out of the car to soothe his emotions and throwing the dead seagulls to the beach.
There are two sides to a person's mental state, one is a rational state with clear logic, and the other is an emotional state that is easy to get out of control.
Reason and emotion are like a pair of inseparable sister flowers, coexisting in the brain.
When things are in control, the rational side prevails.
When life is chaotic, the emotional side is easy to get on.
The closed cycle of disorder, one link after another, causal series, the heroine wants to overturn the previous events to make a new choice, must return to the beginning of the next cycle to change. The more she struggled, the more painful it became.
To conform to human nature, we must learn to forget to avoid pain, after all, indulging in sad memories is also anti-human.
Truth four: Closed in the heart, easy to misunderstand.
Talking about why the screenwriters wanted to trace this cruise ship to 1932 is actually related to the famous Roosevelt New Deal in American history.
In 1932, the U.S. Democratic candidate, Roosevelt, promised the American people on the U.S. presidential campaign that a new policy would be implemented to change the downturn of the Great Depression and make the United States a dynamic economic power again.
The cruise ship was named the Aeolian and also pointed to Franklin Roosevelt, the wind maker who brought a new direction to the American economy and the well-being of the people.
But after more than half a century of vicissitudes, the United States once again fell into a state of stagnation in the economic crisis in 2009.
This economic crisis in the United States occurs every once in a while, which can be understood as the economic crisis of 1932 was staged again in 2009, completing the historical cycle.
2009 was a pivotal year for the global economic crisis triggered by the United States, which triggered a financial crisis that caused the collapse of the U.S. financial system, a decline in overall U.S. GDP, and high unemployment.
The fact that the film was shot in 2009 is enough to show that this is not a coincidence, but that the screenwriter uses this historical cycle of economic crisis to echo the crisis cycle of the characters in the story, which obviously has the effect of killing two birds with one stone.
This cruise ship alludes to Jesse's floating, directionless inner world, a metaphor for the closed and repressed side of her heart.
She was reluctant to confide in other people, even Gray, who got along well.
When Gray asked her why her face looked bad, she was also flickering, unwilling to answer head-on.
The clock hanging on the wall in the cruise ship restaurant perfectly coincided with the time shown on her watch, and the empty space on the cruise ship also confirmed the loneliness and desolation of the heroine's heart.
The multiple Jessie playing cat and mouse on the cruise ship can be seen as a mirror image of Jesse's inner fragmentation, reflecting Jesse's complete self-loss on the road of no return in the cycle of cause and effect.
Mentality and choices can be manipulated and changed at will, but the change of the surrounding environment and personnel is never determined by people's inhibition, if she can open her heart to communicate with the people around her, have a positive impact on others, but can change her life adversity to some extent.
If she had been more patient and communicative, her son wouldn't have behaved like crazy, and she wouldn't have been distracted to cause a car accident.
If she could reveal her heart and say that she didn't really want to go to sea, she would avoid a shipwreck.
If Jesse had opened her heart, listened carefully, and reflected carefully, her nightmare would have dissipated long ago, but unfortunately, what was lost could never be turned back.
When the taxi driver asked Jesse, "You'll be back, right?" Jesse said, "Yes, I... I will.".
It seems that she is still immersed in the regret of the past, and the only way to resolve it is not to change it, but to admit and accept its existence, and then to live the life she wants with a positive and brave attitude.